Forest Trails are ripe in the Land of Mears

The call of the wilderness takes many men out into the big woods all over northern Michigan now in pursuit of antlers . They sleep in tents or trailers or wrapped in a blanket under the stars , and the major benefit of the excursion is not the venison they get or hoped to get , but in the healing contact with nature . Mankind would be better off if they had always lived close to the forests . The cities shackle men with proprieties and artificial comforts , yet in their souls there is the thirst for the wood- land rills and they would have more happiness if their feet were incased in moccasins treading the mosses and leaves of the forest floor . The search for industrial employment takes many away from the woodland scenes they love to the constricted life of the cities . They rattle a lot of noney in their trousers , spend it as rapidly as they make it and find themselves at the terminus of the year or the end of ten years no richer than they would have been if they had stayed by the forests and lived the simple life . Returning on some brief November vacation because of the call of the wild , they look in at some playmates of their youth who always stayed in the country . These may have found happiness in huts or they may have big red barns of plenty , but they lived a saner , slower tempo and remained close to the forest . You who live in the country or inhabit the little villages , don't ever get the idea that your sons must go away to the skyscrapers of opportunity to find success and happiness . Even in Mears or the open country there is ample living for you . What you need is a philosophy that will enable you to see the superior advan- tages of country living and the ability to find happiness here . It is a case of " Open mine eyes that I may see glimpses of things Thou hast for me . " Karl Giese established a machine shop at Silver Lake where he could not only follow the calling his heart and mind adored , but where he could also be close to the wilderness he loved . He is to be congratu- lated on his wisdom . Lloyd Lewis dreams out gadgets he can manufae- ture at his little workshop on the self - same shore . A carpenter , à mason like Charlie Eckholm , a farmer can live close to the wild . Your boy and iny boy need never listen to the artificial allurement of city life . Our ildren do not necessarily have to be hunters to enjoy the forests . They can let the animals live and still be happy with them tramping the for- est paths . There is a lasting satisfaction and a healing comfort for those who live always close to the frees . And their years are often longer .

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There are a number of increases in the Guernsey herd at Silver Hills Farm . Silver Hills Fauna and Silver Hills Jill each have a bull calf and Silver Hills Faunella , Silver Hills Maria and Silver Hills Mariana each have a heifer calf.-Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Kline celebrated their 50th wed- ding anniversary Sunday and three carloads of friends and relatives drove up from Indiana to see them in Shelby . Some were from South Bend . Mrs. Parrot of Fort Wayne is remaining to visit her sister , Mrs. Kline . Mrs. Parrot can remember when the canal boats were pulled along the Wabash canal by mules and she used to stick her own toes in the tow path . - Gayle Joslin was up from Bradenton , Florida , to see Ivan Goodenrath . - Jewell Kaufmann is getting no fatter fast . If she leans against the back door she gets lean , if she eats fat meat she gets lean and tall . Glen Wood , John Wolf and John Darcy packed the trunk of the car so full it squealed when they tried to lock it , then they went to Grayling with a trailer bebind them to shoot the ants off the antlers.- L. J. Brien was planning to pack up his bottle of green ink and go Lansing to spend the cold days of winter . - Waldo Dillingham mends cars and looks out on the mill pond that has no mill to see what the fish are biting . The Lorenz News Shop is the place for you to get a few magazines to take along to enjoy while deer hunting . Don't figure to pull the trigger all the time . adv . - Jay Pangborn has started two new houses on the fair ground road . He can't live in all of them so he will probably sell when they are done . Judy Pangborn is quite a cook and may teach domestic science when she grows up.-R. M. Wiedeman heals leaking radiators . does welding and mends the machines of the farm . adv . Harland Fuller bought a fine car from William Riley . - Mrs . Frank Sloan had a big bandage on her face yesterday after a small facial operation . No. Frank did not hit her . Harry Fenton is grandpa to a little Michael Conrad , born to Fred and Mabel Dean . - Dallas Kreigh of Kansas City , Mo. , came to visit brother Fred in came to visit brother Fred in Mears . Fairly un- usual as the name Dallas is , it seems rather remarkable that both Mr. and Mrs. Kreigh each have a brother Dallas . - Whether you ride whether you walk , Frank Birke can bear you up . He knows his insoles , outsoles . counters and bluchers and can also explain to you the fifty famous features of the new Plymouth - What self - important member of what small town school board got so lubricated up after watching a foot- ball game that he had to be carried in the other night at his home ad- dress ? -Shelby has two new physicians to minister to the ills . Dr. Wil- liam J. J. Ryan has two or three girls attending the university and one boy who is a senior in Muskegon high school . He's in his fifties , perhans . Dr. Hasty is a younger man and has two little children , one little girl and one little boy . Fred Van Sickle was 72 when he was buried Woo . nesday in Elbridge cemetery . For 20 years he was township treasu for five years he was supervisor , and clerk for several years . Since 1899 he lived on the Elbridge earth and rocked four children on his knee . Earl and Lloyd , Ruby and Ruth , who live after him , as does also their math- or . In lumber days he made sawdust in the mills - Betty Draner Sten- berg was a Mears girl who was graduated at Hackley the other day in The evening . Her mother came from Connecticutt to see her become a R. X. Other Oceana girls who finished in her class are Valora Pider . Ja- nette Vanderveen , Ruth Tufte . Evelyn Sanford . Betty Lewis and Boa . blee Baker Barney VanderWall . the grocer . has a bow son - Wanda Fenton had an x - ray - Paul Wiener , owner of Silver Hills Farm . 1795 elected a director of the Oceana County Fair for four years . All who speak the Lituanian lingo will enjoy the motion picture at the Hart Baptist church Saturday evening , Nov 16 - Ben Fuller is doing some

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sort of construction up in his side yard . It might be a garage to shelter his car . - Billo Lathers is out around town since Monday . Four weeks ago he had his appendix subtracted . - L . D. Estes is building out of con- crete blocks a car house in his domestic back yard.-Dr. Niley Bailey . who inspected cattle for the state , motored back to Mears in his deluxe streamliner to leave his wife for a November vacation in the home pal- ace while he goes among the antlers . - Mrs . Katherine Rombouts has been down the line to see Nellie on Ravenna road . - Carol Middlecamp was given a shower Friday evening , seeing how she is going to be a Novem- ber bride . Ted Lambrix is papa ot a baby girl , born Sunday after dark . William Powers family are the fortunate purchasers of the magnifi- cent range from Ida Campbell's kitchen . One of the most beautifully Sandra alliterative names in Hart is that of a fourth grader called Strickfaden . Her name is so striking she could be a book author or mov- ie star . - Peter Engemann of the Rothbury feed store will be buried Sat- urday . He was 55 and was born in Chicago . - Thomas Welsh leaves this week for the alligator country to eat tangerines . - Ernest Mitteer moved out into the country to the Norgaard tenant house . - Through the ill- considered folly of the Mears school board , who of their own intolerant initiative abolished the Mears high school without the consent of electorate , and later denied the public the right to hold a special elec- tion , which was properly petitioned , the Mears children of high school age are delivered home tardily . After a long round - about trip through Weare they are rattled down hill over the Glover hill bridge , which last year caved in just after a car crossed it . If a car with one person in it could send a bridge crashing , what might happen to a school bus with 22 children in it ? One side - swiping blow sent the Birdsall boy's crashing into the drowning waters at a Ludington bridge . One slip on Glover February icy hills could send the school bus crashing off the bill into the river or turtling into the flat where the bus could burst into of flames on being upset . The mothers at Lake Chalon did not think these things until after their 22 children were drowned in the ley lake . It is time the parents of Mears got to thinking and got into action .

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Battery quick - eharging at Phil Wurthner's

How much more convenient it would be for Mears ninth and tenth grad- in ers to go to school in Mears . It would not cost a single dollar more operation ecsts and it would keep the state aid money in Mears . Go to the Flood Motor Sales in Hart for expert mechanical work on all types of automobile repairing . Best work with prompt service at fair pries . Lubrication , winterization . Phone 161 , Hart .

BICYCLE FOR SALE . FOREST LATHERS , MEARS . Ed . Brubaker has gone deer hunting and Ted Hamilton has gone dear hunting .

ANTIQUES

ANTIQUES bought and sold . Especially wanted , old hanging lamps , colored glass and old faney china dishes . Eva . C. Wade , Shelby , Mich . REAL ESTATE . List your properties with Oatman - Wade Agency for prompt and efficient servire . Wm . C. Wade , Agent . Shelby .

Colored cellotape for Xmas wrap- ping at Anderson's Grocery , Mears

Keith Corliss sells breakfast foods in vatlety , fresh meals , vegetables ,