Issue 2

Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said :

" This is our own , -our home town paper " ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned

As home his footsteps he has turned , Taking back a Friday mail ?

IF SUCH THERE BE 60 MARK HIM WELL !

Phired at Random

By Roy K. Moletown

Just because we printed en yellow paper two weeks ago you need not think that we are going in for yellow journalism .

That was the time you got a yellow - jacket with your paper . But it didn't sting .

This week we have a red cover . We wanted the paper read . The yellow paper was in honor of the Golden Fair discussed in that issue . Sympathetic color , you know .

No , the yellow jackets did not sting , but the red ones do .

Of course this does not apply to you because you have either subscribed already or are all ready to subscribe and just waiting or the editor to pop into view around the corner so that you can hard us fifty cents That will make us happy . No , of course it does not hit you . But , ch how it hits the other fellow ! The teacher said : " Let Fay Wright and Liberty Reid . "

While we did not know before that there was a famine in West Goiden we heard the other day that Nettie Morley would have a hard tims in keeping the Wolf from the door .

Amiel Shortz dug potataes Sunday .

So did George Eastman .

Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Branch and all the little twigs have gone to Three Rivers .

In order that you may tian act your business expeditiously when you come to see us and in order that you moy not get con fused in wandering up and down the corridors and hallways of our large and commodious office buiiding we offer the following directions .

When you come to see us if you want to complain about irreg- ularity in receipt of your paper go to the circulation department . If you have read something in the paper that has displeased you and you want to fight , go to Amiel Sholtz , the athletic editor . If you want to pay your subscription go to the book - kerper . Ir you want to get some printing done you can go to the foreman printer and if you want to get an extra copy of the Mears News without paying three cents for it you can go to the devil !

That laft noun , of course , we use in the typographical sense . ( ? )

Mary Kerosene Sprinkler Mrs. Enoch Dykstra . She wont speak to common people . Sour Crout used to buzz Mary Kerosene Sprinkler till 12 o'clock at night . - Earnest Schmeiding has got a girl . He buz her when Clifford Prosser doesn't .

em by Swift Lathers : Dedicated to the shrine - worshipers times , from the days of Zoroaster to the present hour , from a , Persia , Arabia , to your town and mine .

Have You A Shrine ?

Have you a shrine to worship all the years , A mecca for your thoughts and idle tears ? Perhaps a hill , a brook , a face , A forest path , an opal - colored lake , A temple , or a memory ,

A landscape in a lonely place ?

What difference does it's nature make

If only when you think of it you worship it , If only , drawing near you walk with

reverent feet

And a hush comes o'er your soul ,

A light illumes your face ?

So viewing it your rapture breaks control And sacred ground your joyous feet patrol ; The breath comes quick and short , Your shining eyes soft gleam

While in your heart you know the moment

is supreme ; Then leaving it you turn with lingering glance Toward the magic of a dream , a trance ! Have you a shrine ?

The other day Lillian Woodford of Pentwater wanted to go to Hart on the train and the brakeman , Oliver Holder said if she wanted to go to Hart he would pay her fare on the train . So she went and the conductor came around to get her fare and she said : " I haven't got any money and she kind of looked back to where the brakeman was . But he looked innocently and " nothing doing . " So while they were arguing about the fare , Lillian and the conductor , Margery Sands who was sitting across the aisle dug down in her pocket and paid Lillian's fare .

Dodge Service Station in Shelby . Shop open to do repair work on all makes of cars . Tires vulcanized . E. P. Johnson , Shelby , Michigan , on the main drag .

For sale : I white leghorn rooster , 240 egg strain ; 2 Rhode Is- land Red cockerels , thoroughbreds , 9 months old ; one Indian runner drake , 1 year old . Hart Greenhouse . Phone 198

66

Cramer's Corners : Some of the folks around the Corners have always wanted to get their names in The Mears News and now they say : " If I knowed who sent my name in - say , I'd make it warm for them . " - Patron's Day was observed at our school last Friday with a fine dinner . Brenton Scott said : Oh , wow , wish I had room for more ! " - The morning after Mrs. Stubb's party a piece of property was found belonging to some gentleman . Owner can have same by identifying property - Oscar Nelson says he got the belle of Mecosta but he had to rob the cradle to get her . - Johnny Coulier gets letters from some sweet Mecosta girls . Maybe he can get a belle too .

The young people of the Brooks school are getting ready for a big entertainment very soon . Particulars next week . Keith Brooks a young hard boiled buck from Missouri staying Oceana Center is rushing the schoolmam with the little red hat .

Horse for sale : 7 years old , weight , 1250 ; sound and gentle , Roland Mathews , Mears

Golden Township Ticket Republican

Supervisor

Clerk

Treasurer

Highway Com'r

Claude Till

O. M. Wright

FAYE WRIGHT

Marion Johnson

Independent S. E. Fuller

Ada James

Will Schultz

Otto Richter

Overseer of Highways Swift Lathers H. J. Lambrix

Constables , Nellie Mull , May Goit

Heavy Work Gloves 39c a pair ; can- vas gloves , 12c a pair . Columbia rec- ords : Meyers & Son , Shelby

We have a car of Lime Sulphur shipped and we shall be glad if you will stop in and state your require- ments . Gardner T. Sands , Mears

We want dressed veal and chickens . Miller Brothers

I have a car of acid phosphate coming in soon . A. R. Dorrance , Shelby , phone 165 - I

Acetylene welding ; United States Tires ; Cletrac Tractors ; Vul- canizing ; second - hand tires for sale , Graff Bros. Garage , Hart , Mich . For sale- a four cylinder Everett motor suitable for buzzing wood , etc. Elmer Wolf , Hart What have you to trade for a good second hand organ ? I can sell you a good sewing ma- chine cheap . I repair all makes of swing machines . I sell phonographs . M. A. Rolison , Hart H. P. Wasmund , having accepted a contract job in Evanston will have an auction Monday , March 24th at 1 p . m . at his farm on the stone road a mile and a half west of Hart and he offers : horses , cows , bees , pigs . separater , 1916 ford automobile , farm tools household goods

I want to buy old windmill towers . C. Elliott

I am in the market for wrecked and junk windmill towers . What have you ? C. E. Elliott , Shelby .

Closing Out Sale at R. DeVries Store now on . Everything must be sold . Thos . Welsh & Son ,

owners

Max Kapeloff in Shelby buys eggs at a good price .

R. H. Hammond is going to let loose of everything at an auction sale on his farm 1½ miles north of the Randall school house , on Thursday , March 24 at 1:00 p . m .. His list includes 9 horses , 2 mules , 24 head of cattle , a feed cooker , oil drum separator , range , horse clipper and six geese .

Everybody in Mears is shocked with disappointment to find the Tuckers are going away Clarence will be station agent at Shelby and so we are to lose these valuable boosters from The Golden City . Mrs Fucker is walking the streets of Shelby looking for a house . This plumber in Hart they call Will Peck can mend your eaves pipes and radiators . Bob Hughes in Shelby has a driving horse for sale , gentle for a woman to drive .

Ancona eggs for hatching , heavy egg strain . Mrs. Mathis , Mears Meat prices are coming down . When in Pentwater call at Myers Meat Market for fresh and salt meat , frankfurts , weenies , milk and

cream .

Bargains in used farm machinery :

I No. 12 DeLaval Separator ; 1 No. 2 Dairy Maid Separator ; one I 1-2 H. P. Novo pumping engine ; 12 h . p . Novo gasoline engine ; 1 3 1-2 hp Novo gasoline engine ; I 1 6hp Associated Mfrs . engine ; 110 h . p . IHC portable engine ; 1 McCormick nowe | McCormick Binder ; I Empire Disc Drill ; I Myers Power sprayer . Write or phone us for description and price of our machinery . COLBY & SPITLER CO . , Hart Max Field buys hides poultry and wrecked machines .

Pentwater is thinking about running a string of lights up and down Hancock street from Gard Sand's warehouse to Mr. Hanson's new store so the garish flare will please the eye of the summer resorters when they come off the beach onto the avenue . We pro- phesy that under the dazzling spell Marie Celeste MeVoy will buy more ice cream sodas than ever .

William Flenner has bought a fox colored team . Victoria Putney wears hobble skirts . - Helen Heim received a wrist watch from Johnny Michaelsen and it runs when ever she does . Everytime it gets broke she gives it to Johnny to take it to town to get repaired . And Johnny says : " It isn't the first cost . It's the up keep . "

George W. Smith , who used to run the greenhouse in Shelby and run the linotype machine in the Herald office , writes that he is now located at Battle Creek and " makes up " magazines for the Good Health Publishing Co.

Hippety hop to the barber shop to get a box of candy . Chocolates with whip cream centers , 60c a pound box . Also 30c and 40c boxes . Cracker Jack Sc.-O. S. James , Mears .

The other night in Hart Jack Williams and Carlton Bennett got ready and went to play basket ball at Hesperia . And Carlton Bennett's " wife " went up to spend the evening with Jack's wife . It was half past one when the team returned and Carlton forgot to go up and call for his " wife . " So Jack Williams had to see Virginia Thompson home .

It was Monday at South Hart that I saw Mr. Willie trying to roll a big log onto a pair of bobs for a sawbuck . And then I saw Toby Meitner carrying a cutter on his shoulders . So it looks as winter was over . But the cutter that Toby had on his shoulder was a corn - stalk feed cutter .

One night at a social function a boy was introduced to Mrs. Ellen Powers . And she said : " I am glad to meet you . " And he said : " You look something like the girl that works in the First National Bank . " And he was all perfectly innocent of the fact that she was the same identical sunshine blond .

Buzz rig and engine for sale , all complete mounted on truck ; also drag saw and feed grinder . Louis Putney , South Hart .

Dear Swift Here's one . Stick it in your paper . Bill Powers is director of Ferry schools . Quite often he gives Clarence Morrall a bunch of rules to read to the school . Ferry high school is a great affair . If you arrive in Ferry go visit there . We have all kinds of governors and bosses , and also many commissioned officers . There is Bill Powers the probate judge . Who hasn't the power to make a durned thing budge . There is Emma Bowman who tends to little gulations and every day she stirs up soup and gives everyone their rations . Now every day C. B. Morrall reads us a bunch of rules . And makes us think we are a bunch of genuine fools . Now on these rules you must be a little considerate . Because ( you know ) they come from the judge of probate . Now our school house would be a complete affair . If instead of steam heat it would be heat with hot air . We are thinking of another plan that would save our town a lot of fuel . That we run a hot air pipe from the " judge's " office to our school . Yours in haste , Ferry High School .

Wanted a farm to rent . From 40 to 80 acres . Notify Frank Albrecht , at Crystal Lake , R. 2 , Hart . Or inform Swift Lathers .