Well - mannered Children are ripe in the Land of Mears

Well - mannered Children

For , don't you see , it's only a week before Christmas and Santa Claus is in the offing !

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Chester Curtis has not been swimming in Crystal Lake for nearly a month .

Mrs. Jake VanBoexel , a one- eyed woman of . Weare has been missing since Thanksgiving and is somewhere in Chicago . Mr. VanBoexel is kind of thinking of having the police round up all the one - eyed women in Chicago and herd them together in one mob so he can go down and pick out his own .

Ruth Rowley and Swift Lath- ers each broke a milk bottle last week . Ruth dragged a rug across the porch and broke hers and Swift was washing the bottle with hot water when the bottom fell out . Mrs. Rowley's bottle was full of milk before the mir- acle happened that turned her bottle into cracked glass . Angus Peterson , the village milkman is going to buy a dozen new quarts of glass .

Bill Hartman , the auction - gift- orian was out coon hunting with a fellow named Grover , probably Grover Unruh , and at 2 o'clock at night they woke up George Cook who lives at Nellie Sturte- vant's house near the Woodland school and said : " The dogs have got two coons treed in a dead tree . Can we cut the tree down ? So Laura Cook's father got up and went with them to the wood- lot . They cut the tree down and found no coons though the dogs insisted they were right . Next day George Cook finished up the two coons down in a lower con- cealed apartment in the cham- bered tree .

Farm for sale , 25 acres black loam soil , will grow anything 1st class buildings , 3 wells , one right beside the stove , one in the barn and one in the back yard . Good barn , lots of feed , mile to school , 3 miles to Mears , 100 fruit trees , plums , apples , cherries , raspberries , all bearing . No debt . Price $ 2,500 . - Lars Jensen , Mears ,

Well , well ! Christmas vacation is almost on .

Soon I will see Tressa Fuller getting off the train at the great Un- ion Depot in The Gold- en City with her suit case full of mysteri- ous bundles for the Jim - Johns and little sister Annie . And Wil- na Reynolds , divinely perfect , comes home to charm the streets of Hart . And Myrna Kennedy the apostle of the invincible life returns in radiant majesty to Shelby and gathers the Vivacity Club together under the shadow of her wing and takes them all up to the great Christmas dance the Opera House .

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Don't kill your wife . Let

us do the dirty work

HART LAUNDRY .

Swift Lathers , Editor and Bot- tle washer . The subscription rate to The Mears News is 50c a year ; one dollar for six months and two dollars for three months .

CHRISTMAS IN THE LAND OF MEARS !

A spirit is abroad in the land as soft as the snowflakes and as gentle as the voice of the pines . The people of Mears are walking often down the long white si- lence of the colonnade of the maples coming from the train with many parcels , bending much over the dry goods coun- ters of the village stores , and taking many packages to the lit- tle tin post - office that stands by itself alone . I am thinking about you today because it is Xmas and tomorrow because it is the day after Christmas and so on thru the year . I may not be able to tell you about it every day be- cause you may be far away or both of us may be very busy . But as I take my Christmas walk across Silver Lake and into the silence of the frozen dunes your spirit will walk invisible beside me even as it will in June .

Swift Lathers .

On Christmas night " The Vir- gin of Stamboul " is coming to The Amuse Theatre in Hart . Wild as an Arab steed , quick as a leop- ard , unconquerorable as the burning desert , but with natural instincts that preserve her un- defiled amid the perils of her surroundings - that is Sari , the beautiful dancing girl of Stam- boul .

Wanted a cook at the Carpen- ter school house . Apply to Des- sie Kerr .

We have a fine new line of ko- daks and albums . Come in and look them over in the next 10 days The Bedell Studio , Hart .

We are poultry fan- ciers and fox lovers and what is more we are after your hide . Miller Bros.

LOST my beagle hound , Trixie . All white except her head . John 10 : coutte Mears

To Bechtel's for kodaks !

Hart : Adah Ridell's cat bad a fit and she couldn't catch her so she ran a- cross the road to Mrs. Salter and ex- plained : Our cat is acting darn fresh ! I want you to come over and salt ' r . So Mrs. Sa'tcr came over and told Otis to throw a quilt over the cat and then to throw her down in the gulley to lick out the sardine cans .

The world must eal on

New Year's also so you

on

AN ELECTRIC STOVE like this is a handy thing to heat shaving water boil coffee . Give your wife and make candy on and to one for Christmas and then you can use it anyway .

& Statero

better bring some poul- GIVE ELECTRICAL GIFTS FOR

try to Max Kopeloff ; he stays at Chris Engle's old joint in Shelby and buys furs and hides and junk .

-Pentwater : Barber Clark got the news that E B. jr . was the proud dad- dy of a baby girl . Well if the daddy can be more proud than the grand dad he will have to go some . They say that Barber Clark has already ordered a plug hat , a gold head cane , an eyeglass and a prince albert coat . Tate has so many fellows she doesn't know which one she wants . Will some one please help her decide !

Effie

Peck has a tin shop in the alley back

of Lamont & Hutchinson in Hart and

he does plumbing and tinning and he

mends radiators . Got a lak ?

CHRISTMAS !

They are Useful and Lasting Egg Cooker Stove

Percolator

COREEN

Stove

$ 4.50 ... $ 6.00 ...... $ 13 50 $ 5.00

Table Lamps . $ 3.25 p Aso curling irons , waffle irons , sewing machine motors , washing nachines .

H Ai Chase & Co. , Hart , Mich .

Pat Johnson hopes for an open winter and he winter and he says to bring in your tires for alter- lations . And remember he

For life insurance see Dor- othy Maxson of Hart who has a full fledged garage on represents the Equitable the main drag in Shelby .

of Iowa

Books , stationery and perfumes at Collins '

They were testing seedcorn up in the Ag . class at the Hart high and the boys were casually sam-

pling the corn by pulling kernels off the cobs and

ating them and Mr. Gilbert exploded in humor and satire : " Hey ! don't eat all that corn . Save some of it for the rest of the hogs . " Later he for- got and was seen eating some himself !

tered as second - class mail matter August 8th , 1914 at the post- office Mears . Michigan under Act March 3 , 1879 .

Christmas Candy 25c - 35c a pound New mixed nuts 35c a pound Salted Peanuts 20c a pound

Brubaker o ' Mears

Morris's Corner Store is about the best place in the whole city of Hart to buy Christmas toys . Why you can get stacks of things at 10c which have a 35c price tag on them : Ring toss and water pistols and tops and cars and things galore . Gyroscope tops 25c

Any changes in the business of Gardner T. Sands at Pentwater will not affect Mears . Banking and all other business at Mears will be carried on as before . GARDNER T. SANDS

Mildred Graham talked against hobble skirts last spring . But now she is wearing one .

When the Ladies ' society met with Mrs. Hasley at the miller's house it rained and Harry could not get the car started so he had to carry the babies home for the women and lend them umbrellaz an ' rubberz .

Give the horse a Christmas pres- ent . He whinnies and says he wants a new stable blanket !

GARDNER T. SANDS , MEARS , MICHIGAN

A Few Christmas Suggestions

Flashlights $ 1 to 2.50 Pyrexwale , probably the largest assortment the county Aluminum ware Silverware

Pocket Knives 50c up Colby & Spitler Co. ,

' Say it with flowers ' on Christmas . Can you think of any nicer , more delicate gift than a tender living potted plant ?

For a shut - in or any one what is more wonderful than to watch the petals unfolding in the sunlight of the window ? Don't you love flowers ?

Come in and get a Cyclamen or a potted primrose . Also cedar & magnolia wreaths and cut flowers .

The Hart Creenhouse Phone 198

A year's subscription to The Mears News will make a good Christmas present for a friend .

In the Hart high school Orel Burdick told Mr. Spitler that he had a new definition for " poly- gon . " Mr. Spitler asked him what it was and he said it was a " missing parrot . " Then some- body told Verne Skinner about it and he told Marie Skinner and Marie Skinner told Edith Sun- beam Shogren and Edith Sun- beam Shogren told me and I told you . And there - the secret is out .

Frank VanAelst could not pre- vent his barn burning down . And so it went right ahead .

C. L. Mosher is selling cords of pine wood to inhabitants of the city of Mears .

10 bushels of carrots for sale , Mrs. Hallie Lambrix , Mears .

Christine Haan of New Era has gone to Muskegon to work , but " Pete " has returned from Iowa .

One day last week Miss Katn- erine and Miss Tracy Aerts went to Pentwater in the buggy and before they got started from Pentwater it was dark , so Les- ter Peacock and Arlie Frutchie followed them , drove by and up and down just to see who was in the buggy . Tracy knew it was Lester . When he stood still of course the girls could not stand still too , so Tracy took the whip and Katherine the lines and made the horse jump past the car and Arlie said : " Now if Tra- cy thought anything of you she would not run the horse past . " And Lester said : " Arlie , give me a cigarette , I'm getting so ner- vous I don't know what to do . WANTED - A full time agent in Oceana County for the Michigan , Mutual Life Ins . Co. , E. J. Moore , 408 Houseman Bldg . Grand Rap- ids .

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Meyers & Son

THE QUALITY STORE SHELBY MICHIGAN

Last Saturday evening LeRoy and Merlin Kokx drove over to Hart in their swell car after the three ( 3 ) Aerts girls , Josephine , Katherine and Barbara who are attending the Hart high school and took them out to a birthday party at Louie Aerts ' over in Weare - the girl's home . About fifty ( 50 ) attended . Just as Jose- phine got into the house she stumbled over Arlie Frutchie's heel and sprained her ankle , and spent the rest of the evening in rather a sad condition in a pri- vate room with her friend How- ard Plillipo .

Each Friday night big crowds squeeze into the Amuse Theatre in Hart to follow the screen serial called the " Silent Avenger " and every night they leave the hero in some terrible predica- ment , right in the hands of his enemies , thrown overboard from a ship and drawn into the swirl of the propeller blade or caught in a room with a thousand big knives descending on him . The crowds go the next Friday night to see how he escaped and when the last reel fades from tre screen the hero is in a breathless hair - raising predicament . Man- ager Harris is surely drawing some crowds .

Eva VanTassel and Crystal Weldon went to Muskegon Satur- day to buy Christmas presents .

The Otterbein Male Quartet is coming to Mears January 8. It is reputed to be the highest paid organization of its kind on the road .

On Thanksgiving Day Dave Bergeon had five chickens fried in butter . - Shorty Frank Alves- teffer goes thru the week to Lud- ington to see Louis Shaner's Em- ma Bostley and when Louis goes up on Sunday he notices some alienation of her affection .