Andy - High - Over is ripe in the Land of Mears

Andy - High - Over

It is a contagion that comes in the spring after the epidemic of Marbles . Throw the rubber ball over the schoolhouse . And the kids on the other side --- why sure you remember !

Cal Liggett isn't going to wait for the sun to dry his strawberries up next summer . He is putting in an irrigation plant , and over- head sprinkler system and will pipe water from Morris Lake and make it rain whenever he wants it to . Cal always was a hustler . And aside from setting out a new civilization down among the pine stumps in the Great Golden Plain south of Mears , he is now going to start a garden of Eden that is independent of the sun and the moon and the stars and the evening dew and the morning mist . Charlie Churchill has a sty on his eye . Jim Le Vere has a sty on his farm , a pig sty . Charlie Churchill can take his sty off by rub- bing it with peroxide and a gold ring . Jim Le Vere can take the sty off his farm with a hatchet and a wheelbarrow .

Madonna Flagg and Carl Sarles rode with Judge Shaw down to Hart the other day and one of the high school teachers looking at their empty Seats said : " Have Madonna and Carl eloped ? "

Miss Laura Cook was out with George Stier the other night and returning , they talked so long on the porch and in the cold corridor that Mrs. Quirk had to call Laura in .

I wish to announce to the voters of Golden township that I am a candidate for the office of township treasurer at the Republican caucus March 12 , your support will be appreciated . Faye L. Wright . Thomas Welsh & Son have bought the De Vries dry goods store across the road , and for the present they will leave it where it is . Clayt Gilliland says it would be quite a job to take his lifting jacks and move the building across the road .

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Nina Johnson says that if I help Claus saw wood with the cross- cut saw for an hour I can send her The Mears News a year to pay for the fun . John Bender will swear to it . Claus Johnson will give me 20 bushels of potatoes if I lug them up the railroad track to Mears at one time .

Herbert English last Sunday night went up to Gottlieb Hurthle's on the county line and rocked the baby to sleep for Selma and then he came out to the road and hid behind a tree to wait for Doris Lambrix to come back from church .

Probably no girl in Golden township is so universally known and so universally liked and appreciated as Miss Faye Wright , the book- keeper in Sands ' warehouse . Did you ever see anybody in the world that didn't like Faye ? This year she is running for the office of township treasurer and we think that her past two years experience actually doing the work of the office as the treasurer's assistant make her abundantlly well qualified to do it again . If you want to help Faye turn out at the Republican caucus Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the town hall ,

J. H. Pentwater Jensen motored down to Mears the other day the third time in his life . Pentwater basket girls are justly proud because they beat Muskegon High .

When Urtel sold his farm he did not sell the hired man with it and that is how Frank Roeth , John's faithful servant is now going to go down to his own farm , the fertile Patterson Gardens on the Golden River . He will be in easy walking distance of Floradale and we predict the summer resort girls from Chicago will some- times stop in and beg an onion .

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

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Politics are getting ripe over in the town of Hart and the big contest is over the office of township treasurer , A number of people are out after the pleasure of feeling the fat hundred dollar bills slip thru their fingers and ravelling off one per cent for their trouble of raking in the public taxes . One thing I would like to see the people of Hart do is to get this sentimental needy stuff out of politics . For instance I understand that Burns Hutchins and I guess Mr. Shaw too are advocating Mrs. Emma Culver for treasurer on the sole grounds that she is a needy woman and it would help her out , althrough she admits she doesn't know anything about the job . Rats and fiddlesticks ! Why don't they offer the job to Mrs. Timmons on the same grounds that she is needy ? And you know know people are so sympathetic with her too since she had her widow's pension chopped off It is our opinion that in selecting the right candidate for any office efficiency should be the watch word . Among this season's aspirants there are two efficient candidates who no doubt are well qualified for the job . One is Mrs. Eva C. Hanson and the other is Charles Powers . Both are in the fire insurance business . Both have offices down town where it would be handy for you to drop in and pay your taxes any time . Mrs. Hanson has also worked in the savings bank for quite a long time and has had experience in handling money and counting it deftly and quickly . And you bet your boots she knows how to make out tax receipts and everything . Her real estate and insurance training qualify her to get the accurate descriptions for land . Then there is Charlie Powers also quick at figures and with a business trained mind . He spent six years as book - keeper with Lewellyn and Wachter and two years with the Hart Co - operative Association . And he's got an office in the tailor shop .

After all , we have decided at last to run our sawmill in Mears this winter . So bring on your logs for custom sawing . Schultz & Mar- shall

Mrs. Doty refused to pay her personal property taxes on her portable house in The Golden City so Frank Downing , the township treasurer , levied on it and will sell it Monday , March . 7. There will probably be some fun .