Little Pigs are ripe at the Walnut Grove Stock Farm

They had a spell - down at the Knapp schoolhouse Friday night , March 18 , and Mrs. Howard Pechumer spelled the line down . Elmer Knapp saw Marie Farmer home . Albert Pechumer started home with her and Elmer Knapp took her away from him .

Percy Carlton has got a pearl bottomed pool stick worth at least $ 12 and hired an instructor in the person of Mr. Ed Bergman , a rare old master at the game who pushes the little bull dog pipe around ahead of him as he goes .

The Detroit News says that William Merrill was married March 15 at Willie's house to Mrs. H. G. Parkin , a prominent Ladies ' Aid worker in Central church in Detroit village . There were seventy- five present at the wedding . I didn't say there were seventy - five presents at the wedding . Probably more . And almost before you know it they are coming up to Mears to keep house in their newly purchased house he bought from Mrs. Evans , which is all mod- ernized up to snuff , with cement cellar floor and pine - stump furnace and electric lights and hydraulic cistern and chemical toilet .

Fent Gilson , the leading barber in Shelby , has unearthed some trees from the over - forested city park and moved them on a dray with great frozen circles of dirt surrounding the root masses and planted them in the extension lawn in front of his residence on North Michigan avenue with as much ease and dispatch as Alice Long's mother could transplant her geraniums from a flower pot to a soup bowl . - Fent has done his arbor day duty and has done it early .

Anna Fuller , is now the exact defiination of a country school teacher type , and fills every requirement and expectation in scholar- ship and methods and voice and appearance and settled habits to everybody's unqualified satisfaction .

Cornelius Reed , a little boy 8 years old , in Hart , wants me to put on the front cover : " Tomeats are ripe in the Land of Mears . "

PROGRAM AT AMUSE THEATRE , HART

Wednesday and Thursday , March 30 and 31 Marjorie Daw and Marshall Niel in " The River's End . " Wednesday and Thursday , April 6 and 7 , Norma Talmadge in " A Daughter of Two Worlds . " Wednesday and Thursday , April 13 and 14 , " A Romance of Tarzan "

Did you ever catch Deacon Henry Palmiter going into somebody else's chicken coop early in the morning and Sunday morning at that ? Well he did . Mrs. John Wachter looked out the back window and there was Henry Palmiter in her hen coop getting a white rooster and Ed Bergmann and his dog helping him . But it was Henry's own rooster who had been out late seeing the ladies and been invited to stay all night .

Tom Davis , the Shelby linotype operator , says that he has decided that The Mears News is a necessity - not a luxury . Tom Davis is very anxious to meet Madelaine Senecal . She sits near him in the theatre and looks at him in the dark .

We are selling Columbia Grafonolas at pre - war prices . The re - adjusted prices of the machines are $ 30 , $ 45 , $ 60 , $ 85 , $ 100 , $ 125 , $ 140 , $ 150 , $ 175 , Depending on the machine you purchase this means a reduction in price to you of $ 2.50 , $ 5.00 , $ 15 , $ 40 , $ 25 , $ 75 or $ 100 saving on a machine . We have some beautiful new linoleums , and they are about 25 % cheaper than last fall .

Ginghams in beautiful stripes , checks and plaids at 25c a yard .

Meyers & Son

THE QUALITY STORE SHELBY MICHIGAN

West Golden : -Will Lind was down at New Buffalo to see his new nephew , the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Estes . Charlie Campbell , Lucy's father , will work the Averill farm this season . He used to be here ten years ago : Clayton Kauffman will live in the assistant's house . John Wheeler will work for Claude Marshall . And Floyd Wolf would like to move to Mears and work by the day .

One day Clyde Dunn was walking up to Shelby and when he got down to Moor's Corners he went in to wait for a rig or a car to come by so he could catch a ride to town . Mrs. Moore told him to go right into the front room and sit down by the window and as he went in Clyde picked up the plate of fried cakes and took them in . He had eaten four of them before Mrs. Moore discovered it and Isnatched them away .

Geneva Holcomb's husband has bought an interest in Christ Pavledes ' pool room in Hart , one of them and is coming up town to run it .

Farmers , bring in all your poultry and veal calves . I pay the highest price . Max Kopeloff , located in Chris Engle Building , Shelby , Mich . Telephone 128 .

You see Charlie Vandeputte is working for George Foster now but he doesn't have to run the milking machine . One night Charlie bargained fair and square to trade his horse Doc for George's horse Bones . But after he had slept on it why in the morning Charlie could not see it that way . One day George Foster borrowed charlie's horse and went out riding and as he drove past Wanda Erisch's place the animal evinced an intention to turn in . As Wanda walks past she keeps looking toward the Foster house from the time she gets within the vision line of the first tree until the last tree cuts off the view . If she sees Charlie she winks and he goes out and makes a date .

The handsome little brakeman on the Pere Marquette is pretty well known by the ladies , especially at West Olive . It was one afternoon on train 105 a lady got off the train at West Olive and threw a kiss to Oliver . Hold - er threw one back at her .

Say it with Flowers

THE HART GREENHOUSE Phone 198. Also a branch at Spitler's Music Store .

Hilliard Anti - Shock Springs for Ford one - ton trucks sold and applied by E. P. Johnson , Garage , Shelby Bargains in used farm machinery :

I No. 12 DeLaval Separator ; 1 No. 2 Dairy Maid Separator ; one 1 1-2 H. P. Novo pumping engine ; 12 h . p . Novo gasoline engine ; 1 3 1-2 hp Novo gasoline engine ; I 16hp Associated Mfrs . engine ; 1 10 h . p . IHC portable engine ; I McCormick mower ; 1 McCormick Binder ; 1 Empire Disc Drill ; 1 Myers Power sprayer . Write or phone us COLBY & SPITLER CO . , Hart for description and price of our machinery . Max Field buys hides poultry and wrecked machines .

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YERS has just been newly enameled in white and gold EAT ARKET and Pentwater says it looks like a parlor or bath .

John Salverson often implores the neighbors to cart his cream can and saves his dear car . Commodore Mathews has five grandchildren . Tressa Fuller has a hanging vine on her hat . Kenneth Boone , the six footer at Cramer's Corners , had to give up work on the big hill for he was getting so thin he had to stand twice in the same place to make a shadow . While the men at the big hill were eating lunch Forest Boone took a swim in Cedar Creek . He said summer is here now . A your g man by the name of Delmar English who stays at Fred Reynolds and grinds sausage and drives the chickens to water got a 50c piece and now he can take the Mears News . ' Mrs. David Cumming and her husband and her mother- in - law came up from Flint for the egg festival and brought a yellow dog and Miss Edna the third day to Thornton who looks like Myrtle McLaren and ventured down town on James ' Candy Store on the avenue and bought 20 cocoanut biscuit to bite softly . C. Necaize walks up and down the streets of Hart as far as the postoffice and back to his home by the co - op and says : " My , this is a dull town . " If he wants excitement he will have to go to sleep smoking in bed and set his shirt afire again . Mrs. Barvoets is try- ing to get her husband to paint the kitchen wood work . Paul Van- derhowat's folks have sent away for some flowers seeds . They took quite a fancy to the pictures in the Garden Seed Catalog . Williamson's Flour : The World's Choice . $ 10 a barrel . Satisfaction guaranteed . O'Brien & Hunt , Grocers , Pentwater , Michigan

Eat More bread ; its the staff of life . Tiffany sells good bread , two loaves for 25c , full weight .

Good heavy farm mule for sale . Guy Reynolds , Hart 3 work horses for sale , weight 1400 , 1200.-C. L. Mosher , Mears The blacksmith shop is running in Mears and the anvil is ringing . I live in Mears and am on the job every day . All work guaranteed . Fred Kreigh , Blacksmith .

I have a car of acid phosphate coming soon . A. R. Dorrance , Shelny . Phone 165-1 W. M. Peck , the pulmber in Hart has added a motor driven blow torch to his shop equipment and is ready to give you first class service in repairing that leaky radiator .

Registered Poland China pigs for sale at Clyde Dunn's , one mile south of Shelby .

After listening to all the evidence and the eloquence of the attor- neys in the Verbeck divorce case the judge said a divorce would be granted but intimated he would like to have the parties divide up the property and tea spoons between themselves .

The Shelby school building , the main wooden structure , burn- ed to the ground Monday , March 28 , and the valiant firemen sous- ed the collapsing walls and bathed the brick mansion so thorough- ly that it stands today towering o'er the helpless ruins of the old building where the Vivacity Club never can go back and say , " Here is the seat where I sat and here is where Tub Wood and Carter Churchill carved their bold initials . " Duroc Doucette saved many books and lamps and wires and Russell Waters saved a pencil sharpener . Everything else was saved too . Except a few chemicals and they went in a beautiful display of fireworks .

On Wednesday evening , March 30 , there will be a big box social in Shelby at the Oddfellows hall . The Rebekahs are behind it as well as the I. O. O. F. lodge and it promises to be one of the biggest social gatherings of the season . There will be an entertaining pro- gram and it is rumored that there will be candy booths and other attractions . And everybody will see everybody and enjoy the thril- ling suspense of finding out whom they will eat by . So up the stairs to the Oddfellow hall on Wednesday night .

The Cletrac tractor will plow all day and all night and not get tired . And it works lots faster . Demon- stration anytime . Ask Graff Bros. Garage , Hart

Carol Corliss was just getting ready to jump into his horse and buggy when the horse ran away and ran over the sleighs and step- ped on a Page wire fence and caught three legs fell down and hurt the buggy top and how on earth did Jessie Shinn and Ruth Linde- field get home from play practice that night , is all I wonder . Special for one week only : With each cigar sold we will give a new cigar lighter free . O. S. James , barber

Merritt Fisher , the ferryman in Pentwater , sleeps on an old plank in the ferry house while he is waiting for the train to come .

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Rinehart's folks are going to move in Hart Hollers : -Norma from their Elbridge plantation and live in Hazel Birke's house which their have purchased . Moses Birke will till the soil in the open country and we are afraid this will cause some slight separation between Hazel Birke and Fern Purdy who have always clung to each other like two grape vines interwinding over a hen coop . - Bill Collier is back in Hart from Ithaca , New York , where he spent the winter with his daughter . It seems good to him to be back with Mr. Flory and all the old soldiers . - A dainty little miss named Juanita Wallace went down on the train to Grand Rapids for a visit . And her little brother Edward watched the conductor punch the tickets and saw the card board chops fall on Juanita's dress . What is Stella Clark doing ? -Is it so that Rosebud Christian is hello girl in The - House - Of - Many - Wires ? So now the blissful skies of spring hang over us and they are like the radiant face - light of Kathleen Pierce ; the mellow grace of Wilna Reynolds ; the clear complexion of Hazel Weeks , the apple - blossom ; the silvery voice of Lydia Bran- del ; or the ruby lips of Viva Davis , -William Lorenz who had a vacation laid down for him has been back from the hospital a few days observing yard limits . They let him come home if he would not go down to his cigar factory until the 25th . All of which he faithfully kept . - Miss Gertrude Reading with a heart alive to all the beauties of nature played a piano solo at the grange meeting 35 minutes before the penny march . - Isabel VanAmberg is growing up in the likeness of her sister Heavenly Helen who sings the Easter anthems at the pipe - organ church and the Ladies Literary Club . Ancona eggs for hatching , heavy egg strain . Mrs. Mathis , Mears The Jewish holidays are coming on and we want all kinds of fat chickens . Miller Brothers in Hart

Auto livery any time , anywhere . F. T. Sloan , Mears Stoughton Peerless Manure Spreader has roller bearings in rear axle , automobile front . Wide spread attachment behind and steel sideboards . It is sold by Near & Son , Pentwater . Demonstration every Saturday afternoon .

Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Collins attended church in Mears Sunday and Mr. Collins sang a double solo with Mr. Bachelor Rollins .

THE MEARS NEWS

SWIFT LATHERS , Editor and Bottlewasher

Subscription : 50c a year ; $ 1.00 for 6 months ; 3 months , $ 2.00 . Entered as second - class mail matter August 8th , 1914 at the post office Mears . Michigan under Act March 3 , 1879 .

Farms for sale by W. F. Cock , Shelby

80 acres in Benona township , 7½ miles west of Shelby , 40 acres all cleared and stumped , balance pasture land and fenced , good soil , small house , basement for barn , 600 peach trees in bearing . Good road to Shelby . Price $ 1400 .

120 acres , 2 miles south of Mears , 40 acres cleared and stumped , good house and barn , well and windmill , good apple , cherry and peach orchard . Soil , sandy loam . Price $ 3500 . The 40 with the buildings can be sold seperate .

280 acres 2½ miles south west of Mears , good 8 - room house , good basement barn , water piped to barn , farm all fenced with woven wire , good soil , 160 acres cleared , 40 acres apple and peach orchard just in bearing , ½ mile to stone road . Price $ 7500 . Terms .

80 acres 4 miles N. W. of Shelby , good 7 - room house , barn , well and windmill , small orchard farm all fenced , sandy soil fairly level . Price $ 1600 .

Will consider terms . W. F. Cock , Shelby , Mich .

Horse for sale : 7 years old , sound and gentle . Roland Mathews , Mears

Dear Swift : Ralph Weaver says he don't care if Sour Crout wants Mary McGhan worse than he does to let her go and joy go with her . Now boys , take warning and call .

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

We have a car of Lime - Sulphur shipped . We shall be glad if you will drop in and let us know your require- G. T. Sands , Mears

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Many people in Mears will remember the Rouses , the parents of Mrs. Frank Burr , who used to come here to visit . They both spent their last days in California at Los Angeles , Mr. Rouse living to be 85 years old .

Floyd Meyers in Shelby has a 60 gallon drum with faucet for sale .