Frosted Tomato Plants are ripe in the Land of Mears

Frosted Tomato Plants

Miss Coralie Sloan's favorite expression is . " Oh ! you're Dutchy ! " Some say she learned it from Richard Davidson . - You know Richard goes with Margaret Boller ( who is the prettiest girl in Hart ? ) ( oni- bursts of indignation from Betty Jane Sayles ! ) . Well , the other night was Grange night in Hart and the Christians car was parked on the avenue with Mary Alice sitting in one seat and Marguerite in the other and Richard Davidson climbed in to sit and talk awhile and then he saw Margaret Boller coming and he slid down into the seat to make himself invisible and Margaret nodded pleasantly to Marguerite and went on by . But later she was passing the ear again and he did not have tim to slide down into a condition of obscurity and invisibility so Margaret Boller saw him that time . And no doubt at some later and more con- venient time she bawled him out properly . The Mears school had a party last Thursday night which the ninth and tenth grades gave for the seventh and eighth graders , and if you had been there you might have s en Mr. Kludy playing snap and catch ' em with Beulah Feasel . Myrton Genung , a former Mears boy and a brother of Clare Genung , worked in the dead letter office at Washington . D. C. and he was handling a package when a bomb blew up and injured his hand and his face . I think he lost his hand entirely . The ministerial Dekkers of West Golden have gone to New York state for a visit with her folks . If the Land Bank appraiser turns you down , try for a Home Loan , Yon may

ot have this opportunity next year folks , as the government may run out of funds one of these times , so better try for your refinancing NOW . The Home Owners ' office at Grand Rapids , or at Washington , or at our own Eva Hanson - Osborn corner up at Hart , we can , any of us , make our appeal . Long time and low interest rates . Your gain , the goveru- inent's loss , if you fall down on the loan , but with the long term of years you won't fall , so give it a trial . The Walkerville postoitice is going move across the street into part of the Jake Capion building where Jake used to keep the collars and neckties . Mears will celebrate Mem- orial Day with a program in the church at 10 o'clock Wednesday morn- ing and afterwards a march to the cemetery with the band where a short additional program will be given and a rifle salute be fired in honor of the soldier dead . The band was practicing " The Star Spangled Banner " Wednesday night . - Everet Graff was married Saturday to Hel- en Ohmart . I wonder if he gave her a radio for a wedding present . REP . MUSSELWHITE TO SPEAK AT MUSKEGON MEMORIAL DAY Rep . Harry W. Musselwhite of Manistee will be the orator of the day at the Memorial Day exercises in the principal city of his district , Mus- kegon , on May 30th . The Congressman accepted the invitation extended to him by Mr. Helmer Berg , Director of the American Red Cross in Muskegon , in behalf of all veterans organizations . In accepting the in- vitation Mr. Musselwhite said , " I consider this invitation from all Veterans groups as a distinct honor and , while I am pressed with the duties attendant a member of Congress during the closing days of the session , I believe it my duty to bring a message to our former soldiers concerning the legislation in Congress which is of utmost importance to them . " Congressman Musselwhite will make a hurried trip to Muske gon to fill this speaking engagement so that he may return immediately to his duties in the national House of Representatives . In view of the shortness of his trip and the importance of the occasion . Mr. Mussel- white will hardly have time to discuss his plans for the coming cam- paign , but , in accordance with his announcement , he will return to the district shortly after the adjournment of Congress and meet personally his many friends in the eleven counties of his district .

You don't know when lightning may strike the barn or the chimney may drop a spark on your parlor roof or a free may jump in from your car . So you had better see the Joslin Insurance Agency before the catastrophe .

At the Hart Greenhouse you can get beautiful potted geraniums in blossom at 25e and up ; cabbage tomato and other garden plants by th dozen , also foliage plants and small bedding plants at 10c each . Otto Kuehnel . Proprietor

Entered as sound - class mail matter August Sth 1914 at the post offer Mears , Michigan , under Act of March 3 , 1879

Swift Lathers . Editor and Bottlewasher

Lynn Beadle of Crystal Valley is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Sheriff . He has served 16 years in the navy , but out- side of that splendid training he has spent practically all his life at Crystal Valley . He is good fibre for Sheriff and is worth consideration on your ballot . ( Advertisement ) . The Democratic Party convention will be held next Friday , June 1 , at Hart in the court house at 2 p . m .

The poem this week by Swift Lathers called The Bird Woman , " is dedicated to Mrs. Edith C. Munger , whose unfailing interest in birds has for many years contributed to the success of the Michigan Audubon Society . She has done so much to arouse a kindly interest in behalf of birds and worked aggressively for protective legislation .

THE BIRD WOMAN

So different was she from those

Who tramp the paths so listlessly , Oblivious of songs that fall

On unattentioned ears ;

I'mnindful of a thousand notes diversified

That fling from happy feathered throats . Each vesper chorus , each matin eall

That sweetly floods in ecstasy ,

She heard and loved them all .

I saw her pass in lavendar and lace

Along a path unfrequented , beside the marsh .

A hemlock marked the place

Where she would wait the bittern's harsh

And blatant noise . Sweet sounds to her who loved the wild , Whese lonely footprints on the sands

Along the desolate winding shore

Were glad with wind and sky and gulls .

In woods where gentians held their bottled heads

Secluded spots where orchids grew .

She prayed that careless . pestilent hands Might never come . When sunrise broke She went afield to daisies and the larks .

I think I know her church , her choir . The great cathedral of the woods . She treads its aisles with reverent feet And drinks each day its music sweet . She may not say a mass in words But in her heart's an altar fire That flames unceasingly to birds .

And if her soul could choose its flight

In the transmigration of the night . When living things must go to dust And re - incarnate be .

I'm sure she would be born a tree

And stretch her arms for birds to rest ,

To sing their songs and build their nests .

And soaring wings in covering skies Would sing to her , her paradise .

Swift Lathers .