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That Silver Lake , the beautiful , should be shut off from public gaze or that any portion of its curving shore line road should be blocked off by a greedy group of individuals and closed to public travel is a situation that would be unbearable . To avert such a catastrophe we are this week sounding the alarm to warn all lovers of Silver Lake , all lovers of the dunes , all people who adore winding shore roads , that an ungenerous movement is quietly on foot , initiated by a few private- minded individuals , to shut up the lake shore road from the end of the Meyer road to Floradale . A part of the cottage owners on Adelia Beach want it closed so they can use it for a private front door yard and make you travel on the dusty gravel road back in the woods and look at their out - houses and ice houses and have your view of the lake shut off . They will give you their garbage pails for scenery and keep the lake view for their special personal use . This lake shore drive which is our heritage from our fathers , they , a selfish seven . would close to public travel . We won't stand for it , you won't stand for it , a thousand thinking people will say we'll keep that road open . I went to the county road commission and told them : " You can't close that road without a trial in circuit court . " No , they thought just a little hearing before the commissioners . " I will show you . Get out your public acts of 1927 and you will find an act of the legislature that says a road bordering on a lake or a stream cannot be closed without a petition and a notice published three weeks in a newspaper and then a hearing in the circuit court . At the trial anyone can go in and make objection . " The tourist value of that lake shore alone is worth $ 5,000 a year for the view , even if we who live around these parts had no hearts , no aesthetic feelings , no sense of the beau- tiful . Who wants this road closed anyway ? The people in the alumi- num house talked it up . John Wolf left a lot of vacant spaces and signed the petition quite a ways down so it would look as if he signed it last . It seems John sort of made a business mistake in moving his

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store way back on the back road away from the cool breezes and the bathing beach and now he wants the shore road closed up so every- body will have to travel by his store . The shore road should be open so when the campers drive up to the entrance of the park to register they will be right by the caretaker's little store . They don't want to come in the dusty back road with their trailers and plow up the sand switching and sawing away to get their travel train on the narrow park road . And what caretaker would care to pick up his office build- ing home and move it away back there in the woods and keep his fam- ily away from the cool breeze of the lake , way back away from the rowboats , way back where the bathers could not step up and buy a candy bar or an ice cream cone when they needed it ? Why should you and I and all of us have to suffer all this just because John Wolf wants everybody to travel past the door of his store and just because the people in the aluminum house don't want us common people to walk by in our calico dresses and cotton bathing suits . We will show them . We will let them know we want that road open ! We will keep can the heritage of our fathers . These newcomers can't have our highway Deer for a radish bed . - Housemaid wanted in Hart family of three adults . merit Inquire of . The Mears Newz . - Annual school meeting Monday night . Take a drive out to Little Pt . Sable and enjoy the bathing in Michigan . The store is open and you can buy ice cold pop . candy bars , Phon light groceries , and some days ice cream cones . Mrs. Nellie Down- ing has a granddaughter with her family spending the summer in the house west of Merle Hitchcock . - Mr . and Mrs. Douglas Best of Wheaton , Illinois , with their daughter Miriam , about 16 , and their little son Douglas are at Old Orchard Lodge this week . The Bests , who are charming people , were resorters at the Point eight years ago , and we hope they come again often . - The Levin sisters arrived at the Point Wednesday to open Vin - a - la . - Miss Marguerite Ribbeck finds afternoon consolation , inspiration and refreshment by putting on her bathing suit and chewing a stalk of celery . - Dr . M. P. Boynton has two chairs and a chaise - lounge made out of the cypress swamps of Florida where he discovered them and had the maker ship them up here . Dr. H. W. Cheney's cottage has been glorified this week by the perfect presence of his daughter Carol . - Nancy White seems have grown up all of a sudden from a little girl who got her foot cut on a piece of glass on the sand , to a young lady who appreciates no- etry . The Nicholas cottage at the Point is getting a new back addi- tion for the water system , etc. - Ellwood Schneider of Kalamazoo was at the Point early and now comes Dick and his father . - Walt Jenison on Tuesday evening went to Pentwater beach to watch the far hori- zon and the bathing beauties nearer by . Circuit court next week . When you go into the Friendly Inn these hot days yon will find Chauncey DuProz has hung a fan on your hat hook . Take it down and fan yourself while you are waiting your order .

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Don't let these hot days get your appetite . Come into Graff's Quali- ty Meat Market and look around . You will see something to make you hungry .

Alex Stalker from Montana is our new neighbor on the Jesse Ben- son place , one mile east of Silver Lake . He rents saddle horses for peo- ple to ride down to the state park along the bridal path and country roads . Rent a pony today .

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At the Silver Lake state park there was a full house and a full out- doors over the firecracker holidays . They overflowed into the fields and when there wasn't room enough on land anymore some of them camped in the water . Bob Cardinell , Jack Dodge and Paul Theroux came from East Lansing with their boyish bicycles . Maybe Miss Mar- celine Kidman with her maroon colored hair ribbon was only 15 years old . ( Marceline , I mean , not the hair ribbon . ) But she was large enough to be 16. Marceline , that's a name worth remembering . So is Marceline . Lois Henvey had so much sunburn on her sunback should- ers that you could curry it off with a curry comb , but Lois won't let you . Dorothy Jeanne Brown wears side combs and Betty Kidman pins her hair with one bobette pin . Harold Brown with a little white ele- phant on his neck must be a Republican . Evelyn Olson tells Charles Kittle to put the kettle on . If Betty Kidman talks too much in the early morning Harold Brown tells them all to shut up because he wants to sleep another hour . John H. Hill of Chicago and Little Point Sable and Ruthora Travis were married Wednesday , June 30th , and are spending a while at the Point . We wish them many happy days .-- Leslie Pechumer decided to get a license for his car since El- sie Easton has been out riding with some other boy . - When Matt Kotzian comes up from Muskegon he doesn't stop by bringing Wilma , but brings the rest of her family , too . - Louie Kotzian has been down in the dumps since the Young school teacher left . - Clarence Sheldon ought to get a dog to drive his cows to pasture . He has been using his Essex for that purpose and driving in low gear so much he has worn out a transmission and needs the valves ground . He thinks his car is a pretty expensive cow dog.-Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pfan , resi- dents of Golden 20 years ago , have been stopping at the Bless and Knock cottage at Silver Lake . He needed a tape line to measure his 34 inch pike . - Bathing suits , dress shirts and wool shirts at usual low prices . Polo shirts . This is the place to buy those summer dress pants at a great saving . We have those farmerettes - slacks are old fashioned when you see our ladies ' farmerettes ; dress caps at 20c . This is one place in town to buy anklets the color yiu want . Ideal Sales Co. , George W. Skinner , Hart . - Dorothy Schrump wishes Clyde Keeler would come home so he could ask her to go to the show with him . She would say " no " anyway , so what's the difference

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The Mears Newz is published weekly by The Inner Life Press , Mears , Michi- gan . Entered as second - class mail matter August 8th , 1911 , at the post office Mears , Michigan , under Act of March 3 , 1879. Swift Lathers , Editor and Bottle- washer . Subscription rate 50c a year ; or $ 1.00 for 6 months ; or $ 2 for 3 months Cherry orchard and several lots for sale right in Mears on Maple avenue . Inquire of The Mears Newz for further particulars .