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Jim Fuller had no place to throw his rubbers when he came in out of the rain . Stenographer Lola Mae had no place to put her delicate strap rubbers . Brother Harland didn't know where to drop his rubber boots . So Lottie told Jim he could build a big sun parlor back porch 8 feet by 20 , and now that it is done the whole family has a place to throw their rubbers , and the dog , Sandy , has a dry place to lay his tail . Next summer , however , the Fuller family will eat their salad suppers on the new back porch and Lola Mae will fish the best pink glass teacups out of the china closet . - Keith Corliss , the corner gro- cer , celebrated this week his first anniversary in Mears . It was a year of achievement in brightening up the store , freshening the stock , arranging displays , building in living quarters and filling in the sunk- en garden so it was a park level with the sidewalk . Hail to Keith , the progressive grocer . - It seemed good in the season of crimson leaves to see Marjorie Hall showing Eleanor Warner the arboreal pageant nature's corridors . Eleanor comes from Elgin , so she is up to the min- ute . Some people like Ed . Hasty do not have enough front yard to grow many flowers in , but if you take a sally down the alley you will see a galaxy of floral color in Ed's back yard that would do your eyes good . The new highway between Hart and Shelby is all done except the last mile to the south . We are very glad that the curving stretch of concrete from the old junction was left for Mears and Silver Lake visitors to branch off and travel past Jake Heer's and Catalpa Camp up the dear old US - 31 . At first they planned to rip this curve out and leave only the tarvia junction by the old Dickie place , but there was some objection made , says Mr. Vinton , who comes from Coldwater , and the curve was left . Mears people have cause for rejoicing in this because it makes the severance of the ways so much more congenial and expedient . If people had to run up the new hill and sharply turn they wouldn't turn so much but keep on northward bound . Now what we should do is to erect a big sign at our good old junction saying : " Turn here to go to Mears , Silver Lake and the sand dunes , " and up at Anna Heer's stand we could erect a big sign that would say " O - ce Ana . " ( Oh ! see Anna ! ) - When the Bailey boys were little and mis- chievous , Mrs. Bailey could send them out to the red barn to play . She could decide to barn ' em . So it was a case of Barn ' em Bailey's cireus in the barn . If Dick Barnum came along it was more sa , Nu

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many lakes and frog ponds you can see from the peak of it . Charlie invited us to come on up and take a peek . Joe said he would rather be on the ground cutting corn . I said I would rather be down below digging potatoes . We trundled on . " Joe , why is it people keep on walk- ing gravel roads when they could wear a nice footpath in the grass alongside ? If we'd start we could soon wear a path . " So we started and got along pretty well for quite a ways except that the catalpa claws hung a little low and we had to take a bow . So I left Joe at the yel- low house corner and went to O'Doherty's to see if he was still Irish . The pool of water at Michael's well is always fascinating to me . It is concrete and circular and looks about 8 feet across . It would make a good place for a gold fish convention and would hold about 1,787,269 gold fish . The water overflows from the house tank and if the cows don't drink it fast enough it overflows to the barnyard . The white house across the road looked quite deserted . The O'Dohertys doubted if Jean would be back any more this year . She was probably knee- deep in college . I wanted to walk on to Lynnwood forest but it was a little late in the afternoon . On the way home I began to pick up scar- let leaves and rainbow colors . I would leave the highway and go up into the hills where the orange sassafras grows . I crawled under the barbed wire fence because I remembered the parable of the tares and I know you can have a ripping time going over . Some sand burrs seemed to be on the hillside so I took the inside footpath the cattle travel by the fence . Then I ascended to the uplands . The road seemed far below . The view was expansive and the horizon was wider . How many people who travel 70 miles an hour on the highway below ever realize what scenery they could see if they went across lots over the hill . So I go in and out of the sumacs , taking toll of the sassafras beauty and sit down in the twilight to think and read a few para- graphs . Then I walked down a lane and up the highway to Mears . I was richer by fifty cents and a million dollars worth of sunset peace and twilight contentment . - William D. Peterson has for sale at his dooryard in Ha : t a number of good Chevrolets , sedans and coaches . Also a number of cheaper cars . - Farmers , if you want to save money bring in your kerosene drum to the Hart Economy Station and we will sell kerosene to you at 9c a gallon in 50 gallon lots . Murray Ros- siter . Perhaps it was Monday morning as I went to Downing's hard- ware store after linseed oil that I saw Remy Vandeputte . Jim Fuller was talking to him about spraying potatoes next year . And Remy said he didn't know . " Don't know what ? Don't know if you will grow pota- toes next year or don't know if you will spray ? " Remy said the way he felt now he didn't know if he would be alive to spray his potatoes next year . The next day Remy Vandeputte , 78 years old , was found dead in his field . A native of Belgium , Mr. Vandeputte had lived many years in our midst on the road where the blue chickory and wild car rots grow . He had some of the best soil in the township . He leaves two sons , George and Charles , and a daughter , Mrs. Vincent Trombley . Services are to be held this Saturday morning at St. Gregory's church in Hart and he will rest in Mt. Calvary cemetery beside the cathedral in Weare . A sober , kind , deliberate , reflective sort of man , Mr. Vande- putte made many friends who will remember him kindly and long.-

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