String Bean Pickers are ripe in the Land of Mears

Coley Strong has gone to Muskegon to work and ring up a bigger bell on the cash register , so the village of Hart wants a new marshal . Mark Glover would make a good one . He sees all that is going on . All he would have to do would be to move Charlie Newton's barber stairs railing over by the court house drinking fountain where Coley held forth to watch the parking light to see that it behaved properly and turned green when people wanted to go and red when they wanted to stop . The Floyd Krauters have with them this week Mr. and Mrs. Wilt from Muncie , Indiana . With the Wilts is their son , Sonny . Some of these hot days Mr. Krauter may get Mr. Wilt to pitching hay in the August sun just to watch him wilt . Or Mrs. Krauter may go out into the garden to gather the abundant lettuce for dinner and pour hot bacon grease over it just to see it wilt . - The Mears home - coming is Sunday . August 9 , at the brick church . Bring your basket dinner at noon and we will all eat in a huddle . - JoAnn Chapin on the hill married Maurice Nichols . It was a social event in Cobbtown . - Pretty soon now the Mears boy scouts are going camping at Silver Lake . - Believe it or not or rip it by Ripley , but Lynn Dean Estes from Mears is stationed at Camp Swift . -Walt Hansen is entertaining his brother John from Evanston . If John wakes up in the night and thinks the water works are on fire , Wait will have to tell him it's the fault of Wellman's flaming orange paint brush . How fitting it is to have Mr. Wellman for superintendent of the water works . - John Freeborn has a new neighbor , Miss Cunningham , to provide him with entertainment and hot water . Her cows drifted over into his yard a couple of times and the farmerette went over and told him : " It's because you have a super - mind . You draw my cattle right out of my field . " Shades of Salem , John , are you practicing witcherait at Sackrider ? -Gerry Meehan and Sellers Braddock spent the week - end at Sleeping Bear Point . It was a hot Saturday night and the air was warm and muggy and the gentlemen scanned the beaches but they did not report that they saw anybody sleeping bare . - Pvt . Alfred Weaver of Rantoul , Illinois , came home to see his wife Zella , the ribbon clerk . Claire J. Mahoney , ambassador of advertising typography , comes up from Kazoo for the Silver Lake view and the shifting Sarara topogra- phy . Walter Hodges turned 81 and Harriet made a party for him in her yard and passed the frosted cake . Mr. Hodges was once postmaster

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of Pentwater . He can remember when sail boats blew in at the harbor and bricks baked in the lakeside ovens . - Henry J. Campbell passes on at the age of 93. He is the father of Will , of Mears , Charles , of West Golden , Fred , of South Haven , and Mrs. Fred Reed of Pentwater . When I first knew him he owned the place where Fred Kreigh lives , and his granddaughter , Lucy , stayed there and went to school . Henry sat under the mountain . ash tree and watched the drays go by with peaches in fifth baskets covered with red mosquito netting going to the depot . Fri- day he was buried in Mears . He was a grand old gentleman . - The board of supervisors , who are not willing for the common people of Oce- ana to elect a county road commissioner as is often done elsewhere , had a special one hundred dollar meeting Monday and elected a county road commissioner . James Abstract McCallum was the man selected and he is alright , only the people could have elected him just as well at the coming primary , but I guess the board of supervisors as a whole think " the people of Oceana county are not qualified to select a county road commissioner , " as one supervisor stated on the floor in a famous session of the past , only to be rebuked by George Foster , who said : " They are the people who elected us . " - Theoretical Tommy Tompkins , the farm expert who doesn't own a farm , drifted down to Shelby to see about getting a little moral support for his new - fangled soil conservation dist- rict monkey business and approached a prominent business man , who came back at Tommy in a hurry about the noxious penalty clauses of the drastic law . Mr. Tompkins was taken back a bit and he said : " I don't feel qualified to judge about the law . " And the business man said : " Then why in h - do you think you should go around and put this thing up for ? " The business man said a mouthful . Here is a setup which if adopted in this county would allow five men to come upon your any time day or night to see if their land use regulations and practices are being carried out , and if you fail in any particular to conform to their code you can be fined and jailed ; they can get the court to decree the work must be done and if you fail they can descend upon your farm with an unlimited number of men and enter your fields to run up un- limited expense which can be assessed against you in your taxes , and if you cannot pay the bill , which might amount to hundreds of dollars , you can lose your farm for taxes . Vote NO on the soil conservation dist- rict on August 25. And now after a year of training at a Manistee hos- their course pital , Phyllis and Corelene Hasty have completed nurses ' helpers . One of the girls got a job in the Ludington hospital and the other has employment in the Manistee hospital . - E . G. Robinson from Kirkwood , Missouri , is nigh unto Nye's , so night that he can smell their coffee boiling and their toast if it burns . But Bill Nye doesn't aim it shall burn . - In his diary J. B. Brown should write about his 25 - inch great northern pike : Glen Bushong will long remember his 17 - inch wall- eye : Roll Shultz can take his 20 - inch small mouth bass and roll it in cornmeal . Mrs. Newman and Mrs. Bushong caught plenty of large blue- gills , perch and bullheads . - Bud Heym is eating bacon and eggs with the Osgoods . - C . W. Lowe was fishing on Silver Lake when the Sunday sprinkle came and he pulled a fast oar for the Ensing shore . His daugh- ter , Shirley Jean , according to the high school year book , has " keen sense , common sense and lots of room for nonsense . " Miss Ensing's name is Evigene and we presume that Shirley Jean and Evigene put on their jeans when they like to hike - It seems that the Frank Grings are going to install stationary tubs to wash their clothes in . Nathan Quick Lath- ers , aged 6 , saw the new tub in the back yard and he came home to re- port : " I guess the Grings are going to have a new bathtub and it has a

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partition right down the middle so two people can take a bath at the same time . " - Mrs . Goldie Jeffries Rogers has moved here from Char- lotte with her family and is again occupying the Charlie Vandeputte house . June is working at a cottage at Pentwater . The boys are picking string beans or pickles . We are glad to see the family back . - Nathan Quick Lathers , age 6 , is going to be a philosopher yet . Last night he con- fided to me : " It's always nice to not want what you can't have . " - Found : gold watch chain . Inquire of The Mears Newz . - Wanted to buy . a TENT , about 12x20 feet . Phone Hart 381 - W - Jane Quail has with her this week her high school chum Joan , who heard the sun was a tanner . So the girls rubbed tanning oil on their shoulders and walked to the Novadoc to see who could get the brownest . Joan won . - James C. Jones , 40 , of Florida , sawed out of jail in search of more diversified scenery . William Leahey will start a new pants factory in Hart in the Gem foundry building . - If enough desire it . Alice Quist will start a home nursing class in the Mears town hall - Alfred Rettey is candidate for the office of sheriff of Oceana county on the Republican ticket . He will appreciate any support you may give him in the primaries . A hustling Shelby business man , Alfred is well and favorably known in the county . He would make a good sheriff . ( Political advertisement . )

Western and native beef , spring chickens , lamb , bacon , ham , home- made sausage . We especially welcome resort trade . Sanitary Meat Mar- ket , east side Shelby's Main street .

Gilbert candies , Arctic ice cream , first aid kits at Collins Drug Store on the corner in Hart .

EIGHTH INSTALLMENT OF 1932 AND PRIOR YEARS ' AND SIXTH INSTALLMENT OF 1933-1934 AND 1935 TAXES NOW DUE AND SHOULD BE PAID ON OR BEFORE AUGUST 31 , 1942 , TO AVOID PENALTIES . UNPAID 1940 AND PRIOR YEARS ' TAXES , ALSO UNPAID MORATORIUM TAXES OF INSTALLMENTS NO . 6 AND NO . 8 WILL BE OFFERED FOR SALE AT THE ANNUAL TAX SALE IN MAY , 1943. A CHARGE OF $ 1.00 WILL BE ADDED OCTO- BER 1 , 1942 , ON 1940 AND PRIOR YEARS ' TAXES . BERT PURDY , OCEANA COUNTY TREASURER .

Resort property near lakes and streams for sale by Eva Hanson - Os- born Agency in Hart . Headquarters for farms and village homes . adv . CAR WASHING and greasing at Ervin Gleason's Economy Gas Sta- tion in Hart . US - 31 at the railroad crossing . Gas for less , adv . Esslinger's Friendly Service at US - 31 and MS2 . Oceana's busiest cor- ner , will be the special spot to buy peaches . Come here for sweet cher- ries and for peaches . adv . - Nancy Draper and Nancy Williams live side by each in Mears . - We are glad to see big Abe Rafelson back in these parts . He buys pickles and apples at Purdy's warehouse in Hart.- Fill your bin with good coal . We handle io . Supreme and Monarch Hard Coal , Coke and Mill Wood . Shelby lee & Fuel Co. Phone 157 .

MOBILGAS at the sign of the flying red horse , sold and recommend ed by the Hart Petroleum . And Mobiloils lend smileage to your mile age , Auto laundry at our Hart down town service station ; also tires Phil Wurthner can fix your car and make it purr cheerfully . He sells En - Ar - Co motor oil for happy lubrication .

-To Keith Corliss , the grocer in Mears , for lunch meats and things to make salads . Fresh bread , rolls , doughnuts , adv . - George Kitchen call- ed on Mrs. Haynes the other evening and they had a pleasant visit on the front porch . - Montague is a city already and now Whitehall is thinking about being one . Its citizens will have a mass meeting next To the Central Meat Market in Hart where Nixon & Nixon will he glad to wrap up beef steak for supper , pork roast for dinner , bologna