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-Hubert Shinn , professor geometry , and Louis Meisch , professor of tadpoles , have resigned from Hart high school because they are work- ing at the Dow Chemical construction in Ludington and receive many more nickels a week than would roll at them down the academic halls . Louis Meisch hammers nails with Jerry Koon from Scottville and at noon they compare batting averages by counting up their black and blue fingernails and toenails . - Floyd Krauter is getting some of Guernsey cows at Silver Hills Farm ready to appear at the Ludington Fair next week . - Charles Harris has two new daughters now , acquir- ed by annexation . Son Donald married a Margaret and Reed calls his wife Sylvia . Charles , the postal clerk , put his stamp of approval on the young ladies and will give them a kiss for a postmark - Miss Nellie Bunting , daughter of E. L. Bunting at Walkerville , is buried today . She had been living in Detroit . - Clare Bright and family enjoyed the bright August sunshine last week at Quail's Trail - Miss Margaret Spencer didn't like that hornets ' nest hanging out of the tree so decided to stand on the running board of her ear and pull it down with the rake as she drove past . But the hornets were faster than she was and before she could shut the coupe door and say seat they were plant- ing their stingers . " Stung again ! " yelled Miss Spencer , as the fifth hor- net kissed her unkindly and she swatted him blindly on the rear and wiped a tear . - Miss Lenore Hanson , lovely nurse from Manistee , has been shedding ultra violet rays in Hart during a week's vacation . There's always healing in Lenore's face . - Bill Anderson has red spat- ters on his painting cap but that doesn't mean he's a red - head . - David Duncan , the master of the inn at Val - Du - Lakes , has a lot of guests playing croquet . Setting their feet under his table and emptying their napkin rings he has a lawyer and two doctors , one M. D. and one Ph . D. I believe he has a Mr. White , who is colored , but that's nothing . I went to school with Robert Black and he was white . You don't always get a cottage with your cottage pudding nor any Indians with your In- dian pudding - John Summers of Oregon , who used to be station agent in Mears , came back this week to visit brother Ed . and also Clarence Spitler . The tall stature of George W. Burton , the insurance man . would qualify him to live in Burton Heights if he went to the Rapids The cemetery hill has been black topped so cars from Blooming Valley

can roll into town faster . - J . D. Luttrull has a handsome flower bed by the old post office building . - Miss Margaret Browne of Topeka spent a week with her brother , Walter Hodges , and admired the rock garden . Marleen Simon went to the Rapids last week to look at the new hats in the windows and to find one that will not blow off her face when she crosses the east bridge in March when the kite tails are sailing higli.- Last night the logs at Silver Lake park campfire were built in a square rail fence style and around the flaming beauty of the burning fence the crowd gathered to sing " A Home On The Range " and " Deep In The Heart Of Texas . " George Meyer , the Prudential man from the Rapids with a constitution like the rock of Gibralter , held onto two- year old Larry and kept his eye on seven year old Sally and nine year old Judy while his sweet - voiced wife , Evangeline , sang " The Old Rug- ged Cross " and the audience joined in . Rufus Jacobs , who had been sit- ting in his car eating peanuts , drew near to join in the refrain of " Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me . " - When Miss Mary Burns came from Detroit to visit Mrs. Roy Arthur Tower in Lakeland , she brought with her Mrs. Joseph L. Burns to help wash up the extra teacups . Mrs. Tower lives close to Judge Wetmore's water tower . When Billo was a little boy half past four he said Mr. Wetmore put up the water tower so he could get wet more . The Russells from the Rapids live next to the water tower and take a lot of pains keeping their yard neat . - Cheese it ! Eat more cheese . It's a victory special . There is a surplus of cheese now and the more macaroni and cheese you eat now , the more Welsh rabbits you chase out of the kitchen and into the dining room , the more you help to give stability to the cheese indus- try - Clyde Snyder is going away to swing a musket , so Mrs. Floyd Krauter had a supper for him the other night and seventeen people took a bite out of the red , white and blue cake . I wonder if she put any wintergreen berries on it for cannon balls . - Contributed by a little lady in Hart : " When married men take a cruise or a week - end trip they should take their own wives and not someone's ex - wife . " - Keith Cor- liss sells peaches and cream , can rubbers and spices , fly swatters and school tablets . adv . - Ejnor - Krantz will be the principal player at the Red Cross musicale in the Hart high school auditorium Thursday eve- ning , August 27. Mary Lou Norgaard will quiver her violin . - The an- nual meeting of the Oceana County Pioneer and Historical Society will be held in the high school auditorium at Hesperia on Friday , Aug. 28 . Bring your basket lunch for the noon picnic , including your sugar . Cof- fee and ice cream will be furnished . The meeting will be called to or- der at 1:30 p . m . by John Mahan . An interesting program of community singing , violin duets , solos and a paper on the history of Hesperia has been prepared , says Carrie E. Mears , secretary - Bob Williams is away on the ocean eating navy beans so he couldn't visit the vacation spots of Oceana this summer and his friend , Mary Sharrock , is seeing them for him . Bob's mother , Lillian , looks so young you would think the girls are sisters , but Mary lasts longer on her feet . - Mrs . George Derthick was buried Monday . She was 80 years old and lived with her son , Louis . Dick Schramm of the navy came home from Rhode Island to eat a sugared fried cake at the Hart bakery and see his sister who is going to get married . Rosie Schramm was up from Chicago to eat the cur- rants out of a cinnamon bun . - Clyde Snyder married Vera Squires of Pentwater before he went to war , Vera is the Latin word for true , so at the wedding the choir should sing " I Love You Truly . " - Miss Ileane Gudelsky is the champion carriage washer at Silver Hills Farm , She gives the Victoria a bath so Maysie , the spotted horse , will be proud

to pull it on Sunday afternoon . - Sept . 13 to 19 is the great scrap metal drive in Oceana county . Collect your scrap iron , steel , rubber , rags . broken cultivators , shattered shovels and horseshoe nails and sell them to your junk dealer . We need the scrap to swat the Jap . - Ejnar Krantz is the son of Sam Krantz of Golden and is widely known in the United States as a concert pianist . You will be thrilled to hear him next Thurs- day evening , Aug. 27 , at the Hart auditorium . It's a benefit for the Red Cross . The election on the soil conservation district monkey business scheduled for August 25 has been called off . It has been postponed in- definitely . But just the same there are three soil committeemen in most every township who will stand watching . These sly foxes are biting at the grapevine of agricultural freedom . Watch them in your township.- We have a 65 - acre farm with lake frontage , grand old house and barn : fruit enough for family income . The finest old maple shade trees in the county along the road and around the building premises . This is not far away and a buy if there ever was one . Only $ 3200 , and easy terms , too . Also have a 15 - acre place on pavement . Only a mile away . Lovely , well kept premises with 7 - room house in fine condition ; barn , tool house . Fruit , electricity . Only $ 3000 . Hanson - Osborn , real estate , Hart , Mich.- Don't confuse price with quality . For the best to be had in the follow- ing varieties for the coming week - end , go to Esslinger's Fresh Fruit Market and get the cream of tree - ripened fruit in top quality product . Rochesters , South Havens , Hale Havens ( in any quantity . 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 .

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 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 .

Fill your bin with good coal . We handle Hilo , Supreme and Monarch Hard Coal . Coke and Mill Wood . Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. Phone 157 . Phil Wurthner can fix your car and make it purr cheerfully . He sells En - Ar - Co motor oil for happy lubrication .

House cleaning days are here . A good time to buy a new mattress at Richard Wietzke's . And he sells floor coverings for kitchen and parlor and all through the house . Also window shades and chairs . adv .

BUY YOUR PORK STEAK , POT ROAST , BOLOGNA , HORSE RADISH AT THE CENTRAL MEAT MARKET . Nixon & Nixon . Earl Jonassen Optometrist Eyes examined , spectacles fitted office For Sale : An 80 , 4 miles out of Hart , at $ 5 an acre : a 40 on US - 31 at $ 15 an acre : dwelling in Walkerville , 6 rooms , plus . Get particulars from BUNTING .

-Buy War Savings Stamps and Bonds and help win the war . Bring in your discarded tires and scrap rubber to the gas stations to slap the Japs.-

Boats and all kinds of building material at Weeks Lumber Company , on . You can have five acres of land with your summer cottage , only a mile from our beautiful Silver Lake . And the cottage is just a darling , with roses climbing around the door , substan- tial and good , built by that master builder Perl Farmer , at a cost dou- ble what is asked for the property . Eva at Hart , you know , that vete- ran real estate woman that sells and buys like the lightning flashes . has this for sale . Don't think it will take a thousand even to get it : easy terms , too . Go see Eva , across from the court house , and own it yourself before the sun sets over the lake , adv . - Th