Elderberry Pies are ripe in the Land of Mears

No. 8

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR

Louis Schrump's wife doesn't have to bother about baking Louis any pie or cake . All he calls for is the old reliable line of meat and pota- toes and gravy . - Forrest Godfrey , 10 , has a blackboard behind the par- lor door to practice on , and if his sister Betty is real good and bakes him a cake on Saturday he will let her clean the chalk erasers . - It is getting auction time again and when you need a good auctioneer think of George Senecal , Shelby . He knows how to keep the crowd good - na- tured and coax the bids out of the buyers . adv . - Maybe you think this isn't much of an election year so far as Oceana county is concerned be- cause some of the county officers are unopposed . But there is a race on for sheriff that ought to bring you out of your rocking chair , and there is a contest on for state répresentative that ought to make you get out and boost for the candidate from good old Oceana . Let's keep her on the map . It's Oceana's turn to name the representative from the two- county district . Harold Gwillim would make a good one . He was presi- dent of Pentwater village five years and up there now he is serving his fourth term on the board of education . He has been commodore of the yacht club , was president of the chamber of commerce two years and is on the Oceana draft board . Mr. Gwillim , who is a retired telephone engineer and has done work in South America , is an executive and gets things done . If you send him down to Lansing he won't be a wood- en yes - man to let the urban interests trample all over the rural rights of Oceana and Newaygo counties . He will do a lot of thinking , he will get up on his feet and talk . he will guard the public interests of the folks back home . Get up out of your rocking chair and go to the polls on Tuesday and vote for Harold Gwillim . ( A political advertisement that is merited and free ) .- Mrs. Dollie Beck turned 77 and granddaughter Phyllis came up from the Rapids with Bennie Wiess , Lizzie Kraus and Dora Morrison said the cake frosting was good and Josephine McClennan spent the whole day with her sister and help- ed with the dishes in some way or other , either cleaning them or mus- sing them up . - So the Wiener cattle cattle sent a delegation to the Lud- ington fair and in the Guernsey class they won first prize for 2 - year - old cow , first for 2 - year - old and champion bull , first prize for senior yearly bull , first prize for age cow , third prize for age cow . first prize for 3- year - old cow , second for senior yearly heifer , first prize for heifer calf . first prize for get of sire , first prize for produce of dam , third prize for bull calf four months old . The twin heifers from Silver Hills won first

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and second prize for junior yearly heifers . The Wiener cattle also won first prize for dairy herd . This week Manager Floyd Krauter has an ex- hibit at Hart fair . - Keith Corless sells vinegar and spices to make pickles and ketchup and cookies to pack high school lunches . adv.- After the fair be sure to look at the fresh fruit display in Esslinger's Fresh Fruit Market . Peaches , pears , apples . Fair Ground corners , US- 31 and M82 . Esslinger's Friendly Service . adv .

The Sanitary Meat Market on the east side of Shelby's Main street does custom butchering and cutting for farmers . adv .

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Full - blood Berkshire boar for service at F. W. Downing farm . Goldie Lovell is scrubbing the high ceilings in the Hitchcock house where the flies walked upside down and left their footprints on the kalsomine . - Max Field , the junk dealer , offers a $ 50 war savings bond to the person who brings in the largest amount of scrap iron and steel to his yard during the week of Sept. 13 to 19. This is in addition to the regular price you get for the old metal . Also he offers a second prize of a $ 25.00 bond . Get your old wheelbarrow to work . You don't have to take it all in one load . - Marland Littiebrant , running for sheriff and being on defense so he cannot knock at everyman's door , solicits your rote on Tuesday next . ( political advertisement ) .- There was a terrible accident at a Ludington railroad crossing when a car crashed into freight train Tuesday night and four boys were killed . Three were from Hart . Chris Jensen , 19 ; Arnold Lambrix , 21 ; Morris Edward Rouse , 20 . Bob Quail of Silver Lake and Muskegon was the other . He is the son of Mrs. Mable Quail and the grandson of Robert Mason . The six - car train had stopped at the crossing to see if any car was coming and none was in sight . The auto traveled fast and hit a car of bricks . How much safer our boys would all be , your sons and my sons , and your neighbors ' boys and girls if the cars were all put away in their stall and the ga- rage doors locked at six o'clock . The great white ribbon of concrete that stretches away to Muskegon and Ludington is a dangerous play- ground of the night . I say this not because it will bring back the late lamented nor offer consolation to those that mourn , but because it is the horse sense that will give longer life to your boys and mine if they can realize how much safer they are playing checkers around the old home table than burning up the highways of the night . Selah . - As for myself I don't see the necessity for any sand scooters , whether they travel over an uninspected and unauthorized bridge or over the huckle- berry brush . I don't think we need them and their operation in 1942 is not compatible with the rubber and gasoline conservation of the war effort . Nevertheless , if they are allowed to run I believe in certain prin- ciples of fair play . When Malcolm Wood ripped out the old wood bridge at the channel start and dedicated his new two - dollar - a - trespass " private bridge " by spitting into The Golden River , he told himself he had everything sewed up so the other boys would have to kiss his foot or stop running . He charged them five dollars a week a car for operat- ing their sand chariots across his poplar pole bridge . He figured on $ 20 a week clear velvet in addition to all the three dollar bills he could rake in from his own six chariots . He invoked the blessing of the clergy by coaxing a minister down to bless his trails . The minister lik- ed it so well that he decided to shut down his Sunday evening services as they were a personal nuisance to him and kept him from the social chatter that hovered around the great sabbath business patter . Well , be that as it may , the other proprietors , Oscar and Larry , had to dig up $ 5 a week a car to drive over the toll bridge or invent some other way . So after a few weeks of obeying Malcolm's edict to " pay up and like it . " they considered the possibilities of making a new approach to the des-

ert by modifying , amending and improving the huckleberry road , which they did . And Larry labored also and had some teeth knocked in by the grader handle as he sought to smooth out the blueberry trail . And it came to pass that when the road had been worked upon and made traversable by the eight - wheeled carriages that Larry said to Oscar : Now we should go together and see Les Flood , the timber baron , and arrange to rent the right - of - way over his timber barrens , and whatever the expense is I will pay half . But Oscar said he would look after the lease and Larry would not have to bother to go along . So Oscar did . but it appears he leased the right - of - way in his own name and not in the name of Larry at all . And it came to pass that Oscar bought $ 19 worth of planks to make a better runway off the sod up into the sand mountain . And again Larry said : " Whatever the expense is , let me know and I will pay half . " But Oscar was thinking about the possibili- ties and contingencies of the future and so he suffered Larry to pay no part of the plank purchase , considering that a day might come when he would want his ( ? ) right - of - way exclusive and desire to freeze Larry out . For a while all went well , oh , for a week or a number of days . But Oscar liked it not because Larry's driver , Bob , brought back pas- sengers with a four - wheel car , so he spoke once or twice and then he said : " Larry , you are all done . I have the lease in my own name and you are out . " Larry considered : " Oh , so you have everything all sewed up , have you ? " And he bit his lip and pondered what to do . And then he was forced to go back to the five dollar bridge and that hard master who in times past had trespassed all over everybody else's land until he sewed up a fifty - foot strip of earth and an unauthorized bridge and told his contemporaries to fork over $ 5 a week or else . Verily it be- comes apparent to you that Larry was between the devil and the deep blue sea . Consider his reflections on the injustice and outrage of it all . The roadway that he had a good and generous faith helped to build with the blisters of his hands and the sweat of his brow had been clos- ed unto him . He had been ready and willing to pay his half of all the expenses . Even Oscar will concede that . Larry , the friendly and sociable . the generous , a gentleman and a scholar , who was so willing to do his half , was out - tricked and out - smarted and left out in the cold between the devil and the deep blue sea . How would you feel if you were in his place ? Would you go out and hire the minister to pronounce bles- sings on your cunning contemporaries or would you say : " Tuhel with the whole caboodle ! Why can't they live and let live ? " So Larry pon- dered in his heart about the atrocities of his brethren and the business brotherhood that was unbrotherly . I am not telling you what should be the ethics of these circumstances . I merely picture to you the emotions that lie behind human behavior . Four days later Oscar found sugar in his car on Thursday after a dark night . His driver , who was far too young to be a licensed chauffeur to carry passengers , said the sand cruiser stopped in the desert . He walked back after another car . The sheriff was notified . The prosecutor sat up in his chair . Larry was sus- pected and brought in for questioning . He was surprised that any sugar was in Oscar's car . Larry was released . Bob , his driver , was sequestered as a witness , detained in jail for a day or two . How would you like to be locked up in jail over night as a witness when you hadn't done any- thing , hadn't seen anything , and were innocent of the whole affair ? Oscar swears out a complaint accusing Larry of sugaring his gas al- though Oscar says he saw no one put anything into his car . Larry is arrested and held for $ 1000 bail , which was furnished . I am not pre- Fared to say who sweetened Oscar's car , much less swear to it . I didn't see anybody put any sugar in it . Neither did Oscar , yet he swears to it .