Red Jackets are ripe in the Land of Mears

John Lipski is up from Porto Rico where he read about the editor in Pic magazine .-- Jim and Lottie Fuller went to a dance hall in Lud- ington and she looked so young that an usher came up and asked her if she was 21 , because if she wasn't she musn't dance . So now Lottie is feeling years younger , well , several years . - Fleet Birch Lathers will be one year old Saturday and will have a cake with one candle on it . When he was six months old he had a cake with half a candle on it.- Toy shop opening Saturday , Nov. 14 , 2:30 p . m . Airplane contest elus- ing . Dec. 8. You may win a prize with a 10c plane as well as with a $ 2 plane . Entry blanks given here . Spitler's Hardware . Donald Wolf , age 23 , was killed in action fighting the Japs in the Solomon Islands . Sgt . Wolf is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wolf and lived in Hart , spend- ing many of his summers at Silver Lake . On June 5 he was married to Barbara Sanders of Washington , D. C. After he went overseas she went to live with her parents in Portland , Oregon . - You gas rationers . ( or you soon may be ) can get the most out of your four gallons if you use Blu Sunoco gas and keep your ear well acquainted with Steen's Super Service . To be sure of getting your work done it has become nec- essary to do our work by appointment . Call for yours today at Steen's . adv . Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Paige of Muncie , Ind .. were visitors at the Floyd Krauter home at Silver Hills Farm last Sunday . Ruth Krauter thought she would make Mrs. Paige have a better appetite for supper so she proposed an excursion to the big sand hills where they all lim- bered up by traveling a mile or two up and down in addition to the distance east and west . So the Paiges ate their supper well and slept soundly and Mr. Paige went back to Mason jar town and said he never saw so much sand - Alex Urich has a pressing engagement for Mon- day , Tuesday and Wednesday , but he might be able to press your cost on Thursday or dry - clean your dress on Friday . For a couple of years the Sleeper house in Mears has been sleeping , without any footsteps on the silent carpets , without any rattle of the beating stove grates to dislodge the ashes , without any toast being made on a fork on the hearth of the old cook stove in the kitchen . After Mrs. Sleeper had pulled her shawl around her shoulders for the last time and was car- ied out from the house hallowed by a lot of living , Mr. Sleeper lingered

a while afterward , telling of old saw mill days up in northeastern Michigan , of log jams and shingle cutting and bears , until he too went to his final sleep . Then the children shut the house up with its memo- ries , leaving the furniture as it was , unwilling to shatter the pattern of its arrangement , reluctant to tear the picture of household life asunder . But now after two years the Hilcomb girls came to divide up the be- longings and make the house vacant so it could be occupied again . Their mother had saved and treasured many things like clippings and pictures and what nots and old magazines and some copies of The Mears Newz 27 years ago . But the girls couldn't save everything . It was hard to know what to keep . But each sorted out a few pieces of furniture like a stove , a bed or an iron tea kettle to take home to keep alive the living picture of their mother as they remembered her darn- ing sox or weaving at the loom or baking pancakes on the old cook stove and rolling out cookies with the old rolling pin that was already old when it was handed down to their mother . A day when grown sis- ters meet together to divide up the mother memories of their childhood is a day of recollections and holy review . It is a sacred holiday.- Hubbard wants to buy a carload of light cranberry beans every week . E. R. Hubbard & Son , Warehouse by the east tracks in Hart . Registration for gas rationing is postponed in Michigan until Nov. 18 , 19 and 20 , on account of the blanks not getting distributed all over in time . - Miss Carma Read entertained her Sunday school class at her home Thursday evening . - Jack Butler is buying coon hides and all furs that are legally caught . Bring your mink and weasel skins to Jack in Hart . He also buys wool . adv . - In his great anxiety to divert the at- tention of the dear public from the extravagant gas gallonage of other years to the scared walk - the - chalk - line enforced economy of the year of our Lord 1942 , Claude Stover , the mathematical magician , is jug- gling statistics to show what an economical gas tank the Oceana coun- ty road commission has now . In the early mornings from seven to half past eight Claude stops around the county garage in Hart . The rest of the day he is liable to be elsewhere . If you are extra anxious to him it might be you would find him up at a certain partnership log cabin in Lake county along the highway between Baldwin and Bitely . Ira Fuller also maybe knows the feel of the latch string , and Ralph Al- drich knows the curl of the smoke that comes out of the chimney , and the scraping of Mr. Coleman's feet on the door mat is not an unfami- liar sound . This is an excellent hide - out to pass the time away and to hold weighty conferences on such subjects as the correct proportion of cement and gravel to mix in cement blocks and what kind of flies to use in catching rainbow trout , or what on earth to do with the lumber used for the concrete forms in building the Crystal dam . Where on earth could we find some deserving soul to give all these boards to ? Out here in the wilderness is a good place to look at catalogues of road machinery , oh , not little machinery like egg beaters or lawn mowers . but good sizeable machines costing $ 4000 apiece or more . If we don't know exactly how all the gadgets work , a salesman could come out and show us how this particular machine is better than all other machines of the kind . And out here in the quiet is an ideal place for Claude Stover , the gasoline mathematician , to work out his gallonage . It might be more convenient if the county of Oceana would move in an adding machine , a subtracting machine , a comptometer and a table of log- arithms to enable Claude to accurately compute just what the gas gal- lonage for the road commission ought to be . One reason why this Lake

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county cabin is ideally fitted for such mathematical computations is be cause it is centrally located for trips to Mason , Newaygo and Mecosta counties in case he should need to make any trips over to these coun- ties to get their latest revised up - to - the - minute gallonage . - Little Dicky Corliss , 3 years old , gets lonesome when his sister Bonnie goes to school and brings his little rocking chair out by his father's big desk in the store . Mrs. M. A. Davis has gone to Evanston for the cold , snowy months . To Keith Corliss ' store in Mears for gloves to husk corn in and rolls to eat with tomorrow's breakfast . adv . - A big truck backed up at Will Krauss ' house the other day and maybe his new wife sent up some of her furniture . - Bill Volpp has painted the top of his car to exterminate the leaks so they won't spoil Coralie's next Easter hat . Mrs. Clara Davis is getting her axe sharpened and improved with a new handle . Charlie Howard , who used to be ' round these parts 25 years ago husking corn with Glen Rickard , stopped off in Mears in his hunting plaids to say hello to Harry Fenton - Nathan Quick Lathers and his brothers Forest and Sylvan Dale are finding new delight in playing the phonograph . - The big scrap drive was on Armistice Day in Oceana county and huge piles were stacked up in Hart by Max Field's and back of the post office . It will rain bullets for Tokyo and Berlin . The school children of the county did a big job in their districts and Emmett Roche stirred up the whole county.- John Vander Ven has platted a subdivision called Woodlawn Court and built a fine home . He set out maples and spruce . Good lots near school . The Sanitary Meat Market on the east side of Shelby's Main street does custom butchering and cutting for farmers . adv .

If your radio won't sing when you tell it to . see Ev . Graff's radio service in the Russell Block . He answers 140 - F - 2 . adv .

Fill your bin with good coal . We handle Hilo , Supreme and Monarch Hard Coal , Coke and Mill Wood . Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. Phone 157 . Earl Jonassen , Optometrist . Eyes examined , spectacles fitted , Office i tisfy your longing for a farm with fruit . A 20 acres with hillsides and valleys ; a cute house with a wonderful chimney and fireplace , way up past the Wood sisters where the view alone is worth the admission price to own , only $ 1350 . Hanson - Osborn . Real Estate . Mark the unmarked graves before winter sets in . George Franke . Shelby , phone 134. He can also sell you automobile and fire insurance , village and farm .

Boats and all kinds of building material at Weeks Lumber Company , When you need cement blocks , insulation materials , combination doors , come to the Weeks Lumber Co. in Hart .

Wouldn't you like to rest your eyes gazing at Lake Michigan and Sil- ver Lake and the beautiful dunes while resting when digging ' tates or cutting corn on your farm ? Or in the evening when resting and look- ing through the front window at such a beautiful picture of nature's own ? Of course you would . But not many farms have that charm . Eva Real Estate Hanson - Osborn at Hart has a 40 - acre farm with all those charms , besides all the good soil , fruit , buildings , water and electricity , at only the cash price of $ 1600 . Never will there be another like that , so rush you to Eva's office , ' cross the way from that old court house in Hart . adv.-

Resort property near lakes and streams for sale by Eva Hanson - Os- born Agency in Hart . Headquarters for farms and village homes , adv . Get Economy gas of Ervin Gleason at the newly painted Suburban Service Station by the railroad trax on US - 31 in Hart .