Dripping Maples are ripe in the Land of Mears

Mears friends have been receiving enroute letters this week from Mrs. Irene Draper and three children who left Sunday noon to motor to California to make their home . By Wednesday they had reached Tulsa , Oklahoma . Mr. Draper had preceded them and has employment out there . - The Mears rural carrier , Philip Sloan , leaves this Saturday morning for the army . He is 30 years old and before he was rural car- lier he was postmaster here . In 1934 he enlisted in the regular army and was at Ft . Brady , Camp Sheridan and Ft . Custer . - Floyd Krauter hopes to plant 15 acres of barley to feed the cows at Silver Hills Farm so the registered Guernseys can turn it into milk . - Down in an osteo- pathic hospital in Muskegon , Corelene Hasty is supervising a floor and her sister Phyllis is on duty in surgery . - Dorothea Strait was in Mears Sunday with her friend who will soon change Dorothea's name to Mrs. Chaffee . Both of them are teachers in the Glenside school in Muskegon . The Mears W. S. C. S. is making up a service flag and would appreciate it if all mothers in Golden township would send their son's names to Mrs. Daisy Tennant , Mears . The flag hopes to represent service men in the township . - In commemoration of five years of service for the Church of God in Hart , the congregation Sun- day presented the pastor , Rev. Margie Gring , with potted plants and gave her an appreciation service . Mrs. Crystal Weldon had company from Muskegon Sunday , and the visitors were out of butter . So Crys- tal was so kind as to give up her pound to help them out . When she tried to buy herself a replacement pound on Monday morning she learn- ed that butter was " frozen " for a week . - You can move right in to a nice little six - room house on an 80 - acre piece of land : large poultry louse , small barn , some reforesting , fruit for home use , a large patch of strawberries . A grand buy for only $ 1050 . This is about 2½ miles out of Mears on good gravel highway . Also have another in same neighbor- hood with six acres of land : grape vine , old apple orebard , some re- foresting . Good five - room house , barn , root cellar , sheds , all for $ 900 , Either of the above may be had on terms , $ 200 down and $ 25.00 a month . Why rent when you can buy that easy ? Eva Hanson - Osborn ,

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real estate , Hart . - The drifts have thawed out so much around Mrs. Carrie Van Valkenburgh's doors that she was able to walk down town this week , one whole block . - Walter Gebhart's garage has a strong leaning toward the east . - When Miss Lena Draper came to chu.cn Sunday she asked the minister if next Sunday shouldn't rightfully be Easter , being the first Sunday after the full moon and last Sunday being the 21st of March . The minister was stumped and upon inquiring found Easter this year was the last of April and he couldn't do any- thing about it at this time . When I got home my wife told me Easter was the first Sunday after the first full moon after the 21st of March . This current full moon was right on the 21st of March , not the first full moon after the 21st of March . - Gordie Osborn had his cousin , Don- aid Jordan , of Wayland , visiting him this week . Donald is just back from nearly three years with the Pacific fleet and has seen plenty of action , yet he is less than a year older than Gordie and his twin , Tom . Donald is a " real old salt , " Gordie says . - Stanley Lee is running for supervisor of Golden township on the Democratic ticket . Staniey is a young , robust , good - natured farmer and hustler , and would make a good supervisor for our township . Lend him a hand . ( political advertise- ment . ) - To Keith Corless for garden seeds so you can grow your own squash . Keith sells fresh head lettuce , grapefruit , oranges , carrots . adv . Mrs. Winnie Sloan has been designated temporary rural carrier at Mears while her husband is in the war . - The folks of Oceana county are urged to save their tin cans . They should be washed after the con- tents are removed and the label taken off . Both top and bottom should be removed and put inside the can . Then lay the can on its side step on it to flatten it out . Put in a dry place and hold it until the pick- up date or let the school children take the cans to school . A car will be loaded from this county . The cans must be flattened out so they will not take up so much room in the car . - The Lutheran cathedral in cen- tral Benona was the scene of a Saturday afternoon four o'clock wed- ding when Katherine Ladegast became the wife of Ward Bearss . Te bride wore a light blue dress and navy blue trimmings and carried gar- denias and carnations . Doris Mauk was bridesmaid . Loyal Bearss was best man but Katherine married Ward anyhow . - Angus Peterson had a wreck out near the Round Lake school . Mrs. Bernice Clark was in the other car and she had her right leg broken . To the hospital for her . Angus went home to wash up his scratches . Mrs. Clark had worked for Claude Marshall - Sgt . Edgar Reeds , 23 years old , was killed Feb. 17 in the Southwest Pacific . He enlisted in the army in 1940 and was with the medical corps . His mother is Mrs. Minnie Reeds . Surviving besides the mother are four sisters . Mrs. Lucille Knoll of Fremont : Miss Frances Reeds of Lansing ; Mrs. Phyllis Mataya of Newaygo , and Miss Mary Ellen Reeds of Lapeer : five brothers , Ray of Wisconsin : William of Fremont : Darrell of Hart : Cletus of Muskegon , and Pyt . Harvey Reeds of Washington . - Pvt . John Flood came home from Camp Livingston , La . , to see if his bees were happy in their hives and if they were making the right flavor of honey . John has spent a long time educating his bees and he wanted to know if they were behaving according to Hoyle - Jeanine Krauter has a bicycle now . Wednesday evening there was a farewell party at Sidney Fuller's home over by the Hart cemetery for Philip Sloan , who goes now to the army and retires from licking stamps to lick the Japs . Chester Tennant of Peach Ridge passed through Mears Thursday with is three children and his wife .

who used to be Alice Almquist , the lighthouse keeper's daughter.- After the new administration down in Lansing tried to perpetrate the plan taking the office of state highway commissioner from the ballots of the people and got licked , they deviled out a bill to have the county highway commissions take over the state highway maintenance if the counties asked for it . If this bill becomes a law it might make 83 dif- ferent standards of state highway maintenance and the counties would be under no responsibility or penalty for poor work . Just think of it , here in Oceana county the county highway commissioners had to go and get the state maintenance department to come and plow out the county roads the last part of this winter . The county was unable to take care of the county roads to say nothing of the state roads . " Hay- ing failed in their recent efforts to take the highway department out of the hands of the people , Republican sponsors of this Bill now intend to achieve their petty partisan purposes indirectly , by dividing the highway department into 83 county units . The responsibility and power to halt this move to wreck our state highway system is in your hands , Governor . The people of Michigan expect you to repudiate the politi- cians who put patronage grabbing above war requirements and proven performance , " says Lloyd B. Reid , State Highway Commissioner.- This winter Mrs. O. C. Van Syoe did not have to climb her New Era hil so much as she stayed with Mrs. Laura Sargent in Shelby- There may be a few new faces on the board of supervisors this year . It seems in some of the townships the constituents were so disgusted with t eir supervisor whitewashing the road commission and one thing or another that the people decided to get some new material in office . Some of these supervisors were defeated in caucuses and some S the hand writing on the wall and knew better than to run . In Crystal township Will Wever is running . He used to be in the bank up there and seems like a fine fellow . - Plant a Victory garden . As Roger Allen says : " We eat a lot from this little spot and what we can't eat we can . " It is getting about time the board of supervisors let the people eleet the county highway commissioners . They could select just as good commissioners and maybe some better . Let the people have a voice Miss Alberta Royal has completed her preliminary training as a WAVE and received her commission as ensign in the navy . She looked very stunning in her uniform the other day as she set out for Washington , D. C. , to embark upon her new duties . Miss Royal's college training and business experience will make her of valuable service in her new work on communications . When the bugle blows , up jumps Alberta.-

-Guernsey calf for sale at Silver Hills Farm . Floyd Krauter . 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 . 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 .

Don't let the blizzard catch your coal bin short . Order a few days in advance and be prepared , says Charles L. Flory of the Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. Phone 157 .

" -To Collins Corner Drug Store to eat a soda on Monday or a sundae on Saturday while you look out the window at To the Central Meat Market in Hart where Nixon & Nixon will be glad to wrap up beef steak for supper , pork roast for dinner . hologra