Parasols and Showers are ripe in the Land of Mears

Why not let the people elect the county highway commissioners ? They couldn't do any worse . It is the people's right . We are the people . Why can't we choose who is going to manage our county highways and spend thousands of dollars wisely or otherwise . Mrs. Beulah Davis . who spent the winter at Evansville , Indiana , is now back again at her home on State street in Hart . Tommy Osborn is out in Utah looking at the grassless desert and seeing Salt Lake City in the distance . - A printed news letter is being distributed to the Oceana county boys in the service by the Oceana War League . It is called the Oceana News Letter . Oscar Worth says he leaned over to pick up a board and got a crick in his back , which was expensive . Now would you call that board bill ? Next time you see a board , Oscar , let it alone and use it for a sidewalk . - Benton Gebhart , one of our grand old pioneers passed away in Florida this week at the age of 83. When the lumber mills were going , Benton . as a boy , was in the fruit business even then . He took blackberries and muskmelons to the East Golden mills on a wheel- barrow through the forest and sold them to the mill hands to eat at noontime while they threw melon seeds into each other's faces . And when the timber was gone Benton set out thousands of fruit trees for himself and his neighbors . He hauled thousands of bushels of peaches up the old now almost abandoned road north of Joe Kynel's and put the peaches on the boat at Pentwater . His door yard on the quiet old tar- via road south of the Hart water tower was a wealth of shrubbery and flowers . I wonder if the old surrey he used to drive to church still stands in the old barn across the lawn . A tall upright man with a kindly , benevolent friendly face , Benton Gebhart was a pillar of right- e.usness in his community . Winters these late years he would go to Florida to bask in the sunshine and play shuffleboard with men in life's afternoon . In July he would be sitting back in a tilted ebair at his Ited Band fruit stand up grist mill hill north of Hart waiting to sell quart boxes of big black sweets to tourists who spit the cherry pits ont all along US - 31 . And there at the little stand was a shelf of glasses of currant jelly his wife made . When a car stopped Benton would wake

up from a little nap and set the chair legs down and tell the tourist about his big black sweets and his Rochesters and his raspberry jam . And all his fruits and all his sales were flavored with his wholesome and generous philosophy and the mellow hopefulness with which he piloted the wheelbarrow through the twilight woods to sell blackber- ries and muskmelons at the East Golden saw mills when he was a boy . -Stanley Lee is candidate for supervisor of Golden township on the Democratic ticket . Give him a hand at the township election Monday . ( political advertisement . ) - Seeing how agriculture is short - handed this year and we need to grow all we can and produce food for victory , for the home front and for our allies , wouldn't it be a good idea if Bill Wenk and all his relation and non - relation would get up out of their swivel chairs where they sit and whirl their thumbs to regulate by re- mote control the plow furrows and cultivator teeth of their industrious neighbors , and go out into the dirt fields themselves at the business end of a hoe handle ? Too many white collar folks sitting in the swivel chairs when they ought to be behind a cultivator . Too many committee- men sitting on your fence and watching you spade when they ought to be home weeding the onion bed . Does agriculture pay ? If so , why don't they get off the fence and go home and get busy with the garden tools ? These committeemen would rather sit in their swivel chairs un- til hell freezes over , and if the real dirt farmers emulated their in- dustrious ( ? ) example there wouldn't be much food for victory . These parasites on agriculture are the barnacles on the ship of state , who don't give a toot for anybody as long as they can ride on the gravy 1.aia . A dozen years ago we could farm without these ambitionless parasites to tell us how . Why can't we now ? Have we forgotten all and the industry and agricultural wisdom taught us by our fathers grandfathers ? Here in Oceana county they produced trainloads of po- and tatoes , boatloads of fruit and elevators full of grain and beans they didn't need any AAA committeemen to sit on the rail fences and tell them which way to steer the plow handle . Food for victory ? Yes , we can grow lots of it , same as the pioneers , same as our fathers and grandfathers . But we need good old - fashioned down - to - earth farming and industry and ambition , and not some lazy committeemen , too lazy to farm , sitting on our garden fence to count each tomato seed we plant and how many kernels of corn we put in a hill . - Oceana's first pick - up of tin cans will come Wednesday , April 21. Wash the cans after you empty them . take out both ends , put inside can and step on it.- Ev's Radio Service is now open 5 p . m . to 6 p . m . Monday to Friday . Also 7 to 9 p . m . Wed. evening and 1 to 6 and 7 to 9 p . m . Saturdays . Place your order now for BABY CHICKS . Varieties approved by 1. S. Gov. O. R. Leemhuis Hatchery , Hart . 3rd house east fair grounds .

9. - Spruce and pine seedlings for sale for spring planting . For quantity prices write or see Eugene Kuhne , Route 1 , Hart.-

) . This is about 2 miles out of Mears on good gravel highway . Also have another in same neighbor- hood with six acres of land : grape vine , old apple orchard , 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 . Get Economy gas of Ervin Gleason at the newly painted Suburban Ser ic Station by the railroad tax on ' S - 31 in art . When the Hart solicitors for the Red Cross stopped at the " mansion on the terraced lawn " they received a spiritual shower bath , so to

speak . The welcome mat seemed to be out upside down ..- Guy Monroe's house in Mooretown burned Monday afternoon . Loss $ 2,000 , uncovered . the snow banks . ade - Your Victory Tax begins after $ 12 a week.-

A cow is a cow , according to the results of the auction sale of Mrs. Barbara Goush , over by the Brooks school where one cow brought $ 117 . one sold for $ 160 and one for $ 169 . Dot Lambrix was there and bought a whistling tea kettle without the whistle . Claude Knapp got three steel fence posts for 25c . A child's hand wagon , fairly new , sold for $ 8.50 . Another one , lusterless and weather beaten , went for $ 3.25 . A second - hand washing machine went for $ 73. - Louis Derthick came to Mears and bought fifty pounds of sugar to feed to his bees . He took it home and put it in his house where he lives alone . Louis says the sugar was stolen and the bees didn't get a wallop at it . Thomas Schrumpf saw a car go up into the yard and stay half an hour . As Louis points out , it is a serious offense to steal rationed goods . - NOTICE : Pouitry growers , if you want Archer's chicks you had better get your order in at once . Book your order for at least three weeks in advance . ARCH- ER'S HATCHERY , Hart . - George Christ ( rhymes with grist ) is the extra new hired man who is helping Floyd Krauter on Paul Wiener's Silver Hills Farm . Mr. Christ formerly worked on the Pine Manor Farm at Goshen , Indiana . Victor Pearson and family , who have been living in the small house next to Krauter's during the winter . have moved back to farm number three a mile toward Silver Lake , and Mr. and Mrs. Christ are living in the small house . George has quite a cir- cumference and has been up to see Jeff Fredericks of Pentwater to compare belt measurements . By the time George has been here a month and filled up on a few gallons of good Guernsey milk every day he will run out of belt notches and have to make himself a new belt out of a harness tug . - We notice that Will Dillingham of the Hart Ford trac- tor sales and service has three fine new Myers spray pumps on his floor . Twelve times a day the Greyhounds stop at the Corliss Food Shop , and whether you stop in twelve times a day or thriteen times for groceries , tablets , candy or magazines , we aim to give you prompt and sudden service . Duck in out of the April showers . Corliss Food Shop in Hart . adv . - Ralph Purdy has a Llewellyn bird dog named Buster who goes away on excursions once in a while and gets lost , and Ralph is worried because the dog doesn't come home to eat the bacon rinds and spinach stems . This Buster is all white except his bead and has black ears and a black dot on his forehead . If you see Buster sometime when he is lost give him a slap on pants and send him home to Ralph Purdy . - Jack Butler wants to buy all kinds of vegetables , potatoes , cabbage . turnips , rutabagas , also apples . See Jack Butler in Hart . adv . - Charlie Newton is barbering in the same old Guys Calf for sale at Silver Bills Farm . Floyd Krauter . George Franke , the monument salesman in Shelby , says it is harder to make deliveries this year . If you want markers for Decoration Day get your order in soon . Phone 134 , Shelby , adv .

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Wallpapers at Livingston's

The Livingston Gift Shop in Shelby invites you to come in and see the new spring line of wall papers . Papering time is here .