June Brides are ripe in the Land of Mears

June Brides

are ripe in the Land of Mears

Dear Ann : I don't know you . So far as I know I never saw you . Yet you are living in Mears and every day I go by Mrs. Irey's house where you are staying . Presently you will be married to John Kraus , who lives next door . I have known John ever since he was a very little boy and used to come down to my office with his mouse traps and catch mice on the office stairs . I paid him so much a mouse and he grinned as he counted the clicks when the traps went snap on the stairs . He was about as small as Birch , only more so . I knew him when he taught the Brooks school , when he worked in the factories , when he excavated to with the escalator , when he built his house over , when he went Florida and found you . So I wish you well . The bachelors ' club lost one of its staunchest members . Lawrence Hewson can now be the sen- ior deacon and outer guard . Your job is to put the celery salt in John's soup and dust off the fireplace mantel . It won't take you long to dis- cover whether John likes pumpkin pie better than mince . When you are out working in your garden you are lucky to have Mrs. Irey just over the fence . She is a motherly soul and can tell you , if you want to know , how many eggs to put in a lemon pie . A bachelor like John , who has had a house to himself a long time , is apt to have old landscape pictures on the wall and maybe some old furniture he is very much at- tached to . If you spill a bottle of glue in the rocker and John sits down and reads the evening paper maybe he will find himself very much at- tached to the chair . If he comes home some day and finds his pictures outdoors or in the attic and new ones on the wall he may feel like he has lost some old friends . Go places with John , go to good shows , go to the lakes , go to church . But don't walk half a block ahead of him . get It might give him the impression of being in the discard . If you Jonesome in Mears when John is away , read books , lots of them . They will keep you more cheerful , enliven your spirits and make you a gayer companion to John when he returns . Perhaps John has solved all his economic equations , perhaps he is sitting on top of the world like Clare Genung or Bill Riley . But if he is like most of us struggling humanity . and comes home at night footweary with blisters on his heels , with sunburn on his shoulders , with callouses on his hands , and maybe his soul smarting from the rebuffs of this world , he will appreciate a wife who brings out the salve and the heart's ease . Like a fish beat coming

back to Pentwater harbor when the day is done , so is the working man returning at evening to the harbor of his home . The waves may have been high , the going may have been rough , but there is healing conso- lation for him if the harbor waters are placid and the kindly light is burning . It brings restoration to his equillibrum , it brings balm to his soul to find that in his own home at least he is treated as a king . Here he hopes to find the fountains of confidence and eternal faith . Many a man has risen to high places in the world because for him his wife was always a cheer leader , because she always looked at him in a maumer that said : " John , you are the most interesting man in the whole wide world . I have no other gods before me . " Without that moral build up mountains of innate genius have simmered down to little hills of mediocrity . Men who might have been college professors are working in factories or teaching physics in some little jerk - water high school . Every man is a salesman in a way . If he does not sell merchandise he is still out to sell himself to the world , his services , his labor , his co- sel , his effectual influence . How fortunate is the salesman who is on fire with enthusiasm for lis product and whose wife is on fire with enthusiasm for him ! She prays for him tunceasingly . She watches ibe sunlight and shadows on his face . She vibrates assurance when she tells him : " John , I am so glad you got that contract last week . I hoje you sell a hundred cars in June . You tell ' em , John , you know how Back in high school days in Florida , Anh , the girls cheered for home town team and inspired the boys to their greatest offart . It wasn't just the brains and the brawn that won that game . It was the home town girls cheering on the sidelines . No salesman who slegs in the dog house will arise and go out and sell the world any stupendous bill of goods the next day . The elevation of the ego , the subordination of the spirit , may bring success or failure in life's psychology . And here is the key to the gates of charm , Ann : When you see your usund returning from his day of toil say it with your eyes , Ann : " You are the most interesting man in the whole wide world . " It will make him want to sing when he wakes up at dawn : " You are mu sunshine , iny only sunshine . " And at evening as you walk together in the starlight he may sing that sister sentiment : " You're the only star in my bine heaven . The graduating seniors of Hart high school number 46.- A short time ago in Hart in front of Hanmer's apothecary shop L Leard an old , old Story . It was Tom Story , who used to count the tole- graph clicks in Hart and had a little anecdote named Georgia who grew up to be Mrs. Russell Doenges , a civic leader in Cobmoesa- Seeing how Wanda Fenton is presently to be married to Ralph Alves- teffer . Mrs. Elsa Peterson threw a shower for her Thursday afternoon and Wanda received many ornamental and useful presents in the forma of raiment and gadgets that will appear about her apartment . Devil's food coke was passed along with shimmying jello . - Miss Thelma Lath- ers had her tonsils subtracted at Butterworth hospital Wednesday Who said they love a spring , a delightfully bubbling spring ? A rippling stream , too , wooded hillsides and a long line to the place like Possi Lane at Possum Pike , Georgia , where that great statesman and Micht- gun's former governor . Chase S. Osborn , lives . Nice set of buildings . electric and everything , and only $ 3,500 . Who is going to enduro nerves , brain storms and that tired out feeling when nature enn enre you . unt off the beaten trail . See Eva and Bud and tell ' em to " show me . " - Born to George and Lorena Linderen , a new girl . wasn't it ? Gin and Marion Partou have a new girl to make their bungalow completer . The es - sophomores , juniors now . If you please , had a pie

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nie supper at Silver Lake park Thu y and Mickey Lambrix . Peggy Lipps , Jerry Spencer , Pete Wood , Jim VanTussell and Bernard Wilde threw some red and yellow balloons into the lake , theu raced around to the north side to beat the balloons across the lake . Most recently a Crucifixion group was erected in the Hart Catholic cemetery , statuary being donated by local people . This will be dedicated Monday morning at 10 o'clock , May 31. Rev. Francis Flynn of Our Lady Grace church in Muskegon will conduct the service - Saturday is poppy day . Who lost 1948 license plate PS23-402 No , we haven't it , but if you lost it and will send a self - addressed stamped envelope we will tell you where to find it . Mrs. Venus Handy , 66 , was buried in The Hart cemetery Tuesday . Winnie Pechumer was born here in 1881 and married Venus in 1903. She is survived by her husband and three daughters , Gladys McLouth , Elaine Dulinsky and Virginia Donaldson ; one sister , Minnie Bennett , and one brother . Herman Pechumer . Mr. Handy was one time a barber , living in Mears , but for many years they lived in Bart . - LeRoy Dolson and Betty Loomis of New Era are to be married . Today Dorothy Livingston took a penny and weighed herself on her own scales . I asked her if she lost an ounce but she said she lost a pound . - William Anderson of Rothbury has taken 40 guitar lessons now and maybe he will get the cows stepping to music at milk- ing time . Houses in Hart and on the outskirts , with patches of land , some big patches , some little patches , Mighty nice homes , that you can buy , and stop that swallowing up deal of paying rent . Era and Bud bave some left yet . See ' em . - Vacations are starting in most schools . -FOR SALE Top dirt , gravel , muk , fill dirt , clay and stone . See BILL LATHERS , Mears , or call 23F4 .

Meals and lunches at Elmer's Place , Mears Anderson's Grocery , Mears , sells anklets , & food for June weddings .

Tate Ambulance Service . Courteous , reliable . Phone 93 , Hari .

Bluebird Diamonds . Harold Moore

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Jewelry for graduation . Watches , bracelets , rings . Lay - away plan and trade - ins . Hamilton , Bulova and Elgin watches . Moure , in Hart . Go to the Western Auto Associate Store in Shelby for automobile parts and accessories , bicycles , bicycle repairs , fishing tackle . On the week - end twenty young people from a Grand Rapids Methodist Youth Fellowship were encamped at Silver Lake in the two Ensing north side cottages , ten boys in one under the counsel of Dell Wasdyke and girls in another with Thelma Wasdyke to tell them when to go to bed and when to get up and sing . Thomas Kroll calls his dog Jack O'Ryan . Te likes his dog and his dog likes him . - Everybody likes to live on US- 31 where they can have a cabintown to operate with the farm . " Tis lard to get , but 1inson - Osborn's been talking bout oue down Nax Exa way to gettable . First to pery the dollar down gets it , sez Eva . fo WHEN YOU NEED A GOOD STRONG WRECKER CALL THE FLOOD MOTOR SALES : 24 HR . SERVICE , PH . 161 ; NIGHT , NO . 1 . Sweet's Servire fills gas tanks , energizes batteries , heals inner tubes . lubricates automobiles . High - pressure / greasing , candy bars , pop . In Hart on US - 31 at the trax across from Wesleyan church .

Vari Junch , optometrist in Wart , is spectacles of beauty with