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A morning prayer : " God bless these chunks of wood that the children sit on around the school room stove when the winds are bold and the morning is cold ; and bless the cotagon frame of the eight - day clock that ticks away the pastoral peace in sturdy faith for a week without falter . And bless the tripods of the brass microscope with which all go afield to laud and magnify the veins of the wintergreen's rug- ged leaves and the mayower's fragile beauty . We thank thee for the warm winds that dissolved the crusted ice on Bear Lake so we cau walk again by its wooded shores ; for the playground where Marlene is swinging the baseball bat in waist - high circles as she watches the yellow airplane fly over the green roof of the red school . Such scenes as these , O Lord , multiply and perpetuate . " - This morning with the red riots of Bogota still in the front page headlines and the family across the street looking for another roof to set their beds under , and the folks on the other corner forced to vacate because the owner is coming back from Florida , it is altogether natural that we should ask where is anchorage and what is security . I can remember that as al child several times we packed our earthy belongings and moved , and aml 1 knew the minor heartbreak of being torn asunder from rooms yards I loved . And this morning I was thinking of little Glen Fischer , rive years old , born to open his eyes on a great farm with thousands of evergreens rising on the still hillsides that rise away from the pas- ture lane bridge over the woodland creek that runs on forever , a farm that his grandfather lived on before him and where he still lives and temis his bees , a farm where Glen's father was born and went up the pasture line to the little school on the hill and where he still rills in his youthful prime , a farm where little Glen can grow up and live for seventy years of rural peace and contentment while outside in the cities the turmoil of the world goes by . There are towns where the mil whist es blow and people come out with fat pay envelopes , and their money evaporates quickly so that at the end of the month and at the end of the year they are no farther ahead than a year ago . In fact many are worse off , for the more money they receive and live up . the more demanding becomes their seule of living and extravagance . And when a depression comes how far they must fall . In the Ince of is bipated prosperity which nery suddenly totter , in the Lice of In-

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pending war , in the face of food rationing and diminished production and unavailable commodities , there is no wealth or security uable as living in the open country and tilting the soul , raising your own potatoes and turnips and putting them in the cellar . You may not rattle as much money but at the end of the year you can be just as weil off . And I do not urge you to go out into the country and buy an ex- pensive $ 4000 farm beyond your means . A $ 1200 forty acres of land on . some back road will do if it has any kind of a dry six room house and a barn where you can keep your cow and hay . Even if it is a sand turm you can build up the soil with spreading marl and the contribu- tious of the stable . Get yourself two or three acres ready where you can grow your potatoes and carrots . Every year you can clear more land and till more acres . You can pick fruit for the neighbors until you get a cherry orchard for your own . And how much better off your boys are wading in the clear , cold water of your own pebble bot- tom creek and catching fish and roasting potatoes in a little bonfire along its banks , than they are amid mischief of the city streets . You who live in cities , if you want peace and security , look yourself up homes by country lanes , where your children can play ball by some little red schoolhouse on the hill or some little white schoolhouse in the valley . - MACHINE SHOW : General machine work , lathe , milling machine , drill press , welding . Norman Spierenburg , 3-4 mile west of Hart , at cemetery corner . Phone 14F2 . They are boys , the new babies that Richard Fuller and Vincent Feldt had . We told you last week wo would tell you if we found out different . - Fire in Jicars Tuesday eve- ning , right down town in the heart of the village . L. D. Estes back yard oil house had a puff and a flare and went down in went down in smoke . A bunch of men tipped the burning building over away from the white barns , and with the aid of Corliss ' hose and a squirt gun , an ice cream can and Marvel Fenton's spanking broom and Chucky's two white wa- ter pails the blaze was blotted out before the Hart fire department got there . What caused the fire ? Oh , a four - year - old boy got to playing with matches . He ran and hid to escape the wrath to come . Poor little tike ! Parents , put the match box higher up on the top kitchen cabinet shelf . Robert Bedell has taken his last picture . At the age of 58 he died last Sunday . Seems like it was almost 30 years ago Bob came down out of Weare and opened up a photograph gallery with his uncle above Fred Harris ' Amuse Theatre . For many years the Hart 12th graders went to Bob to have him put the Hollywood look of geuius in- to their graduation pletures . Lottie looked over the Waves in their hair as they came out of the little wash room and Dorothy and young Bob beamed approval at their powdered noses and marcelled eyelashes . Wedding veils came bursting in at the chiming door with rice in their satin and lace . A thousand girls have smiled for Bob and he caught their smiles and fastened them on art paper to put in frames on the tops of planos . And He remembered their dimples as he drank his car- rot juice and lay upon his couch in the ailing latter years . His mantle las fallen on his son . No more will Bob explain the aluminum agitator of the Thor or the virtues of his electric razors . And yet it seems to me when I go in at the door to get films or lantern slide cover glass that the sound of the chines will still bring the tall , agile quickness of Beb out of the dark room with a quivering smile on his high , cheek bones . The art that he has done , the pictures he has made . will live yet 50 years . It's 40 years since Alba Brickey started working in the Roach plant in Hart , now called Stokely's . And his fellow employees gave him a festimonial dinner at Holly's Grill Monday night - On Tues- day Earl Friday was chosen chairman of the board of supervisors and

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by Wednesday his mumber tens felt at home under the table . By Thurs- day his bunions hurt a little and he was glad to take them back Claybanks so he could wade in Whisky Creek On Saturday . - John comfort of Riggs during the winter has been enjoying the furnace apartment No. 4 in the Krantz building in Mears , but now Mr. Riggs has gone back to the farm to crop the soil : And so it is with Sidney B. Fuller , who was in apartment No. 3 but has now taken his June back to his fruit farm northwest of Round Lake to grow peaches among his watermelons and petunia in the onion patch . Stewart Hardy moves in where they moved out because the Estes family returns soon from Florida . Tuesday Mrs. Ed Spencer was buried at 72. Ed lives on and so do four sons , Felix , Marshall , Eugene and John , and three daugh- fers , Myrtle Dexter , Ethel Wyckoff and Mary McGuire Alice Free- born has just found out that the mysterious gold band tea set she got at the golden wedding a year ago from Lansing came from Ethel Miller , who used to teach at Sackrider . Two International pick - up trucks for sale . Trio Motor Sales , Shelby - Clarence Pearson , who lives on Sil- ver Hills Farhi No. 3 down Park Row , has had a very sick baby . It was in the hospital but he is lad to have it brome again . - To James Stover for are and gas welding to repair your spray rigs and farm equipment . Mears corner garage . - Arnt Forestlund , state field secre- tary of the Gideons of Michigan , stood in the Swedish Mission pulpit Sunday evening and told heart - touching stories of path - turning mira- cles worked by Bibles placed in hotel rooms and Testaments given to children . Poor dogs in Pentwater , don't ever imagine you are Mary's little lamb and follow your masters to the school grounds . Stay home in your own happy dog house and chew a rubber bone from Stanch- field's dime store soaked in boullion cubes from Balfour's store . The marshal is dusting off the village dog ordinance . And all you folks who drive through Pentwater , remember the cars are slowed down to 25 miles an hour . If you drive 26 miles you may get a ticket . If you Mears folks are in a hurry to get to Ludington drive straight north of Smith's Corners . At the Weeks Lumber Co. in Hart right now a 30 - day spe- cial sale is on for paints , offering them at 20 per cent discount . adv

James Stover : Arc & gas welding on sprayrigs and farm equipment .

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WHEN YOU NEED A GOOD STRONG WRECKER CALL FLOOD MOTOR SALES : 24 HR . SERVICE . PH . 161 ; NIGHT , NO . 1 . We have the funds on hand for the purchase of desirable building lots on Silver Lake or on Pentwater Lake . Also for the purchase of a summer home on either lake . Let us know what you have , the location and price . Realtors , Hanson - Osborn , Hart ; Central Agency , Pentwater . Meals and lunches at Elmer's Place , Mears Anderson's Grocery , Mears , sells lettuce , bananas , nylons , anklets .

Motorola radios for sale , $ 19.95 and up . FM bands , Come in and see the Motorola line at Burdick's Radio Shop , Hart . Tubes and keys . WEBB'S GROCERY , 118 Apple street Hart . COLD and FRESHI MEATS , SOFT DRINKS . Open 9 to 9 daily . Sunday 12 till 9 .

Lyonel Goodenrath at Lyonel's Service Shop at Shelby sells Keiri . nator electric ranges with ball bearing drawers . Also appliances , adv ,