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I went to your wedding , Lenore , and saw two hundred people sitting in the brick church with stained glass windows . I wonder if Mears ever saw such a big wedding before . Some stood along the wall , some peered in from the hall and others on the porch could not get in at all . Since I have always known you since you were four years old and I watched you grow up with blue eyes and face like a lily , the scene at the altar was most fascinating . I can remember when you were in the kindergarten and Billo too , and you always wanted him to walk up Maple avenue past Sloan's house on the way home from school to get you past the big dog . And you came up through the years singing duets with your sister in the young peoples ' meetings and everybody liked the blending of your voices . You were a plump little dumpling as a child but you were always good natured and could always laugh when you heard the band play " She's too thin for me . " How appropriate it was that you should be married on Easter . You look so like a lily . From far and near the guests came to see the wedding of Stanley Seel- hoff , the Hart letter carrier , and Lenore Peterson . the x - ray girl . If Stanley wrote to you he could deliver his own letters and maybe you could put them in front of the machine and read them without open- ing them . There was one funny thing about the wedding , when a chair crashed back in the audience and Edgar Younts fell to the floor . I sup- pose he didn't think it was so funny . But it made extra excitement for the wedding and it didn't break any bones . And it all happened in the preliminaries so it didn't bake any eyes off the stage when John Geh- ring was steering the ritual or Elaine was lifting the veil from your face . You know , I liked the way that Pauline Dennert tossed her head around at cute angles when she was singing " I Love You Truly " and " Always . " If the music of those anthems always sounds sweet to you and Stan how happy will be your married life . Some cynic has said that life is just one fool thing after another and love is two fool things after each other . Be that as it may , marriage is a very beautiful thing . So long as your mutual affection burns like a bright candle you are like two arrows polifted toward each other . To sume the years bring a disaffection like two arrows pointed away from each other . And sometimes one arrow remains the same and the other arrow is turned away . So long as you sing together the songs that Pauline sang for you . you will be happy . Your friends hope it will be always . When Danny

Sayles played the wedding march how beautiful were the formals of the bridesmaids as short little Betty Lundberg and tall Emmy Varen- horst and middle sized Margaret Riley came down the aisle . How exquisite was the bride in her long dress of white nylon , and there were no rose bugs on her red roses and the yellow pollen gilded her white lilies as she clung to the as she clung to the arm of her father and came to the curving rail where the white cherry blossoms were . blooming before their time . Atilt were the angles of the two adjustable candelabra with their 14 lighted tapers . How benign was the face of John Gehring as he bent over you and Stan and asked you the questions . One of his very first public appearances in Oceana county was a Washington celebration in Mears when I asked him to come over and make a speech for us . I can see him yet , coming in out of the cold and rubbing his hands together by the big tall stove in the Odd Fellow hall . And per- haps his last public appearance in Oceana county was this , wedding where you invited him over to tie you together , for this week he moved away to Benzonia . So many people I saw at your wedding , many faces . I did not know . Many of them were thinking of their own weddings . ten , twenty , thirty years ago . And some like Betty and Emmy and Margaret and Elaine were looking forward to weddings of their own . I saw the flash of cameras fastening memories of this vivid hour on still and moving film . I saw the long line of people filing past you in the hall to wish you joy and heard the click of other cameras as you went out on the steps together . And then you went away to Canada before you settle down in your apartment in Hart where you will live while Stan delivers the postmarks and you with Roentgen rays read the knittings of fractured bones . As I was walking past Clarence Quist's big Hudson emporium I saw through the plate glass window a sign under a beautiful car picture that read : " Now you are face tó face with tomorrow . " And I said to Ralph Coleson : " That's for Stan- ley and Lenore . Now they are face to face with tomorrow . " And Mr. Coleson answered : " It seems to me they are face to face with today . And maybe we were both right . They are face to face with tomorrow and today . The long years lie ahead of them . Sometimes at high school graduations you see big cut - out paper letters on a long string above the balcony saying : " Today we launch , where shall we anchor ? " Lenore and Stan were like two separate rafts floating on life's sea and now ropes have lashed their rafts together . The mere ceremony is often a thin rope that sometimes wears asunder , but children are tighter bonds to keep them together and to keep the " God bless our home " sign hanging on the wall . I was thinking this morning about the old Greek myth of Baucis and Philemon who lived in a humble cot- tage and had an earthen pitcher with a little fountain of milk always ready to bubble up out of the bottom so it was never empty . And they asked the gods that neither of them would ever have to leave the other . And they grew old until they were changed into an oak and n linden tree that whispered together in the evening breeze in front of their door . It is better to have love in a cottage with pork and beans than to maintain a mansion and be bound to a program of struggle and absence which keeps your meals and pillows apart . So I wish you a log cabin with a four - word motto framed on the wall and a little stand with a phonograph on it with a morning glory horn and two records like Pauline sang and a little child with golden hair that reaches up with a chubby hand to wind it as the music plays " Always " -

8 - July 5 will be celebrated with style in Rothbury when the Thomas P. Reavey Post will put on a carnival and give away

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live alligator and a pair of white mice for running a race or jumping a hurdle or some such thing . First time thing . First time offered , 79 acres , ½ mile from school , 1½ miles to US - 31 , 3 miles from Hart . Fruit , hay , good pasture and farm land . Barn , poultry and brooder houses , silo , corn crib , tool shed , 7 - room house , water , electric , furnace , two glassed - in porches . A - 1 condition . Excellent buy at $ 9,000 . Hanson - Osborn , Real- tors , Hart . - Anne Louise Halloran of St. Mary's , Notre Dame , spent her Easter vacation at her home on Dryden - Lincoln street corner Hart , the place with the stone terrace that Anne sits on in the sum- mer time while she chats with her passerby friends . At a Shelby dance some boy had the piece She's too Fat for Me " played by request , and told Anne it was special for her . Anne didn't care , as like all fat folks , Anne has the sunny disposition that laughs and the world laughs with you . Frederick Myers , 16 or 17 , who learned to lick a postage stamp in Rothbury when he was one year old , is getting a big kick out of rehearsing for the senior play in Montague . He likes the hair ribbon worn by one of the actresses , maybe the leading lady . Sam Usiak's store is a great buying place in Rothbury . You can buy anything from pound of tapioca to a Wolverine work shoe , boys ' and men's jackets , girls ' skirts and oil cloth . Al Pepin runs a big meat market depart- ment to be proud of . He had in a fresh supply of hickory smoked bacon that would sizzle good smell in your frying pan . When Salesman Sam got Al he brought some Pepin to Rothbury . The sunlight shines on Joan Myers ' honey - colored hair while she marks the prices and dis- tributes the fresh merchandise on the shelf . If you want to get a doz- en oranges Jennie Engemann can get them for you , but if you want a gross see Lola Gross . I even saw strawberries in Sam's Super Market . Drop in at this big department store when passing through Rothbury . adv . The Jewelry Moores of Hart went to Big Rapids to eat Easter eggs with her folks , Mr. and Mrs. George Richards , and brought her mother back for a few days to eat scane post - Easter ham . - Ralph Cole- son works in the shop with Richard Coster , who comes from Sparta and has a Spartan endurance . I guess they bend iron together . - Excel- lent opportunity ! Fully equipped and operating restaurant in indus- trial section of Shelby , corner location . Nine - room modern residence adjoins . Move right in and start to do business . A wonderful invest- ment . Immediate possession . Priced at $ 15,000 . Hanson - Osborn Real- tors , Hart . The Hart NCCW of St. Gregory's are going to put on a Gay Nineties Revue April 31 at the high school auditorium with tick- ets at 60c . - Jerry Hawkins of Grand Rapids and David Bush of Cale- donia were up a few days at the Hawkins cottage at Silver Lake eat- ing huckleberries and roaming the woods . They dipped their dishwater out of the lake and drank soda water out of bottles . Was the well dry ? Weeks Lumber Co , for windows and sash ,

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Anderson's Grocery , Mears , sells nylon hose , also children's anklets

Motorola radios for sale , $ 19.95 and up . F - M bands . Come in and see the Motorola line at Burdlek's Radlo Shop . Hart . Tubes and keys . RADIO SERVICE on all makes . Experienced workmanship , reason- able rates . SHELBY RADIO SITOP , 500 Michigan Avenue-