Garden Scratchers are ripe in the Land of Mears

Helen Brien will be one of the 32 graduates at Alma college this year . In Ispite of all Bill Snyder's opposition the Standard Oil Company is going to put in its filling station across the corner and cast its smelly shadow on Bill's glorious $ 30,000 residence . Clarnce Joslin is moving the little house away and then the oil tank comes . Seemsa wonder

that Bill Snyder doesn't go to his friend Earl Pugsley and get out an injunction against the oil house . Together they ought to be able to stop a little thing like an oil house . It seems that there are two of the ' great corporations that do not feed out of Bill Snyder's hand . One is the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and the other is The Mears Newz of North A- merica . Isn't that so , Jim Rice ?

Frank Rasmussen is glad to be back to Cal Liggett's barnyard and the barnyard is glad to have him . Cal put down a new gas engine well . Louis Hilbert starts the well going so it will suck the pump . After he gets the cows watered and the chickens milked he will go to the square dance at Crystal Lake .

G. E. Wienert sells school supplies and vacation supplies . He's the Pentwater pharmacist

BUICK 5 - passenger touring car in Al condition for sale or trade . Time if wanted . Chan Tripp , Hart

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Schoolteachers ,

like Nellie Anderson ,

high school girls , like Evelyn Dee , and rough and tumble school boys like Billy Rake should all buy their stockings inHart of Thos . Welsh & Son

Miss Margaret Hughes of Chicago , the beautiful daughter of Mr. C. W. Hughes of Chicago who was up here last year fishing , is going to get married to a crazy Swede in Chicago by the name of Walt .

Light up your Hart's Little Traveler . Every puff is Manufactured by Lorenz a puff for Hart .

Pentwater : Ann Patterson came home with Rose to smell of the blossoms in their mother's old fash- ioned garden . Mrs. Ariel Lattin and her mother got back from Detroit to sweep off the steps of the Nick- erson aerial hotel and prepare a room for Prof. Lilji- blad , the butterfly professor . Charlie Lewis is home from the legislature where he got the fare reduced on the Pere Marquette . The branch fare from Mears is nothing now . Vernon Martin will be principal of schools in Mears this year . Violet Christensen will al- Violet's mother has 6 canary birds . so teach there .

For a long time now Collins the druggist has been identi- fied with Mears as a booster as a taxpayer , as a farmer . An- y tooth brushes or patent medicines you may see fit to buy of him I will esteem it as a personal favor .

Miss Celia Spooner went down to muskegon and got a new phonograph record named ' I Love Me ' to play for the cow at dinner time . But the cow is tempermental and refuses to have her nerves soothed by any such mechanical means . The cow insists on having Mrs. Corpe talk to her or recite something appetizing like the 23rd Paalm .

Gold - rims , shell - rims , no - rims . I sellem . Earl Jonassen , Hart

Entered as second - class mail matter August 8th , 1914 at the post- About half a carload of hood tires on the road for Chan Tripp . Buy the Hood tires and get adjustments right at home .

Lost : Strayed from the slaughter house 1 red year- ling steer . Finder notify Fred Kokx , Hart

I have opened a tire and radiator shop in Hart in the Simpson Paint Building and am ready to do your vulcaniz- ing and repair your tires . Used tires for sale . Andy Reames

When you needa plumber call Peck

Paper hanging and decorating . 50c an hour . See Ed Griswold in Mears or drop a card to have him call .

For sale : 3 work horses , double harness and a double carriage . Hart Auto Co.

charles Branch , the adventist commercial teacher married Etta Lathrop , a sixteen year old Greenville girl ( as Keith Pratt would say she is so pretty she would make a make a preacher lay his bible down , so you can't blame charles even if he is an adven- tist . But the girl's parents objected and when the hap- py couple got to shelby they immediately became unhappy for Burt Kelly , the deputy sheriff met them at the train and took and took the bride away to his house and charles and Etta sobbed in their little pock- et handkerchiefs and shed tears . In their sad houses of separation they telephoned forth and back for a few days and then they got a consenting from now relenting parents and got married over again .

Ola Pearson got his new ford out to take mary back to Hart and he found that Fred Peterson had been over the sand road with a drag and horrified the trail .. mary , did you finally get to Hart ?

Tuesday night , June 5 , at Reynolds Garage in Hart the American Legion will stage a boxing match using murray Nelson , Pete Hanson , Babe and Bernice Bates .

For a Florence oil stove go to Wietzke . Also for dishes .

Dorothy Rake - d up the skeleton of an ancient animile that existed on this earth 10 years

ago .