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Go on , Oceana , and do your stuff . Sprinkle your marl beds over your acid soils . Reforest your wind - blown hillsides with spruce to sing and nod in the breeze . Plant more cherry trees row upon row that the mu- sic of whistles may blow sweeter and longer on the canning factories . may rest Put more benches on your courthouse lawn that the weary their tired worn heels and arise to leave a benediction . Repopulate your rural districts with the exodus from the cities . Let them come in num- bers and find on your farm lands the genesis of independence and for- tune . Your realtors are the ambassadors who bring new people to live among you . Repopulate your thinned - out neighborhoods with the laugh- ter of many children trudging along to the little red schoolhouse on the new homes . hill . Let the forest ring . Let the axes fell the timber for Repopulate your churches with the faces of people eager to see each other and anxious to guide the pattern of their living by the Eternal Goodness . For in so doing they will find the mosaic of life sweeter the days gy by . On the banks of Campbell Lake , by the waves of Silver , by the rolling pebbles of Stony , by the cobs of Cobmoosa , build cabins for the vacationists to spend their hours of freedom . Along the fringe of ex - timbered pastures teach new poplar trees to flap their leaves for the summer shade of contented cows . Their milk will nourish your families and around the little mounds of fertilizer the four - leaf clovers of good fortune , will grow for you . Go on , Oceana , and do your stuff . And you , Alexander Stalker , with the atmosphere of Montana range ou your shoulders , lead out your saddle horses for the city boys and girls to explore the ancient trails in the blueberry hills . And you , John Flood , groom well your horses . More and more each year the so- journers from the city will discover that Oceana is no mean province in Vacationland . Our dunes are the sandiest , our lakes are scenery , our every orchards are alluring . Go on , Oceana , and do your stuff . Let lumber yard set forth its merchandise , the materials by which dreams are solidified and made tangible . There are nations in the Old World sit little bigger than the space of our 16 townships . Why should we back and think of Oceana as a has - been ? All we need is more ginger and go . more ambition , more leaders with dynamic enthusiasm . How many dried herring are there among us who have made money and are sitting tight on the barrel when they could he using it to build

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apon row of much - needed homes in our country villages , homes that would bring hundreds of more settlers who are scouring the want ads for houses to live in . Their children could play in our streets , put their feet under desks in our schoolhouse , bring a needed abundance of reve- nue to our school districts and prosperity to our stores and business places . You who have made big money in cherry crops and are sitting on the barrels , wake up and begin to build . Cast your bread upon the waters and it will come back to you . Two of the richest women in Mears in recent years were so downright conservative that not for many years would they loosen up and spend as much as 50e for The Mears Newz , which for three decades has proclaimed the climate and the beauty and the welcome hand of Oceana , with all its available re- sources . Theodore Roosevelt's country life commission filed in its re- port that no one who lived in the country and made his living in the country had to know so much and render so much service to his community for the little he got out of it as the country editor . Down through its 33 years of struggle and success this paper never raised its subscription price in order that it might continue to talk to the great- est number and extol this wonderland to the listening world . Always and always it was a voice crying in the wilderness to bring people into the promised land . Won't some of the rest of you have faith like that ? Be on fire for the beauty and value of Oceana county , eager to bring in new settlers , eager to make the newcomers happy that they may find the anchorage of contentment among us . And those of you who eau , if you have idle inactive dollars , won't you build houses to rent and sell and see how soon they will fill up with new neighbors with children playing in the dooryards ? At no time that you can remember has there ever been a more crying need for housing . More houses in Mears will mean more prosperity in our village . More homes in Oceana will mean more awakened schools and countrysides , more companionship and neighbors . We who believe in Oceana don't want our county to be a dead cemetery of the yesterdays . We want it to be a living , growing thing . If we had a hundred people among us with the optimism , the alertness , the live - wire enthusiasm of Eva Hanson - Osborn what a new life Oceana would put on ! Awake , thou that sleepest . let us make 1948 a great year for building , for reaching out for new neighbors and new life . Go on , Oceana , and do your stuff . I believe in you , I have faith in you . I am for you 100 per cent . Let us make this a year of progress- A very powerful wrecking car is the wrecker of the Flood Motor Sales , which was called out the other day to near McCarty's store to pull a big truckload of electric light poles out of the ditch . On the truck were 29 REA poles about 60 feet high and the Flood wrecker brought the load up on the road again . The Flood wrecker is equipped with a cable and power winch , and remaining in the road can pull your car out of your garage . This valuable wrecking car service is available 24 hours a day . You phone number G1 by day and number 1 by night after closing hours . - The Methodist women who do parish needlework convened yesterday with Mrs. Walter Feasel at her house beside a for- est on a hill and the ladies held trays on their knees . - Very shocking to the Mears community was the fatal accident to William H. Coleson and Clande Marshall Monday morning on US - 16 near Muskegon when the Marshall truck loaded with apples for Flint collided with a big truck loaded with 18,000 pounds of scrap iron . Mr. Coleson was in- stantly killed and Mr. Marshall died several bours later in a hospital In Muskegon . Services for Mr. Coleson were held Thursday at West Golden church and on Friday afternoon at the same place for Mr.

Marshall . Claude leaves his wife , formerly Priscilla Renouf , whom he married in 1913 ; two sons , Lowell and Raymond , and a daughter , Mrs. Blanche Quist . Mr. Coleson leaves his wife , Amanda : three sons , Grant . James and Albert ; two daughters , Mrs. Roy Nelson and Mrs. Frank Shafer ; two brothers , Henry of Hart and Ralph of Mears . Claude was once a prominent sawmill operator and had been a leading Golden farmer for many years , Mr. Coleson had lived in West Golden 16 years and was known to many customers as the pop corn man .-- Norman Haasjes , 20 , son of the Shelby veterinary , met fatal injuries in an auto accident south of Shelby the same day . A car driven by Loren Trenary of Walkerville figured in the collision . Norman had been at college but hnd worked some time in the tire shop of Chan Tripp and lately had been employed in Muskegon , from where he was coming when the fatal accident occurred . - Wednesday afternoon there was a collision by the Pioneer Inn north of Shelby at five o'clock . George Morningstar , 20 , and Frank Mitteer , 19 , of Shelby , were driving south when their car collided with one driven by Charles Schmieding , who was returning from Shelby and was turning in at his home drive . Ambulances were called to take the boys to the Shelby hospital . Mr. Schmieding was car ried into his home with severe bruises and cuts . - Walt Jennison of Hart , once editor of The Pentwater News , and now for a clerk at the Stevens Hotel , was buried in Hart Wednesday . He was 71 and came to Oceana 21 years ago . - Hazel Meyers has gone back to teach in the Parchment schools beside Kalamazoo and Elsa has gone back to her 20th year of teaching . - Karen Anderson turned seven today while she was sliding down hill . - Little Rebecca Perry of the Mears parson- age has been whooping . - The Mears 4 - H girls club met with Mrs. Ricks for a party and washed her dishes , according to Hoyle - Harrison WHEN YOU NEED A GOOD STRONG WRECKER CALL THE FLOOD MOTOR SALES ; 24 HOUR SERVICE . PHONE 61 , AFTER HOURS PHONE No. 1 .

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Meals and lunches at Elmer's Place , Mears

IF YOU CAN'T GET A NEW CAR but want your old ome to look like new , take it to GLEASON & HOWARD , Hart , back of Wesleyan church .

Anderson's Grocery , Mears , sells green vegetables and fresh fruits .

RICHARD WIETZKE SPENT 40 YEARS SELLING FURNITURE . HOUSE OR APARTMENT . HE KNOWS HIS END TABLES .

Drink Nesbitt's California Orange

6. MADE FROM REAL ORANGES .

-Do your chairs or davenports need doctoring ? Call Gerald Ensing . Silver Lake , phone 38F24 , to see samples and get estimates , adv . The

Window sash at Weeks Lbr . Co.

-Purchase your farm complete , slock , tools , furniture , appliances and feed for stock . Yes , and even coal in the basement for the modern heating unit . Hanson - Osborn has just this kind of a place to offer and only three miles from a shopping een- ter . Pilee ? Well , come in and see us . adv .