Egg Colorations are ripe in the Land of Mears

We notice by the printed minutes of the supervisors proceedings that the board of supervisors ordered the scune dooter bridge removed by . May 1. Rubbish and junk dumped in the creek may be partially . the cause of holding up the water in Silver Lake . The Silver Lake Better- , ment Club were asking for the removal of the channel obstructions last fall . This week the lake ate across the roadway on the north side of . Silver Lake in two places . A load of stone or broken bricks might buttress the road so it could be repaired . Lake Michigan seems to ber going down but Silver Lake is very high and the channel obstructions at the bridge should be removed . - There often is a tendency in shops for the employees to drat the employer and say : " Darn him , anyway , he ought to give us more money ! " When they meet among themselves . they curse the employer and forget the fact that he is their friend and is doing them a favor to give them employment . These employers by : grace , grit and gumption , by business shrewdness and sagacity have been able to organize and found a business like a canning factory or a foundry . They are benefactors to the community yesterday , today and tomorrow . If they pay a reasonable wage and afford proper working nhours and conditions , why should the employees figure he should use . organized and concerted efforts through the union to make life hard for the employer , the employee's friend ? And yet in almost every city you will find labor when it has no reason to complain always shaking its fist at capital and forgetting the tune of the old song : " Don't bite , the hand that's feeding you . " I will concede the right of employees to . form an association for bargaining but I maintain we should have open shops and no employee should be coerced into joining the union . And , sit - down strikers who strike and sit down in the plant to prevent oth- ers from taking their places should be washed out of the plant with a strong stream from the fire hose . Today when soldiers are getting $ 51 or so a month some industrial employees who are making $ 10 a day will go on strikes and hold up vital production . These men should be instantly drafted for front - line duty in the army at $ 51 a month.- Miss Mabel Gifford , daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gifford , mar ried Harold Johnson , son of Mr. and Mrs. Claus Johnson , at 2:00 o'clock

last week . Barbara Sallgren was bridesmaid . Clinton Hallack stood by the groom and looked around the room . Mrs. George Bender played the wedding march . The people came up to the bride and said : " I wish you much joy , " and little Joy Gifford , 10 years old , who was passing the cake , thought they meant her . Uncle Joe Bartlett ate all the cream he could hold . There were 74 other guests at Harvey's house that day . Bill Volpp strained himself lifting a stove the other day and was in Hart hospital for several days . He is now resting at his home in Mears . Mrs. Ed Summers was buried Tuesday in Hart , Born in Germany in 1872 , she was the mother of Mrs. Esther Corbin and Bernice Miller . Surviving also is a husband . For quite a few years they owned a cot- tage at Silver Lake and together they used to pick huckleberries up in the bluffs and she made them up into pies while Ed was out fishing . He used to work in the Hart depot . - Keith Corliss sells cookies and eggs for Easter morning breakfast . adv . - FOR SALE : Large window sash containing four lights of glass each 18 by 22 inches . Suitable for a hot bed sash or a window for chicken house or garage . Will Powers , Mears . Milton Fuller went to war yesterday , also Ralph Alvesteffer and a lot of others . - Charles Piper , 80 years old , was buried in the South Hart cemetery Tuesday morning . He used to lay brick and spread plaster and took pride in fixing up buildings to rent or live in . He had a right sense of justice and would have made a righteous judge . He was a member of the Congregational church . A brother . War- ren , lives after him . - Mabel Gifford gets married . - More rural teach- ers are needed in Oceana county . If you have taught school before may- be you could volunteer to help out in this shortage for the coming year . After the war is over some of the girls who left teaching to go to the defense factories will come back to the schools . But new teachers are needed . - Run over by a farm tractor , little Jerry Squires , less thab three years old , was taken to the hospital and died of pneumonia . His mother had come lately to live near Smith's Corners and his father is in the service . - Willis Willard is going to marry Joyce Wilkins of Ferry . Mrs. Olive Fuller is candidate for Golden township treasurer on the Democratic ticket this year . - Why not vote for Bill Volpp for township clerk of Golden township ? Bill is a popular , obliging sort of went to school here , grew up a fellow , spent his boyhood in Mears . among us , married a Mears girl , bought a little home in the village and fixed it up . Always enterprising , always a hustler , Bill would make the best kind of a township clerk . He clerked in stores a number of years and always got along with people and he has made many friends by his pleasing good natured ways . Living as he does right beside the town hall he is most conveniently located to be township clerk and you can be sure he would fill the office to the general satisfaction of all con- cerned . His young wife , Coralie , also has a courteous personality and would be a valuable assistant in the work . She was born in Mears just school here , grew to the road from the town hall . went to womanhood among us and like Bill is liked by everybody . So many of our young people grow up and outgrow Mears and move away because they think the town isn't good enough for them or holds too little op- portunity . It is a real joy to find a couple of Mears young folks like Bill and Coralie who marry and settle down among us and buy a little home and fix it up . Young folks like that try to live among us and should be encouraged by all means . We wish we had more young folks like Bill and Coralie who kept their faith in the old home town . The

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last elected incumbent of the township clerk's office , who had held the office quite a number of years , resigned shortly after he was last elect- ed and the office has been temporarily filled by an appointment of the township board . So seeing a change is to be made anyway , why not show recognition to one of our most deserving young citizens by elect- ing Bill Volpp clerk of Golden township ? -I saw three skirts from Mon- tague , seems to me they were green and blue and red , livening up the door of the New Era garage . June and Doris came up to see two local boys and Jeannette was the wolfess looking around to see what she could see and maybe to seize the unseized . - Don Gortenhuis of Holland took the winter off to catch up on his women calls . He was so far be hind on his social visits that he needed a vacation from work in order to catch up socially . He acquired the habit of painting his car every few weeks so the girls would think he had a new one and they would hurry to ride in it while the shine was still on the chariot . - There have been recent increases in the herd of registered Guernsey cattle in Paul Wiener's herd at Silver Hills Farm 1½ miles west of Mears . Silver Hills Cassandra and Pine Manor Cinderlla and Silver Hills Claudia each had a heifer calf and Scottland Farms Ena and Silver Hills Cyn- thia each had a bull calf . Since September the herd has had an in- crease of 20 new calves , 18 of them being heifer calves and two of them bull calves . A group of three heifers , Azalea , Ardyce and Count- ess , have been chosen to exhibit at the Indiana state showing , May 7.-

-If your car needs a bump or paint job see Gleason & Snider at the Suburban Service Station in Hart where US - 31 crosses the railroad and get the kinks taken out and the shine put on . adv.- -Hanson - Osborn at Hart are going picture - taking the

the nice first day the sun shines brightly , to picture the two houses , big barn , tool sheds , together with the tractor in the shed , the piano in the house , the boats and fishing tackle piled up , with a broad view of from a thriving the 160 acres of land , and all only ' bout two miles

Remember the Weeks Lumber Co. sells paints , oils , thinners for in- side and outside paint . Also plenty of roofing to keep out the rain.- FOR SALE : Lots in all parts of the village of Mears ; attractively priced and suitable for homes , orchards or gardens . Miss C. Mears , we are per press as

Al Dumont's electrical appliance repair shop at 209 State street , Hart , st . - Imagine 50 acres of fruit , all ready to bring in a fine income , good modern buildings and 30 acres of land for pasture and to grow the chicken and cow feed on , a tenant house and a Mexi- can house , all close to a town and all for $ 10,000 . Hanson - Osborn has igo . - Lake Michigan front- age in Oceana county is hard to get , but Hanson - Osborn Real Estaters say they have around 1800 feet of real interesting frontage , meaning part wooded , part hilly , part flat as a pancake , but all with the won- derful waters of the big old lake lapping up over a smooth . white beach along the front . Get a piece of this frontage now while you can . folks , and hold it for the boy when he gets home . He'll get a kick out of building a shack there and lolling around a summer or two until he gets the sound of war out of his system . Or , pick a nice location for a building of your own later . If you want inland lake , Mrs. Osborn says she has that too , but outsiders are anxious to buy it up fast , so , home folks . for goodness sakes , hustle along and get a slice for yourself . adv .