Soda Crackers are ripe in the Land of Mears

Soda Crackers

A sizeable crowd came up to the outdoor movies in Mears Tuesday eve- ning . There will be another show this next Tuesday . - Rev . Wm . Simp- son has moved to Reed City . The new Methodist minister has arrived in Hart and will preach also in Mears and Elbridge . The Mears par- sonage is being cleaned up and painted internally and will be rented . Jerome Ahlstedt , the pastor at the Mears Mission Covenant church , has been invited to preach in the Mears Methodist church this Sunday morning . Mrs. Bert McClennan took her two alarm clocks to the jeweler's to get cleaned and reconditioned so she would know when it is time to go to bed at night . - Ray Feasel came up from camp to visit his wife , June , in the month of June . - Betty Jean Hopkins comes from New York City to spend the summer in Hart . - Murray Rossiter goes to the army and so Ma Foster threw a big dinner Sunday before he went . Mugaret Hansen's arm is healed so she can whip up a salad for the Bunco club . - The defenders of liberty esteem the soil district election a tremendous success because the proposition to form a soil district was defeated by a rousing majority of 10 to 1. The vote in the county was 1626 against and only 159 votes in favor of it . In the Ferry - Otto poll there were 140 votes against and only three in favor of it . What promi- nent gravy train official lives over that way ? He and his wife found one person in the two townships who thought the same as they did . So there were three votes , making an opposing ratio of 46 to 1. This was a splendid showing for the cause of freedom . In Elbridge township the ratio was 20 to 1. In every township in the county the measure was snowed under . Listen to the tunes of freedom in the several townships : Benona , 150 no to 20 yes ; Grant , 74 to 12 : Claybanks . 86 to 18 ; New- field , 131 to 5 : Shelby , 222 to 29 ; Hart . 173 to 15 ; Crystal , 76 to 9 : Weare - Pentwater , 141 to 10 ; Leavitt - Colfax , 130 to 10 ; Golden , 160 to 21 : Elbridge , 143 to 7 ; Ferry - Otto , 140 to 3. The landowners of Oceana county turned out in no uncertain mind to let the boys in Lansing know what they didn't want . The result was most gratifying and a glorious victory for the independent spirit of the Oceana farmers . We want no stool pigeon dictators sitting on our fences telling us how we got to plow and what we dare to plant . It was a long campaign of over

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a year . The soil election advertised for last year was suddenly stopped because its promoters came to realize that they were utterly licked if the election went on . All winter the stool pigeons conducted their whispering educational campaign until this summer when they thought they could put it across , but they couldn't . Freedom triumphed in Oce- ana . And in some other counties where the districts were quietly- stealthily put over on the unsuspecting public , it was because the rank and file of the farmers didn't know what was in the statute or they would have risen in wrath . In one county there were only 136 affirma- tive votes and 20 against it . The gravy train alone could muster up 136 votes , with the aid of their wives and children and the triple - X central office force . When you consider that in Golden township alone there were 160 votes against it , and this is more than the entire vote in the county referred to , you will be well aware that the people over there didn't take a tumble to what was being pulled off in their county or they would have risen in wrath and snowed it under . The people of Oceana county were informed and they went to the election with uncertain step to vote a rousing NO . Hurrah for Oceana county , where the spirit of freedom still lives and free men fill the soil as they see fit . Grace White is trimming her rose arbor over her cottage door . They are White roses yet they are pink . Victor Ruckel of Benona did a lot of good work enlightening the farmers of the countryside on the evils of the soil district business . When the votes were counted he came out victor . - Lenore Hanson returned to her duties at St. Joseph Me cy hospital in Pontiac . Lenore had had a grand three - week vacation hers at Hart and with her friends at Manistee . " Nonie " likes nursing and the patients like " Nonie's " nursing . - Oue time when Lynn Sloan was quite a lot younger , his folks went to Shelby one night and dropied him off at Charlie Heer's camp at Crystal Lake along with Betty and Virginia Cooper from New Lennox , Illinois . Lively as they are , it was quite surprising for them to be sitting quietly and soberly on a bench when the Sloans came back to get them . It seems the young folks were running down hill in the dark and tumbled right over the fence into the big bear's yard . " Why , you here ? " they gasped in fright at the astonished bear , and just as suddenly they tumbled out over the fence on the other side . There were some torn dresses from the fence and not from the bear , and when they got out they sat down on a bench and looked sober . - William Peterson was putting some tar on a roof when it spilled and burned his arm and face . The doctor put some dark paste or ointment on him after taking away the blistered skin . Wil- liam says he heard tell of people being skinned alive but this was the first he had it done to him . Ship ahoy ! Here come John and Stephen Meloy to summer by the big lake in Pentwater . - Robert Lorenz came home to Hart on a furlough from San Diego and breezed into his moth- er's magazine store in such eager anxious haste to be home that the front pages of the periodicals turned over in windy astonishment- Paul Wiener has purchased the Lucy Hunter farm on the corner by the musical creek and added it to his pasture land on his farm No. 3 . -Miss Miriam Wilson has opened her girls ' camp called Glenloch up the Lake Michigan shore toward Bass Lake . In Garrison Park dwells Rosanne Ayer , and whatever days are red letter days on her calendar she can mark them with vermillion crayon in Ayer's almanne . It was n real outing for Dave Gudelsky to come up from Muskegon Tuesday

night and go ahaying at Paul Wiener's farm . - Dick Herline , who has been down Baltimore way for a few months , was up in Pentwater this week building a dog house addition for Mrs , Ruick . The white dogs are growing and want more room to turn around . - During the two years that Floyd Krauter has been manager at the Silver Hills Farm he and his family have made a host of friends who deplore their de- parture to their old home in Goshen , Indiana . He milked the cows and groomed their fur and transported the milk and ran the tractor late in the springtime dusk . Floyd and Ruth were popular in the community and young Douglas liked to go camping with the boys , and his sister Jeanine will be missed from the second grade . And there seems an empty void in the atmosphere since Thursday when the Krauters went away . We hope they come back once in a while or oftener to visit in the Land of Mears . - SADDLE HORSES to sell or trade , or to rent by the hour . Bob Blackmer , Shelby . - Pvt . Robert Lorenz has been sent to the Marine quartermasters school at Camp Elliott , California . - To Keith Corliss , the grocer in Mears , for sugar just as sweet and grapefruit just as sour as the other fellow's . Yes , we have some bananas . adv.- Digit - rom year round house in Pentwater village , overlooking Pent- water Lake , with two lots , storage building . Just the best buy in the world . Only $ 2500 . $ 500 down , $ 35.00 a month . Has been used as duplex . Hanson - Osborn , Hart , Mich . - How appropriate it is that Mr. Rush should be the summer telegraph operator in Pentwater . They can say to him : " Rush , rush this wire . " Guy Russ Van Nortwick is the mes- senger boy . Instead of a bicycle he will probably use his Model T. Ford which he bought from the clergyman . When Rush takes in a message from Chicago he can turn to Russ and say : " Russ , rustle , " and the Model T will start with a bustle and go away in a hustle.-

To the Lorenz News Shop near the Hart depot for a magazine to lead in the hammock or at the lakeside after your picnic supper . adv . -Furnished lake - front COTTAGE FOR RENT on Lake Michigan in the dunes . Rest . quiet . seclusion , scenery . Sleeps 7. Rent $ 10 a week . Swift Lathers , Mears.-

-Guernsey calf for sale at Silver Hills Farm . F

Even though it is springtime it is mone to early to fill your coal bins for next winter , says Charles L. Flory of Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. Buy War Savings Stamps and Bonds and help win the war . Earl Jonassen , Optometrist Eyes examined , spectacles fitted . Office ne Weeks Lumber Company in Hart for roofing , windows , doors . HAMS , DRESSED CHICKENS , BACON , PORK STEAK . SANI- TARY MEAT MARKET , EAST SIDE MAIN STREET , SHELBY . Rs rtes . welcome back to Oceana county , and remember , a good place to buy your steaks and bacon is the Sanitary Meat Market on the cast side of Shelby's main street.-

If your radio won't sing when you tell it to . see Ev . Graff's radio service in the Russell Block . He answers 140 - F - 2 , adv .

Phil Wurthner can fix your car and make it purr cheerfully . He sells En Ar - Co motor oil for happy lubrication ,

Ev's Radio Service is now open 5 p . m . to 6 p . m . Monday to Friday . Also 7 to 9 p . m . Wed. evening and 1 to 6 and 7 to 9 p . m . Saturdays . To the Central Ment Market in Hart where Nixon & Nixon will be glad to wrap up beef steak for supper , pork roast for dinner . bologna See us for insurance , fire . life , automobile , surety bonds . Also rear state Nell Wheeler , Shelby , Mich .