Issue 6

Entered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 .

There Are Reasons

why this issue will be read with more than the ordinary intense interest in the effort to find out what is said and what is left un- said in

THE NEWSPAPER THAT IS DIFFERENT

Lloyd Weaver returned Wednesday evening from the orchards of the Erdenheim farm in Oakland county . When he went away in the spring the doubters shook their heads and said he wouldn't stay six weeks . Yet he fooled them all for he stayed eight months . Now when the ermine covers the apple trees he comes home to go north and work in the forest .

West Golden

Mary Anderson is visiting at Nels Anderson's . Eunice Holcomb is on the sicklist .

Otto Lind started to school this week .

The Edlund clan held a reunion Sunday . Nineteen assembled on the old farm for the first time in about nineteen years .

Elizabeth Lambrix spent Sunday with the Arnold sisters .

Mrs. Will Smith and Miss Mary Edlund went to the Walkerville convention to get two or three new ideas to put some go into our Sunday school .

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THE GOLDEN CITY SCHOOLS

Miss Brubaker visited school this week .

Allerton Goit who has been keeping bachelor's hall in the Reid block while he attended school travels from his home these mornings . Gordon Knapp is trying to sit in Mr. Davis's ehair this week . Bessie Arnold started back to school last week after a long illness . And so did Arthur Welden .

Books , Stationery and Perfume for gifts at Christmastime .

Collins , the A. D. S. Druggist

SALT

in three grades of texture .

Fresh Badger Feed Sands & Maxwell Lumber Co.

Shirley Stout and Earl Weldon saw an extinet muskrat in Col- lins Lake and Shirley wanted it the minute he saw it . There weren't any boats to rent at this frog pond so the Stout - hearted hunter stood on a log and propelled it toward the fur with two stout sticks . An accidental disturbance of his equilibrium sent him over into the lake . After he got back on the shore he had to be turned upside down to get the water out of his rubber boots .

At the First Baptist church Sunday morning the Rev. Chum ney talked to his congregation about living for others . He drew a lesson from the habits of the crows . When a flock of erows light on the ground to feed there is always one crow that stays on some high projecting limb or lookout to watch for danger that might threaten the flock . No matter if there are only two crows traveling together one of them will watch while the other feeds . So ought we to live with solicitude for each other inthis community .

Supervisor Claude Till has the grippe . So has Mrs. Edward E.

Allen .

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TIS EVENING IN MEARS

' Tis evening in Mears . The street lamps seem to know it's time that they should shine : the clock has told them so . The shaded streets are still . The snow is on the ground ; among the maples bare the wind is playing round . Their supper oe'r the men appear upon the street . They like to loiter at the store and soak the merchant's heat . Some girls have gone to school for games of basket ball . The leather sphere they try to put through hoops upon the wall . Brightly shines the light through Ewald's window pane . Inside the store a score of men await the paper train . It comes ; the papers passed , the men go home to read of distant city life and stirring battle deed . Along the boulevard a wagon rumbles on until the rolling sound is dim and then at last its gone . The merchant locks his door and scans his books alone . His light goes out ; from school the girls are going home . The evening in Mears at last becomes the night . The street lamps fade at twelve , the clock puts out the light .

THE SANDS OF THE GOLDEN RIVER

One beautiful morning in early summer of twenty - four years ago a matron and a girl set out from the clustered dwellings of the Little Point Sable settlement and followed up the banks of The Golden River to gather strawberries .

Charles Mears had his harbor - builders at work with shovel and dredge deepening the mouth and the channel because he had a vision of a commercial future for the village with his name .

At the Silver Lake end of the river Will Bingham rested on his dredge for it was an off day for the steam scooper to work . The girl was not the matron's daughter . She was Maggie Cumming , whose little brother David still wore his dresses . As Maggie car- ried her pail that morning she was thinking of other things beside strawberries . The face of the young engineer on the dredge kept coming before her . The older woman understood and smiled and kept on picking when the strawberries geemed to lose their charm for the girl who slipped away for a half hour visit on the dredge . When the two returned to the lighthouse shore they found consternation among the people of the little settlement . A great wave had come in from the sea and rushed into the harbor and up the rive where it had brought down a landslide from the sand dunes . And now only a little water covered the sand . The dredge in the river was stranded so that it could be lifted no more . It would stay there many , many years in its abiding place . The works were taken out but the old hulk remained . The sands of the Golden River were mightier than man ,

CLOSING

OUT SALE

preparatory to selling store building and lots . We will close out our

entire line of

Groceries , Dry- goods and Shoes at Cost Prices

BEGINNING SATURDAY , DECEMBER 18TH

Ewald & Cooper ,

Mears , Michigan

Mrs. Herbert Kelso is taking mineral baths in Benton Harbor . Mrs. Muriel Highland Myers is cooking the oatmeal for Uncle Bert .

Holstien bull and Chester White boar . Will Powers

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William H. Drrper , Jr. , a senior in New York Univer- sity sailed to Europe on the Ford peace ship , Oscar II . The representatives of twenty five universities met on shipboard and elected him chairman of their number . He is the grandson of Rev. James Draper .

Ernest Draper is a freshman in New York University and studies Latin , French , English , Trigonometry , Chemistry , Physical Training and Personal Efficiency .

[ Political Advertisement ]

JESSE M. DAVIS

For Probate Judge

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Oceana is going to elect a Probate Judge and many are seek- ing after the honor . Several townships are represented by in- cumbents of the coveted chairs in the rooms off the courthouse corridor but Golden has no citizens there . The township on the north has contributed a register of deeds . The home of the drain commissioner is in the Rothbury country and from this town- ship and that township someone has left the plow to go to the county seat as the servant of the people . Why should not Gold- en send men to help in the administration of the county's affairs ?

Jesse M. Davis , farmer , school teacher and wide awake citizen has entered the arena of contestants for the office of Probate Judge By education and by the uprightness of his life he is qualified for the seat that he asks .

Mr. Golden voter , if you are proud of the township that you live in , if you are loyal to your home people , will you not try to cleet the candidate from Ourtown ?

He will appreciate your support at the primaries on Monday the sixth of December .

THE WILLSON REGION

Clare Branch went to Big Rapids Wednesday where he has employment . He went by way of the Pere Marquette to Muske gon and took the Big Rapids branch , from there we presume . After he gets to the Ferris town he will be a Big Rapids Branch himself .

Alolph Frankson is milking the cows and feeding the chickens for Jesse Davis - Little Virginia Wolf j : sick . - Mrs A. B. Crane expects to go to Muskegon soon where Mr. Crone has work . The little Cranes will go along - Monday L J. Ruckel mended his telephone line - On the same day half the men of the Willson region were out moving the Lambrix hill into the swamp . The editor of the Mears News helped to move the hill - Floyd Emmons has returned from eating Thanksgiving dinner at Belding , the town of many girls . He has recovered froma the effects of his annual big meal and feels as fine as silk .

GRANITEWARE

Pie plates 5 and 8 ceats . Stewpans 8 to 15 cents .

Kettles 10 to 15 cents . Pails a dime .

Kettles 10 to 15 cents . Colendars 8 cents .

Mixing bowls 8 to 12 cents . Dishpans thirty cents .

This Keystone ware is as inexpensive as

Big cuts in shoe prices .

Ewald & Cooper

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Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Van Syoc came up Thanksgiving day from New Era bringing with them a chicken to share with Mr. and Mrs. Rasmussen and the Rasmus- sen dog . The Van Syocs had just leen having an in- teresting chicken experience . The previous Sunday they left their boarder to get her own dinner . She's Miss Anna Mulder , New Era's A B C teacher , and Miss Eilen Ray and Principal Boer , the rest of the faculty came to dine with her . So did Art Peters , the village apothecary , who by the aid of a flashlight in the day time found an undressed chicken hiding in the pantry . After cooking it Miss Mulder made some impossible chicken gravy and the village paperhanger wanted to get the recipe to use in hanging paper .

Lillian Carlson is fifteen years old . Into the Carlson home on Maple Avenue thirty - five people streamed to help her realize the importance of her advanced youth . There were Larsons and Lees and many Krantz's as well as a few Olsons from Hart . Lillian is in the ninth grade in the high school of The Golden City and when she has appeared in local entertainments has attracted admiration for her ability for impersonation .

WHOSE DOG IS THIS ?

yours Frank

A black and brown dog is staying around my house . He's part shepherd and part hound . If he's come after him . If not called for he's mine ! Fenton