Box Socials are ripe in the Land of Mears

The great night has arrived and our dear girls , ar- rayed in their georgette crepe waists , have come to the auction aquiver and awondering who will bid in their beribboned boxes .

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They had a party up at the Mears School Thursday ngiht and one of the girls brot a jug of cider . They had to drink it out of the jug . Arthur Corner sat down to drink it and tipped up the jug and it came out too fast . Harry Muir started to drink and Bob Levere jerked the jug away and it spilled on the floor . We wonder if they had a towel to wipe the mouth of the jug off every time some one drank out of it . Toward the last when there were just two or three there they made some paper cups to drink out of . And Florence Mitchell , she made one and it ran out on her dress . In order to get partners for sup- per the boys had to stay in the high room and the girls stayed in the hall . The girls stuck ! their hands in at the edge of the door half way and the boys had to take hold of them and who ever they got had to he partners . Arthur Corn- er got Julia Wright and they ate supper together . John Sloan got Gertrude Augur . Liberty Reid got Maybelle Mosher and she wouldn't eat with him and Donald Walker got Florence Christian and she wouldn't eat with him . The two girls sat together and hugged each other .

And the other day Mack Mckee of the telegraph line came back to the Verbeck Tavern in Pent- water . And the Wise giris whis- pered to each other out in the kitchen that Mack was in the office . And then when he came into the dining room Adelaide said : " Your breakfast is ready . And ' Billy ' cooked it for you too . " And Mack out of sincere and ad- dacious appreciation seized ' Billy ' Wise and impulsively kissed her on the forehead the way you would a child . And Adelaide fled fearing that her turn would come next .

Irving Near of the Hart Bakery is thinking of taking Willis Isley , 18. to the Stearns hospital in Lud- ington for an operation for the Whistles . Willis comes down to the bakery at 5 a . m . and whist- les until he goes home at quitting . time . His one favorite inexhaus- tible tune is " Down on the Farm . ' Only he does not get the key right . He does not have the right key to the farmhouse or the barn or the pigpen . Will somebody please give Willis a new bunch of keys or else buy his whistle of him for five cents ? And then sell it to Gertrude Augur to put on top of the Mears Canning Factory .

Frank Sloan has gone down to Indiana with a carload of apples . Or rather the apples went on ahead of him and he followed af- ter them in the plush passenger seat in style . And Mrs. Sloan went along to watch him .

MAX KOPELOFF has bought the building formerly owned by Chris Engle on the Main pike in Shelby and will pay the highest prices for Chickens , Turkeys , Dux , Junk , Butter , Eggs , Dres- sed Veal , Calves and roasting pigs . Tele- phone 128 .

A year ago I got in a big stock of tablets at the old price . That is why I can give such good values for 5 and 10c.-C. E. Bechtel's A. D. S. Drug Store , Shelby .

The Oceana County Sunday School Conven- tion will be held at the Reformed Church in New Era , Thursday and riday , Nov. 11 and 12 .

There will be a box and plate social at the Van Wickle School house Saturday evening , Nov. 13. Hazel Kludy , teach-

er .

Five nights this week Edward Brubaker is out after pole - cats .

LOST A Tarpulin wagon cover from my truck , be- tween Hart and Monta- Eu- gue , size 12x14 .

gene Althouse , 103 , Mon- roe Ave. , Muskegon Mich

Dance at the Woodman Hall in Shelby , Friday night , Nov. 12 . Round and square dances . The Sorenson's will play . Here's where you have the good times .

Without much premeditation on previous contemplation Bur- niece DeLosh suddenly decided on a Friday morning to have a party on her departing sister Isabel that very night . So she telephoned around and got busy with the cake batter when she hung up the receiver . That night while the crowd intermingled on the lawn like the hum of bees on an August afternoon Isabel De- Losh took George Stier and went out and got into Earl Huffman's car and Isabel started the car . Then along came Earl Huffman and Toledo Burmeister and said : " The nerve of some people's chil- dren ! " And he took the switch key out and put it in his pocket .

Hart : Sylvia Fisher rides on Cletas Bushaw's handlebars . - The school teacher bawls - Julia Weav- er out because Cletas Bushaw winks at her . - Teacher seems to think Julia is to blame . - They are organizing an orchestra up in the Hart high school . Edith Shogren plays a violin and SO does Doris Evans and Wallace Ingland plays a flute . - Oh yes and Eleanor VanWickle plays a fiddle . - Mrs . Leach of Detroit and son Harl are visiting the Schnei- ders up near Buttermilk Powers farm .

L. D. Wildey of Shelby has lived on the same farm at Shelby for 54 years and he has voted for every Republican candidate for President since the party was founded , beginning with John C. Fremont .

Lucile Brimmer has four toy wind mills in her yard and alto- gether they cannot pump enough water for the turkey to drink .

Max Field wants turkeys , hens , rags and dripping - pan pigs .

Laura Shaner and Lurrah Cargill , the pride of Weare will be married next Wednesday to Carl Hipley and Ray Shaner . I saw Laura sowing something white on the machine and said " Is it a night dress ? " And she said : " I'm making a gown for my dog .

Shelby : Ike Fisher took Sunday dinner with Max Kopeloff . The Whitehead girls of Ferry .. Lucy and Bertha , aren't white heads at all . hey are red haired and Chris and Otis Near are after them . Ethel Lundholm , the light of the morning has a wonderful green middy .

DELCO - LIGHT

The complete Electric Light and Power Plant

So simple archild can operate it . L. J. BRIEN & SON , DEALERS HART , MICHIGAN

100 acre farm for sale : about a mile and a half from Hart . Fine build- ings . 15 acres of fruit . Easily worth $ 15,000 . If taken at once $ 7,500 . Suitable terms . Place : will pay for itself in 3 years . Address the own- er , Box A , care of The Mears News , Mears .

Meyers & Son

THE QUALITY STORE SHELBY MICHIGAN

We have a lot of little linoleum mats in our window at 50c apiece , suitable to put in front of a stove , under a bird cage or a jardenierre or a fern or the door of a washstand .

The new Wilson schoolhouse has not ceased to be a nine days wonder down thereabouts and it was not surprising that Clint Knapp and Bill Meyer , two mem- bers of the school board should saunter down that way early the other morning on a tour of in- spection . And while they were there Clint Knapp built the fire for the teacher in the new furnace No , I don't mean that the teacher was in the new furnace . And H. F. W Meyer looked at his watch and saw it was half past eight and so he rang the bell for the new teacher who had not yet arrived across t the cow - pasture . Right away he got into trouble for the teacher arrived indignant and bawled him out for ringing the bell as his watch was running on fast time and it was an hour too soon .

Oh Lorena ! Lorena ! will you be at the pie social ?

Say it with flowers .

if you have a birthday this month in your family . We have a choice stock of all kinds of plants such as Chrysanthemums , primroses , begonias , etc. Also a choice lot of cut flowers at

THE HART GREENHOUSE Phone 198. Also a branch at Spitler's Music Store ,

Among the things that the people of Shelby will have to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving is the dancing party which Ivan Lewis is giving . It will be a public par- ty and everyone should come and have a jolly frolic with two steps and waltzes and fox trots and maybe a few square dances played by the Oceana Orchestra .

Many times a school

Miss Mayme Lambrix , the Smith's Corners teacher tried to make Myron May pick up a bana- na peeling and he was averse to doing so . She went down the road a little ways and got Jim Wright , the director to come and he came up and made Myron a little speech and told him if he didn't mind here they would have to send him to some other school where he would mind . Myron went home and told his mother and Mrs. May came down that night and called Mr. Wright to a fare - you - well .

Mrs. A. Townley tried to make herself famous all over the U. S. by jumping off the ferry into the cold wet channel on Saturday night when she was sentimental and sad . Pauline Fisher's father hooked her out and let her dry . Little pigs for sale . $ 3 apiece . John Torcoutte , Mears . Following is a summary of the

vote :

officer or a township ! officer or a postmaster Pentwater or a treasurer nas to Weare give bonds and does Crystal

n't feel like asking his friends . Why ask Hart them ? I can get you Elbridge bonds in a good com- Leavitt mercial bonding com - Benona

Shaw

Wetmore

245

199

105

152

87

103

Colfax

37

30

Golden

181

95

440

487

108

156

82

107

166

87

505

295

Ferry

88

109

Newfield

136

50

109

62

Grant Otto

114

45

17

13

Greenwood

63

85

Totals

2483

2025

pany for a small cost . Shelby Eva C. Hanson , In- surance , in the Jonas - aybanks

sen shop , Hart

For an auto trip call Converse Livery . Shelby . Supt . Cro - s sat down with Helene Spellman to help her with h r geometry . And he figured all over her beauty leaves which she powders with .

Ford touring car for sale cheap . $ 195 . Lawrence Shaner , Hart

Let Phil Lathrop and Earl Leak conduct your auction sales . Phil Lathrop , auctioneer Earl Leak , Clerk Phone 113 R , Hart

Mr. Shaw expresses his appreciation

I desire at this time to express my sincere thanks and profound ap- preciation of the many friends and loyal suppor- ters who assisted me in my election . Also to

state that I hold no ill will or unkind feeling toward those who tried to defeat me .

It will be my highest pleasure and aim as your servant to treat all alike .

I seriously take the re- sponsibilities of the office and solicit your co - oper- tion in my endeavor to give you the best admin- istration possible .

BURTON S. SHAW

And now that Evro Craig has gone away nobody reels ins an sence so much as Naomi Purdy . William Merrill , getting along in years , and feeling ionesome in te old farmhouse alone has divided his larm asunder and soid part of it to Frank Downg and tile rest to Supt . Walker and will have a sale this fall to dispose of the ac- cuinulations of a life - time .

Norman Smith and his friend Carl took the Seitz girls , Bessie and Amelia , down to Pentwater one night and seeing Ted Anys they called him up to the car in the dark and got him to talking about everything . The girls were introduced as Miss Smith and Miss Osman from up east of Hart . The talk was steered to telephone girls down in Hart , Bessie and Anielia Seitz , and how he had written them a letter . And the kidding went on back and forth , And Ted does not know to this minute that he was talking with the Seitz girls that night .

Every time a Shelby eighth grad- er leaves the room Mrs Kellogg has the pupil chalk the time of returning . And thou shalt make up so many minutes at recess . Mrs. Kellogg ought to have one of these telephone office recording- print- ing clocks . And then each child would get a little ticket on which would be stamped : like this : " Har- old Cole , Out 10:17 a . m . In 10:23 a . m .

Norma Paton knows what I mean . She is manager of the Shel- by telephone system now .

Albert Monton of Crystal town- ship has pulled his beans up by the hair and butchered his corn and gone to Muskegon for a weeks or so to see his girl .

The Mears Cider Mill is doing custom squeezing on Tuesdays and Fridays , Barrels for sale.- O. M. Wright .

And now we want tur- keys and geese and chick ens and roasting pigs . Bring them in to Miller Brothers for the world must be fed on Thanks- giving Day .

Holmquist & Son are painters , paper hang- ers and decorators in Pentwater

We have in a line of heating stoves , also we have a stock of horse blankets and stable blan- kets .

GT . Sands , Mears , Mich .

LOST A Tarpulin wagon cover from my truck , be- tween Hart and Monta- gue , size 12x14 . -Eu- gene Althouse , 103 , Mon- roe Ave. , Muskegon Mich

The regular winter lecture course opened in Mears Friday evening with Hazel Frost , the im- personator . She impersonated children and high school girls to the great pleasure of her audi- ence . When she came out on the stage in one of her makeups , she looked so stunningly pretty that Elmer Knapp and Travers Stout and Albert Pearson and Hudson Stout whistled in admiration and wonder and said " Whe - e - w - w ! "

Steve Guvall who purchased the Murdock place adjoining the Odell farm has completed his har- vest . Harold McIntosh , the main push dug them and Steve picked them up and Mrs. Guvall didn't do anything but she will have her in- nings this winter when she has to pare the potatoes .

Pentwater : -Rose Patterson is going away and nevermore will she sit down on Wallace Ing- land's hat and smash the crown.- Helen Woods with the satin skin wrote a note to her Lyle propos- ing that she and her Lyle should skip school some afternoon and walk by the murmuring sea . And Blanche Wise intercepted it and formed herself into a holding com- pany .

George Gebhart has pulled his beans up by the hair and butcher- ed his corn and gone away to Ferris Institute to start school Monday morning .

The Bulkley's have started their new house and planted the foun- dation already . Lorraine is the boss and tells the boys when to mix the mortar and when to quit for dinner .

Joe Grand Rapids Jorrissen was up at Hart digging potatoes for a couple of days relaxation after killing himself working in an of- fice at Grand Rapids .

Can Mrs. Minnie Ferry drive a Chevrolet roadster ? We'll leave that to Arley Frutchey .