High - Roosting Turkeys are ripe in the Land of Mears

High - Roosting Turkeys

You see they are the least mite suspicious .

Peach Ridge : Marion Gibbs visited the Young school Tuesday and look- ed around to see If Elsie Brandel had kicked any varnish off her old desk .

Mrs. Frank Lyttle has two red celluloid hand- rings on her green - lined hand bag to hold it to- gether so her purse and vanity - box will not fall out . John Lofving has built a house and Pete Burmeister has moved in with his rocking - chairs .

Chris . Pechumer took his ford truck to Merrill's sale to bring home some bric - a - brac . They had a hunt in the neighbor- hood and Ira Gifford shot off more rabbit rabbit tales than anybody else so he is entitled to have the most oysters swim thru his soup at the great re- ward supper .

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I will grind cider ap- ples every decent day next week and clear up to December 1st . O. M. Wright , Mears Cider Mill

Miss Rose Christian who looks like a Maiden's Blush apple has gone to work in the Hart shirt factory to make a night shirt for Stub Fuller and Naomi Purdy has gone to work in the shirt fac- tor to make a shirt for Evro Craig . The night shirts they make at the Hart factory are large , commodious end expansive , night- bicoming garments , big enough for the whole family .

Ted Hollister and his wife , Haz- e Weeks , the apple blossom have come to Hart this winter owing to the business depression in Muske- gon and Ted often helps his fath- er - inlaw unearthing the water- pipes of Hart . Ted throws up the sand in glee and says : " I don't have to do this . I just enjoy it . "

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You just ought to have been down at Merrill's auction sale Thursday all day . A good old time was missed by all who stay- ed away . J. L. Walker superin- tendent of schools came down and bought a milk cooling water tank with a brass faucet which he says he will put upstairs his newly acquired farmhouse to furnish water for the bathroom . It cost him a dollar . Byron Curtis paid four cents for a mirror . He says he is going to put his picture in it . But his picture is in it al- ready . C , L Mosher paid $ 2.75 for an ironing board . A new one costs $ 1.50 . Sam Krantz was seen loading up some eaves - pipe . Ben Garver had to watch Elmer Wyc koff to keep him from eating up his seed corn .

A Box Social will be held at the Smith Corners school Wednesday , evening , Nov. 24 , the night before Thanksgiving . Program , Miss Mayme Lambrix , teacher .

Miss Olive Turner , unsentiment . al and 40 , stands on the Hart school grounds and takes down the names of the boys who throw snow - bal's .

Progress Pageant

The eighth grade of the Shelby school have gotten up a very wonderful en- tertainment or pageant

showing the progress of the nation from the day of Columbus to the pres ent dazzling hour , There will be some costumes , believe me . And Margaret Paton . tall and straight and fair , will b Columbia . Come and see the Pilgrims going to church . Large caste of char- acters . Splendid spectacle . At Shelby Opera House Tuesday evening , Nov. 23. Tickets , 25c . Reserved 10c extra .

Shelby : " Ivan Lewis tells Mildred Wilson she is getting fat because she is not getting enough loving . Mildred says she doesn't want to be fat . Miss Petie Woodward had a card party time ago . The girls adorned their heads with bright colored paper bows . Petie served cider and doughnuts . The boys were rather disappointed wi.h the cider . We understand the evening proved quite a success without the help of " The Girls " of Shelby .

Let Miller Bros.

have a dozen of hens and a duck .

If you get elected rur- al carrier or treasurer of the Gleaners let Ev- a Insurance Hanson get your bonds .

Students , buy your tablets at Bechtel's drug store at the old prices .

Max Field wants a crateful of turkeys or roasting pigs or hens .

Phone the Converse LiVery for a taxi .

Benona Blats : -Art Lindow was doing carpenter work for Ernest Dzur on the new house and one day Ernest said to Art : " To - mor- row I will not be here , I have to go to town , so you need not come to work tomorrow . " " Oh ! that will be alright , " said Art Lindow , " I can come and work on the house anyway . I want to get it done . " But Ernest Dzur held out and said " No. " And when press- ed for a reason he admitted it was because Art would have to go up to his ( Ernest ' ) house for dinner a mile away . And the neighbors would see him go by alone up there to eat dinner with Ernest's wife alone .

Jack Meyers came up leading a nice Holstein cow to I. L. Dexter's in Hart and traded it off to him for ancient horse and $ 35 .

Evalyn Whalley and Isabel Van- Amberg , were innocently plotting together in peace at that ingenu- ous meeting place called the dic- tionary seat in the Hart High School when Carson McMillen im- paled two pointed pins in his pencil eraser and pierced the girls anatomy from the unsuspecting

rears .

Clifford Wicks has moved to a different house in Hart and lives upstairs over Mrs. MeGilson . But just now he and his wife Eva aré up at Star Lake hunting deer . Everybody in Mears wishes he would come back and run the blacksmith shop . The skating roads will soon arrive and Nels Nelson's horses will have to be sharp - shod so they can skate to town .

Tires and inner tubes vulcaniz ed . S. J. Brigham in the rear of Baker's harness shop on Miller Street in Hart . Don't throw your old tubes away . Bring them in . Tires retreaded and rim - cuts re- paired .

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Coming events are Thanksgiving Break- fast , Thanksgiving Dinner , Thanksgiv-

ing Supper and the great Thanksgiving Events Dance at the Shelby

Opera House on Thanksgiving Night . Come on up and you can do the Turkey Trot , the Bunny Hug , Lame Duck and Chicken Reel if you wish . The Oceana Orches- tra will furnish toe music on this festive Thursday nite .

Prudential auto tires at The Bedell Studio , Hart Order your Christmas photos early . BOB

Dave Bergeon has travelling bags for globe trotters . 8.50 up . Dave sells coal .

There will be a BOX SOCIAL at the Youngs School house Wednesday ev- ening , November 24th Elsie Brandell , teacher

Eggs are worth a nickel apiece right in Mears and if your old Plymouth Rock hen isn't laying enough nickels go to Collins ' Drug Store and get some Egg Producer .

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The West Golden Threshing As- sociation , the farmers mutual who bought a new machine last spring made expenses the first year and turned $ 10 dividend over to each stock - holder when the farmers met at the school house the other night .

Smith's Corners : -The reds and the blues had a contest to see who would get the most new business for the Christian Endeaver . And the losing side was to banquet the winning . So the losing side is going to kill two birds with one stone and the banquet will be on the night of the regular monthly social meeting at Mrs. Coon's.- Mrs. Arabella Segar couldnot get Capt . Stadden so she married a man from Big Rapids . It wasn't a banana peeling that Miss Mayme Lambrix asked Myron May to pick up off the schoolhouse floor . It was a thronapple . But then a a banana look thornapple and something alike . That is I mean a red banana is about the same color as a thornapple .

Corn for sale - Mrs . W. H. Beebe 1 mile west of Mears .

Swift Lathers , editor and bottlewasher

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

THE HALLOWED ROAD

This is HER road where SHE walked . And sometimes here we met and talked . It always seemed a sacred road

Because it runs by her abode ,

Beneath these elms she walked to school And breathed with them at evening cool . And oft her footsteps stirred the dust And hallowed it .

This is HER house where SHE lives : I often passed this way at night And glanced upstairs to see her light And wondered if she sat and read An hour or two beside her bed . I wished that I might take a look Into the pages of her book And find what ways her fancy led And things that filled her girlish head ; So when I reached my quiet rooms Then I might take that volume down And live with her in spirit land And walk beside her hand in hand .

THIS POEM ON THE HALLOWED ROAD IS NOT TO BE REGARDED AS REFERRING TO ANY ONE ROAD . IT IS ONE OF A SERIES OF 28 POEMS IN WHICH SWIFT LATHERS IS TRY- ING TO EXPRESS THE EMOTIONS OF YOUTH AS HE HAS NOTICED THEM IN A STUDY OF THE HUMAN RACE . HAVE YOU A HALLOWED ROAD AND HAVE YOU EVER FELT THAT WAY ? ARE THERE ANY ELMS ALONG IT ?

" On your Thanksgiving table one of our potted

Say it with flowers : Crysanthemum's would make a fine centerpiece .

Or perhaps a vase of cut flowers to please the eye , THE HART GREENHOUSE . Phone 198

At Gard Sands ' warehouse

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Mears you can !

Supper at M. E. Church , Monday evening , Nov. 29 , 190 at 6 o'clock , followed by lecture by Dr. Ken- nedy of Detroit . Children's Uck ets , 20c ; adult's tickets 35 .

I have Shipping policies for all kinds of live stock shipments . Eva G. Hanson , Insurance agency .

buy street blank - H . Jonassen Jewelry Shop , Hart .

ets and stable blankets for the mare or a stove for the living

room .

Get your Ball Band ! Rubbers in Mears of George Reid . He sells these famous

Jim Fraser and Fountain Hough- taling are scooping out a basement under the Methodist church in Hart and plastering it up with cobble brix and cement mud . Here in this great cellar of social ization . Rev. Cilley will carry on his community work and make the

people happy . And Jim Fraser

says : " Rev. Cilley has appointed me as a committee of one to go out and steal chickens for the first church supper . "

Ladies and gentlemen , the met- opolitian Barber shop upder the postoffice makes a specialty of shampooing and face massaging . Also children's hair cutting .

Farm for sale : 80 acres four

all - rubber 4 - buckle miles west of Shelby , small barn ;

arctics .

Max Kopeloff wants you to hustle in your poultry to him in Shel- by . He is making a gobbler - shop out of Chris Engle's old cob- bler shop . Phone 128 .

80 bearing apple trees : some tim- ber about 10 acres of buzz wood , 2 wells of water . Price $ 15.00 W F. Cock , Shelby Mich .

A dance will be given at Hart Sweet Shop for the benefit of the Red Cross Friday evening . Nov. 26 at 8 o'clock . Band music by new electric piano . Tickets 25c . Let's go !

After the paper is half printed the above farm is suddenly sold . Bill Cock is a hustler .

Pat Johnson's garage is the place to go with sick tires .

I will sell at public auction my farm of 80 acres located 7 and one - half miles east and north of Shelby or 3 miles NE of Ferry also farm tools and stock , on Tuesday , Nov. 30 starting at 10 a . m Free lunch . Chas . Hovey

Read Welsh's Handbills and keep posted on the money- saving figures . Clarence Welsh is slashing prices in Hart

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Dance Friday evening Nov. 26 at the M. W. A. hall in Shelby . Every- body come and join in the half half round and square . Bill 75c . Music Sorenson . Prop . Fred Gorham .

Thanksgiving sale of Ladies , Misses and chil- dren's Ready - to - wear Saturday Nov. 20 to Sat- urday Nov. 27. Seven Days 33 % off . This in- cludes everything in our Ready - to - wear Depart-

iment .

Don't miss it .

Meyers & Son

THE QUALITY STORE SHELBY MICHIGAN

Leonard Hodges used to go to school in Mears and lately he has been down in Flint where he has just risen in the ranks of the Boy Scout workers so that he has been put on as one of the full time as- sistants on the headquarters of the Flint boy Scout Council Staff .

Hart . Louis Hodges came up to see Floela Pease the other night and she was bare - footed so she wouldn't go with him . Her little sister explained to me confiden- tially that " Floela wouldn't dress her feet for no man . " Clayton Bushaw and Dutch Dillingham took Hazel Riggs and Ethel Cod- dington out into the country in the auto , dumped them out and left them theere to walk home .

Pentwater : Will DeVore has bought a very fast power boat that runs seven miles an hour.- Ray Cady was taking Orris Ander- son to Hart to show him the ex- citement on Armistice Day and the car had a spasm on the River- house bridge and Orris Anderson went to the ceiling and skinned his nose and his forehead . - E . L. Bates is surveying down towards the auto turn - table for the propos- ed state park . Wednesday after- noon he was digging in the street with a spade to locate a sunken monument so that he could draw an imaginary line from a fixed point .

I went into Holmquist & Son's in Pentwater and saw an elegant three piece set of upholstered tap- estry covered furniture for sale at $ 35 . A sofa and two chairs .

DELCO - LIGHT

The complete Electric Light and Power Plant

Lights the barn and turns the churn and grindstone .

L. J. BRIEN & SON , DEALERS

HART , MICHIGAN