Domesticated Evergreens are ripe in the Land of Mears

I wonder if Dorothy Wylie's footsteps are really as resilient as they seem . Does the same buoyancy leaven her whole system ?

I wonder if the eter- nal blush on Rose Christian's face is deeper than her skin or if it can be kissed away .

I wonder if Hubert Deming drives a mil- lion shoe nails a year .

I heard heard Corrinne Skeels and Edith La- mont were not going back to the women's college at Oxford , O- hio because they do not like the climate .

I wonder if Olive Schultz has finished reading " The Border Legion " which she got for Christmas .

And I wonder , oh I wonder , what Julia Rolph is doing this very blessed minute ?

Edward Brubaker has returned from six weeks of chasing ani- mals on the White River . He re- ports that the animals had fur on them and the water was wet .

C. W. Slayton went out and swept the snow off the gate posts and explained that he did SO there would be room for more snow to land on them .

A surprise is the best kind of a Christmas present , so Jesse Schrumpf and Mae Cambers gave all their friends a present . Ben and Minnie Ferguson were in on the secret but they never peeped .

The card party at Leo Greiner's was not without its little excite- ments . Gladys Greiner and Har- old Fay's wife didn't want their husbands to play so they went in and stirred up the pile of money on the table and mixed them al- together . The men got a a little sore but they straightened it out and went ahead . Then young Mrs. Fay came in and grabbed her husband's pocket book and ran away with it . He grinned and the fellows helped him out . Charlie Shaner tossed him 50c and somebody else lent him a dol- lar . So he went on playing . Af- ter awhile Harold's mother said to him : " Well if you are going to play why don't you get your own pocket book ? " Thus challenged he said : " Well , I guess I will ! " and he went in and had a tussle with his wife and held her on the bed and got the pocket - book away from her and went on play- ing . Young Mrs. Fay was mad and she went out and got in the car and tried to start it two or three times and killed the engine . Harold was afraid she might get it started so he went out and took the switch key away and let her sit there alone in the car with the baby .

A choice assortment of cut flowers and pot- ted plants at the Hart Greenhouse

The Schmiedeknecht turnip twins took the train from Rothbury to Montague to see if they could catch Frank Cole and Roy Schnei- der to take them back home but they couldn't find anybody so theg came home on shanks ponnies .

Charley Script Spools Rabe is getting grey hair wondering who he is going to get for his wife some day , it won't be long before he will be an old bachelor .

THI

After the New Year's dinner smoke a Belle of Hart Cigar or a Hart's Little Traveler . Wm . D. Lorenz , mfr Hart , Michigan at the old fur store

The telephone rang at Marion Schmeid- ing's house in Shelby and a voice came ov- er the wire and said : " Will you tell Curtis Beachum to come right straight home ? "

1,000 bushels of apples on the 100 acre farm in 1920. The big crop and big price promised for 1921

You will regret it if you do not buy the 100 acre farm . Easy terms . If you want a farm that will make you a good living and pay for itself in two or three years buy the 100 acre farm we adver- tise . Box A , care The Mears News .

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

We sell ' em !

Shirts an ' sox

an ' everythin ' .

MEN'S FURNISHINGS

Thos . Welsh

& Son , Hart

Sell me a skunk And a little junk ; Some civil hens And fighting cocks ; Some busted stoves That can't be healed Bring them to me , Max Field , Max Field

DELCO - LIGHT

The complete Electric Light and Power Plant

Takes away the burdens of country life . Turn a button .

Mr. Wood , who has been manag- ing the Pentwater canning fac- tory this summer has left with his family for Circleville , Ohio , which is home ground to the Woods . On the last night they had a party for Helen at the Ver- beck Tavern . And Lyle Cooper kept the player piano going so Mr. Ebeck the brakeman could dance with Helen the last dance .

Dr. Kent has united Mrs. Edna Elliott and Alva Burmeister and called them wife and husband .

L. J. BRIEN & SON , DEALERS

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HART , MICHIGAN

Chester white boar for service . $ 2 cash . Will Powers , Mears

Orville and Ella Canter of Peach Ridge cantered up to Frank Dykema's last Saturday to eat Christmas spare - ribs - Will Schultz has a buzz - saw making

Barrille , the

enough saw dust to put up his master violinist

ice . Les Wyckoff is the engineer .

I looked in the front of Miss is back in Shel-

Bertha Duncan's Boyd Syllabic

Shorthand Book and on the title

page at the bottom it said : " The by and he will

Boyd Shorthorn School . " I wast just going to ask Bertha if that ! kind of cows went to school when she read my mind and said : " It must have been a mis - print . " !

play with the

Charlie Vandeputte and Jim Oceana Orch-

Fuller went down to Sam Din- ovo's to help him eat his new

the big

fresh pork and while they were estra at the

eating he jumped up and put an- other plate and knife and fork on ! because he saw Lyle Kitchen coming .

dance in the

Mabel Myrmel is a teacher in Shelby Opera

the New Era school and of course ! the school board furnishes her with a janitor but now she has gone and engaged a Porter .

House on

J. H. Holcomb & Son are now New Year's Eve !

running the Munson Livery on the Main Street of Shelby and

will give you first - class service Friday night , Dec. 31 with autos or sleighs . Phone 91 .

The Oceana Novelty Works has been one of the leading business enterprises in Hart this summer , and has made in addition to blackboards , 50,000 feet of custom flooring , manufactured apple boxes , made 1000 crates , made ceiling and manufactured floor lamps . It has just finished cutting out material for a $ 6,000 house for R. J. Ruggles of Crystal Val- ley and all the parts were cut out so nicely that they would al- most dovetail together without a hammer blow , like the Jerusalem temple .

Peck has a tin shop in the alley back

of Lamont & Hutchinson in Hart and

he does plumbing and tinning and he mends radiators . Got a leak ?

For life insurance see Dor- othy Maxson of Hart who represents the Equitable of lowa

Max Kopeloff of Shelby is pay

Some Shelby friends of Josie Woodhouse hired George Waters to take them down to Muskegon to see her at Hackley hospital where she is a nurse . During the call a remark was made : " We

ing 35c a pound left George outside in the car . for turkeys . You

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Thinking they meant George Baade , her beloved , she ran down outside in the dark and threw her

had better hur- arms around him and said : " O ,

And he ry up . wants all the fur in the country .

Like the wail of the winter wind is the wail of the uninsured after the house is burned and the ashes have blown over the steeple and across the river . Take out a pol- icy today with Eva In- surance Hanson in the Savings Bank in Hart

Some day next week I must go out to the Dennis Lumber Co.'s : where Tessora Sey- mour's father works and Ben Mundt and Art Stiles , where Art Staples feeds the en- gine's stomach and Jack Barritt minds a slab machine .

George , " before the driver had time to explain that he was the not her George .

You can get Safety Razors at Bechtel's drug store . Also a line of regular old - style razors at $ 1.75 to $ 3.50 . Our fountain pens are selling fast .

Lola and Eva Pettigrove got carts for Christmas and are try- ing to knock the wheels off as fast as possible . Ruth and Phyl- lis Pett got dolls in their stock- ings .

Last summer some one borrow- ed my cultivator . Please return it and receive reward . Peter Shogren .

Travers Stout and Ernest Far- mer were up to take the Riggs girls to the Willson Sunday school last Sunday .

Up at the Hart shirt factory things are sailing along very nice- ly . Mina Puffer has a very re- sponsible position manipulating a very difficult machine . ( Ahem ! ) The Riggs girls from Mears are running some kind of a rig . Mary Dillingham is one of the newest girls . Arley Weaver is making good as the new floor lady in the place of Verle Wicks who is tak- ing an extended vacation .

Harry Weeks treated the Chase family to a chunk of side pork . Ai doesn't eat meat so Lewis used Ai's share to wash the window with .

Miller Brothers wish you a merry Christ- mas and everything and hope you will sell them a lot of chickens and foxfurs and skunk skins in 1921 ! You know where they keep house in Hart down by the east track .

We wish all our customers a Happy , Healthy and Pros- perous New Year .

Meyers & Son

THE QUALITY STORE SHELBY MICHIGAN

Thru a study of Gard Sands ' hibernating car the Hart Auto Co. , has discovered a new feature in Buick sedan equipment and they expect to write to the Buick people suggesting that hereafter it be incorporated into the regu- lar equipment of all their sedans . It happened this way : Mrs. Gard Sands and Mrs. D. J. Halstead were driving around Pentwater doing some shopping and went into Charlie Lewis ' hardware store and purchased a china pail commonly called a night jar . Of course it was all wrapped up . But they forgot to take it out of the car . And as the Sands ' were going to California for the win- ter they took the car down to the Hart Auto Co. for storage hoping that Archie Platt might be able to sell it for them possibly . ( adv . ) In admiration Archie Platt was looking over the car , admiring its equipment when he ' discovered the additional fea- ture . And he kicked himself to think he did not think of this long ago and get the idea patent- ed and get on the patent road to fortune just like Bert Kunkle and his valve grinder . ( adv . ) Well , Archie had the book - keep- er do the thing up and send it back to Pentwater with a card in it : " Merry Christmas from Hazel . "

Swift Lathers , Editor and Bot- tle washer . The subscription rate to The Mears News is 50c a year ; one dollar for six months and two dollars for three months .