Walnuts and Potatoes are ripe in the Land of Mears

Walnuts and Potatoes

Both about the same size this year .

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Hallowe'en Masquerade Dance

Shelby Opera House Saturday , Oct. 30th Already they have masks in the stores .

Bill Crockett and his attractive snappy green clothes went back to Chicago next Monday with Bob Mack . And never a- gain this year will Motion Picture Harris drag him out of his seat , throw him on the floor , and drag him out of the theater just because he shone his innocent little flashlight .

Geraldine Evans was reading The Mears News in Hart high school when along came a teacher named Frank Trull and said : Can't you find something else to study that will do you just as much good ? "

Now what does Frank Trull know about it anyway . Of course she couldn't . When I first heard Frank Trull had gone to the Hart High School , I heard he was go- ing to teach mathematics . And

I looked up his qualifications and found he had been down at M. A. C. and taken a course in animal husbandry . And I said to myself " Frank Trull got his higher math- ematics down at East Lansing by the laboratory method . Every morning he was detailed to count the carnation - colored cows in the college pasture . And so he became very proficient in algebra and arithmetic . " But when I asked Frank about it he said no , he was teaching Science , Chemistry and Physic and when he was down at the cow college he studied pustry and physiques .

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Well out of order ? See George McLouth , Rt . 1 , Shelby .

Carl Goebel , who goes to school at Crystal Lake , says his teacher Miss Babbit takes all the pupils . down to the waterside every few days .

" Sadie Huffman who plays in the Shelby band , was up at the Hart fair riding around in " The Whip " and getting his dinner shaken down . And he said to himself : " This is worse than rid- ing a log in dad's sawmill .

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

Walter Bock has been one of the best friends of the tin house sum- mer resorters at Crystal Lake and they hope to hear from him in Chicago by letter .

Voters of Gold- en township : Be sure to reg-

ister on or be- fore October 23 . That is the last day ! Understand there is no new re - registration of voters . If you are already registered in this township you are alright . If not see to it by October 23rd . O. M. WRIGHT , Township Clerk

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Miller Broth-

ers in Hart Blake's ware- house are on the

job to receive your chickens .

Any couches or chairs to upholster ? Holm- quist & Son , Pentwat-

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Duroc Doucette's caravan of watermelon seekers had looked all over the Shelby countryside and found only three watermelons and the mogul was just about ready to lead his satellites home when Frank Barrile stated he could guarantee them melons at a certain secret garden and he led the way to his own watermelon patch and feasted the boys , who thought they were in a neighbor's patch and didn't find out until next morning .

Helen Billings and Geraldine Evans scampered thru the crowd of roller skaters on the court house square Monday night and went up to Hart high school to at- tend the meeting of the students ' council and legislate and regu- late the exuberance of Hart's sec- ond generation .

Mears is going to have a lec- ture course this season . First comes Hazel Frost , the reader ; then the Otterbeins , a male quar- tette and Swiss bell - ringers ; Mil- ton Brown leeturer ; and The Vir - y ginians , a colored quartette . I think the first number comes in October and the season tickets are $ 1.25 , 75c for children from 7 to 16 .

Jud Hickok was terribly scared that he had lost his hind auto seat . He keeps his can in Pus Hedges barn in Shelby and when Rufus was taking out a bundle of lightning rods to the farm he took out his hind seat so it would not get scratched and stood it up in Jud Hickok's barn when Jud found the seat was gone he got the idea that Rufus had changed seats with him and he came over / on Saturday night and looked the underside of Rufus ' hind seat all over but could not find his one little indentification mark , the broken spring . So he went home and found his own seat in his own

car .

Fodder cutter for sale , power or hand . H. F. W. Meyer , Mears

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

For sale : A - 1 hard coal heater . Enquire of " Jack " Williams , First National Bank , Hart , Mich .

PEACH RIDGE : Frank Pechumer and Walton Godfrey wrestled in John Urtel's peach orchard . Orville Canter was the stake holder and Frank Raeth was referee . Frank Pech- umer won the first fall in three minutes and the next fall in 7 minutes . Earl Williams and John Urtel were the spectators . John Lofving and Horace Sessions have reduced the wages of the day laborers in their orchards from five to four dollars a day , which is high enough . Mrs. Horace Sessions has been gazing fondly at her beloved niece Nina Gibbs from Buffalo as the child rests her chin in her hand and looks into the fireplace .

NOTICE

Notice is hereby given , that at the next regular election to be held at the township hall in the Township of Golden , Occana County , Michigan , on the 2nd day of Novem- ber , A. D. 1920 : there will be submitted to the qualified electors of said township a proposition to acquire title to the land in said Township and to raise money for the main- tenance and support thereof for a free public park or reson , which proposition will be sub- mutted on a ballot in form as follows :

Shall a tax of $ 500 the first year and $ 200 each year thereafter be spread upon the valuation of Golden township , Oceana County , Michigan for the maintenance and sup- port of a park to be situated upon the following described land and premises : A strip of land 20 rods wide qu the west side of Lot No. 5 , Section 29 , Township of Golden , Town 15 North Range 18 West . Provided title in fee simple to said above described land shall be acquired in the name of the township of Golden , Oceana County , Michigan within thirty days by donation or gift from the present owner of said lands .

Yes - - ( )

No -- ( )

Dated this 16th day of October , A. D. 1920 .

16th day

Ó . M. WRIGHT , Township Clerk of the Township of Golden

We sell Goodyear Tires .

GARDNER T. SANDS , MEARS , MICHIGAN

Dr. Wyckoff is tarman now , and anointing the road north of Mears

Freddy Harris in Hart went to the Roach watermelon patch on the north farm and got a doped wat - ermelon and it made him ex- tensively and intensively internal-

with barrels of nigger- ly sick for the thing was flavored

sweat and pebbles .

with croton oil .

Leo Brunk has been hired to run the knit-

ting mills in the big White Elephant at Pentwater and he is now down in Muskeg- on to ask the girls how they do it .

Music

will calm you , stir you , sooth , heal or inspire you . It will take you into the heights and depths of emotions and cause you to laugh Without

and cry . music you you cannot LIVE . A grafanola in the home is like a fountain of living water coming out of the rock .

Meyers & Son

Paifus Jacobs put lightning rods on his house on Peach Ridge with- out telling his wife anything about it . And when his wife got home and found out be wished he had put the lightning rods on his head instead of on the house . For the blue lightning fell around his dome . So next morning his wife would not ride to the apple packing orchard with him bot walked two miles clear to the Thomas Smith farm and Mable Se guin , the boarder , walked also , Coming home at night he passed them on the road and said : " Don't you want a ride Mable ? " Aud he never asked his wife at all . Well what was the use . And Mabel said : " No the walking is good . "

Elmo Hubbard , who is head book - keeper in his father's potato castle in Hart was troubled with the blotter getting lost . His fath- er would lay the little flat sheet down in the ledger and it would get lost between the pages . So El- mo got a " rocking horse " blotter . one of these mounted . curved blot- ters with a handle on and becouse of its ponderosity and undue ob- longosity he cannot lase it be tween the ledger pages . Su now he keeps it very well .

A republican rally came Mears Thursday evening and the Pentwater band made an orches- ( ra ) blare under Edward Ethan Allen's village flag - pole . And Bur ton S. Shaw spread some of his clean - cut eloquence over the con- gregation . Then afterwards came Earl Pugsley who spoke with virile vigor and forcefulness and unsubdued virility and rare re- lentlessness and told the people what they ought to know about the Republican gospel . And many who came out of curiosity went away converted .

FOR SALE Large Team Cheap , Mrs. Nels Paulson , 1 mile west of Round Lake , Mears .

As I have ar- ranged with Mr. George E. Reid

to act as my ag- Sent at Mears ,

parties may see him on business connected with my holdings in Golden , Benona and

A fine legal question arises over the business behavior of Charles W. Noret . He places a passenger car in the street in front of his semi - drug store and daubs some white lettering on the windshield : " For Sale , C. W. Noret . " You can see it there day in and day out In fact he is using the street for a salesroom . Now if he can use the street for a saleroom for his auto would it not also be alright for Rusty Gust , the merchant next door to draw up a wagon in front of his curb and put on it a sign : Wagon for sale , $ 65 , " and leave it there obstructing the Hart boule- vard week in , and week out ? And if it is fair for Rusty Gust to park a wagon there , would it not also be right for Motion Picture Harris to park a manure spreader in front of his carb with a card- board sign on it : " Manure Spreader for sale , $ 19 ,? " And if Motion Picture Harris can park a manure spreader in front of his

Colfax threatre why can't Ford LaMonte

townships . Carrie E. Mears

Get your winter underwear now and be ready for the first frost- y nights . Thos . Welsh & Son

keep a couple of cows tied in front of his hardware with paper blankets on them marked : your choice $ 27 a piece if taken this week ? " And Harry Tice could have an old surrey and a cutter and a baby cab strung along his carb for sale .

Two of last June's most charm ing / graduates , Valerie Shelby Claeys with the confidential win- ning ways , and Thelma Raynor the Waterlily were up at Shelby school the other day and went in- to Mrs. Mildred Morrall's room to watch the antics of the apes .

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" Hereafter , " said Mrs. Mildred Morrall to her sixth graders , " we will have morning exercises Monday , fifteen minutes in length Up spoke Frank Boughner and asked : " And how much will they be in width ? "

This pasture for rent with a fence around it .

Pentwater : They say young Jah Schultz is going to get married soon as he gets his hair cut . - Mary McFall has bought a $ 150 washing machine and is going to take in wash- ing . In other Octobers Judge Ver- beck used to shiver at the night wind when it talked to him about approach winter . Now he has a carload ing coal in his cellar and he feels calm and serenely sure of his winter's warmth . Golden Freeman had to go up in the front of Mr. Tweed's room and snore for the boys and girls because he could do it so well . Harold Shaw in visably attentive and noticeably nice to Mis Creaser the new high school teacher . So is Vernon Martinr

Weare : O it at Cap . Stadla's on lfilling day Mrs. Schles and Julis Nelson took Henry Casserie and pa him under the sho verbath to make him behave ,

L. A. Tice , the county truant of- ficer , jumped out of an automo- bile at the fair corner and went up and pulled down an oil cloth sign which was tacked on a board on a telephone pole . The sign read : " The best road to Hesperia is around by Shelby . " He said thest ate highway department told him when to put it up and when to take it down . But he wrap- ped it up very tenderly and pre- served it because they might tell him to put it up again .

The ladies of the Shelby High School gave a party for the he- roic football heroes up in the Ma- sonic temple . And Miriam Bech- tel and Helene Spellman and Mar- ion Schmieding and Geradine El- liott were THE ladies . I mean they were the all - sufficient won- derful little social entertainers who saw it through . And so they made Mrs. Professor Cross ride around the pool table on the kiddie - car .

They have sprinkled some new shingles on the Mears school house roof to keep out the sprinkles ..

Elmer Wolf can fix your well . Call Colby & Spitler , Hart .

Morris Dee and his father made a hole in the ground on Fred Bow- er's farm in Crystal township and brought up a wonderful flowing well . A four foot gusher . And all the neighbors can come and bring their china cups and drink . Why don't you get Morris to take an augur and bore a hole in your back yard ?

Mrs. Ullrich of Crystal Lake store has an unpleasant shoulder ever since the horse ran away on Ethel Babbits serpertine boule- vard on the first day of the fair .

I am the horse doctor in Shelby You will find me one block west of the Shelby hotel and the num- ber of my telephone wire is No. 19 , Dr. C. H. Haasjes .