Saw Logs are ripe in the Land of Mears

Saw Logs

DO YOU KNOW

that Miss Mary Hawkins looks as sleek as the Corticelli silk kitten ?

that Dr. Wycwoff never pays any in come tax ?

that Lavina Lyttle nearly cut her toe off with a safety razor ? that Fred Schmeiding is having a wonderful sale of wall - paper ? that Ed Lindgren has a new player piano ?

that Nels Nelson looks like a bear ?

that The Mears News is the smallest newspaper in the world ?

This is the song that Mrs. Peter Karreman sings the infant Wilhelmina to sleep by : " Dah - dah , dah - dah , dah - dah , dah - dah , dah - dah , dah - dah , dah - dah . " You could hear it thru the walls as Ruth Harris does if you lived in the next terrace .

Saturday morning in Mears : John Fuller and Alice Wright eloped on the train to Muskegon and explained to the cross - examining world that they were just going down to see Jim and Nellie . - Dr . Russell Riley , the osteopath went back to his office in the Lyman Building - Lloyd Scott was unexplainably present in the depot this morning when the roll was called . I have Dunlap strawberry plants for sale , 50c per100 ; $ 4 per 1000. Also red raspberry plants , $ 1.00 per 100 , ( cuthbert ) , O. M. Wright , Mears .

Miss Lillian Wells danced so much at the party at South Hart the other Saturday night that she was not able to waltz to Sunday school the next morning .

Then everybody knows Karl and Sadie Plumhoff and their domes- tic relations :

Now there is Karl and his charming wife Sad e , Who a success of marriage have made ,

With a slap or a cuss they settle each fuss And don't ask the neighbors for aid .

Albert Sweary's four pigs got out the other day and ran up to Joe Batcher's where they have good stuff to eat . Albert chased after them and had quite a time getting them because he could not catch them in a sack .

Tom Davis , the linotype operator in Shelby got two new records so he could play a different tune on Sunday at his boarding house because it gets lonesome on Sunday when John Haan isn't around to whistle . And that is why Tom bought a couple of tunes wrapped up in an envelope .

Some boys broke into Dr. Nicholson's cottage at Juniper Beach and made themselves at home over night and tore up the sidewalk to make themselves a fire , The boys had better watch out as the deputy sheriff is on their trail .

Emil Everson , the Pentwater soup bone sawyer , is again able to bite a round steak instead of eating it in liquid form in the shape of beef tea . He just got his new false teeth installed and Florence Everson says : Why pa ; how funny you talk . "

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A Question on a Thousand Tongues :

" Swift , why is it our paper comes so late ? "

In the Mears News office there is a very tense time - situation . Our light burns far into the night , way past midnight , often past 3 a . m . It seems there are scarcely enough hours in a week to get the work done . You know it takes money to run a newspaper . And if we go out on the roads to get it there is always a lot of money forthcoming from our hun- dreds of loyal subscribers . But this takes up so much time that the work in our office gets behind and the paper is late . If we could only have more time in the office we could set up more type and get more news in the paper and make the paper much more interesting . Would you like to relieve this tense time - shortage situation ? Stop and think : Do you owe Swift Lathers 50 cents ? If you do will you not sit down and send the 50c to him in a letter ? Then next week he can stay in his office longer and get the paper out earlier : and so much the sooner over the camp of the Mears News will spread unclouded -the blue sky !

Miss Mary Hanks , the Kelley school teacher goes out skating with Swan McCormick on Cotton Pond . But when she falls on the ice she doesn't think it is made of cotton . But the banks of the pond look like Mr. Raynor's cotton candy Mary saw at the fair . There was a pedro party at Will Heimler's up near Walkerville the other day and some of the men got called home early about one a . m .

3 work horses for sale , weight 1400 , 1200.-C. L. Mosher , Mears

Farmers , bring me your eggs and I can pay you the highest price . I wants fur and hides . I have a light wagon and harness for sale cheap . Max Kapeloff , Shelby

Bunte Candy 10c a box . Contains 10 pretty glossy twisted sticks . Take a box along to the theatre for you and her to eat between the hair - raising episodes . If you are getting bald headed and want to raise some hair on yovr head we can sell you some hair oil . Tanlac and Vinol . Collins Drug Store " Tarzan of the Apes " at the Amuse Theatre , Hart , Wednesday and Thursday evening , March 9th and 10th . And Mary Pic'ford in ' The Hoodlum ' another one of Mary's extraordinary productions Wednesday and Thursday , March 16 and 17th .

The reason why Hart Cigars are in such great demand is good tobacco , good tobacco , good workmanship and personal attention over each cigar that is made .

Lost pair of ice tongs

at Crystal Lake . R. F. Ray- nor , R 4 , Shelby . It was a small pair

Like the church in Mears

I have always taken a passing pleasure when I walked by the church at South Hart . Snug and sacred it stands there by the country crossroads , an object of veneration austerely it stands there by the roadside like a monument to the to the wayfarer , faith of our fathers , so full of empty shadows and possibilities . I don't know how it is with you but I love the church in the open country , a church where the congregation can sit and look out of the windows at the tiger lilies in the meadow and at the fields of waving grain so that the parables of the Great Teacher lie like an open book before their eyes . To ride to such a country church in an open surrey on a summer sabbath afternoon and watch the lazy moving horses shake the flies off their harness net as I listened to the drone of the whiffletree going back and forth back on the good old earth roads of my boyhood , oh it would be worth a thou- sand dollars to live again in that pastoral sweet simplicity . So here you have the church in the open country set down on the cross- roads at South Hart . A waiting there cheerless and empty among the Methodists and Baptists and Brethren and Disciples and Luthe- rans and Presbyterians , stands this church of possibilities waiting for some great wide - minded , wide - hearted community leader like Rev. Cilley to come and put his arms around it , and make of it the community church . Sometimes for a little while there are meetings in the church , sometimes there is Union Sunday school in the little schoolhouse down the road . But the church is the place . Don't let it stay closed and musty . Up at Smith's Corners the people are trying to build a church , carrying bricks and stones a long way , and when the wind blows down the rafters they have patience and build it up again . But your church is already built and waiting . I know you people of South Hart . I have been in your kitchens . I have learned to watch for your lamplights when I am walking in the hills . So when I remember our community church in Mears with its stained glass windows set in the brick walls I think of your little brick church on the crossroads and I wish that you could get together like we do for our monthly community supper on a Tues- day evening , all of you , the Wyns and Putneys and Pratts , the Wilburs and Schramms and Morats , the Thurstons and Posts and Macks , the Nielsens and Mietners and Metts , the Lelands and Ireys and Hulberts , everybody , to have a big picnic in the church once a month to listen to Dell Putney play the fiddle and Ann McCann speak a piece and Ann Winship and Margaret Wilbur sing a solo and hear a little address by Rev. White on the community church and maybe an address by Mr. Pickford the county agent or an ora- tion by Earl Pugsley . At such an informal gathering you might accidentally get acquainted with your neighbor . And then on Sun- day mornings or Sunday afteroons you would go to the church service with a more human and socialized vision of everything and

everybody within the brick walls . And Mrs. Mietner would sing a solo " Sweeter as the years go by , " and Paul Nielsen the inspired violinist would vitalize the hymn books . And so united in fellow- ship you would breathe together and when you came to the closing hymn you would put such a power into singing " There's a church in the valley in the wildwood , no lovlier pot in the dale . " And all the next week in the plow furrows , the kitchens , the well - curb at school recess the memory of a wholesome goodness will linger around you as you took it home from church in the open country .

Stevens 44 Dairy Feed

Reynolds Shingles

Oil Meal

Gardner T. Sands , Mears

S. E. Meyers lost his pocketbook containing three keys and a sum of money . Reward if returned to the Oceana county savings bank or to Myers .

For Sale . - Land Roller . Wm . Brown , R. 3 , Hart .

We can save you money on sprayers or spraying material . - C . E. Ellis , Shelby .

New Era : Jake VanderWall went sleigh riding with Henrietta Achterhof and came near getting himself into a mess . Henrietta told him just in time that her lips stick . Arn- old Swanson took Lois Stults out skating . Walt Hiddema was there and watched Arnold put her skates on and afterwards they both tried to make a date for Thursday night . An- na Hoekstra and Tom TenBrinke had a quarrel but as soon as Anna started going with Peter Brondyk Tom thought it was time to make up . Ralph Wolting would like to take Olive Vander Ven home but her father doesn't allow it . He wants her to go to Hope Col- lege for a preacher . Henrietta Achterhof is heartbroken because Jake Bosch has left for

the west .

Saturday night when the electric lights were acting up in Hart a prominent married bus- iness man whose side love affairs are a matter of common knowledge waited until the lights were off and then darted up the back stairs of the Noret block and a bunch of boys went up and tied the door shut with a rope . So he must have gone down the front way !

The auction season is coming on . Book your sales now with Phil Lathrop , auctioneer and Earl Leak , clerk . Phone 113 - R

Scalecide used as a delayed dormant spray controls aphis . - C . E. Ellis , Shelby .

40 acres for sale cheap , 1 mile south of Mears . - 0 . S. James .

Barber shop running in Mears ; Pool room is busy O. S. James ,

We want dressed veal and chickens . Miller Brothers

Our outing flannel at 19c a yard will make you a fine nightdress .

The new Margie Beads are the latest things out . At 50c a strand they are going like hot cakes . We just got them in and sold six strands the first day . They

are round silvertone beads as big as wintergreen berries . Strings about 50 in . long .

Meyers & Son , Shelby

Dance at the Woodman hall , Shelby , Hardtimes party , Friday evening , March 11th . Men come in overalls and straw hats and ladies in calico dresses and sunbonnets .

Look in our window at prices on shoes . Clean- up sale . Brubaker

Take out a policy in the Cammonwealth Casualty Co. Entire cost $ 10 a year ; no dues , no assessments , no medical examination . In case of accident or sick- ness it pays $ 25 a week . Other policies for $ 6 and $ 16 . W. F. Cock , agent , Shelby , Michigan

For sale S. C. Rhode Island Red rooster , 240 egg strain ; Indian Runner drake 1 yr . Hart Greenhouse Pat Johnson sells Miller Tires

Max Field , professor of junk , keeps shop in Hart and watches for veal calves . He hollers for hides .

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

Swift Lathers , Editor and Bot - tle washer . The subscription rate Cramer's Corners Joseph Boone joined the Grange at Pentwater , and when he rode the goat it tore a hole in his Sunday pants . There are two Fat's in our neighborhood . Fat Reed and Fat Boone , we are not able to say which is the fattest . But they are trying to reduce their flesh by running up and down the big hill by Cedar Creek on the village road . They say if they don't succeed pretty soon their mama's will have to make them some slip - overs , for there will be no pants large enough The 20th of February , 1921 , will be a day long remembered by Joseph Boone . His sweetheart , Gladys Dunlap told him she would be at Mr. Fred Reynold's that day , and requested Joe to also to be there . Well , Joe went and when he got there was Foy Bender ahead of him , and no Gladys . So Joe and Foy decided they would go over to Father Bill's for they must see Gladys . So they got Miss Perce's Buck and Dorothy Reynolds to go with them and when they got to Father Bill's was received with a Royal welcome by Gladys . But who got there first , Foy or Joe ? -Billy Pete says Oscar got a wife and there is some hope for him too , as a sweet little Miss writes him some nice letters about twice a week . Go to it Billy - It's just grand to get your name in The Mears News . Harrold Simmonds is making goo - goo eyes at Dorothy Reynolds and saying : " Oh ain't she a peach . "

On the 25th day of December , 1920 , Miss Deula Arnold of Colon , Panama and Charles E. Johnson of Shelby , Michigan were united at the home of the bride's parents , Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Arnold . Charles is down at Norfolk , Virginia . And he thought he would surprise the folks when he came back home but he wont because The Mears News let the cat out of the bag .

Put your auction sale in The Mears News and thousands of people will read about it .

Get our prices on spraying materials . - C . E. Ellis , Shelby . Ed Munson goes up to amuse Izell Clark on Sunday nights and the neighbors hear him whistle as he goes home at 3 a . m . - Fred Coburn broke Roscoe Converse's canthook and sledge hammer .

The Farmer's wife likes to trade at Welsh's General Store in Hart