Whislte while you work

While watching the recent Academy Awards on TV, I liked the moment when Kate Winslet, during her acceptance speech, was looking for her parents in the audience and asked her father to whistle for her. Her father did and in a split second she turned and knew exactly where her parents were sitting. Watching this I thought to myself, she must have been raised in the country.

I myself come from a family of whistlers. My grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and some of my Cousins were all able to give a good whistle. Not the type of whistling you see on The Andy Griffith Show as music, but whistles as calls. I was always told you can hear a good strong whistle much farther then a shout or a yell. In the field or garden, a whistle carries a long distance.

Never being able to whistle myself, I was always amazed by how loud they could be. It seems most of the Haueters could whistle, yet everyone had their own technique. Some used only their lips, tucking them in just right to produce a loud sound. Others would add a pinky finger inside one corner of the mouth. Yet others would place a thumb at one corner and the first finger at the other corner.

However they produced the whistle, we were all taught to respond as soon as we heard it. It meant they needed you, and you had to go and find out why.


News of 1936
Stuart Brunger was honor guest at a family dinner at his home last Thursday, the occasion being his birthday. The young man expressed a wish for pumpkin pie, rather then birthday cake and his wish was granted. In the evening the group made a theatre party to see Shirley Temple in “Poor Little Rich Girl”. He received a number of nice gifts.

Forrest Spencer, of Spencer’s Shoe Store at 226 S. Bridge, reports that last month’s gross sales were twenty percent higher then those of the corresponding month last year and that hosiery sales were 38% higher.

The two dugouts for the New Fitzgerald Field have been completed and a dressing room 12 x 14 feet is being erected. This building will contain a stove and will be a place to put on skates in winter, don baseball suites in summer by players so desiring and for general utility purposes. All of the fine acquisitions are donations by Fitzgerald friends.

Ralph, youngest son of Mr.& Mrs. Floyd Merritt, fell from his tricycle recently, cutting a bad gash under his chin, which required several stitches. The little lad is getting alone nicely.

Auction Notice – Ernest Jones at the Jones Homestead. This farm has been in the Jones family for ninety-three years, his father settling there in 1843. He is no longer able to work the farm and will sell at public auction at his place, 1 ½ mile west of Grand Ledge on M-39 (now M-43). Items include 2 work mares, 2 jersey cows, 19 breeding ewes, 2 lambs as well as household items. Terms – Cash Only.