Rates: 25¢ a word, three-dollar minimum, cash or a plate of bars. Drop them at the Pilot-Independent office or the slot at Tim’s. We do not edit your spelling; we edit your enthusiasm.

Help Wanted

HELP WANTED. The new brewery in the old Co-op creamery seeks taproom help for an August opening — pouring, serving, washing, the usual. No experience with beer required; experience with people preferred. Inquire at the creamery, where someone is, at long last, always inside.

HELP WANTED. Loon Ridge Supper Club seeks seasonal serving help, weekends through Labor Day. Must carry four plates or be willing to learn the hard way. Reminder cards provided, Renée Fontaine reports, "for the specials and, if needed, for the schedule."

HELP WANTED. Tim’s Bait & Liquor, part-time counter. Applicant must be able to answer for both halves of the store without checking. If we don’t have it, you didn’t need it — and you’ll be saying so eight times a day.

For Sale

FOR SALE. Pontoon, 24-ft, decorated once for a parade and never entirely un-decorated, some bunting still attached, “adds character.” Runs good. See Bud at the Northern Tap.

FOR SALE. Cedar shingle bundles, eleven, surplus from the Peterson barn job — the roof took fewer than the ladder feared. First reasonable offer; you haul, and it’s a hill.

FOR SALE. Bunting, red-white-and-blue, forty feet, faded to what we are calling tasteful. Used twice a year, gently, and stored the other 363 days. Would suit a porch with ambitions.

FOR SALE. Canning jars, quarts, four dozen, rings included. Quarts only; the pints are spoken for through rhubarb season. See Marlys at the Ladies’ Aid table Thursday.

FOR SALE. Push mower, runs; opinions differ on how well. From the shelf Gordy marked MIGHT NEED, which — he was right again — somebody now does. Priced the way he’d have priced it: by memory. Lindstrom estate.

Free & Fair Warning

FREE. Cucumbers. The garden has turned on us. Take a bag, take two, take the whole sorry abundance off our hands. See Eunice for the salad that does not involve mayonnaise, which is the only recipe that can help you now.

FREE. Kittens, barn-raised, Loon Ridge Road. Mouser stock on both sides; references available from the granary. Orange ones go first, so act accordingly.

NOTICE. Zucchini: not yet, but soon. The gardens are two warm weeks from turning, and after that no porch, mailbox, or unlocked car in this town is safe. Consider this your only warning.

Lost & Found

LOST. One left sandal, child’s, size small, last seen at the Fourth of July kids’ races traveling at considerable speed. Sentimental value to a four-year-old, which is the highest kind there is. Reward: one popsicle, already promised and partly eaten.

FOUND. One folding lawn chair, adrift on Big Pelican the evening of the Fourth, recovered in good order — floats better than it sits. Claim at the landing, or from Ald. Bunde, who has opinions about how it was tied down.

FOUND. Cooler lid, blue, answering to no cooler we can locate. Town park pavilion. The cooler itself is invited to come forward without consequence.

LOST. Bifocals, gold rim, town park, sometime between the flag raising and the potato salad. Owner is managing on squint and memory, neither of which is what it was. Reward: gratitude, plus bars.

Wanted & Services

WANTED. Honest counsel on growing a giant pumpkin, from anyone not named Bjornstad or Aakre, both of whom are hopelessly compromised. Compensation in coffee, and in not mentioning to the other that you asked.

SERVICES. Small-engine repair, points-and-condenser era preferred, in memory of Gordy, who fixed everything else. Inquire at the Legion.

WANTED. Prizes for the January meat raffle, the one that pays for the fireworks you just watched. Chief Sundberg’s guidance stands: sell more tickets in January and stand back. Units of pork accepted year-round at the Northern Tap.

YARD WORK. Responsible sixth-graders, three, available as a set for weeding, raking, and light hauling. We do not split up. Rates negotiable; grand-slam stories free with every job. Ask for any Vekved.

SERVICES. Pressure washing — decks, siding, walks. Stains a specialty; results, as the whole town now understands, may vary. No guarantees offered on Main Street, on advice of counsel and the council both.