Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said : " This is our own , -our home town paper " ? Whose heart hath ne'er within...

Entered assecond - class matter , August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan , under Act of March 8 , 1879 . THE DAYS ARE GOING...

fty Cents A Year Entered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879...

Batered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 . Elmer Wyckoff sold his...

Entered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 . There Are Reasons why this...

Entered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 . Everybody around Mears hopes...

Natered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michiga under As of 137 ) His Christmas Recitation Stanley Lee...

Autored as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office Mears , Michigan ander Act of March 3 , 1879 KWITCHERKICKEN & BEABOOSTER ---...

Also many other apples . This is the greatest apple harvest since the founding of The Golden City . --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Chris Baade bought a...

X Backsliding Clocks are ripe around the Land of Mears --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- There was no school in the half - baked Willson schoolhouse last...

Walnuts and Potatoes Both about the same size this year . 0 --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Hallowe'en Masquerade Dance Shelby Opera House Saturday ,...

Fifty Cents & Year Priceless Apples --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Don't fail to attend the ONE CENT SALE Thursday , Friday and Saturday October...

The great night has arrived and our dear girls , ar- rayed in their georgette crepe waists , have come to the auction aquiver and awondering who...

The great white blanket is rolled over the shivering cabbage patch . The wind blows chill and scares us . It is no night to go out . And...

High - Roosting Turkeys You see they are the least mite suspicious . --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Peach Ridge : Marion Gibbs visited the Young school...

Well - mannered Children For , don't you see , it's only a week before Christmas and Santa Claus is in the offing ! --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- 331...

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

w3 18 198 91 07 New Years ' Resolutions 功 د دوم - من بلد 6 --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Miss Mae Riley who belongs to the house of the unafraid...

STUCK ! TAXES --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- The Sloans have named their ford sedan " the sardine can " be- cause when the seven Sloans are in the car...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Herbert Hunter has had all his teeth taken out upstairs . I mean all his upstairs teeth . After comparing notes with Glen...

Saw Logs --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- DO YOU KNOW that Miss Mary Hawkins looks as sleek as the Corticelli silk kitten ? that Dr. Wycwoff never pays...

Andy - High - Over It is a contagion that comes in the spring after the epidemic of Marbles . Throw the rubber ball over the schoolhouse . And...

Smoky Carpets Royal Morrall in Shelby has a machine to wash carpets clean right on the floor without pulling a tack . He charges so much a square...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- They had a spell - down at the Knapp schoolhouse Friday night , March 18 , and Mrs. Howard Pechumer spelled the line down ....

Rowboats and angleworms for rent . - Geo . Reid , Silver Lake . I know now why they call that road Sweet street in Shelby . It's because Ruth...

When Ted Glover got a new ford touring car to take Olive Christensen in we con- tended that Olives should be contained in glass not in tin . But...

Wednesday night was Howard Pechumer's birthday party . The Myers and Knapps came in a bob . The McClennan's to . The Lambrix's used a cutter . The...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Supt . H. L. Bleecker told the Hart school that he didnt consider the mid - winter rally at Shelby worth going to . For 20...

Fifty Centa a Year Hart Howls : Mina Puffer feeds her canary celery and calls him Willie . Principal Rakestraw took the basket ball team to...

Unthinking children , who have hands but not any heads have col- lected nails and tacks from the fire ruins and sprinkled them all over Mears...

And Dick Wietzke sells the Florence Oil Stove LITTLE GLIMPSES OF SWIFT LATHERS : Life In Mears Is Worth Living IV I find that life in Mears is...

AND TREES Swift Lathers planted a mountain ash tree , Claude Till planted a cherry tree , Lorena Brunk planted a poplar tree , and what did you...

Helen Brien will be one of the 32 graduates at Alma college this year . In Ispite of all Bill Snyder's opposition the Standard Oil Company is going...

If Gertrude Augur has 15 buttons on the back of her dress Bernardine Till ought to have more because she lives in the Button house . Emma Sloan is...

Seed Envelopes Are Ripe in the LAND OF MEARS Ladies , bring in your summer coats and suits to be dry cleaned and pressed and have the spots...

Frosted Tomato Plants Miss Coralie Sloan's favorite expression is . " Oh ! you're Dutchy ! " Some say she learned it from Richard Davidson . -...

Red Cross Seals are ripe in the Land of Mears Edward Coleson , the teacher at the Round Lake school , gave a box Portal and entertainment at the...

Pancakes and Taxes Two thousand dollars worth of fire was eating away at Abner Johnson's house across from the Randall school Thursday morning ....

Peach Blossoms If it takes a spider to spin a web what kind of a spider will Web Tiffany have to fry his hamburg sandwiches in . It was Tuesday...

Rowboats and Fishpoles Richard Bohland's favorite song is " On the Good Ship Lollipop " . It must be his old age creeping up on him . - Milo...

Pickle Patches The Surely you ought to be there at the great ox roast in Pentwater on Thursday , August 15. Such a home - coming day it will be...

JAR Can Rubbers Carrie Read says , " Don't wear good silk stockings in a mosquito patch for when you scratch a bite you rip your sox . " - The...

Rosebugs Gus Kyburg drove to Big Blue Lake and got on a forsaken trail that emptied into a farm yard with two goats that jumped through the...

Catalpa Blossoms Fred Stevens has been promised a dime for every grade he misses , and by the time he gets his diploma he may be a millionaire ....

Stepladders -Rudy , the toy rabbit , presented to George Dunning by Lulu Belle , amuses him while he is laid up with a sprained ankle ( since he...

Cough Drops They were writing business letters in Mears high school and every period and comma must be in its proper place . Principal Ray Price...

Varnish and Daffodils Dear Roger Allen : We have an art censor at our house and it's my wife . Late in December I went down to the variety store...

Fishpoles & Angleworms Sol Stuart Wickham , professor of signboard publicity , studied outdoor advertising in Florida this winter to discover new...

Refrigerators and Parasols is Everybody in Mears is sorry for Donna Read . Everybody but her mother , who had wrathy hands . Donna wanted to get...

Beach Umbrellas M If the party who picked up Mrs. Emma Ruckel's handbag contain- ing some change and some dresses will call at her house she...

That Silver Lake , the beautiful , should be shut off from public gaze or that any portion of its curving shore line road should be blocked off by...

Tennis Racquets A health officer is supposed to guard the sanitary safety of the parish , so the other day when Burrell Read took his 11 year old...

Sunburn Lotions -Ever a worshipper of the virtue of self- reliance , ever a foe to spinelessness , The Mears Newz is early and often to tell the...

Consider the case of Alexander Stalker , the cowboy rancher from Montana He bought the Jesse Benson place last spring and keeps some saddle horses...

Hayhoppers ont Bicycles have come to town . Murilyn Estes has a new one . So has Doris Lawhorn . Others we have noted pedalling their onward way...

333 Zinc Hats and Rubber Necklaces Mrs. Carrie Van Valkenburg has become quite modernized since she has an electric plate to warm up her can of...

Costumes and Parades re- 81 The Golden Fair is the big noise in Mears this week . The shining of pumpkins , the plumping of plums , the punking...

Auctions and Frosts to Frost threats and snow spits were in the glowering October sky as Frank Whittaker , the ardent auctioneer with the...

Mason Jars Through these September weeks I have been pondering on the great- est invention of modern times . There is no electricity , no radium...

Ernest Alderink , the school pest , was putting an ice cube down Dor- cas Hogston's neck when the Shelby chemistry teacher told him he had better...

-The Crystal Lake country is a world very close to Mears and yet over the hills and out of sight . You go out Clayton Riley's road , up over the...

Refrigerators and Radishes Bill Smedley is going to move down town so he can see what is going on . He has some lumber , gravel and cement out by...

So this is the birthday of The Mears Newz , and how shall we spend it ? Twenty - six years ago the little paper was born in Wright's feed mill ....

Jim Fuller had no place to throw his rubbers when he came in out of the rain . Stenographer Lola Mae had no place to put her delicate strap rubbers...

Overshoes and Snowshovels Twenty - six years ago this winter Frank Burr , the village black- smith , told me that in the fall he figured to get...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR same I'm a skip and a hop from the post office and when you come back from getting your postal cards stop in to replenish your...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Shelby seniors are enthused over their amateur contest coming off on Wednesday , March 12 , when $ 59 in prizes will be...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Douglas and Jeanine Krauter with their new striped tops will make things hum around Silver Hills Farm . Well , the farm is...

Inventories While many rural schools were closed during part of the ten - day storm , and even Hart village schools shut down for a little while...

At 87 Lars Jenson finds he is probably the oldest resident in the vil- lage of Mears . He was 27 when he came from Sweden , and he worked in the...

Syrup Pans " Lorna Fetters , take these letters , " Mr. Tompkins said . " Type them black or type them red and mail them overhead . " - Some soil...

Garden Seed Catalogues -Monday there was a whale of a blizzard . Thin people hardly dared appear on the streets of Mears for fear of being blown...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Among the good old country dirt roads I like to travel afoot is the trail from Arnold Paulson's up over and down the hill past...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Glen Mersing down Grandville way may be excused if he runs the gas hose over on the ground or puts in 3 pints of motor oil in a...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR There was a time when Pentwater was a lumbering , town and the hum of the sawmills made the music of the village and great...

-Since a child I have thirsted for the lakes with an inlander's thirst for the breezes from great expanses of water . I can remember how in 1913 I...

Rotating Fans -For many are are years the good people of Pentwater have responded to the forest fire alarms and grabbed their spades and...

-The Kreigh family were invited to a beefsteak dinner at Howard Gashal's . Mrs. Kreigh choked on a chunk and couldn't get it up or down . To . Dr....

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Sweet Cherries -Norma Dormire has a stately new flag pole to hoist the national col- ors in the breeze at Silver Lake . K's...

Still living on the farm where he was born , H. F. W. Meyer looks back over the changes made by the years and remembers the Golden landscape before...

-In this war - torn hour when the maps of Europe and Asia and maybe the Aleutian archipeligo are changing overnight , when boys are going out ,...

Coley Strong has gone to Muskegon to work and ring up a bigger bell on the cash register , so the village of Hart wants a new marshal . Mark Glover...

Homecoming Handshakes at -Charlie Noret went out of business because his cookbook was getting tired , and now Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith are...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Sam Odell always looks good in a straw sailor hat . So does Muir Dickie . Sam was telling us today that according to the United...

the she -Hubert Shinn , professor geometry , and Louis Meisch , professor of tadpoles , have resigned from Hart high school because they are...

Up from Plymouth where the locomotives take a drink of water and a tender full of coal comes M. T. Pinkerton and his good wife to see the landscape...

Mary VanAllsburg will teach at the Piper , Vada Bender at Willson , Ruth Pearson at Batham , Lorraine Halladay at Crystal Valley , Peggy Brooks at...

No. 8 FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Louis Schrump's wife doesn't have to bother about baking Louis any pie or cake . All he calls for is the old reliable...

The evergreens in Father Emmerich's back yard are a grove of medita- tion where he can walk thinking . Peace is in the air that floats through...

Potato Pickers -There is a land of enchantment up in the hill country south of Mears on the Cobb school road , because back of it are other...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Snow Spits In the business and civic life of Mears there will be a great yawning gap caused by the passing of Frank W....

John Lipski is up from Porto Rico where he read about the editor in Pic magazine .-- Jim and Lottie Fuller went to a dance hall in Lud- ington and...

Holly Circles --Sunday the Lintons were not able to get to church in Mears , on ac- count of the blockaded roads . Then the snow plow came out...

So Hugh Salisbury . the stake - driving , swamp - wading , town - platting surveyor , sold his farm . Hugh came to Oceana county back in 1887 and...

-Little Don Ricks has lost his yellow collie dog , Bud , and is very anxious to get him back . The dog was a birthday present to little Don . When...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Philip Dean Miller , 3 years old and almost 4 , the next to the young- est of the seven children of Rev. Miller , pastor of the...

Roller Skates The Legion had a St. Patrick's party in the billet the night after green ribbon day . It was also Ernest Corbin's birthday and...

Mears friends have been receiving enroute letters this week from Mrs. Irene Draper and three children who left Sunday noon to motor to California...

Why not let the people elect the county highway commissioners ? They couldn't do any worse . It is the people's right . We are the people . Why...

Joe Grantz has gone to war and Nathalie Plumhoff will be licking more stamps . - In Golden township Al Urtel was elected supervisor : Bert Bashaw ,...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -If you are a farmer , why not grow some sorghum on your farm this year , enough for your family use anyway ? It will grow...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Blue Violets Keith Corliss , the grocer , has shaken the winter dust off his wheel- barrow and is now building a cement patch...

Leaping Lettuce Leaves Who should appear in the sand dunes but my old friend , Bill Salter . now grown to adult stature and wisdom and...

Clarence Twining has been pampering his stomach lately as it was ailing . He eats lots of milk . - Keith Corliss , the grocer in Mears , says to...

The Gravy Train The gravy train crew in a certain distant county realizing the great tides of public sentiment were against their conspiracy and...

Soda Crackers A sizeable crowd came up to the outdoor movies in Mears Tuesday eve- ning . There will be another show this next Tuesday . - Rev ....

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Mary Alice Christian Anderson - sounds like Hans Christian Ander- son , the writer of fairy tales - well , Mary Alice still...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -To those who have long beaten their heels on the city pavements , the feel of the old sand roads beneath their feet good to...

Little Red Schoolhouses are ripe in the Land of Mears -Gray dawn finds me emerging eastward from New Era , from the cluster of very white houses...

We notice by the printed minutes of the supervisors proceedings that the board of supervisors ordered the scune dooter bridge removed by . May 1....

The annual Golden township fair will be held in Mears at the town hall on Friday , Sept. 27 , all day . - John Gurney Park was brimfull of Brimmers...

I just looked at my watch . It is half past two in the morning . I have slept and I have risen . And before I arose I was awake a long , long time...

-The shade trees in front of the courthouse sidewalk have been butchered . Ed Wellman , the street commissioner , is rather inclined to tree -...

The call of the wilderness takes many men out into the big woods all over northern Michigan now in pursuit of antlers . They sleep in tents or...

We see by the cold west wind that beats with snowy fury against the insecurity of our coal bin window that winter is actually here , notwith-...

If it be so that Hart is already a city and has been since January 27 by the filing of the certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State...

Rambler Roses are ripe in the Land of Mears Jack Frost visited the sand dunes in July . He lives at Spring Lake and brought along Miss Fairy...

Calla Lilies are ripe in the Land of Mears So still the summer night at twenty minutes after two . I cannot sleep . I will arise . Not a breath...

Potato Flowers are ripe in the Land of Mears be When a wise housewife takes her purse and goes to the store to get groceries she does not begin...

Senoritas and Pinto Beans are ripe in the Land of Mears Far in his remote oasis Swift Lathers surveyed the verdure of his little garden which he...

A prayer for today : Dear God , we come to thee on this sultry Friday morning to invoke thy manifold blessings on the maples and inhabi- fants of...

-The school millage election in Mears July 14 was highly irregular in form . Voting was not permitted until a late hour and some of the peo- ple...

On Lincoln's birthday we revere the name of Lincoln and the teach- ers put on a program and the school boy tells us how Lincoln freed the slaves ....

Forest , my son , I see you have been bolting together the two - by - fours for your new work bench at the foot of the cellar stairs . If you would...

as more Go on , Oceana , and do your stuff . Sprinkle your marl beds over your acid soils . Reforest your wind - blown hillsides with spruce to...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Try Orel Burdick for those hard - to - get radio tubes . IIe has over 200 different types in stock at his watch and radio...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Ninety - nine years old , ninety - nine years and six months , that is what Art Keck's great - grandfather lived to be . His...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR If you like to ride the trains and hound dogs and rub the vapored window panes to see the towns and villages go by , come with...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Irish Ribbons . Of the beginnings of Mears I know a little , having listened to the remnant of the pioneers who were here 35...

As a windup to the long and whitely winter came the evening party at the Mcars church on St. Patrick's Day . The people were not in any stew...

Now that the new Shelby depot has its windows and door in I am reminded of many memories of the old depot which sat almost where this one does only...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR I went to your wedding , Lenore , and saw two hundred people sitting in the brick church with stained glass windows . I wonder...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR We A morning prayer : " God bless these chunks of wood that the children sit on around the school room stove when the winds...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -Harold VanTassell is building a ga- rage with a shower bath so on warm days the car can run under and take a shower . It may...

June Brides are ripe in the Land of Mears Dear Ann : I don't know you . So far as I know I never saw you . Yet you are living in Mears and every...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR On Decoration Day I always try to do a little decorating , like slap- ping on half a gallon of aluminum paint on the side of...

Iris Idolizers are ripe in the Land of Mears When the grass gets high in June and the robins hatch and the ramblers bloom there begins to be the...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR It was many years ago that a Swedish farmer was talking to a busi- nessman in Shelby and said : " I believe that Swift Lathers...

Oceana county could have had a fine brick courthouse in Mears and it would not have cost the taxpayers a dollar . At a session of the board of...

own The time has come , the walrus said , to talk of many things , of birds and bees and humming things , and cabbages and kings . So runs the...

We like to see farmers get together to eat and talk and discuss the problems of their fields while their wives exchange salad recipes and pumpkin...