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...