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...