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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 ....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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