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...

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-...

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...

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

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 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...

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

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...

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...

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

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 ....

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

-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...

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

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...