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...

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...

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....

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...