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...

Consider the case of Alexander Stalker , the cowboy rancher from Montana He bought the Jesse Benson place last spring and keeps some saddle horses...

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...

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...

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 ....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pancakes and Taxes Two thousand dollars worth of fire was eating away at Abner Johnson's house across from the Randall school Thursday morning ....

Frosted Tomato Plants Miss Coralie Sloan's favorite expression is . " Oh ! you're Dutchy ! " Some say she learned it from Richard Davidson . -...

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...

Helen Brien will be one of the 32 graduates at Alma college this year . In Ispite of all Bill Snyder's opposition the Standard Oil Company is going...

AND TREES Swift Lathers planted a mountain ash tree , Claude Till planted a cherry tree , Lorena Brunk planted a poplar tree , and what did you...

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...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Supt . H. L. Bleecker told the Hart school that he didnt consider the mid - winter rally at Shelby worth going to . For 20...

Wednesday night was Howard Pechumer's birthday party . The Myers and Knapps came in a bob . The McClennan's to . The Lambrix's used a cutter . The...

When Ted Glover got a new ford touring car to take Olive Christensen in we con- tended that Olives should be contained in glass not in tin . But...