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 ....

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...

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...

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 ....

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- They had a spell - down at the Knapp schoolhouse Friday night , March 18 , and Mrs. Howard Pechumer spelled the line down ....

Saw Logs --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- DO YOU KNOW that Miss Mary Hawkins looks as sleek as the Corticelli silk kitten ? that Dr. Wycwoff never pays...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Herbert Hunter has had all his teeth taken out upstairs . I mean all his upstairs teeth . After comparing notes with Glen...

STUCK ! TAXES --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- The Sloans have named their ford sedan " the sardine can " be- cause when the seven Sloans are in the car...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- I wonder if Dorothy Wylie's footsteps are really as resilient as they seem . Does the same buoyancy leaven her whole system...

The great night has arrived and our dear girls , ar- rayed in their georgette crepe waists , have come to the auction aquiver and awondering who...

Fifty Cents & Year Priceless Apples --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Don't fail to attend the ONE CENT SALE Thursday , Friday and Saturday October...

Walnuts and Potatoes Both about the same size this year . 0 --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Hallowe'en Masquerade Dance Shelby Opera House Saturday ,...

Natered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michiga under As of 137 ) His Christmas Recitation Stanley Lee...

Entered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 . Everybody around Mears hopes...

Entered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 . There Are Reasons why this...