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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Rowboats and angleworms for rent . - Geo . Reid , Silver Lake . I know now why they call that road Sweet street in Shelby . It's because Ruth...

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

Smoky Carpets Royal Morrall in Shelby has a machine to wash carpets clean right on the floor without pulling a tack . He charges so much a square...

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...

Well - mannered Children For , don't you see , it's only a week before Christmas and Santa Claus is in the offing ! --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- 331...

High - Roosting Turkeys You see they are the least mite suspicious . --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Peach Ridge : Marion Gibbs visited the Young school...

The great white blanket is rolled over the shivering cabbage patch . The wind blows chill and scares us . It is no night to go out . And...

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 ,...

X Backsliding Clocks are ripe around the Land of Mears --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- There was no school in the half - baked Willson schoolhouse last...