We like to see farmers get together to eat and talk and discuss the problems of their fields while their wives exchange salad recipes and pumpkin...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR It was many years ago that a Swedish farmer was talking to a busi- nessman in Shelby and said : " I believe that Swift Lathers...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR On Decoration Day I always try to do a little decorating , like slap- ping on half a gallon of aluminum paint on the side of...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -Harold VanTassell is building a ga- rage with a shower bath so on warm days the car can run under and take a shower . It may...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR We A morning prayer : " God bless these chunks of wood that the children sit on around the school room stove when the winds...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR I went to your wedding , Lenore , and saw two hundred people sitting in the brick church with stained glass windows . I wonder...

Now that the new Shelby depot has its windows and door in I am reminded of many memories of the old depot which sat almost where this one does only...

As a windup to the long and whitely winter came the evening party at the Mcars church on St. Patrick's Day . The people were not in any stew...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Ninety - nine years old , ninety - nine years and six months , that is what Art Keck's great - grandfather lived to be . His...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Try Orel Burdick for those hard - to - get radio tubes . IIe has over 200 different types in stock at his watch and radio...

Forest , my son , I see you have been bolting together the two - by - fours for your new work bench at the foot of the cellar stairs . If you would...

Senoritas and Pinto Beans are ripe in the Land of Mears Far in his remote oasis Swift Lathers surveyed the verdure of his little garden which he...

Potato Flowers are ripe in the Land of Mears be When a wise housewife takes her purse and goes to the store to get groceries she does not begin...

Calla Lilies are ripe in the Land of Mears So still the summer night at twenty minutes after two . I cannot sleep . I will arise . Not a breath...

Rambler Roses are ripe in the Land of Mears Jack Frost visited the sand dunes in July . He lives at Spring Lake and brought along Miss Fairy...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...