Issue 7

Natered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michiga under As of

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His Christmas Recitation

Stanley Lee stood up like a man and told mother made him scrub behind his ears .

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You Ought to Take Advantage

of These Prices

$ 3.50 Goodyear Rubber Boots for $ 2.75 $ 4.50 Gum Rubber Boot for $ 3.75 Dollar Shirts for seventy - five cents . Fifty cent shirts for thirty - eight cents . $ .85 Overalls for $ .65

Ten cent canned goods for eight cents 30c Coffee for 26c

25e Coffee for 20c

Apple Blossom 25c Tes for 20c

Buttercup 20 cent Tea for 15c

Pint Mason Jars

at 37c a dozen

Quart Mason Jars

at 48c a dozen

2 Qt . Mason Jars

at 66c a dozen

Dollar Whips for seventy - five cents .

EWALD & COOPER

OUR SUPERVISOR EXPLAINS

I find that many of the people in my town are under the impression that they could have waited until the spring election to elect a Probate Judge thus saving the extra expense of this special election .

The Supreme court has ruled that an election to fill the vacancy in the office of probate judge must be a special election and cannot be a part of the general election .

Then too if the election had been put off until spring the board of supervisors would have to hold a special session to call the election thus making the expense greater than it was this fall .

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THE RETURN OF DAVID

Miss

Swanson says that her brother David

will probably come home for New Year's .

West Golden

Mrs. O. I. Flood and Miss Esther Ling were in Maskegon Saturday .

You know what for .

Rev. Hall and Rev. Yantz spent Tuesday with Oxel Anderson .

Ernest Lind is home from Muskegon for Christmas . Elizabeth Lambrix is staying with Mrs. Claude Marshall in North Golden this week .

Ione Arnold spent Sunday with Ellen Smith .

Mr. and Mrs. Claud Marshall spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Renouf . Mrs. J. A. Arnold

spent last Sunday with Mrs. O. T. Flood .

Cecil Harris is home from the place where they make teachers .

The Willson Region

John Summers , jr . from Grant's Pass , Oregon is spending a few days with his aunt , Mrs. Goit .

Clare Branch is home from Big Rapids

Craig from Muskegon .

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Mrs. Benina Park went to Minneapolis Monday to spend the winter with her sister .

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Coon expect to go to Grand

ids to spend the holidays .

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Miss Iva Craig is entertaining company from Kansas .

Today they are buying potatoes for .55 ; eggs for .28 butter for .24 ; red kidney beans for $ 4.50 and white beans at three dollars twentyfive cents .

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THE NEWSPAPER THAT IS DIFFERENT .

This is an advertisement that is different about the " News- paper That is , Different " It is written by seven girls . That's what makes it different . They did such good work that we expect to hire half a dozen girls to write our advertisements hereafter .

Here are some , answers given by the girls why they like The Mears . News on dis mahl w

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Hannah Pearson Islike The Mears News because I like the editor and the editor and the paper are relations .

Effie Payne : Because Mat Lathers publishes it .

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Hilma Carlson like it because it has so much news in It and because I like the editor

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Eva Van Tassels like The Mears News because it is small and because it is the paper of Ourtown . It always has all the news in it and some good semible joke " ou non

Eldora Myers , I like The Mears News because it is so different from the rest of the newspapers we take . Although it is small I always enjoy reading it because it gives all the latest news of the township and it has many jokes " o

LV Weaver like it because when you pick it up and turn over its leaves you see the incidents and accidents that happen in our own town and vicinity and we almost always know who we are reading about . "

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No. 16 THE BAFFLER

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The following attempts were made to answer question number 16 , " Why does Mr. Lathers publish The Mears News ?

Effie Payne : " Because no one elese is smart enough to do it . " Eunjee Holcomb " Mr. Lathers publishes The Mears News be cause he is the right man in the right place . "

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Eva VanTassel : " Mr. Lathers is a live booster of Mears . To be a printer has always been this aim , so he is interested in the work . He can go around more to find news because he is a . printer . " sain in area is 40 au

Hilma Carlson " Mo Lathers publishes The Mears News be cause he is more educated than anyone else and he knows more news and the pretty girls tell him all the news they know . I'd like to be editor myself " w ads on not be 4403 Eldora Myers : " Mr. Lathers publishes The Mears News because he is interested in his own home town . He wants to help boost . the town and it gives the people some interesting news and jokes to read an

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FARMERS INSTITUTE .

A farmers institute was held in the Mears school building last , Friday . John Wheeler got the fifty - cent prize for the best ears of corn .

An evening session was held in the town hall . Principal J. M. Davis talked of " Education on the Farm . " He quoted Dr. Elliot's definition of education , that an educated man is one who if thrown into the widerness could find for himself abun- dant sustenance and enjoyment ; or one who if thrown into an unknown city without money could find for himself a job and get enjoyment from the crowd . Mr. Davis said that a farmer might be educated who could not even read or write . He might find out things from his neighbor . Many a farmer who speaks alightingly of agricultural education borrows the new ideas from a neighbor that learned the idea from a book or who had learned from someone who was a book - farmer . He mentioned spraying fruit trees as a practice which the Goldenites had borrowed from the gelentifle farmer . He was very emphatic in his belief that one who made a success on a farm in Golden township with the conditions and soil such as we have here must be an edu- cated farmer . He must havt acquired more than the ordinary agricultural ability either through books or by imitation of other farmers who had received agricultural wisdom from sci- entific sources .

Mr. Dean , the state speaker , talked on " Our Boys and Our Girls . " He talked to the young boys and the old boys and the young girls and the old girls .

Viva Davis returned from the Kalamazoo Normal Saturday for her vacation . She brought with her Miss Cecil Harris and seven- teen others , but the seventeen did not get off at Ourtown . They were distributed among the suburbs .

Miss Hilda Paulson went to Pentwater Sunday to visit her friend , Anna Pete . She cuttered home at night .

The Pere Marquette was going to take away our Sunday train the first day of 1916 , but they have decided better . We thank you , Mr. Marquette . We need that train to get Mary Park back to Hart Sunday afternoon so she will not be late for school Monday morning .

While hunting some time ago Henry Lind saw a rabbit dart out of a log . He fell upon the creature and eaught it in his hands , The same day he caught a partridge in his hands . Earl says that if Henry's finger nails had been a little longer he would make a good ferret if he were not quite so large .

THE GOLDEN CITY

Claude Knapp and Floyd Bevins , automobile makers of Flint , Michigan came home for December 25 .

Miss Olga Genung has returned from a visit in De- It seems a long , troit and other Michigan villages . long time since she went away . And now that she has Yet a few - come back to us it is but for a little while . days and she will pack her suitease and go to Mt. Pleas- ant to study music . We hope she will have a pleasant time .

John Wheeler took a sleighlóad of young people to the West Golden church Tuesday evening .

Mrs. Otis Bevins and four more Bevins children have arrived .

MEARS SCHOOL LIFE

The Mears school basket ball team played Sackrider Saturday right in the Maccabee Temple .

They tied and played to break the tie and Sackrider won by one point .

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Nella Bevins started to school this week . Urtel was absent from school last week because his ear ached . Miss Fuller told her pupils that Mr. Ford had gone to Europe on a wild goose chase but that he would not eatch any wild geese . Fr ncipal Davis was presented by his pupils with a pair of military brushes . Viva Davis and Mrs. Wyckoff visited school this week . ******* 449

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call

and get a 1916

calendar !

and he wishes them all a very merry Christmas !

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THE MEARS NEWS

A NEWSPAPER THAT IS DIFFERENT

Pablished by The I - re : Life Press Swift Lathers , Editor

Of course it is our intention that every subscriber shall get his paper every week but the editor has 31 , 518 things to think of every week and sometimes once in a while every 621 days he may forget to mail some one's paper . Then there is sadness in some home be- cause the little Mears News did not come in the mail . And maybe the father has to go to Reid's store to get some horehound candy to keep the children from ery- ing . Yet your disapointment need not be long . Every week several extra copies are left with the postmaster of Ourtown for several days . If you don't get yours when the others get their's thes go up to the post office window and rub your head on the wire lattice and tell the p . m . and he will give you one .

The cow licked the

spool of salt which the

hired man

hung on a peg for her . It did her good . A cow is made of salt more or less . And the proper way for her to get salty is to lick a cylinder block .

We have barrel salt for other purposes -granulated , medium and packer's .

Sands & Maxwell Lumber Co.