-The shade trees in front of the courthouse sidewalk have been butchered . Ed Wellman , the street commissioner , is rather inclined to tree -...

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...

The annual Golden township fair will be held in Mears at the town hall on Friday , Sept. 27 , all day . - John Gurney Park was brimfull of Brimmers...

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 -If you are a farmer , why not grow some sorghum on your farm this year , enough for your family use anyway ? It will grow...

-Little Don Ricks has lost his yellow collie dog , Bud , and is very anxious to get him back . The dog was a birthday present to little Don . When...

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

Holly Circles --Sunday the Lintons were not able to get to church in Mears , on ac- count of the blockaded roads . Then the snow plow came out...

John Lipski is up from Porto Rico where he read about the editor in Pic magazine .-- Jim and Lottie Fuller went to a dance hall in Lud- ington 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...

No. 8 FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Louis Schrump's wife doesn't have to bother about baking Louis any pie or cake . All he calls for is the old reliable...

Homecoming Handshakes at -Charlie Noret went out of business because his cookbook was getting tired , and now Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith are...

Coley Strong has gone to Muskegon to work and ring up a bigger bell on the cash register , so the village of Hart wants a new marshal . Mark Glover...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR same I'm a skip and a hop from the post office and when you come back from getting your postal cards stop in to replenish your...

Overshoes and Snowshovels Twenty - six years ago this winter Frank Burr , the village black- smith , told me that in the fall he figured to get...

So this is the birthday of The Mears Newz , and how shall we spend it ? Twenty - six years ago the little paper was born in Wright's feed mill ....

-The Crystal Lake country is a world very close to Mears and yet over the hills and out of sight . You go out Clayton Riley's road , up over the...

Ernest Alderink , the school pest , was putting an ice cube down Dor- cas Hogston's neck when the Shelby chemistry teacher told him he had better...

Mason Jars Through these September weeks I have been pondering on the great- est invention of modern times . There is no electricity , no radium...

Auctions and Frosts to Frost threats and snow spits were in the glowering October sky as Frank Whittaker , the ardent auctioneer with the...

Costumes and Parades re- 81 The Golden Fair is the big noise in Mears this week . The shining of pumpkins , the plumping of plums , the punking...

333 Zinc Hats and Rubber Necklaces Mrs. Carrie Van Valkenburg has become quite modernized since she has an electric plate to warm up her can of...

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...