FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Philip Dean Miller , 3 years old and almost 4 , the next to the young- est of the seven children of Rev. Miller , pastor of the...

-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...

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...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Snow Spits In the business and civic life of Mears there will be a great yawning gap caused by the passing of Frank W....

Up from Plymouth where the locomotives take a drink of water and a tender full of coal comes M. T. Pinkerton and his good wife to see the landscape...

the she -Hubert Shinn , professor geometry , and Louis Meisch , professor of tadpoles , have resigned from Hart high school because they 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...

Still living on the farm where he was born , H. F. W. Meyer looks back over the changes made by the years and remembers the Golden landscape before...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Sweet Cherries -Norma Dormire has a stately new flag pole to hoist the national col- ors in the breeze at Silver Lake . K's...

-The Kreigh family were invited to a beefsteak dinner at Howard Gashal's . Mrs. Kreigh choked on a chunk and couldn't get it up or down . To . Dr....

-Since a child I have thirsted for the lakes with an inlander's thirst for the breezes from great expanses of water . I can remember how in 1913 I...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Glen Mersing down Grandville way may be excused if he runs the gas hose over on the ground or puts in 3 pints of motor oil in a...

Syrup Pans " Lorna Fetters , take these letters , " Mr. Tompkins said . " Type them black or type them red and mail them overhead . " - Some soil...

At 87 Lars Jenson finds he is probably the oldest resident in the vil- lage of Mears . He was 27 when he came from Sweden , and he worked in the...

Inventories While many rural schools were closed during part of the ten - day storm , and even Hart village schools shut down for a little while...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Douglas and Jeanine Krauter with their new striped tops will make things hum around Silver Hills Farm . Well , the farm is...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Shelby seniors are enthused over their amateur contest coming off on Wednesday , March 12 , when $ 59 in prizes will be...

Jim Fuller had no place to throw his rubbers when he came in out of the rain . Stenographer Lola Mae had no place to put her delicate strap rubbers...

-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...