The evergreens in Father Emmerich's back yard are a grove of medita- tion where he can walk thinking . Peace is in the air that floats through...

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...

Mary VanAllsburg will teach at the Piper , Vada Bender at Willson , Ruth Pearson at Batham , Lorraine Halladay at Crystal Valley , Peggy Brooks at...

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...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Sam Odell always looks good in a straw sailor hat . So does Muir Dickie . Sam was telling us today that according to the United...

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...

-In this war - torn hour when the maps of Europe and Asia and maybe the Aleutian archipeligo are changing overnight , when boys are going out ,...

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...

Rotating Fans -For many are are years the good people of Pentwater have responded to the forest fire alarms and grabbed their spades and...

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...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Among the good old country dirt roads I like to travel afoot is the trail from Arnold Paulson's up over and down the hill past...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ....

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

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...

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...

Beach Umbrellas M If the party who picked up Mrs. Emma Ruckel's handbag contain- ing some change and some dresses will call at her house she...

Refrigerators and Parasols is Everybody in Mears is sorry for Donna Read . Everybody but her mother , who had wrathy hands . Donna wanted to get...