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....

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...

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...

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...

-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...

-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....

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

-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 There was a time when Pentwater was a lumbering , town and the hum of the sawmills made the music of the village and great...

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...

Garden Seed Catalogues -Monday there was a whale of a blizzard . Thin people hardly dared appear on the streets of Mears for fear of being blown...

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...