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...

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...

Tennis Racquets A health officer is supposed to guard the sanitary safety of the parish , so the other day when Burrell Read took his 11 year old...

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

Fishpoles & Angleworms Sol Stuart Wickham , professor of signboard publicity , studied outdoor advertising in Florida this winter to discover new...

Varnish and Daffodils Dear Roger Allen : We have an art censor at our house and it's my wife . Late in December I went down to the variety store...

Cough Drops They were writing business letters in Mears high school and every period and comma must be in its proper place . Principal Ray Price...

AND TREES Swift Lathers planted a mountain ash tree , Claude Till planted a cherry tree , Lorena Brunk planted a poplar tree , and what did you...

And Dick Wietzke sells the Florence Oil Stove LITTLE GLIMPSES OF SWIFT LATHERS : Life In Mears Is Worth Living IV I find that life in Mears is...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- They had a spell - down at the Knapp schoolhouse Friday night , March 18 , and Mrs. Howard Pechumer spelled the line down ....

Andy - High - Over It is a contagion that comes in the spring after the epidemic of Marbles . Throw the rubber ball over the schoolhouse . And...

Well - mannered Children For , don't you see , it's only a week before Christmas and Santa Claus is in the offing ! --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- 331...

The great night has arrived and our dear girls , ar- rayed in their georgette crepe waists , have come to the auction aquiver and awondering who...

This is the land of Mears , Where the shining sand dunes gleam Under the western sky , By the side of the wide blue sea Where the light - house...