Refrigerators and Radishes Bill Smedley is going to move down town so he can see what is going on . He has some lumber , gravel and cement out by...

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

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...

That Silver Lake , the beautiful , should be shut off from public gaze or that any portion of its curving shore line road should be blocked off by...

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...

Pickle Patches The Surely you ought to be there at the great ox roast in Pentwater on Thursday , August 15. Such a home - coming day it will be...

Rowboats and Fishpoles Richard Bohland's favorite song is " On the Good Ship Lollipop " . It must be his old age creeping up on him . - Milo...

Peach Blossoms If it takes a spider to spin a web what kind of a spider will Web Tiffany have to fry his hamburg sandwiches in . It was Tuesday...

Wednesday night was Howard Pechumer's birthday party . The Myers and Knapps came in a bob . The McClennan's to . The Lambrix's used a cutter . The...

Rowboats and angleworms for rent . - Geo . Reid , Silver Lake . I know now why they call that road Sweet street in Shelby . It's because Ruth...

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

Smoky Carpets Royal Morrall in Shelby has a machine to wash carpets clean right on the floor without pulling a tack . He charges so much a square...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Herbert Hunter has had all his teeth taken out upstairs . I mean all his upstairs teeth . After comparing notes with Glen...

STUCK ! TAXES --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- The Sloans have named their ford sedan " the sardine can " be- cause when the seven Sloans are in the car...

--- PAGE SEPARATOR --- I wonder if Dorothy Wylie's footsteps are really as resilient as they seem . Does the same buoyancy leaven her whole system...

High - Roosting Turkeys You see they are the least mite suspicious . --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Peach Ridge : Marion Gibbs visited the Young school...

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...

Also many other apples . This is the greatest apple harvest since the founding of The Golden City . --- PAGE SEPARATOR --- Chris Baade bought a...

Entered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 . Everybody around Mears hopes...