We like to see farmers get together to eat and talk and discuss the problems of their fields while their wives exchange salad recipes and pumpkin...

own The time has come , the walrus said , to talk of many things , of birds and bees and humming things , and cabbages and kings . So runs the...

Oceana county could have had a fine brick courthouse in Mears and it would not have cost the taxpayers a dollar . At a session of the board of...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR I went to your wedding , Lenore , and saw two hundred people sitting in the brick church with stained glass windows . I wonder...

As a windup to the long and whitely winter came the evening party at the Mcars church on St. Patrick's Day . The people were not in any stew...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Try Orel Burdick for those hard - to - get radio tubes . IIe has over 200 different types in stock at his watch and radio...

as more Go on , Oceana , and do your stuff . Sprinkle your marl beds over your acid soils . Reforest your wind - blown hillsides with spruce to...

Forest , my son , I see you have been bolting together the two - by - fours for your new work bench at the foot of the cellar stairs . If you would...

On Lincoln's birthday we revere the name of Lincoln and the teach- ers put on a program and the school boy tells us how Lincoln freed the slaves ....

-The school millage election in Mears July 14 was highly irregular in form . Voting was not permitted until a late hour and some of the peo- ple...

A prayer for today : Dear God , we come to thee on this sultry Friday morning to invoke thy manifold blessings on the maples and inhabi- fants of...

Senoritas and Pinto Beans are ripe in the Land of Mears Far in his remote oasis Swift Lathers surveyed the verdure of his little garden which he...

Potato Flowers are ripe in the Land of Mears be When a wise housewife takes her purse and goes to the store to get groceries she does not begin...

Calla Lilies are ripe in the Land of Mears So still the summer night at twenty minutes after two . I cannot sleep . I will arise . Not a breath...

Rambler Roses are ripe in the Land of Mears Jack Frost visited the sand dunes in July . He lives at Spring Lake and brought along Miss Fairy...

If it be so that Hart is already a city and has been since January 27 by the filing of the certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State...

We see by the cold west wind that beats with snowy fury against the insecurity of our coal bin window that winter is actually here , notwith-...

The call of the wilderness takes many men out into the big woods all over northern Michigan now in pursuit of antlers . They sleep in tents or...

-The shade trees in front of the courthouse sidewalk have been butchered . Ed Wellman , the street commissioner , is rather inclined to tree -...

I just looked at my watch . It is half past two in the morning . I have slept and I have risen . And before I arose I was awake a long , long time...

The annual Golden township fair will be held in Mears at the town hall on Friday , Sept. 27 , all day . - John Gurney Park was brimfull of Brimmers...

We notice by the printed minutes of the supervisors proceedings that the board of supervisors ordered the scune dooter bridge removed by . May 1....

Little Red Schoolhouses are ripe in the Land of Mears -Gray dawn finds me emerging eastward from New Era , from the cluster of very white houses...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -To those who have long beaten their heels on the city pavements , the feel of the old sand roads beneath their feet good to...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Mary Alice Christian Anderson - sounds like Hans Christian Ander- son , the writer of fairy tales - well , Mary Alice still...