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...

Soda Crackers A sizeable crowd came up to the outdoor movies in Mears Tuesday eve- ning . There will be another show this next Tuesday . - Rev ....

Clarence Twining has been pampering his stomach lately as it was ailing . He eats lots of milk . - Keith Corliss , the grocer in Mears , says to...

Leaping Lettuce Leaves Who should appear in the sand dunes but my old friend , Bill Salter . now grown to adult stature and wisdom and...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -If you are a farmer , why not grow some sorghum on your farm this year , enough for your family use anyway ? It will grow...

Joe Grantz has gone to war and Nathalie Plumhoff will be licking more stamps . - In Golden township Al Urtel was elected supervisor : Bert Bashaw ,...

Why not let the people elect the county highway commissioners ? They couldn't do any worse . It is the people's right . We are the people . Why...

Mears friends have been receiving enroute letters this week from Mrs. Irene Draper and three children who left Sunday noon to motor to California...

Roller Skates The Legion had a St. Patrick's party in the billet the night after green ribbon day . It was also Ernest Corbin's birthday and...

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Philip Dean Miller , 3 years old and almost 4 , the next to the young- est of the seven children of Rev. Miller , pastor of the...

-Little Don Ricks has lost his yellow collie dog , Bud , and is very anxious to get him back . The dog was a birthday present to little Don . When...

So Hugh Salisbury . the stake - driving , swamp - wading , town - platting surveyor , sold his farm . Hugh came to Oceana county back in 1887 and...

Holly Circles --Sunday the Lintons were not able to get to church in Mears , on ac- count of the blockaded roads . Then the snow plow came out...

John Lipski is up from Porto Rico where he read about the editor in Pic magazine .-- Jim and Lottie Fuller went to a dance hall in Lud- ington and...

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...