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Goldenrod is ripe in the Land of Mears
When Ted Glover got a new ford touring car to take Olive Christensen in we con- tended that Olives should be contained in glass not in tin . But now Freddy Meyer is taking her in a sedan . So all is w...
Garden Scratchers are ripe in the Land of Mears
Helen Brien will be one of the 32 graduates at Alma college this year . In Ispite of all Bill Snyder's opposition the Standard Oil Company is going to put in its filling station across the corner and...
Frost Fighters are ripe in the Land of Mears
Supt . H. L. Bleecker told the Hart school that he didnt consider the mid - winter rally at Shelby worth going to . For 20 years Hart and Shelby and Pentwat- er pulled together to make the mid - winte...
Red Cross Seals are ripe in the Land of Mears
Red Cross Seals are ripe in the Land of Mears Edward Coleson , the teacher at the Round Lake school , gave a box Portal and entertainment at the school house Wednesday evening . The people from the...
Mounting Mills are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 supervisors in December of 1873 Charles Mears and Mr. Ode...
Steeple Shakers are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 pie formulas . Such meetings are good fellowship and p...
Cabbages and Kings are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 vein of childhood's famous book , " Alice in Wonderland...
No , 49 are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR It was many years ago that a Swedish farmer was talking to a busi- nessman in Shelby and said : " I believe that Swift Lathers is getting rich . I believe he is going to be the ri...
Iris Idolizers are ripe in the Land of Mears
Iris Idolizers are ripe in the Land of Mears When the grass gets high in June and the robins hatch and the ramblers bloom there begins to be the westward rolling of many cars in- through Mears . The...
Strawberry Searchers are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR On Decoration Day I always try to do a little decorating , like slap- ping on half a gallon of aluminum paint on the side of the house . After that I like to go up to the cemetery...
June Brides are ripe in the Land of Mears
June Brides are ripe in the Land of Mears Dear Ann : I don't know you . So far as I know I never saw you . Yet you are living in Mears and every day I go by Mrs. Irey's house where you are staying ....
Odoriferous Orchards are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -Harold VanTassell is building a ga- rage with a shower bath so on warm days the car can run under and take a shower . It may be all done in June . During the month of Atay the ca...
Acrobatic Angleworms are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR We A morning prayer : " God bless these chunks of wood that the children sit on around the school room stove when the winds are bold and the morning is cold ; and bless the cotag...
Dooryard Combers are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 if Mears ever saw such a big wedding before . Some s...
Decorated Eggshells are ripe in the Land of Mears
Now that the new Shelby depot has its windows and door in I am reminded of many memories of the old depot which sat almost where this one does only a little bit north . Jay Waite used to be station ag...
Carpetrag Kite Tails are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 because no one brought any , but they did sing some Irish s...
Irish Ribbons . are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Irish Ribbons . Of the beginnings of Mears I know a little , having listened to the remnant of the pioneers who were here 35 years ago . Moses White came to Golden township as ea...
Maple Outlets are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR If you like to ride the trains and hound dogs and rub the vapored window panes to see the towns and villages go by , come with me this morning on a little excursion among the towns...
Conspicuous Cinders are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Ninety - nine years old , ninety - nine years and six months , that is what Art Keck's great - grandfather lived to be . His grandfather lived to be 68 and his father to 52. We we...
Glamourized Seeds are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 sing and nod in the breeze . Plant more cherry trees r...
Retired Woodchucks are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 repair shop in Hart . adv . Working out one's own problem...
Rambler Roses are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 Jones . If I find any early autumn tints in the leaves I...
Paper Hatchets are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 and the county eleck , then all he Hart township ter...
Permanent Waves are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 run your plane over your rough timbers and serape aw...
Leaping Crickets are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 . Lincoln believed in the rights of the colored man and...