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Peach Puddings are ripe in the Land of Mears
-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 who came to vote had gone home . The township clerk cal...
Sunburned Sods are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 Mears , thanking you for the sprinkle we got yesterday...
Senoritas and Pinto Beans are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 had taught the desert to grow for him by the mild per...
Potato Flowers are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 to order hilariously without reckon , but shops withi...
Calla Lilies are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 of air to wart the odor of the calla lilies in at my b...
Cranberry Squeals are ripe in the Land of Mears
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- standing the calendar in Ayers almanac allows 30 more days...
Forest Trails are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 trailers or wrapped in a blanket under the stars , and th...
Picturesque Pumpkins are ripe in the Land of Mears
-The shade trees in front of the courthouse sidewalk have been butchered . Ed Wellman , the street commissioner , is rather inclined to tree - cutting anyway . When he was a boy in school maybe he nev...
Drooping Dahlias are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 , listening to the chill curvature of the October win...
Spam Stews are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 last Sunday , it being the Brimmer family reunion ....
Egg Colorations are ripe in the Land of Mears
We notice by the printed minutes of the supervisors proceedings that the board of supervisors ordered the scune dooter bridge removed by . May 1. Rubbish and junk dumped in the creek may be partially...
Little Red Schoolhouses are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 that form the glorified vil- lage of the Dutch . The...
Madonna Lilies are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Mary Alice Christian Anderson - sounds like Hans Christian Ander- son , the writer of fairy tales - well , Mary Alice still keeps her fairy complexion and her husband and baby Barb...
Soda Crackers are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 . Wm . Simp- son has moved to Reed City . The new Metho...
The Gravy Train is ripe in the Land of Mears
The Gravy Train The gravy train crew in a certain distant county realizing the great tides of public sentiment were against their conspiracy and in favor of farmers ' " freedom , " held a secret mee...
Screen Door Hinges are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 get your Sunday bologna on Saturday night . He closes S...
There is a plain between the hills , Whose chains of distant blue Wall in the land of Mears .
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 sends its nightly beara And the smoking ships go by...
Issue 2
Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said : " This is our own , -our home town paper " ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned As home his footsteps he has turned , Ta...
Thornapples are ripe in the Land of Mears
Also many other apples . This is the greatest apple harvest since the founding of The Golden City . Chris Baade bought a new lantern on Tuesday . Jennie Areklet is teaching the business - minde...
Issue 4
fty Cents A Year Entered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 . ADVERTISE 97 per cent of the people of Gelden township take Th...
Issue 5
Batered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 . Elmer Wyckoff sold his bulldog to Frank Rasmussen for one dollar to get rid of p...
Issue 6
Entered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan under Act of March 3 , 1879 . There Are Reasons why this issue will be read with more than the ordinary intens...
Issue 7
Natered as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michiga under As of 137 ) His Christmas Recitation Stanley Lee stood up like a man and told mother made him scrub behi...
Issue 8
Autored as second class matter August 8 , 1914 , at the post office Mears , Michigan ander Act of March 3 , 1879 KWITCHERKICKEN & BEABOOSTER - naples Announcements of the Marriage of Rosetta Tho...
Issue 9
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 that Irish Lemons will be worth one dollar a bushe...