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The Days Are Going By
Entered assecond - class matter , August 8 , 1914 , at the post office at Mears , Michigan , under Act of March 8 , 1879 . THE DAYS ARE GOING BY The days are going by , my friend , And time is g...
Issue 11
X Backsliding Clocks are ripe around the Land of Mears There was no school in the half - baked Willson schoolhouse last Tuesday because Jim Farmer was putting in the new furnace and the copybook...
Priceless Apples are ripe in the Land of Mears
Fifty Cents & Year Priceless Apples Don't fail to attend the ONE CENT SALE Thursday , Friday and Saturday October 28-29-30 at Menerey's Drug Store in Hart This sale has some kick and will k...
Box Socials are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 will bid in their beribboned boxes . 46 They had a...
High - Roosting Turkeys are ripe in the Land of Mears
High - Roosting Turkeys You see they are the least mite suspicious . Peach Ridge : Marion Gibbs visited the Young school Tuesday and look- ed around to see If Elsie Brandel had kicked any varnis...
Well - mannered Children are ripe in the Land of Mears
Well - mannered Children For , don't you see , it's only a week before Christmas and Santa Claus is in the offing ! 331 % OFF on all bathing suits at Mostanybody's Store Chester Curtis has...
Domesticated Evergreens are ripe in the Land of Mears
I wonder if Dorothy Wylie's footsteps are really as resilient as they seem . Does the same buoyancy leaven her whole system ? I wonder if the eter- nal blush on Rose Christian's face is deeper than h...
New Years ' Resolutions are ripe in the Land of Mears
w3 18 198 91 07 New Years ' Resolutions 功 د دوم - من بلد 6 Miss Mae Riley who belongs to the house of the unafraid has been home from Grand Rapids for the holly days , telling her admir- i...
TAXES are ripe in the Land of Mears
STUCK ! TAXES The Sloans have named their ford sedan " the sardine can " be- cause when the seven Sloans are in the car they are packed in like sardines . Bert Post , the village phophet , wil...
Uncertain Times are ripe in the Land of Mears
Herbert Hunter has had all his teeth taken out upstairs . I mean all his upstairs teeth . After comparing notes with Glen Rowley and with Mildred , Shogren we are all agreed that hell is a place wher...
Andy - High - Over is ripe in the Land of Mears
Andy - High - Over It is a contagion that comes in the spring after the epidemic of Marbles . Throw the rubber ball over the schoolhouse . And the kids on the other side --- why sure you remember !...
Walnuts and Potatoes are ripe in the Land of Mears
Walnuts and Potatoes Both about the same size this year . 0 Hallowe'en Masquerade Dance Shelby Opera House Saturday , Oct. 30th Already they have masks in the stores . Bill Crockett and his a...
HOUSE SLIPPERS are ripe in the Land of Mears
The great white blanket is rolled over the shivering cabbage patch . The wind blows chill and scares us . It is no night to go out . And submissively you hear your wife say : " Here's your slippers ;...
Saw Logs are ripe in the Land of Mears
Saw Logs DO YOU KNOW that Miss Mary Hawkins looks as sleek as the Corticelli silk kitten ? that Dr. Wycwoff never pays any in come tax ? that Lavina Lyttle nearly cut her toe off with a safet...
Smoky Carpets are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 yard . Saves you a lotta bother . Glen Rowley hu...
Little Pigs are ripe at the Walnut Grove Stock Farm
They had a spell - down at the Knapp schoolhouse Friday night , March 18 , and Mrs. Howard Pechumer spelled the line down . Elmer Knapp saw Marie Farmer home . Albert Pechumer started home with her an...
Lawnmowers are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 Near lives on it . - Neva Unruh ( sheezadear ) roam- ed...
Cinders and Ruins are ripe in the Land of Mears
Fifty Centa a Year Hart Howls : Mina Puffer feeds her canary celery and calls him Willie . Principal Rakestraw took the basket ball team to Fremont on the wrong day , one day ahead of time . Only the...
NAILS are ripe in the Land of Mears
Unthinking children , who have hands but not any heads have col- lected nails and tacks from the fire ruins and sprinkled them all over Mears . Some say that Hairy Fenton set the boys up to it so he...
ADDER TONGUES are ripe in the Land of Mears
And Dick Wietzke sells the Florence Oil Stove LITTLE GLIMPSES OF SWIFT LATHERS : Life In Mears Is Worth Living IV I find that life in Mears is worth living because of the sand dunes and the maples...
TREES are ripe in the Land of Mears
AND TREES Swift Lathers planted a mountain ash tree , Claude Till planted a cherry tree , Lorena Brunk planted a poplar tree , and what did you plant with your little spade ??? Miss Celia Spooner...
Thermometer Sub - cellars are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 Goits used their feet . Gale Shafer came on the wind...
Basketbawls in the Land of Mears
If Gertrude Augur has 15 buttons on the back of her dress Bernardine Till ought to have more because she lives in the Button house . Emma Sloan is wearing some blue spiral rings . Bill Brown has made...
Issue 36
Seed Envelopes Are Ripe in the LAND OF MEARS Ladies , bring in your summer coats and suits to be dry cleaned and pressed and have the spots removed . Wagon leaves Tuesdays , Thurs- days and Saturda...
Pancakes and Taxes are ripe in the Land of Mears
Pancakes and Taxes Two thousand dollars worth of fire was eating away at Abner Johnson's house across from the Randall school Thursday morning . The Hart water - spouters came with their axes and he...