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Frosted Tomato Plants are ripe in the Land of Mears
Frosted Tomato Plants Miss Coralie Sloan's favorite expression is . " Oh ! you're Dutchy ! " Some say she learned it from Richard Davidson . - You know Richard goes with Margaret Boller ( who is the...
Pickle Patches are ripe in the Land of Mears
Pickle Patches The Surely you ought to be there at the great ox roast in Pentwater on Thursday , August 15. Such a home - coming day it will be . The hand- bills say the ox will be roasted whole ,...
Can Rubbers are ripe in the Land of Mears
JAR Can Rubbers Carrie Read says , " Don't wear good silk stockings in a mosquito patch for when you scratch a bite you rip your sox . " - The Sunday school picnic is at Silver Lake this Friday at...
Peach Blossoms are ripe in the Land of Mears
Peach Blossoms If it takes a spider to spin a web what kind of a spider will Web Tiffany have to fry his hamburg sandwiches in . It was Tuesday eve- ning that the school boys of Mears played a game...
Rowboats and Fishpoles are ripe in the Land of Mears
Rowboats and Fishpoles Richard Bohland's favorite song is " On the Good Ship Lollipop " . It must be his old age creeping up on him . - Milo Keigley is very proud of Milton Andrews . Mr. and Mrs. Em...
Rosebugs are ripe in the Land of Mears
Rosebugs Gus Kyburg drove to Big Blue Lake and got on a forsaken trail that emptied into a farm yard with two goats that jumped through the paneless windows into the house and butted against Gus'...
Catalpa Blossoms are ripe in the Land of Mears
Catalpa Blossoms Fred Stevens has been promised a dime for every grade he misses , and by the time he gets his diploma he may be a millionaire . Myron Mich- alczuk met Mary Nolan as a fellow picker...
Stepladders are ripe in the Land of Mears
Stepladders -Rudy , the toy rabbit , presented to George Dunning by Lulu Belle , amuses him while he is laid up with a sprained ankle ( since he tripped over a birch log one night . ) - Mrs . Frank...
Sunburn Lotions are ripe in the Land of Mears .
Sunburn Lotions -Ever a worshipper of the virtue of self- reliance , ever a foe to spinelessness , The Mears Newz is early and often to tell the people to get ready for winter , to get jobs of their...
Cherry Ladders are ripe in the Land of Mears
Consider the case of Alexander Stalker , the cowboy rancher from Montana He bought the Jesse Benson place last spring and keeps some saddle horses to rent out to the summer resort girls and boys at Si...
Hayhoppers are ripe in the Land of Mears .
Hayhoppers ont Bicycles have come to town . Murilyn Estes has a new one . So has Doris Lawhorn . Others we have noted pedalling their onward way are Lila Jane Anderson , Stanley Riley , Joan Peters...
Zinc Hats and Rubber Necklaces are ripe in the Land of Mears .
333 Zinc Hats and Rubber Necklaces Mrs. Carrie Van Valkenburg has become quite modernized since she has an electric plate to warm up her can of vegetable soup . - Otto James has re - arranged the s...
Costumes and Parades are ripe in the Land of Mears .
Costumes and Parades re- 81 The Golden Fair is the big noise in Mears this week . The shining of pumpkins , the plumping of plums , the punking of water- melons , the colored crinkle of crepe paper...
Auctions and Frosts are ripe in the Land of Mears .
Auctions and Frosts to Frost threats and snow spits were in the glowering October sky as Frank Whittaker , the ardent auctioneer with the oversize vest , gathered the chilly crowd before Chris Feil...
Cough Drops are ripe in the Land of Mears
Cough Drops They were writing business letters in Mears high school and every period and comma must be in its proper place . Principal Ray Price stopped at Lorena Pearson's desk and said : " Isn't t...
Varnish and Daffodils are ripe in the Land of Mears
Varnish and Daffodils Dear Roger Allen : We have an art censor at our house and it's my wife . Late in December I went down to the variety store in Shelby and bought an elegant framed picture with a...
Refrigerators and Parasols are ripe in the Land of Mears
Refrigerators and Parasols is Everybody in Mears is sorry for Donna Read . Everybody but her mother , who had wrathy hands . Donna wanted to get married last week . Lovely young girl , almost eight...
Beach Umbrellas are ripe in the Land of Mears .
Beach Umbrellas M If the party who picked up Mrs. Emma Ruckel's handbag contain- ing some change and some dresses will call at her house she will be glad to give them the belts that go with the dre...
Boys on Bicycles are ripe in the Land of Mears .
That Silver Lake , the beautiful , should be shut off from public gaze or that any portion of its curving shore line road should be blocked off by a greedy group of individuals and closed to public tr...
Tennis Racquets are ripe in the Land of Mears .
Tennis Racquets A health officer is supposed to guard the sanitary safety of the parish , so the other day when Burrell Read took his 11 year old daugh- ter Carma , all broken out with chicken pox ,...
Fishpoles & Angleworms are ripe in the Land of Mears
Fishpoles & Angleworms Sol Stuart Wickham , professor of signboard publicity , studied outdoor advertising in Florida this winter to discover new angles to tilt his bill - boards . Mrs. Berta M. Rui...
Mason Jars are ripe in the Land of Mears
Mason Jars Through these September weeks I have been pondering on the great- est invention of modern times . There is no electricity , no radium con- nected with it . Complexity of mechanization is...
Pumpkins and Cornshocks are ripe in the Land of Mears
Ernest Alderink , the school pest , was putting an ice cube down Dor- cas Hogston's neck when the Shelby chemistry teacher told him he had better watch out or he would have an ice cube down his neck ....
Mulberry Musses are ripe in the Land of Mears
So this is the birthday of The Mears Newz , and how shall we spend it ? Twenty - six years ago the little paper was born in Wright's feed mill . Well , we know how we would like to spend the day ; a r...
Steaming Grapes are ripe in the Land of Mears
Jim Fuller had no place to throw his rubbers when he came in out of the rain . Stenographer Lola Mae had no place to put her delicate strap rubbers . Brother Harland didn't know where to drop his rubb...