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Overshoes and Snowshovels are ripe in the Land of Mears
Overshoes and Snowshovels Twenty - six years ago this winter Frank Burr , the village black- smith , told me that in the fall he figured to get his cellar ready for winter . He put in all his potato...
Frozen Pumps are ripe in the Land of Mears
-The Crystal Lake country is a world very close to Mears and yet over the hills and out of sight . You go out Clayton Riley's road , up over the hill where Marion France lives and down into Weaver Geb...
Refrigerators and Radishes are ripe in the Land of Mears
Refrigerators and Radishes Bill Smedley is going to move down town so he can see what is going on . He has some lumber , gravel and cement out by the old fire depart- ment building and is going to c...
Quilt Blocks are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR same I'm a skip and a hop from the post office and when you come back from getting your postal cards stop in to replenish your pantry shelves so you won't feel like Old Mother Hub...
Dripping Eaves are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Shelby seniors are enthused over their amateur contest coming off on Wednesday , March 12 , when $ 59 in prizes will be scattered to tal- ented young folks like Irene Macarow of vi...
Revenue Officers are ripe in the Land of Mears
-In this war - torn hour when the maps of Europe and Asia and maybe the Aleutian archipeligo are changing overnight , when boys are going out , some of them never to return , when we need to save ever...
String Bean Pickers are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 would make a good one . He sees all that is going on...
Homecoming Handshakes are ripe in the Land of Mears
Homecoming Handshakes at -Charlie Noret went out of business because his cookbook was getting tired , and now Mr. and Mrs. Harry Smith are running the cafe.- -A crowd of friends gathered Saturday n...
Apricot Stewpans are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 States biological survey there are only 250 trumpete...
Little Hoptoads are ripe in the Land of Mears
the she -Hubert Shinn , professor geometry , and Louis Meisch , professor of tadpoles , have resigned from Hart high school because they are work- ing at the Dow Chemical construction in Ludingt...
Can Rubber Cartons are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 with Charles Hefner to show him what to see and wher...
Crayolas and Ink are ripe in the Land of Mears
Mary VanAllsburg will teach at the Piper , Vada Bender at Willson , Ruth Pearson at Batham , Lorraine Halladay at Crystal Valley , Peggy Brooks at Round Lake . In Mears Richard Jensen and Ruth Anderso...
Elderberry Pies are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 line of meat and pota- toes and gravy . - Forrest Godfr...
Crestfallen Dahlias are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 their branches . - October 1 to 8 is National Newspaper W...
Potato Pickers are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 higher hills and a sumac wilderness and in the northern fo...
Snow Spits are ripe in the Land of Mears
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. Downing , who was buried to- day in the Mears cemetery amid...
Red Jackets are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 she looked so young that an usher came up and asked h...
Holly Circles are ripe in the Land of Mears
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 from Shel- by and Monday they got to Mears by going aro...
Almanac Admirations are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Douglas and Jeanine Krauter with their new striped tops will make things hum around Silver Hills Farm . Well , the farm is usually hum- ming with activity anyway so it will not be...
Inventories are ripe in the Land of Mears
Inventories While many rural schools were closed during part of the ten - day storm , and even Hart village schools shut down for a little while , the school in Mears did not close . One day the bel...
Windshield Stamps are ripe in the Land of Mears
At 87 Lars Jenson finds he is probably the oldest resident in the vil- lage of Mears . He was 27 when he came from Sweden , and he worked in the coal kilns with Mangus Peterson in the north ward of Me...
Syrup Pans are ripe in the Land of Mears
Syrup Pans " Lorna Fetters , take these letters , " Mr. Tompkins said . " Type them black or type them red and mail them overhead . " - Some soil conserva- tion pictures came to Mears the other nigh...
Garden Seed Catalogues are ripe in the Land of Mears
Garden Seed Catalogues -Monday there was a whale of a blizzard . Thin people hardly dared appear on the streets of Mears for fear of being blown up onto the roof of the town hall , and even heavy pe...
Sky - larking Kite Tails are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Among the good old country dirt roads I like to travel afoot is the trail from Arnold Paulson's up over and down the hill past the Duem- ler farm . In the spring this is an invitin...
Boiled Dandelions are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Glen Mersing down Grandville way may be excused if he runs the gas hose over on the ground or puts in 3 pints of motor oil in a car instead of an even quart , for he is thinking ab...