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Diploma Ribbons are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR There was a time when Pentwater was a lumbering , town and the hum of the sawmills made the music of the village and great loads of boards were shipped away in the sailing vessels...
Spiraea and Parsley are ripe in the Land of Mears
-Since a child I have thirsted for the lakes with an inlander's thirst for the breezes from great expanses of water . I can remember how in 1913 I found the hilly slope of the Padecky road down past t...
Rotating Fans are ripe in the Land of Mears
Rotating Fans -For many are are years the good people of Pentwater have responded to the forest fire alarms and grabbed their spades and hurried across the channel into the southern plains to fig...
Rosybugs are ripe in the Land of Mears
-The Kreigh family were invited to a beefsteak dinner at Howard Gashal's . Mrs. Kreigh choked on a chunk and couldn't get it up or down . To . Dr. Robinson to get it out . It was complicated and diffi...
Sweet Cherries are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Sweet Cherries -Norma Dormire has a stately new flag pole to hoist the national col- ors in the breeze at Silver Lake . K's Camp would draw quite a crowd on the 4th of July if Ki...
Soda Crackers & Firetlies are ripe in the Land of Mears
Still living on the farm where he was born , H. F. W. Meyer looks back over the changes made by the years and remembers the Golden landscape before there was any Silver Lake hereabouts , when people s...
Cabbage Harvesters are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -To those who have long beaten their heels on the city pavements , the feel of the old sand roads beneath their feet good to their soles . Such a peace abides along the untenanted...
Fish Houses are ripe in the Land of Mears
So Hugh Salisbury . the stake - driving , swamp - wading , town - platting surveyor , sold his farm . Hugh came to Oceana county back in 1887 and can remember the old depot in Hart up by the fair grou...
Hatchets and Cherry Pies are ripe in the Land of Mears
-Little Don Ricks has lost his yellow collie dog , Bud , and is very anxious to get him back . The dog was a birthday present to little Don . When last seen it was headed southwest and maybe is down o...
St. Patrick Clovers are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Philip Dean Miller , 3 years old and almost 4 , the next to the young- est of the seven children of Rev. Miller , pastor of the church in West Golden , saw the ration books , the s...
Roller Skates are ripe in the Land of Mears
Roller Skates The Legion had a St. Patrick's party in the billet the night after green ribbon day . It was also Ernest Corbin's birthday and Gordon Os- born's wedding anniversary . Well , they had t...
Dripping Maples are ripe in the Land of Mears
Mears friends have been receiving enroute letters this week from Mrs. Irene Draper and three children who left Sunday noon to motor to California to make their home . By Wednesday they had reached Tul...
Parasols and Showers are ripe in the Land of Mears
Why not let the people elect the county highway commissioners ? They couldn't do any worse . It is the people's right . We are the people . Why can't we choose who is going to manage our county highwa...
Victory Garden Seeds are ripe in the Land of Mears
Joe Grantz has gone to war and Nathalie Plumhoff will be licking more stamps . - In Golden township Al Urtel was elected supervisor : Bert Bashaw , clerk ; Mary Johnson , treasurer ; Sam Krantz , high...
Shuddering Daffodils are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR -If you are a farmer , why not grow some sorghum on your farm this year , enough for your family use anyway ? It will grow here in Oceana coun- ty and there is a sorghum mill wit...
Blue Violets are ripe in the Land of Mears
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR Blue Violets Keith Corliss , the grocer , has shaken the winter dust off his wheel- barrow and is now building a cement patch in his front sidewalk which has been worn out by the...
Leaping Lettuce Leaves are ripe in the Land of Mears
Leaping Lettuce Leaves Who should appear in the sand dunes but my old friend , Bill Salter . now grown to adult stature and wisdom and accompanied by a con- genial little wife named Aili , who is a...