With the holidays coming up in 2025-26, we celebrate them with feasting and fun memories.
Looking back 100 years to the local "Mears Newz," we see the town of Mears celebrating their own ways.
We can only wonder what Swift Lathers' headlines would be in 2025-26.
Nov. 20, 1925
Gobblers and Gravy are ripe in the Land of Mears...Handy Andy has moved! You will find him at his new shop on Tin Can Alley, where he knows how to mend tires and radiators. Handy Andy's, the professional bootlegger, who has used tires for sale.
Dec. 25, 1925
License Plates are ripe in the Land of Mears...Chasing her elusive suitcases was a Christmas pastime for Muriel Brubaker who lost her baggage off the Greyhound roof and after a period of tribulation found it again. Then on the homeward jaunt she lost her expensive luggage off the running board of a taxicab and it was found later in a roomer's room in Muskegon through a rumor.
Jan. 1, 1926
Ayers' Almanacs are ripe in the Land of Mears...Perhaps it is because they live in tasteful surroundings in the most attractively built house in Mears that the six beautiful Wright girls seem to have been born with a deep aesthetic sense, the quiet appreciation of the beautiful. It was so with Faye when she blended her watercolors to pinkly paint the crabapple blossoms and reincarnate the roses on paper. Ora's pictures are worth looking at. Lately, her art has received local appreciation in the numerous posters she has made for church affairs. She squeezes these out of liesure [sic] moments in the office when she is not watching her array of calendars with the poised paddles of the Indiana women on motionless rivers. Oh well, some girls fret their lives away trying to get out of here, and some don't know what to do with their time and strut up and down the avenue shaking their hair and rattling the flying hinges on their arctics. And some girls have discovered that life is not noise and they have happy interests that their fingers fly to when time gives them a golden moment.
