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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1940
Page
5
St John’s Lutheran Church Bridgewater invites worshippers to divine service at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m. English services are held every second and fourth Sunday each month. All are welcome.
Foresters note over 2,500 patents in five centuries for substitute rail tie materials, yet wood ties remain most common. About a billion wooden ties are in service, with an average renewal of 100 ties per mile annually, though some railroads replace 50 to 75. About three fourths of the 50 million ties used each year are treated before laying.
Miss Addie Crittenden visits friends in nia. Mr and Mrs James Beach of Ypsilanti call on Mr and Mrs E W Payne. Mr and Mrs Jay Howell guest of Mr and Mrs Robert Howell at Wayne. Mrs Raymond Hatch and infant Judith Clair return from Tecumseh hospital. Mr and Mrs Ralph Halladay in Detroit with sister and brother in law. Various guests at family homes. hospital visits and birthday party noted.
Mrs Hazel Gordon attended a Detroit Flower Show last week. Ralph Hammond spent Sunday with Mrs Minnie Hammond and family. Mr and Mrs Edward Sneary hosted about 45 relatives for Easter dinner. Miss Mildred Burkey of Milan stayed with Miss Genevieve Gilbert. The Stimpsons spent Easter with Donald Stimpson's family in Owosso. Forsythe family members visited relatives in Ann Arbor and Milan. Mrs Jennie Forsythe of Ann Arbor joined her son and wife for Easter. Adrian Ellsman attended a funeral for Mrs Fred Gauntlett in Milan. Glen Gordon and David spent Easter with Dean Gordon's family in Adrian.
Local notes show numerous visits and gatherings in Britton and nearby towns. Names include Hugh Craig, Mrs. Frank Stilts, Forrest Wiechner, James Young, Ila Luckhardt, Jean Wealey, Clarence Merritt, Ed Root, and others visiting relatives in Wixom, Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Morendi.
Local household notes list visits and calls among Augusta residents including Edward Olka, Levi Teachout, and the Richards and Riggs families visiting various homes in Ridgeway and Ann Arbor. A kitchen how to explains beating egg whites with salt, incorporating hot fruit, and slow baking of a whip dish with optional whipped cream.
Clarence Strait is ill at home. Residents hosting visits include Clarence Schwartz in Ann Arbor and spouses of several Mooreville families visiting from Lansing Dixboro Ypsilanti and Augusta. Spelling champions cited for Mooreville school include Virginia Fuller Lois Holcomb Jimmy LeBaron Loyola Kanitz. Easter dinner guests listed with multiple local families.
A reader shares a low cost bird bath idea using one part cement to three parts sand and minimal water. Cast into niches or rock garden spots to resemble natural stones, the baths attract birds with shallow water and minimal maintenance.
Michigan State College home economics specialists advise using peaches apricots and prunes for fruit whips. Cook sieve and sweeten the fruit before beating egg whites and keep whites at room temperature for best volume while avoiding yolk fat contamination.
A campus gathering at Michigan State College discussed goat breeding with state leaders. The talks noted goats are dainty eaters despite thriving on waste and prefer alfalfa clover and soybean hay. Diet includes carrots corn barley oats linseed meal bran bone meal salt and pellets.
Walter Wagner of Detroit failed to see a train at a grade crossing and crashed his car into the train. The impact wrecked his vehicle, but he escaped without injuries.
Sealed proposals due by 11:00 A M April 10 1940 at the Michigan State Highway Commissioner office for a 40 by 320 ft land strip added to the east bound railroad alignment across Rice lands in Section 10 Ypsilanti Township Washtenaw County. Bid must include cash and certified check payable to Murray D Van Wagoner. Right to reject bids reserved. Dated Lansing March 25 1940 March 28 1940.
Washtenaw County Probate Court orders final administration account of John Burkhardt estate examined April 18, 1940 at 10:00 AM in Arbor and directs publication in The Saline Observer prior to hearing. Judge Jay G. Pray presides. Nora O. Borgert signs the copy. The article notes the U S Bureau of Fisheries renamed dogfish to grayfish to boost demand.
Probate Court in Ann Arbor Michigan fixed May 27 1940 at 10:00 AM for creditors to present claims against the estate of Fredricka Moore deceased. Notice to be published in The Saline Observer for three consecutive weeks. Judge Jay G. Pray presiding.
A promotion extols the Observer advertising columns as a cheaper and easier way to reach a large audience, claiming you can contact many times more people than by phone at a small cost.
A speaker touts that advertised gas from a known company is of high quality due to continuous advertising. Advertising allegedly keeps the price low at about a penny per mile and builds consumer confidence in uniform product quality across stations bearing the brand sign.
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