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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1944
Page
2
Publication details from Saline Mich indicate post office handling as second class matter. Subscription rates shown: $1.50 yearly, $1.60 six months, outside Michigan $2 yearly, soldier rate $1.25. Card of Thanks and poetry billed per line. obituaries and marriages free. paid notices 6c per line with 25c minimum.
The Federated Church announces a schedule with Rev. William H. Bach preaching at 4:30 PM on Out of the Night and a 7:45 PM evening service featuring a Has ter cantata The Risen King. Sunday school is at 11:30 AM. An annual business meeting via potluck follows at 7:00 PM on Tuesday April 11. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30 PM and choir practice at 8:30 PM.
A satirical Camp Paper piece mocks absurd wartime guidance. It advises reckless behavior during air raids and grimly suggests dangerous acts, such as handling unexploded bombs and inciting chaos, in a darkly humorous critique of survival instructions. It concludes by mocking air raid wardens who reserve the best seats.
Conservation biologists at the Swan Creek experiment station urge protection and encouragement of owls as beneficial rodent control. Barn owls attack rats and mice around farms. other Michigan species like saw-whets screech, great horned, long and short eared, and barred owls also help with hunting. The great horned owl is the only potentially harmful species, though its rodent destruction may offset poultry and game bird predation.
Dr. James B. Griffin describes in The Fort Ancient Aspect how precontact Indians in the Mississippi Valley buried their dead by tunneling into existing mounds and placing bodies inside. This clash with earlier mound-building complicates dating and burial type identification.
The University of Michigan Class of 1916 counts three brigadier generals and one rear admiral among its alumni. Brigadier Generals Theron D Weaver Benjamin Caffey and John York graduated in 1916 while Rear Admiral Cart Cotter of the Navy Engineering Corps oversees construction on the west coast Hawaii and the South Pacific.
Local items from Ypsilanti and area note visits, entertainments, and community events. Doris Jean Ye Henke visits Brighton. Rev and Mrs Schofield host a Bible study. card party at Don Burkhart home. Jay Harmon house purchased by Henry Cornish. Ladies Aid at Trinity Lutheran. various travels and social news. Milan road remains nearly impassable. judge notes mud holes. Junior 4-H officers elected. Willing Workers meet. births and family visits. Measles affect Gleason School. postage tax changes for seeds and parcels.
A 1960s style column urges collective resolve and charity to face future challenges. It champions forgetfulness of greed and distrust, promotes peace, and calls for courage and service to others as a path to a bright year. The piece mixes civic sentiment with a cooking recipe and home pest advice.
Rev C A Haneberg preaches at Saint James Evangelical Lutheran Church Saline Township five miles west of Saline on US 112. Divine services each Sunday at 10 a m with Sunday school at 11 715. Everyone welcome.
A Michigan conservation official notes pheasants at feeding stations provide pleasure but do not require extra sustenance in winter. The hardy birds can forage on weed seeds corn crop residues and unharvested beans, with only rare deaths during severe sleet storms. Archaeologists say Middle American culture thrived for 2000 years before Europeans arrived.
St Johns Lath Church Bridgewater led by Pastor M. G. Philipp holds 10 a.m. services and Sunday school at 11. English services occur on the second and fourth Sundays each month. All are invited to attend.
The Greadys of Little Rock Ark spent a 10 day furlough visiting Ruth Lee and Paul Lee family members in South Lyon. A Lee home dinner honored them as Lt Rogers and family welcomed newborn Richard Paul Rogers in Ishpeming on March 23.
A promotional piece extols John Deere tractors for labor saving features, efficiency, durability, and long life. It urges readers to ask neighbors who use them about performance and ease of handling.
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