Potato Crop Quality Key to Michigan Growers Profits
Michigan State College warns potato growers that profits hinge on consistent, quality production. Farm leaders plan to increase acreage, but stocks of old potatoes require new crops to be top quality through seed treatment, early planting, proper spraying, timely harvest, and careful grading to avoid rotting or defects.
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United States
Michigan
Farm Crops Department
Michigan State College
Grass Lake resident found dead in garage
Louis C. Watkins of Grass Lake was found dead on the floor of his garage Sunday afternoon by his wife. He had gone to check the car motor and the garage door was closed with the motor running when his wife checked again, leaving the cause uncertain between heart trouble or carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Louis C. Watkins
Grass Lake
Manchester Enterprise
Community notices and social visits in Saline area
Local items list visits by Miss Ruth Morris Miss Hazel Kreager Rev C Kircher and families as well as social events at the Methodist Ladies Aid and Woman's Club. Notes on oil lease interest, neighborly calls, and attendance at plays or games. Includes obituaries for Grace Drake and brief family updates across Ann Arbor Dearborn and Hillsdale areas.
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Thomas Shurtz
Milwaukee
Wis
Charles Boland
Ann Arbor
Saline Friends
Ruth Morris
Albion
Carl Kircher
Detroit
C. H. Kircher
Hazel Kreager
Whittaker
Chester Leonard
Reuben Crosby
North Branch
Saline
Carl Napier
Dearborn
John Wurster
B. A. Ruckman
Virginia
Hillsdale
Minnie Ruckman
Paul Wood
Henry Morris
Sheldon Rogers
Violet Graf
Alberta
Doris Rogers
Lloyd Armbruster
William Sturm
Rosina Sturm
Harold Zahn
G. Birkle
Frank Moore
Dexter
Ethel Drake
Portage
Myr
Lewis Ernst
Alma
Mary Helber
Estella Vedder
Josiah Dexter
Methodist Ladies Aid
Ronald Fitzgerald
Bliss Curtiss
Clarence Kircher
C. B. Kircher
Adrian
Toledo
Monroe
Local Social Notes From South Saline Last Week
Joseph Drum is ill with kidney trouble. Several residents, including Mrs Alonzo Kutler Mrs Ed Hartwig and Mrs Hugh Craig, suffer flu neuritis and interactions. Visits occur among the Craig Hartwig Downing and Graf families with nearby neighbors and relatives in Tecumseh Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Clinton Britton and Detroit areas.
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Joseph Drum
Alonzo Kutler
Ed. Hartwig
Hugh Craig
Marian Lords
Marie Hartwig
Helen Pierce
Irving Downing
Walter Craig
Lenadore Graf
Ann Arbor
Stanley Adams
Tecumseh
Olive Easlick
Frank Drum
Detroit
Paul Metzger
Raymond Bellmore
Duane
Clinton
Katherine Martin
Roscoe Craig
Ypsilanti
Floyd Cross
Merl Cross
Britton
Alber Cross
Leota
Deer sighting near Four Mile Lake reported
Otto Lucht and Elmer Wright saw a tame deer on the Wright farm around 11 am Tuesday. The doe wandered near their position within five to six rods before fleeing. Mrs Robison and the Hartwigs are noted in local farming snippets with other small updates.
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Otto” Lucht
Four Mile Lake
Elmer Wright
Wright
Lucht
Otto
Chelséa Standard
Local notes from Saline area in Fifteen Years Ago feature town moves
John Mayer of Lodi rented the Chris Braun house on West Michigan Avenue and will make Saline his home. William McAllister of York bought the Blanchard house in the north end and will move in soon. Misses Linnie Rogers Gertrude Collins Mary Morden and Eva Zahn returned from Detroit for spring vacation. William Lutz resumed duties at M A C after visiting family. Robert Maesster of Grand Rapids, formerly a Saline township farmer, owns a Kissel Kar and plans a Saline visit. Easter services featured choirs from Methodist, Presbyterian and St Paul churches with cantata at event.
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John Mayer
Lodi
Chris, Braun
West Michigan Avenue
Saline
William McAllister
York
Linnie ,Rogers
Gertrude Collins
Mary Morden
Eva Zahn
Detroit
John Lutz
Robert Maesster
Grand Rapids
Saline Township
Finkheimer
Methodist
Presbyterian
St. Paul’s Church
Thirty Years Ago Furnace and Farm News From May
Thirty years ago Sidney Harwood installs a new Marshall furnace. John Boettger rents and moves on the Shaw-Doc Phillips farm. A rich oil vein is struck at Gladstone at a depth of 1000 feet. March and April were mixed with April arriving first. S P Fairbank ships another car of potatoes priced at 60 cents. G C Howard begins as traveling salesman for a Toledo spice house. His family moves in with Will Dell's people. The Ladies' Society of the Presbyterian church hosts a Woman's exchange at Fairbank's store on Saturday April 12 at 10 am. Michigan wheat crop condition is reported very good with only about 15 percent killed. Fruit buds are only slightly damaged.
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S. ‘P. Fairbank
G. C. Howard
Toledo
Will. Dell
Ladies’ Society of the Presbyterian Church
Michigan
Lindenschmidt Market Work Center Now Open
Anna and Julia Brennen, longtime dressmakers in Ann Arbor, have moved to North Dakota and invested in two farms to run themselves, while Andrew Lindenschmidt continues operating in the Lindenschmidt market.
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Andrew Lindenschmidt
Lindenschmidt
Anna
Julia Brennen
Ann Arbor
North Dakota
Foreign postage increases apply from April first
Rates on letters and post cards to foreign countries rose starting April 1 with three cents per ounce or fraction. Post cards cost two cents for single and four cents for double cards. Second class mail such as newspapers and samples also increased with one and a half cents per two ounces and a five cent minimum. Advertising is suggested as a remedy.
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Charles Fautley
St. Louis
The
Citizens Bank
Saline, Michigan
Simmons
Dietiker’s
Funeral Home
B. P.S
Evelyn Hirnst
Martin Fucss
Bridge
Edwina Learmont
Woman’s Club
Orrin Briges
Intermediate Christian Endeavor Society
Richard Ward
Jackson
Lenawee
Pittsburgh
Sun, Ohio, Pure and
Shell Oil
Reuben Finkhbeiner
Pedro
Luella Burkhardt
David Wahl
Albert Bredernitz
William Heusel
John Mitchell
James
Jerome. Duryea
Nancy Ann
Fort Wayne
Ind
William Sweet
Sweet
Camp Fire
Legion Rooms
Ann Arbor Street
Avclassi
LT Swill
C. H. Wittbracht
Arex Melena Raus
Alice. Rentschler
Ruthetn
Laura Schrader
Nonaj Mitham
Donald Stimpsom
Owosso
Elizabeth Connelly
G. T. ‘Alexander
Ruth Rose
Bear F. Barkham
Samuel Boyd
Bert Derendinger
Max Fosdick
T. J. Irelan
Deerfield
Thomas ‘Burrough
Floyd Rogers
Robert Fucss
George Johnson
U. of M
Arthur Briggs
William Stierle Sumlay
Katherine Prosser
Dorothy Warner
Traverse City
Linnie Parsons
Steward
Maurice Henderson
Marjorie MacQueen
Mildred Whitman
Waterloo
Big Rapids
County Federation of Women’s Clubs
Federated Church
Willis Fowler
Emily Scott
Floyd Huliott
Edward Mahrle
Lawrence Paul
Staney Jenkinson
Manchester
Mahrie
Hillsdale College
McVicar
Harry Friss
Naomi
Friss
Arthur Derr
Edward Law
Friis
Dear
Grace May Drake
Jacob Fitzgerald
Wahjamega
Orpha Drake
Lapeer
Leola Anvik
Edd Drake
Annn Arbor
Floyd Fitzgerald
Bridges Funeral Home
Oakwood Cemetery
South
Gleason
Mrs. Robison
Marie
Frederick Hartwig
Sidney Harwood
Marshall
John Boettger
HE. Shaw-Doc Phillips
Gladstone
Isha
Dscape Garden
Saline, Mich
Enna Jettick Shoes
Sherwin-Williams
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