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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1940
Page
2
Card of thanks and notices policy states six lines per line for thanks notices. Obituary and marriage notices are free. Poetry costs five cents per line. Personal or business-promoting items incur regular rates. Paid entertainments require six cents per line. Minimum charge is 25 cents.
Citizens demand regular public financial reporting from all government bodies that handle funds. Officials should publish where and how every dollar is spent, reinforcing transparency and accountability as a core democratic standard.
Two editorials discuss local spending and encourage using Saline businesses. They note a mechanic from a neighboring city was hired and paid, then Saline money circulated locally. The second editorial highlights statements from Six visitations showing local spending, with envelopes printed elsewhere, and warns that money leaves Saline.
Prof Frank Hutchinson of Rutgers University said a survey of 286 New Brunswick and Highland Park housewives found nine of ten believed newspaper advertising more helpful than radio advertising. The journalism students’ poll also showed 93 94 percent found newspaper ads helpful for shopping and 81 83 percent were aided in keeping up with latest styles.
In Jackson the home of Mr. and Mrs. A Murray burned to the ground at 2 00 a m March 24. Firefighters arrived but only a few clothes were saved. The Murrays formerly lived near Mr Begole in York. Jenny Richards of Ypsilanti is visiting relatives including the Richards and G Richards households.
Nine year old Gerald Helmholdt awoke to a blaze on his roof. He grabbed a pail of water, climbed from a shed to the roof, and calmly extinguished the fire. He returned to bed and slept through the night.
Voters in five counties Detroit metro area face a November 1940 referendum on a proposed Detroit Huron Clinton Parkway Playground Plan. If approved a Metropolitan Authority and park district would be formed to develop parks beaches trails and express highways linking Detroit to Lake Erie and Lake St Clair. Essay contest prizes of 5 and 3 dollars offered by Citizens Bank of Saline for local students.
Charlie Gordon buys a new tractor and Albert Graf adds a tractor and cultivator. Co D Finkbeiner attends a Ypsilanti fair board meeting. Mr and Mrs A A Harlam host Milan guests. Mrs Lawrence Tucker and Mrs William Schwoche visit C D Finkbeiner. Ernest Hayes, seriously ill, shows improvement and returns home. Dell School pupils perform a Dutch play for mothers and friends. Holland facts presented. tea wafers and Holland cheese served.
Saline beats Clinton Redskins 7 to 6 in a practice game with Saline scoring seven runs in the sixth inning. Lefty Bredernitz led the Hornets at the plate with two hits while Cammet and Hieber added hits and Hieber hit a triple. Relief pitching by Jedele and Burkhardt bolstered Saline as Clinton struck early, then waned. The teams meet again tomorrow and May 14 at home.
Local notes list moves visits and arrivals from Oak Grove to Detroit and Ypsilanti. Communities share teaching changes marriages and Easter hospitality with residents including the Kyte Hertler Briggs and Jaeger families and others in Michigan towns.
Miss Florence Watson returns from Detroit. Guests include Miss Jennie Brown from Detroit and Irene Rogers from Ann Arbor visiting relatives. Alfred Daniels born to Mr and Mrs Edward Guenther. Wedding of Bertha Rheinfrank to Frederick Boettner at Bridgewater with George Rheinfrank and family in attendance.
Divine services at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 11 a.m. English services held on the second and fourth Sunday of each month. Pastor M. C. Philipp invites all to attend.
Dozens of Boy Scouts and leaders plan a April 15 work party at the Dexter area Scout Camp. They target Kiwanis baseball diamond prep, tree planting, and transplanting, plus ground breaking for a Junior Chamber of Commerce cabin with about 200 dollars in materials. Camp Newkirk hosts weekly troops and serves as a winter scouting haven.
York Baptist Church Stony Creek and Platt Roade led by Rev. John BE Hendricks offers 10:00 am morning worship on The Seven Judgments 11:15 am Sunday school and Bible class 7:00 pm B P U and conversational scripture study 7:45 pm Gospel meeting Subject The Way of Life Made Plain Thursday 8 o clock prayer and praise service.
Washtenaw County Circuit Court orders Leon Loeb to answer Frieda Loeb’s bill within three months or be confessed. Publication and service are required. The judge is George W. Sample with clerk Inella M. Smith. Dates listed: April, May 1940. U.S. Bureau of Fisheries reportedly propagating near extinction diamond back terrapin pins selling for $96 a dozen.
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