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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1934
Page
1
Morning worship at 10 o'clock Sunday school at 11 led by superintendent H. A. Holmes. Epworth League and Junior League meet, 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Mason Jubilee Singers perform at the high school.
Service at 100 a m worship with D D C E Kircher pastor Sunday school at 2 15 led by S Y Cotton superintendent Carl Geddes assistant Mrs House chorister Miss Helen Martin pianist Evening program at 6 45 includes Senior Intermediate and Junior Endeavorers with 7 30 sermon and special music
The Parent-Teacher Association plans a community potluck at the high school gym next Tuesday at 6:30 PM. All members, teachers, students, ministers, doctors, and workers are urged to bring dishes and share in games, music, and community singing.
Rotarians and their wives marked a Hard Times Party at The Tavern last Thursday evening. The event featured kerosene lamps, candles, boiled dinner and bread pudding, with costumes fitting the theme. Art Kalder led a music memory contest at the piano as Mrs Merritt Martin and neighbors participated, followed by card games and prizes for costume and prizes including a vase and talcum, a corncob pipe, pastry tube, and a key case.
Under a 1933 act April is opened to hook and line fishing on inland lakes for wall-eyed pike great northern pike yellow perch rock calico strawberry bass crappies bluegills sunfish white bass warmouth bass muskellunge and non game species. It is also permissible in non trout streams for April per the fish division State Department of Conservation. Some species including wall eyed pike great northern strawberry bass crappies muskellunge are open year round in non trout streams and pike lakes.
Jason W. Rogers 47 a World War II veteran dies Thursday morning. He served in Co A 150th machine gun battalion 42nd division and fought in major offensives in France. Survived by widow Emma three brothers Floyd Lyo Saline and Thomas of Ann Arbor two sisters Amelia Klumpp Saline and Bert Alisire Detroit and several nephews and nieces Funeral services 2:30 Sunday Rev E C Stelhorn burial Lodi cemetery Veterans of Foreign Wars Graf O'Hara post 423 Elks lodge assigned to funeral honors.
A Class of 1934 reunion party at Burkhart's Golden Ballroom features chat, cards, lunch, and dancing with a note of a joy-filled evening. The column ends with playful remarks about Lavern returning from vacation and the night’s sociable spirit.
The April meeting of the Hammond FT A was held at the shant house with 45 in attendance. Mrs. Floyd Rheates hosted. Mrs. Claude Gilbert led the program including Home Sweet Home, songs, a recitation, and instrumental pieces. The next program committee includes Miss Breen and others. St Pauls League hosted an annual banquet for new confirmants with a three course dinner and program excerpts.
The Board of Review will meet in the council rooms on April 16 at 9 o clock to review the roll and consider complaints filed with the Clerk. Property owners may present concerns in person or by attorney. Lottie Wallace City Clerk.
Haarer the meat cutter led with 185 in the second game and 497 total, as the Haarer team placed second in a three game set against car dealers and meat cutters. Wiedman and Ly Amvyonc posted solid series while Ambruster and others contributed.
R C Merithem, secretary treasurer of Washtenaw county national farm loan association, reports governor of Farm Credit Administration says farmers and creditors are readily taking Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation bonds sold by the Federal Land Bank of St Paul to settle debts. Bonds sell near par with 3 4 % interest and are tax exempt aside from surtaxes, inheritance and gift taxes, and are as liquid as government securities. Farmers can obtain quotations from the Federal Land Bank district if not available in newspapers.
The Cobb family expresses gratitude to friends and relatives for sympathy after a recent bereavement and thanks Dr Kircher for comforting words.
Express thanks for sympathy during bereavement and to Rev Wittbracht for comforting words. Signed by Mrs Julia Layher and Family.
The article extols the community newspaper as a serial history of local people and events, fostering fraternal advertiser-reader bonds, guiding cultural and civic life, and linking distant readers to hometown progress. It likens Roosevelt's valued items to the paper itself and urges readership commitment.
Miss Lois Berner daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Berner Owosso marries Donald Stimpson of Owosso formerly of Saline in a Sunday ceremony at the Shank home Angola Indiana officiated by Rev Thomas Davies. The couple met education paths at Owosso High School Olivet College and Cleary College and plan to reside in Johnson Apartments.
Auction notice for a public sale on a farm two miles south of Ann Arbor along the Scline Ann Arbor road on Tuesday April 17 1934 starting at 1 p m. Items include three work horses several cows Holstein bull farm tools and implements. Cash terms. J E L Allen proprietor James Finnell auctioneer.
Multiple ads list prices and items in Saline Michigan including a Buick Roadster at 45 dollars, a 1930 Model A Ford Tudor for 70, Pur- chase of Plymouth Rock chicks from Burmeister Poultry Farm, Short horn bulls from Charles Lambarth, Shropshire ewes with lambs for sale by Ed Heiniger, and farm implements from Gross Hardware and Wiedman Auto Company. Also notices for a bridge party by O R S and a “New Deal on Electrochefs” promotion.
For Sele four to eight year old horses weighing 1200 to 1700 pounds several matched teams sold with a guarantee contact Ray Barnard at one half mile west and one half mile south of the stadium Ann Arbor phone 107 F32 also DeSoto Plymouth dealer wanted in local territory cash needed Hendee Motor Sales 502 BE Washington Ann Arbor phone 9752
An engraving of advertised coal and coke brands appears alongside a call for residents to bring any legal printing needs for estate settlements to the Observer. The notice requests probate notices be sent to the newspaper via the Probate Judge to ensure universal rates and placement.
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