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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1941
Page
4
A 1944 bank report lists deposits of individuals partnerships and corporations totaling 995 354 dollars. It records liabilities and capital accounts as 1 166 432 21 with loans and discounts at 393 773 60 and notes and debentures 296 209 66. Real estate and bank premises values appear, and officers certify the statement as true.
A Saline Observer reader recounts Camp Grant as the largest induction center in the U S reports 30 000 selectees monthly clothed and classified 800 fitted every nine hours and notes a second largest medical training center in the nation 50 000 men trained this year He plans to attend Holabird School in Baltimore and praises army life discipline and meals. Also shares letters from Saline friends and updates from Fort Lewis Camp Custer and Seattle plus local thanks to the Saline Observer
Local residents share Easter visits with relatives in Adrian Ypsilanti Ann Arbor and Lansing. A PTA benefit banquet is planned at the schoolhouse Friday evening. Families including the Goldsmiths Gainesons and Grams host and travel to Washington DC and Florida for a motor trip. Mildred Fuller celebrates 13th birthday with friends and an Easter egg hunt.
The piece traces Hammond District's origins with the Borden and Stimpson families arriving from New York in 1830 and 1846, the first log school built in 1837, and shifting site after a 1847 fire. It lists early teachers, wages, and curricula, plus details on school terms, expenses, and a 1920s enrollment of 11 pupils across grades.
Mrs Ernest Hayes visited Detroit last Thursday. W P Schwocho hosted Milford visitors and Sunday callers included Philip Edelmayer and family from Detroit. Seeger and Heininger households hosted dinner with extended families from Toledo and Ann Arbor. Earl Bondie aided Seeger home due to Buddy Seeger’s spine abscess. Fred Arendentertained relatives from Toledo and others joined for dinner.
In Washtenaw County Michigan the Probate Court under Judge Jay G Pray set April 28 1941 at 10 A M for hearing a petition by Elizabeth Feuerbacher sister of Laura B Schaible deceased to admit a will to probate and appoint Homer Kuebler or another suitable administrator with will annexed The Saline Observer is to publish the notice for three successive weeks Nora O Borgert Register of Probate announces the order April 3 10 17
In Washtenaw County probate, Judge Jay G Pray set May 6 1941 at 10 am for examination and allowance of the Fifth Annual account of co trustees Kneeland B Simmons Lee Tescher and State Savings Bank of Ann Arbor. Public notice to be published for three consecutive weeks prior.
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