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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1931
Page
7
Gifts from mothers urged the secretary of war to accept early state National Guard units. Governors and officers clamored for action, leading to the creation of a composite division including troops from every state, the Forty second Rainbow division. The idea earned broad endorsement and later saw combat in several engagements.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports 1930 saw a net farm population increase to 27,430,006 from 27,222,000, aided by 1,392,000 urban-to-farm movers and 359,000 births over deaths, despite a farm exodus of 151,000. In Pinckney, Thomas Read Sons elevator was broken into Friday night with a nitro blast. money not found, but checks and papers scattered, a smashed check perforator and damaged billing machine noted.
Unusual Michigan weather since March 1930 caused a moisture deficit across the state with a 13.57 inch depth in the south and slightly less in the north. Soil tillage should be thorough to kill weeds and leave a spongy bed, with crust avoided. Farmers are urged to maintain crops, conserve pastures, and preserve forage for livestock amid uncertain drought end dates.
Mrs A J Turner shopped in Toledo while Melvin Sauich and family spend time in Missouri. Ypsilanti visitors include the Dennisons and Miss Emma Tweet R N. Local gatherings feature the Westfalls Caswells and Holcombs. Hazeldene Goldsmith tours California. Ridgeway cemetery burial noted and several local residents visit Ann Arbor.
Macon residents and guests from Ann Arbor Toledo Detroit Tecumseh Chelsea and other points share weekends and reunions. Families visit relatives attend dinners and funerals while travelers depart for Texas and nearby towns.
Two farmers in Ionia exchange remarks on morning moisture for the first time since last June. One jokes he feels rich as gold dust while the other laments how the weather could change his wife’s nickname Dynamo and the way she charges everything.
General John J. Picautin recalls critical shortages in artillery and aviation early in the war. He notes only nine hours of ammo supply, 35 capable pilots among 65 officers, and fifty-five training planes without war equipment, with cantonments and training centers delayed by months. Leaders debated using American troops for allied armies but chose to build a distinct U.S. force. He recalls meetings with Robert Bacon, Charles B. Magoon, and Dawes while seeking to shape recruitment and logistics.
Jagalong and a boy trek through swamp toward a frog chorus. They glimpse spring peepers and Grandfather Bull Frog. The journey ends with a frog chorus and a tease for next week’s tale.
Two childhood clues describe a flying winged diver that whirs and falls if not handled carefully and a wooden cozy shelter where people live and move inside. The text asks to draw both Guess-Me children together in one picture for keeps.
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