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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1947
Page
8
The Churches Federated announces 10:00 A M Divine Worship with the sermon What Does it Mean to be a Christian. 11:18 A M Church School for all ages. Midweek study on mountains at 7:45 P M with choir at 8:45 P M. Helping Hand society picnic at Pleasant Lake after meetings.
The St James Ho Ref church led by Pastor A Haneberg holds a 10 40 A M worship and an 11 15 A M Sunday School. The service on the first Sunday each month is conducted in German.
The 10th Sunday after Trinity service led by Pastor George Daschner of Bridgewater L C. will be followed by the annual congregation and Sunday school picnic at Saline Park. Service starts at 11 am with a basket reception to follow.
Trinity Lutheran holds a 10:00 A M Divine Service and 11:00 A M Sunday School. The church council meets next Wednesday evening and the League meets next Thursday evening.
Pastor Alvin Siemsen of Evangelical and Reformed Church will lead 10 00 A M Morning Worship with sermon titled When Wisdom Wanes at 11 15 A M Church School. Youth Fellowship meets Sunday evening at 7 0 and Women’s Guild gathers Wednesday August 13 at 8 P M.
Reverend Robert H Harper leads the August 10 lesson on Proverbs 4 23 54 31 10 12 James 1 3 13 Memory: Proverbs 4 23. Warns against temptations from vicious men and women, urges keeping the heart diligent for life. Notes a muddy spring metaphor and praises the virtuous woman. stresses sin from lust ends in death and the need for a savior Jesus.
The Legislature approved a five dollar bounty on red foxes but it becomes effective October 11. Trappers must present pelts within ten days of kill and applications are certified only by township clerks who mark the pelt in the ear. Each fox nets the trapper four dollars and fifty cents after a fifty cent township fee, with payment by mail after records are certified.
The piece notes material returned from Europe for the U S Department of Agriculture and lists 750 black and white photos and 3500 colored slides of technical subjects. It mentions first hand information on natural resources for the pending recovery program and states Jack will stay in Saline until Tuesday before returning with his family to Harrison Arkansas.
The Boys' Club of Wayne visited Mr Shore at Shore Farm in Manchester for a turkey lunch. On the return trip, two busloads of boys stopped for a tour of the Klager Hatchery.
Children's Day program features songs duets and recitations by local youths from the Wiedmayer and Hertler families with a 2 pm church lawn picnic, potluck supper, and free will offering to cover expenses. All families and the public invited for morning spiritual program and afternoon social event. Bees become lost after hive moves and two small fires with alarms reported nearby causing no damage.
In Ontonagon Colonel Floyd Evans tours Michigan with a party of editors to showcase air transport linking the peninsulas. He cites 202 airports and 16 seaplane bases plus 235 flight schools training over 15 000 students as proof of progress and tourism potential.
The article notes new airports at Escanaba Ironwood Marquette and Menominee with a goal of 300 airports and 25 seaplane bases by 1950. It highlights widespread pilot guidance markings and a broader push to connect communities north of the Straits via air travel. The author mentions a planned trip to Mirror Jake in Porcupine Mountain State Park and a vacation in the north country.
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