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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1921
Page
1
In Saline the Observ er advocates resisting Sunday overuse by urging half-day midweek business closures to protect the Christian Sabbath. It blames immigrant influences and urges churches and the city to persuade merchants to refrain from trading on specified half days to allow recreation and church attendance.
Wallace Reid, famed for speed and stunts, leads in Excuse My Dust a sequel to The Roaring Road at the Liberty Theatre Saturday. He plays Tooodles Walden a Darco automobile firm manager in a cross state race from Los Angeles to San Francisco with rivals and a crash that leaves him in the race to win. Ann Little Theodore Roberts and Tully Marshall co star in a strong supporting cast.
A sermon titled on piles and pills recounts a colored preacher asked to switch topics. He jokes about many pills from calomile to quinine and Pinkham’s era medicines, then declares the gospel pill as the greatest pill everyone needs.
Michigan hunters are warned quail remain protected for three more years while new regulations are taught. The 1924 law also extends protection to pine gills and other fish species until June 16 with size limits for blue gills rock bass sun fish and perch. Hotels are told not to serve protected fish to guests for a fee.
Recreation Park in Ypsilanti hosts the church school annual outing on Thursday August 25 with sports games prizes and refreshments. Families form their own committees and plan by walking distance from the park. Final plans to be announced next Sunday.
The Collins family held their seventh annual reunion on August 1 with about one hundred relatives present. The program featured music recitations and histories, a noon repast, ice cream and cake, and outdoor games after dinner. Attendees came from Tecumseh Arbor Macon Clinton Britton Toledo Kalamazoo Bronson Grand Rapids Saline and nearby areas. The next gathering will meet at Pinsworth Collins home.
The third annual Hogan family reunion was held August 1 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry McMann with about seventy-five attendees from Adrian Clinton Jackson Detroit St. Louis and Manchester A potluck dinner was served Officers elected for the year include President Mrs Ralph Hammond Treasurer Mrs Frank Burroughs and Secretary Miss Edna Wallace The next meeting will be at the farm home of Mr and Mrs E Hehoe near Clinton.
Report from a Chicago merchants meeting describes milliners planning monthly hat style changes and fashion houses pushing new trends every thirty days. Observers say price hikes hit lower incomes as department stores promise rapid turnover and evolving accessories.
A Cook Cadmus reunion was held at the Phillips farm on Sunday August 14 with fifty two relatives attending. A noon potluck meal followed and guests listed include Leoward Cook Ben Cook Thelma Stockbridge Dr B L F Chase Emory Ann Arbor Jay Page Dexter Lloyd Shutts Detroit Reuben Gauntlet and family etc. They voted to meet in Jackson Kahond Sunday in August 1922.
Notices announce Sunday services at 10:02 am in the Citi Bank building with testimony meeting on Wednesday at 8:00 pm. A cordial invitation extends to all including Sunday school pupils under 20 years who may be admitted.
Classified ad notices list rooms for rent and small sales including a 10 gallon milk can a wardrobe a lighting plant and various farm and household items with multiple contact numbers and locations across Saline Ann Arbor and nearby areas. The notices mention used machinery like Deering and McCormick binders and horses with cattle including a pair of roan horses and a cow with calf.
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