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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1934
Page
5
A long list of local events fills the Saline area as families host reunions at Newport Beach Portage Lake and other spots. Activities include weddings picnics and visits to Detroit Chicago Milwaukee and Lansing, with many residents traveling to Monroeville Owosso and Flint.
Fifteen years ago Fred Burkhart and family visited Manchester relatives Sunday. Harl Dietiker Fred Schmid C D Finkbeiner and Edward Muir drive new Ford cars. Willis Leonard and family of Milan visited at the home of his sister Mrs Charles Marken Sunday. Saline's share of the primary school money amounts to 3603 60. The library fund money amounts to 460. Mr. and Mrs K B Simmons motor to Jackson Sunday afternoon and then to several towns for a two week business trip. Isaac Shaw has been here for weeks and left Monday for Chicago and Omaha Neb. Minnie Buckman returned Sunday from a month vacation at Pecona Pines Pennsylvania with her brother Fred Pierce and family.
Thirty years ago Ernest Towler visited his brother Grover Gillen, Saline's star baseball pitcher. Monday he pitched a game for Manchester and today switches to Milan against Morenci. A runaway near the creamery injures Miss Fannie Briggs and Christopher Gugerty. Gugerty helps Briggs into a wagon as the horse bolts. Dr. Wallace reports serious bruises but no bones broken.
The City Clerk of Saline outlines Michigan Election Law procedures for voter registration including dates and who may register and states the last day and hours for registration before an election. Separate notes report a roof lightning strike on the B H Porter home with damage but no fire and a burglary at Palmer Motor Sales with $140 taken and fingerprints aiding investigation.
Repairs and alterations at the Hillsdale grounds are underway for the 84th Hillsdale Fair to be held September 28 and 29. Officials expect crowded exhibits featuring livestock crops 4 H club work school achievements and grange and merchant attractions with premiums for cattle sheep horses hogs farm products baked and canned goods fruits needlework art flowers and more. The northeast section houses most displays away from midway track and diamond areas.
Asthma emphasis urges guarding against fake cures. A testimonial claims a one dollar prescription relief after 25 years of suffering and references other long standing cases. T R Blackford, 1631 Huclid Street, Washington DC.
Adrian legislator James W. Helme urges Governor Comstock to convene a special session to authorize a bond issue. He argues funds are needed to buy feed for Michigan dairymen, preventing cattle slaughter and protecting farmers incomes, farms, and milk supply. He highlights his own dairy with 40 registered Jersey cows and opposes bond use for a Mackinac bridge.
Drought and July heat cut Michigan field bean and potato yields with beans at 52 percent of normal and potatoes light in central and southern counties. Corn prospects at 30.0 million bushels, down 29 percent from 1933, while rains after Aug 2 bring limited relief.
Hollywood Laboratories markets a skin lotion described as excellent for sunburn prevention and tan removal, claiming a non greasy formula that leaves skin soft and white. It touts uses for chapped hands and lips and after shaving and notes agents wanted with a price of 50 cents in Los Angeles.
Millions of deadly disease germs ride on the house fly and contaminate food, wounds, and hands. The ad promotes Tanglefoot Fly Paper as an effective, economical defense, available in standard and Junior sizes and ribbon form.
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