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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1938
Page
4
Card of thanks obituary and marriage notices published free of charge as benefit to individuals. All matter for personal or business gain charged at regular rates. Announcements of entertainments with admission charged priced at six cents per line. Minimum charge 25 cents.
An obituary honors Hackley Butler as a tireless public servant whose leadership shaped Ann Arbor’s parks scouting and business community. The piece praises his behind the scenes work, financial help, and lifelong dedication, calling his legacy a living monument to civic virtue. It also urges public health action ahead of the school season, urging vaccination and early treatment of children to ensure a healthy return to school.
Sam Buehler and family visit Detroit on Sunday. Wayne county’s Miss Jennie Brown visits Saline. Alfred Schmid stays Lakeland guest of Robert Fucs. Dean Briggs and family visit Ypsilanti. Lee Teacher and family visit Noblesville Indiana. Max Fosdick, Miss Emma Burrow and S B Weimnett at Sandlake. Barn torn down at Chandler property. Edna Smith moves to Ann Arbor home in Saline. William Sunday and wife welcome son William Henry on Aug 14. Louise Mann Nellie Feldkamp Edna Feldkamp Bauer spend week at Buffalo Niagara Falls. George Needham John Stimson on stock judging team at state fair. Chris Rentz builds two story dwelling across alley from Sturm’s harness shop.
Mrs. Reuben Rogers hosts Miss Mable Tooze of Monroe and other visitors. Local notes mention Miss Anna Gruner of York visiting cousin L L Daniels, and Roland Finch with Helen, plus W L Sturm and wife sightseeing in Lansing. The village council grants the D A R permission to build a Y on Hall Street.
The article explains how to learn diving from shallow water and a dock, detailing steps from pushing off to a kneeling dive and full standing entry. It warns that fancy diving demands rhythm timing and high coordination, marking it as the final progression for a capable swimmer.
Quick results are common from Hamner ads in The Observer. The column notes such little ads have become routine news. It invites readers to try an ad and see for themselves, offering phone contact 60-F2 for Saline Observer.
The Saline Junior Livestock Club met Monday evening August 15. A club tour began at Wendershot's and visited Spence's Murray's Hanson’s Finkheiner's Hammond's Carvis' Gordon's Cammet's Robison's and ended at the school house for the meeting. The secretary filed a report and members completed county fair entry blocks before going home.
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