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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1927
Page
1
Harry Langdon, star of Long Pants, installs a dictaphone in his bedroom to record ideas that strike in sleep. He often wakes with a gag in mind and fears forgetting it, so the device helps capture the brain child before dawn.
Six Washtenaw youths Eleen Mason Ruth Wilken Arley Elliot Gene Wheeler Laverne Gale and Webb Harwood traveled from Ann Arbor to Chicago for the National 4-H Club Congress. The itinerary included tours of Garfield Park Field Museum Art Institute and Lincoln Park plus banquets and lectures at the LaSalle and Sherman halls and special tours of packing houses mills and a Yeast company.
The Wiedman Automobile Company held a demonstration day with a big turnout at their Detroit area garage. Twelve prospects placed orders for cars once delivery begins early next year, while attendees praised the new model’s design and construction despite not seeing a showroom car.
At the annual meeting held in the Masonic temple on Tuesday evening officers were chosen for the coming year. W M George W Seeger Ss W Lloyd Dell J W Clarence Cook Treasurer S Y Cotton Secretary C A Jordan S D Hugh Austin J D Bison Shaw Steward W J Hartline Steward Alwin Gross Chaplain Wilbur Coe Marshal William Dell Tyler Roy Rogers Installation for the newly elected will be held Tuesday evening December 13.
Saline Woman's Club meets at Mrs. Lewis Ernst with nineteen members and three visitors. They pledge gifts to The Volunteers of America and share reports from the State Federation convention. Novi, Livingston county, is noted for its name origin tied to No VI. Foreclosure notice: Bertha Burtis mortgages property in Ypsilanti. sale set for February 14, 1928, at ten in the forenoon at the Ann Arbor courthouse to satisfy $5,896. Mortgage includes Woods Addition land and Sum mit street parcel. payment and release terms outlined.
The church lists Sunday services on December 11 with morning worship at 10 and evening at 7 30, Sunday school at 11 15, Epworth League at 6 30, and a Thursday prayer meeting at 7 30. The Ladies Aid bazaar and chicken pie supper are set for Friday December 9 with sale at 4 and supper at 5 in the new dining rooms. The dining room and kitchen have been redecorated with new linoleum and added conveniences. A burglar entered three Chelsea homes and probed a fourth Tuesday night per the Chelsea Standard.
The Ladies' Aid will hold its annual Christmas Fair and Supper in the tent fire parlors Friday evening December 9. Enjoy fancy work, fish pond, home-made candies and a menu including chicken pie mashed potatoes rolls brown bread cabbage salad pickles cranberries jello cake and coffee. Price 50 60 cents.
The administrator of the state of the late M B Noble will sell at public auction on the premises one mile north and one mile west of Saline on Wednesday December 14 1927 at 1 00 pm. Seven horses six cows Holstein bull Higby nine sheep one sow and a full line of implements and tools are offered. Other notes reference a Benton Harbor shooting and a local sensational inquiry.
Saline High defeated Belleville 20 to 17 in Friday night action. Hutzel scored 12 points to lead Saline as Lambarth sealed the win with a late basket and two free throws. Belleville’s L Clayton fouled out with four personals as Saline prepares to face Clinton next Friday in Clinton.
Mr and Mrs E A Moross of Mosherville plan a large wildlife refuge in Hillsdale County. The 225 acre tract will include three lakes stocked with fish and planted foods to attract waterfowl. The area will shelter pheasants quail and a rich native songbird population, with muskrats and other furred animals adding to the habitat.
Local classified listing from The Observer Liner includes for sale items such as a 1923 Ford coupe, dining room set, wool breeding ewes, Poland China pigs, and a new milk cow. Also offered are services from Wiedman Auto Company, Parsons & Dodge, and local hardware. Public notices invite legal printing requests and classified advertising through the Saline Mercantile Co.
Sunday schedule for the Federated Church lists morning worship at 10 30 Bible school at 11 45 and evening services at 7 45 with a Young People’s service at 7 00. Good music and a friendly welcome for strangers.
The Christian Science Society of Saline holds Sunday services in the hall over Citizens Bank at 10 20 a.m with the subject God the Preserver of Man. Testimonial meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. Sunday school follows the morning service. pupils under 20 may be admitted. For sale eight pigs six weeks old Andrew Ernst 183-F13. Also three brood sows with seven pigs each a buck lamb to trade for a ewe plus cow and calf for sale Herbert Elliott Louis Laflin farm east of Saline on town line road.
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