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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1941
Page
1
Due to higher taxes paid by railroads and utilities the Primary School Interest Fund for 1941-42 rises to 13.13 per census child, up 1.41 from last year. Total distributions to districts amount to 5,723,648 based on 4.13 per census child, in addition to 12,454,315 apportioned in September and completes the fund payments for 1941-42. All printing done at the Sasino Observer office.
Saline notes a festive surge as Santa appeared at Grove Brothers' store scattering candy to children who queued for photos and a list of wishes. Merchants report early holiday buying with trimmed shops and lighted trees, signaling Christmas approach despite mild weather.
The Woman's Club marked its 37th anniversary with a Tuesday luncheon at Mrs. C. A. Curtiss home. A candlelit program honored charter members, featured tributes and toasts, music, and a history reading, with special memories for Miss Ruckman and others no longer present.
The note announces extra copies of the Home and Farm Christmas Booklet with ad free covers for 1942 1943 and 1944. Calendar plates appear inside covers and back cover. Orders encouraged early due to limited supply.
Reports describe groups returning with deer and odd encounters in the north woods. Tales include bugs under old log beds, a Michigan hunt near Plymouth with a buffalo sighting, and a traffic pause during pheasant season as cars discarded birds along a line.
A chronicle of Christmas Day events from 303 to 1776 detailing massacres under Diocletian and Canute, royal executions and depictions, Magna Carta’s sealing under Christmas, Henry II’s crown on the altar, Edward II’s deposition, James II’s exile, and Washington’s Delaware crossing on Christmas Day.
Otto Wahl expresses gratitude to the Legion for The Observer while in camp and to the Ladies Auxiliary for the book of stamps.
Saline Township announces tax collection dates with banks listed for payments. Citizens Bank on Dec 20, Jan 17 and Feb 21, and Savings Bank on Jan 3, Feb 7, and March 7, with Julius Marion as Treasurer.
Fritz Schumm thanks American Legion ladies for stamps and Saline boys news. He notes camp growth, improved roads and storm doors, and an upcoming spring beauty. He describes an obstacle course, a 50 pound pack, heavy meals, and a planned 27 mile Pole Mountain hike with Co. I 2nd QM Regiment.
Alfred Schmid, recently returned from Fort Custer and placed on the reserve list, spoke at the Rotary Club about induction last summer. He described initial hardships, clothing issues, water shortages on maneuvers, and improving officer experience. The club noted Arthur Heininger’s birthday and adjusted a misstatement about fire insurance coverage for smoke. The Christmas week meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 24.
Saturday December 20 auction bidding 12 30 PM four miles east of the bomber plant on Chase road or 1 ½ miles northeast of Belleville. 15 head young Holsteins with calves by side all TB and Blood tested. Purebred Holstein bull 18 months old with papers. 30 tons clover hay 200 bushels oats 200 or more bushels of corn. Full line of farm implements and other articles. Cash terms. Adolph Melow proprietor. Call E C Smith Ann Arbor phone 258642 for details. Uruguay ranks next to Russia in government control of business. The great Irish famine near the mid nineteenth century was due mainly to the potato blight fungus.
An optometry office operated by Dr. Frank Gifford in Milan Botet offers eye examinations and glasses fitting every Saturday from 22:20 to 9:30 P.M. The practice, established in its ninth year, promotes доступ.
Saline local of the Milk Producers Association held a lively meeting at the old opera house with 300 farmers and milk haulers voting to continue sending milk under the sales committee plan. They oppose current Detroit prices and favor negotiating a better contract while avoiding a strike amid wartime. Local farmers John Kohler Reuben Lesser Clarence Carr George Day Robert Garrod and Fred Cook participated.
Saline General Hospital reports Henny Dean improving slowly. Mr and Mrs Jack Gable welcomed a son born December 3. Emanuel Rentschler was admitted by ambulance Saturday afternoon as a medical patient. Read the liner ads now.
Classified ads list fall sweaters at Parsons and farm gear including tractors and milch cows. Purchases feature Ford 1940 DeLuxe Tudor, farm implements, and a GE console radio. services include furnace work, sheet metal, and auto repairs. Local residents seek help with childcare and housework. dances at Skateland cap weekend entertainment.
Numerous for sale notices and services appear from Parsons to Adrian. Items include suedes jackets, wood, pigs, real estate, bricks, heaters, stock, livestock, floor coverings, auto and farm repairs, and feed. Contact details list names such as Ray Haeussler Frank Tucker C. Boettiner Henry Deotz William Live Carroll Frost Rauser Outfitting Co Brooks Brothers and Adrian Tankage Co with phone numbers and locations across Michigan towns.
Exact miniatures of all farm machinery for sale. Christmas presents for the kiddies. $45.00 Player Piano and Rolls offered at $39.00 per month. See piano in Saline by writing Mrs. Mary Schultz Route 5 Box 229A Waukesha Wisconsin. Also quotes on dairy steer hog concentrates mineralized soybean oilmeal. Morton Poultry.
Hudson's 50 percent Hog Concentrate promises higher returns for feed grain. Prices at hogs $9.00 yield about $1.20 per bushel, while $10.00 hogs yield about $1.35. The ad lists precise mixing formulas from weaning to market and invites farmers to grind and mix grains at Saline Mercantile Co.
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