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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1955
Page
3
The Saline Observer is published each Thursday in Saline Michigan. It is a second class matter at the Saline Post Office. Subscription rates are 3.00 yearly in Michigan and 3.50 elsewhere. Mail subscriptions payable in advance. Three year Michigan rate 7.50 and 9.00 outside. Advertising rates: classified ads 2 per line. display rates available.
The Ladies Aid of Trinity Lutheran Church hosted a Christmas party last Wednesday evening featuring a Carol sing, holiday decoration demonstration by Mrs. Staley, and a showing of In Bethlehem's Manger. Instead of gifts, they collected $58 for the Children's Friends Society of Bay City. Refreshments were arranged by a committee led by Mrs. Norman Bohner.
The WSCS of the Methodist Church met in the church parlors with Mrs. Vern Osterhout as hostess. Esther Landwehr spoke about travels in the Holy Land. Mrs. Don Ford led devotions. December birthdays were honored. Guest Mrs. H. C. Huston from Ann Arbor attended. Silas Nord visited Otsego relatives. Donald Cornell and daughter Carol will spend holidays with the Haydens in Saginaw.
Trinity Lutheran Church Sunday School teachers held a pot luck supper at the parsonage on Monday December 12. Gifts were exchanged among teachers and guests. Attending were Mrs. Melita Hertler Mrs. Carl Marion Mrs. Robert Jewell Mrs. Theodore Stroup Miss Dorothy Marion Miss Joyce Braun Albert Hoeft Mrs. Minnie Brassow Mrs. Hilbert Engel Mrs. Reuben Marion Mrs. Mary Seeger Mrs. Albert Bredernitz Rev H Engel and special guests Mrs. Winifred Gall Miss Mildred Ernst and Mrs. William Burkhardt.
The Room Mothers' Club of Saline Elementary met Monday evening at the school. Mrs. Clarence Johnson reported on the Flouride Clinic held at the school during summer and presented slides showing the work accomplished.
Elementary students in fifth and first grades visited the Ford Rotunda. Junior High seventh and eighth graders held a roller skating party.
Johnson M. Quick announces opening of an insurance office on December 10 at 112 East Michigan Avenue. The new venture will operate adjacent to the Uphaus Electric shop at the same street address.
Winter weather slows construction and outdoor work, raising prices on some goods and boosting unemployment by a quarter million as ice and cold snap supply chains. Iron ore and scrap move costs rise while heating oil stocks shrink, yet natural gas coal and oil industries profit from cold. Electric power use hits a record weekly high as merchants see shoppers stock up on coats and blankets.
The article explains culinary terms such as julienne cutting into long slender strips larding by inserting fat into meat with a larding needle marinating meat in French dressing or oil and vinegar mixture and sauté describing cooking in a small amount of hot fat.
A list of polar names used in Antarctica highlights Mobiloil Bay Wallgreen Coast Edsel Ford Wrigley Gulf Beaumont Bay Cape Washington and Little America as part of early exploration era nomenclature.
Santa Jim Mull Liu Yellig marks 32 years as the nation’s top portrayal of Santa Claus. Serving in the Navy when he began in 1914 aboard the U S S New York, he will perform in his hometown Santa Claus Indiana and on Dennis James CBS TV December 13. He leads the Santa Claus American Legion Post and handles about 4 000 000 letters yearly from children.
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