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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1926
Page
5
A weekly roundup lists sales of White Narcissus bulbs and a choice Christmas plant assortment at The Greenhouse, plus Christmas wreaths. It notes a Friday evening chicken pie supper at the Masonic hall and a feather party at the opera house December 23.
Ten Michigan villages expand into new counties Casnovia Fruitport Grosse Point Shores Hubbardson Lisbon Mackinaw City Memphis Milan New Baltimore Otter Lake. An aviary dome 75 feet high rises at Detroit Zoological Park on Ten Mile Road as part of the bird house complex. Miss Mildred Jones oversees meals for Battle Creek college gridiron players, possibly the only woman in that role. Detroit’s eighth radio district contains 76 stations and about 3000 transmitters, with testing rules for city aerials. Detroit bootleggers are noted as avid golfers, while the city uses 34 language newspapers. New linotype includes Esperanto and Arabic. C C Starkweather, former Detroit traffic director, recalls bicycle woes. W Harry Price, Tesco county treasurer, is famed for huckleberry pancakes. Arabian sheiks often order black cars from Michigan. Wakefield claims the title of richest little city due to its ore mines.
The Saline High School girls defeated Clinton 65 to 6 while the boys triumphed 38 to 3 at the opera house. Alice Schleh Esther Bowen led scoring for Saline as Clinton struggled with Saline defense. Afterward the district announced Christmas vacation from December 22 to January 3 and noted no assembly this week due to the operetta.
On Sunday November 28 three white witkered men aged collectively over 256 years sat together on one seat beside the preacher at the Congregational church. The men named Fred Alchin Thomas Halk and Ambrose Keene were reported as hale and hearty.
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