Senior Play “Mr Patricia” Draws Crowd at High School
The senior play Mr Patricia at the high school drew a well attended crowd on Wednesday and Thursday despite severe cold. About $100 was cleared. The plot follows Pat Farnum who inherits a beauty parlor, fakes a new identity, causes romantic entanglements, and ends with a humorous resolution including a mistaken skin treatment and a garage invention turning out valuable. The cast and teachers earned praise for a rollicking comedy.
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Patricia
Pat Farnum
Pat Farum
Pat
Paris
Saline Stores Decked For Christmas Shopper Bonanza
Saline shops display festive windows and shelves piled with gifts as early shoppers begin selecting for Christmas. Cars line streets around the bank as patrons flood the holiday scene, with merchants offering apparel, perfumes, home furnishings, and toys for all ages.
lifelong Washtenaw resident J Waters dies at 86
Arthur J Waters a Manchester Michigan figure and former state legislator died last Thursday at Clark hospital in Brooklyn after two years ill He was an attorney bank organizer bank director village president school board member and Knights of Pythias Mason He was born August 23 1860 in Manchester township married Cora Halladay and is survived by a daughter a sister a widow and five grandchildren Funeral services were held at his residence and in Norvell Cemetery
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Arthur J. Waters
Washtenaw County
Manchester
Clark Hospital
Brooklyn
Waters
Union Savings Bank
Manchester Township
University Law School
Ann Arbor
Knights of Pythias
Masonic Organization
Cora Halladay
Norvell
Gaita Cathey
Hertler House and the old Detroit Chicago stage route
This reminiscence traces the Hertler tavern across from the Polar Bear Casino on the Chicago to Detroit stage route. It recalls six paired horses, corduroy roads, and tavern life with pork and beans, wash basins, and outsized history from Chester Parsons to Dan Reeves and D R Hertler.
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Saline
Tis-147
Hertler
Chicago
Detroit
Trish Hills
Clinton
Parsons’ Inn
Reader
Chester Parsons
G. L. Parsons
Dan Reeves
D. R. Hertler
George
Iig
Polar Bear Casino
Chicago-Detroit
Gsven
Andrew J. Wars
Chicken Thief Sentenced in Saline Farm Theft Case
Hue Smith of Detroit was sentenced to 3 1/2 to 4 years in Jackson prison for stealing chickens from the James Morton farm near Saline. Accomplice William Whitfield received a reduced term of 1 to 4 years at Ionia after truthfulness in court. A third gang member had earlier pleaded guilty and received 3 1/2 to 4 years.
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Hue Smith
Detroit
James Morton
Saline J
Sample
Jackson
Smith
William Whitfield
Ionia
Roy Robison Dies in Saline Township at 60
Roy Robison died at his home in Saline township on December 1 after a period of ill health and a paralytic stroke. Born August 8, 1880, he was the son of Duncan and Caroline Sage Robison and survived by a half sister, Mrs. Nellie McClue, along with many friends and relatives. The funeral at House funeral home in Clinton, with Rev. R. B. Simmons officiating, buried in Macon cemetery.
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Roy Robison
Saline Township
Duncan
Caroline Sage Robison
Nellie McClue
House
Clinton
R. B. Simmons
Macon
Good Will Class Meeting and Elections Held at Mrs Dan Hall
The Fed erated Sunday School Good Will class met with Mrs Dan Hall for a chicken dinner attended by 17 members and two guests. They packed Christmas stockings for Sunday school children and elected officers: Hale president Dan Hall vice president Lewis secretary Doris Ward treasurer. Mrs Mark Sugden and Mrs Archie Lawrence attended.
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Good Will
Federated
Dan Hall
Hale
Lewis
Doris Ward
Mark Sugden
Adrian
Archie Lawrence
Brooklyn
For Sale and Rent in Saline Classified Ads
Classified notes from The Observer Liners list items for sale including farm horses, a six room house on South Ann Arbor Street, three shares of Saline Mercantile Co stock, a home Comfort Range, an oak dining table, trucking services, soil and manure products, and notices for a bake sale by the Lutheran church. Also ads for a 3 room furnished apartment for rent and poultry buyers.
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Saline Mercantile Co
Clarence Carr
Saline Savings Bank
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS USED CAR SALE Reduced Prices
Cook Motor Sales advertises a general used car sale with diverse services. The notice also lists local businesses including Dr L O Gibson oculist 549 Packard St Ann Arbor Radio Service Wilhie Kelly Ann Arbor St Radio Service and Art's Service Station with contact and product offerings. It mentions sale items and household goods with contact details for Mrs B Z Boettger and Coffield washing machine 2105 Jackson Ave Ann Arbor Michigan.
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U of M
L. O. Gibson
Packard St
Ann Arbor
Coffield Washing Machine
Jackson Ave
Michigan
Christmas Used Car Sale at Cook Motor Sales
Special holiday sale ad lists reduced prices at Cook Motor Sales authorized Chevrolet dealers and notes duplicate keys and lock repair services. It promotes Washtenaw Sport Shop and piano inventory at 220 W Michigan Avenue Ypsilanti with 15 pianos including uprights grands and consoles and easy terms. Carrie M Chadwick advertises from 25 S Grovest Ypsilanti Michigan with phone 996-3.
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COOK
Chevrolet
Saline
Washtenaw Sport Shop
Michigan Avenue
Ypsianti
Carrie M. Chadwick
S. Grovest
Ypsilanti
Mich
Chevrolet Heaters and Antifreeze at Cook Motor Sales
Local dealer Cook Motor Sales advertises hot water type deluxe heaters for 11.50 and super deluxe for 16.50 with defrosters at 5.75 and 7.45. GM antifreeze priced at 0.25 per quart.
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Chevrolet
Cook
Reward Dead or Alive for Farm Animals
Central Dead Stock Co offers prompt removal of farm animals with high prices paid. Call Arm Arbor 2-2244 for immediate service.
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Arm Arbor
Central Dead Stock Co
Bargains in Tractors and Farm Equipment
Used Farmall with new tractor guarantee and several 10-200 tractors offered. Two F-12 tractors are practically new with nearly new plows and cultivators. Also listed are two horses, four years old, and one horse, three years old. Herman Heninger, phone 33.
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Herman Heininger
Subscription to Observer Makes An Acceptable Christmas Gift
A year's subscription to The Saline Observer makes an ideal Christmas present for out of town relatives and friends. It delivers a weekly visit for 52 weeks for only $1.50, with credit to January 1, 1939.
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Observer
Saline
Niice
Jan. i
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ERS
Mites
Cole
A J. Waters
Japan
the Observer
Wiedman Auto Company
Saline Mercantile Company
W. E. Dietiker
South
Ann Arbor St
C. A. Jordan
Ann Arbor Street
George Ryan
Ladies of the Lutheran Church
Tanner's Store
Helen
Wilhie Kelly
Art’s
Saline-Pleasant Lake Roads
B. Z. Boettger
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