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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1931
Page
4
The Saline Observer lists subscription prices at 1.50 per year with eight months 1.00 and four months 50c two months 25c. Notices and announcements charged per line with a 25 cent minimum. Obituaries and marriages published free. Cards of thanks and resolutions charged per line. poetry paid at five cents per line.
The piece argues for a constitutional amendment to cap property taxes at ten percent of the state's voters, aiming to curb public spending and relieve burdens on property owners. It outlines past efforts, the procedural steps for petition and ballot submission, and notes forthcoming reviews of provisions while detailing ongoing educational and civic topics in Michigan schools.
The page lists Alma Wiedman as editor and assistant Fileet Martin. Reporters include Helen Armbruster for twelfth grade Helen Harwood for eleventh grade Dorothy Wiedmayer for tenth grade Stanley Hartman for ninth grade and Rubena Bredernitz for eighth grade.
In a lively classroom update, Fourth Grade covers Roman numerals to thirty, camel crafts, Christmas trees, and Heidi reading with Miss Bowen. A Santa note to the first and second graders expresses holiday cheer while a playful exchange about responsibility and wealth ends with a joke from Miss C.
Last Sunday was fine and Christmas observances begin with a 10 a.m. Christmas sermon and music followed by 11 15 a.m. Sunday school and 6 45 p.m. Young People program. 7 30 p.m. Christmas cantata The Holy Child features solos and choir with noted performers listed.
Sunday morning worship at 10 features the message Brothers of the First Born with a Christmas theme. Music includes a Prelude Christmas Tide and an anthem Hark the Christmas Angels. Evening program at 7 30 adds a Christ mas pageant The Star-Lighted Path and a Sunday school program on Thursday the 24th. Sunday school next Sunday at 11 15 Junior League at 8 Epworth League 6 30.
The Christian Science Society of Saline holds Sunday 10:30 a.m. services above Citizens Bank with Sunday school for under 20 after. Testimonial meeting Wednesday 7:30 p.m. The December 20 lesson sermon asks Is the Universe including Man evolved by Atomic Force and cites Bible verses and Mary Baker Eddy writings.
A Des Moines Tribune excerpt quotes a bleary eyed street car passenger arguing prohibition harmed the nation while a counterclaim notes gains from tax revenue, savings, and social improvements. The piece cites figures from the national committee for law enforcement and labels ten years of prohibition as not disastrous.
The article suggests a modern Christmas dinner using balanced, inexpensive dishes with green and red decorations. It offers a menu including tomato or cranberry cocktail soup fowl or roast potatoes squash or creamed cauliflower and cranberry sherbet with inventive twists like potato apples and candied cranberry garnish.
Mrs H Price of Woodside writes that in a year she dropped from 190 to 126 pounds after using Kruschen daily. She says she looks younger than a mother of two and praises the rapid fat loss and overall health benefits.
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