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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
3
A brief wry aphorism notes how plans to balance budgets or timelines can be disrupted by unexpected shifts. The line implies frustration with efforts to reconcile competing pressures and maintain stability.
Central York reports show Alger Allison and son hosting and visiting relatives in Ypsilanti and Wayne. Mrs. Grant Allison and Mrs. Frank Barbour joined gatherings with the Allison family. Leslie Bailey and family visited Saline and Ann Arbor relatives, with multiple Bailey members listed as guests.
Local families in the Hammond district hosted and visited over Christmas week. Numerous residents from Saline Ann Arbor Wayne and Macon attended gatherings at the Hammond home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hammond and at other area households.
Mrs. Reuben Visel is seriously ill and Donald Wiedman has a cold. The Fosdisk school Christmas program is planned for Wednesday night December 23 at 8 30.
Sunday visitors and social calls populate the Judd district. Mr Mitchell of Detroit spent Sunday at his farm. Mrs Margaret Schroen visited Detroit and Ann Arbor on Thursday. Mr and Mrs Arthur Carter joined supper guests Thursday at Gale Riggs home. Mrs Gale Riggs and Mrs Herbert Teachout visited relatives in Ohio over the weekend. Sunday callers included Hobart Richards and Will Gallaher of Ann Arbor and Clifford Richards of Willow.
Central Lodi editorial items list local residents on the sick list and visits. Steinke is ill. Mrs. Perry Drake of Ann Arbor called on Miss Gertie Drake last week. Families from Lansing and Ann Arbor stayed with relatives and visited in the area. A neighbor reported a 760 pound Duroc hog sold in Detroit for $1.50 per hundred.
Macon residents visited relatives in Ann Arbor Homer Jackson and Delta Ohio guests joined Mr and Mrs Ralph Halladay Sunday. Mrs Eva Thomas returned to Atlanta after three months with the Howell family. Addie Schuyler Critten den and Lavern Randall hosted dinner at Manitou Beach with Edward Miller. Others called on Nellie Case and from Britton and Hogan Indiana.
The November PTA meeting at the rural school house featured two plays What's the Matter With Mother and The Mischievous Wigger. Cast lists name Mrs Reuben Visel Mrs Charles Kern and others with roles for each production.
The State Department delegated test duty to the county, reducing pupil stress. Miss Haas and Mrs. Mildred Robinson supervised and prepared questions from core material. Tests now occur three times a year in the home school, yielding good results for local students.
A class record lists fourth grade student Bobbie Welch with an 87 average across four tests. Seventh graders Irene Finkbeiner 92, Dorothy Meyer 87, Mary Ernst 82, Sophronia Schneider 80. Tests covered 8th grade history arithmetic language and nature study for grade four and spelling geography word study and history for grade seven.
Fred W. Meyer of Fair Haven was elected president of the Michigan Milk Producers Association for 1937 at a Detroit directors meeting, succeeding N. P. Hull who completed 20 years as president. Elmer Powers was re elected vice president and William Bristow treasurer. Meyer has long served as director and treasurer and ships on the Detroit market. The Observer rate ad follows.
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