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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1929
Page
5
The Observer reports visitors and residents in Washtenaw as holiday bustle continues. Detroit and Ypsilanti guests call, calendars are offered, and local families welcome relatives. Weather woes, road conditions, and school bond votes shape area life through December and January.
Miss Edna Wolf returns home for vacation as D H Briggs and Isaac Shaw plan to spend New Year in Chicago. Fred Stierle anticipates farming the J Stierle estate next season while D F Reeves and family move to Ann Arbor where Daniel becomes county building janitor.
A heavy snow fall with blizzard like wind provided sleighing and field cover, boosting coal trade and shoveling exercise. Local notices include the Baptist Young People December meeting with sleigh ride to the Stoddards, school closures, holiday travels, and the death of A J. Weatherwax of Saline.
Winter wheat acreage fell five percent while rye plantings rose ten percent this fall due to drought delaying sowing. Estimated harvestable winter wheat acres are 868 000, rye 185 000. Abandonment lowers 1928 totals to about 900 000 winter wheat and 166 000 rye acres harvested last July. December crop condition stands at 82 percent for both, down from 91 percent a year earlier.
Senior and freshman reports reveal career aims with many aiming to become aviators. Fourth graders celebrate Lou Evelyn Bowen’s bronze medal in the county spelling contest in Ann Arbor. History class plans a Civil War unit after Christmas as focus tightens and Latin I D tests yield improved marks.
Miss Alice M. Hill of the National Tuberculosis Association reports Michigan tuberculosis remains the top death toll for ages 15 to 39, and tied as a leading death cause overall, with 3,108 deaths in 1928 up from 2,952 in 1927. Michigan's anti TB drive depends on Christmas seal funds.
Chevrolet Motor Company announces a record breaking year 1929 with a goal of 1 350 000 automobiles surpassing prior totals by 150 000. Sixteen factories across the country and over 100 000 workers supported unprecedented output including a May all time monthly high of 160 895 cars.
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