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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1937
Page
4
The Saline Observer lists subscription options Hight Months at 1.00 Four Month at 0.50 Two Months at 0.25 Card of Thanks and poetry rates per line. Obituaries and marriage notices are published free of charge with personal or business announcements charged at regular rates. Minimum 25 cents.
Judge Malcom Hatfield laments social declines and rising vice over four years. Church attendance fell 30 percent while whiskey sales rose 220 percent and beer 317 percent. Movies attendance grew 41 percent as Sunday schools dwindle, prompting Christmas reflections.
A column urges leaving behind grudges envy and sarcasm to pursue happiness in the new year. It compares January's Janus to facing past and future and emphasizes forgiveness patience and kindness as keys to progress and safe forward movement.
A public notice urges safe driving and walking throughout 1938 to prevent accidents during holiday crowds on highways and sidewalks. It emphasizes collective responsibility for safety and includes a New Year greeting. The piece also notes a Park Service anecdote about a swimming squirrel and ends with a quotation about misconceptions.
The four groups in the home economics class organized tables with hosts hostesses and waitresses for a week of planning, cooking, and serving two to three course dinners. Students mixed dough and pie crusts supervised by Mrs. Washburn and discussed costs per person. The class read Why the Chimes Rang and reflected on giving with Christmas spirit.
Regular hot lunches prove popular with students at the school. Girls earning meals by helping prepare serve or clean up include Wilma Kuebler Ruth Carson Winifred Weisele Rita Finkbeiner Helen Pentney Cora Gleason Lorena Hieber Carlene Heininger Virginia Bassett Doris Jean Davis Margaret Finch and Selma Hertler. About sixty six are served daily in the two home ec rooms.
The Manchester Home Economics Club entertained the Saline club last Tuesday afternoon with a program in the gym. Girls sang an introductory song and presented a play about budgeting for clothes, followed by refreshments and a Christmas tree tour.
Local notices recount Christmas gatherings and family visits across Pittsfield Saline Ann Arbor Ypsilanti and Detroit. The text notes marriages and employment moves including Harry Harmon to Della Thompson and Lenora McQuillan becoming a bookkeeper at Saline Savings Bank.
Miss Fannie Friis returns to Provo Utah for a few weeks while relatives and friends travel for holidays. Several families host relatives from Detroit Grand Rapids Ann Arbor and California with visits in Belleville Blissfield Granville and Lansing. A wedding at the Ort home unites Norma L and Charles E Tower on December 25. Numerous students and families gather for Christmas as lines blur between town and distant homes.
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