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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1940
Page
2
The largest attendance gathered at the Valley Farms community gathering. Julius Seca served as general chairman with Harold Vaughn offering suggestions. The Sidell family featured stunts and folk acts while Arend prepared final menus and arranged dancing. A one act play was to be presented nearby.
Mrs. H. A. Holmes drove Curtiss and Miss Josephine to Lansing on Friday to visit Mrs. Berg and attend Mrs. A. Perry. Mrs. Curtiss and Miss Dots returned to Saline that night while Mrs. Holmes stayed with her sister Mrs. Allen Meitmtosh.
The Saline Observer lists publication details for Sim. R. Wilson as publisher and M. C. Boutelle as editor. It notes postal classification and pricing: single copies 3 cents, annual subscription $1.00, with 50 cent half and 25 cent quarterly options, plus per line and minimum charges for display or classified notices.
The text asserts that every government official or board handling public money must publish periodic accounts detailing expenditures. It emphasizes transparency as a fundamental principle of a democratic government.
The Letter to the Ephesians may be an encyclical or sent to Ephesus due to Pauls ties there. It centers on the Christian Church bridging primitive to speculative Christianity, unlike Philippians which reflects a different context. Paul writes with heartfelt thanks, noting nearing end in Chap I with a sense of final words.
A one day conference for freezer locker plant operators and employees in Michigan is set for Wednesday Feb seven at Michigan State College. H L Seaton will open with survey results and program details with staff from home economics horticulture bacteriology seed and animal husbandry. Ruth Griswold will demonstrate frozen food cooking and serving.
Methodist Church notes list Walter C B Laxman as minister with a morning worship service 10 to 11, sermon on Transitions. 11 to 12 church school led by Ray Davis superintendent. 6:30 to 7:30 Junior League with Mrs L Burgazi and Miss J Stark counselors. Epworth League led by Doris Schmid. Thursday choir practice.
Church announces divine services at 10 a m on Sundays with additional services on the second and every months Sunday. Pastor Philipp invites all parishioners and visitors. An English estimate notes rheumatism affects about one in five persons over 40.
Mrs. Jacob Burkhardt visited Ypsilanti on Thursday. Will Martin sold 5 acres south of Gugerty home to Al B. Taylor. Sam Gall of Ann Arbor stayed with his brother Otto today through Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jaeger of Detroit visited with Ernest and family. Miss Luella Hehr spent weekend in Ann Arbor visiting sisters Mrs. Earl Fingle and Zire. Miss Gertrude Maulbetsch and Jule Hart of Ypsilanti were guests of John Zahn Friday to Sunday. James House sold a 49 acre Usdch farm to John Schroen of Ann Arbor who will take possession March 15. Preston F.H. Reuse and Mrs. Mary Loosemore announced as married in Sacramento January 15. Mrs. B. J. Spitler hosted a sleighride for eleven Sunday school members and Miss Edythe Skinner last Saturday. Arlea Wilson sold his Michigan avenue home to George Lehman and Hinest Skinner, plans to move to Ypsilanti around April 1. Everett Davenport bought the Gordoni house on Michigan avenue and plans to make it his home. Eugene Crittenden leaves today for New York City to join Columbia University as instructor in the chemical department. Farmers increasingly join the farm bureau. R. H. Bamer recruited nine members in half a day in York, Charles Wolford eighteen in one day, others doing well.
Reuben Westfall bought a fine paper in Stockbridge last week. P G H Rouse attended a Detroit convention of life insurance solicitors Tuesday. Mrs A Blarning and children visited her mother in Bridgewater recently. Mrs Annie Eastick returned home after two weeks with her daughter Gus Gold smith. Theodore Josenhans and wife with Ms Mary Warner attended a Grange meeting at Will Clark's last Thursday. New librarians Fred Grass Luella Kyte and Lillian Lindenschmidt appointed for this semester. Baptist young people enjoyed a sleighride Tuesday evening with Miles Stoddard and family. W G T U to meet and elect officers at Mrs K B Simmons home Thursday February 10. Mr and Mrs J B Hale of Ann Arbor guests of Homer Conde and wife in Mooreville Friday night and attended the Maccabee installation. Martin Fucss now owner of a grocer business by purchasing branch of Co operative company on Tuesday. A carpet rag social to be given Tuesday night by Lutheran Trinity church youth at the home of Mr and Mrs Fred Guenther 314 miles north of Saline on the Blaess farm. The winter of 1910 noted as one of the finest in Saline for years with good sleighing since Christmas Eve. New pictures added to school rooms including The Angelus, The Horse Fair, The Good Shepherd, The Madonna, and The Boy Christ.
Federated Church calendar lists services led by Rev Roy J Miller including Sunday worship at 10 with sermons on I Will Build My Church and Gods Creative Touch, youth and adult choirs, and evening services. Prayer meetings, Ladies Aid, Friendship class, Christian Endeavor, and pulpit exchange with First Baptist Ypsilanti noted. Plan for immersion dates discussed. family night reports 35 attendees and a cooperative Witness effort proposed with Washtenaw County Brotherhood. Observer liner ads encouraged for Liner market pages.
The high school announces first semester honor roll and honorable mention. Grade twelve lists Grace Braun Jeannette Clay Marilyn Schill Ruth Schieh William Tower Robert Vaughn among others. ninth grade includes Ray Baker Florence Clark Sylvia Feldkamp and more. tenth grade names Virginia Bassett Nellie Irwin Marie Day Lila Lange. eleventh and seventh grades also listed. Citizenship ratings show 158 ones 496 twos 208 threes 86 fours and 2 fives reflecting 72.69 percent above average. a roster of all citizenship record holders is provided.
The piece offers household tips and recipes from a home craft column. It covers separating stuck glass, lifting baked fish with cheesecloth, cleaning and soap routines, softening dried currants, soap prep, egg white tips, vinegar in boiling water, starch on rugs, floor wax, spinach washing with salt, a bean and beef dish, and a baking batter with sour milk, plus guidance on using electric fuses for home safety. It emphasizes practical steps and safety, citing Michigan State College guidance on fuses and circuit loads.
Rev H L Engel leads 10 00 a m divine worship with English language and 9 00 p m Sunday school. The Ladies Aid meets Wednesday afternoon.
Probate Court of Michigan Washte naw County orders publication to hear Carl A Curtiss petition to admit instrument as last will and to grant administration. Hearing set February 27, 1940 at 10 A M at the Ann Arbor office. Public notice to be published in Saline Observer for three weeks.
The Probate Court of Washtenaw County Michigan orders publication of final account of guardian H W Gilman for Fredericka Moore the incompetent. Hearing set for a future date with notice to be published three weeks in The Saline Observer. Judge Jay G Pray presiding. Regis ter of Probate Nora Borgert confirms. February 18 1940.
York Baptist Church Stony Creek and Platt Reads invites worshipers to Sunday services led by Rev John E B Hendricks. Morning worship at 10 with the subject Winning with God followed by 11 Lord's Supper, 11:15 Sunday school and Bible class, 7 p m Young People's meeting and Scripture study, 7:45 Gospel meeting on Meaning of Strive to Enter. Thursday at 8 p m prayer and praise service.
A produce truck from Ada to Detroit tipped over four and a half miles west of Saline. Two thirds butter and one third eggs spilled across the road and ditch. Neighbors gathered up hundreds of pounds of butter and eggs, while the highway crew cleaned the rest and burned some of the load.
Saline Tavern Schumm Dus terbeck Hartmann McHenry Heeft scores 934 857 SH1 2642. Tecumseh Products Boyd Waltz Preston Hoyt Alvord scores 773 842 S46 2561. Saline Tavern Schumm Dus terbeck Hartmann McHenry Heeft scores 937 865 877 2673. Lancaster Ford Winder House Johnston Lancaster Garner handicap 72 scores 233 805 810 2448.
Michigan emphasizes its sheep and wool quality as part of the national output. Across western ranges and central to eastern flocks the U S total exceeds 50 million sheep. Annual wool production from these animals nears 500 million pounds.
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