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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1943
Page
2
Sim. R. Wilson publisher and Mrs. Vincent Fox reporter listed with contact phone 274. Advertising and subscription terms outline single copy price three cents and annual rates five dollars inside Michigan and one dollar fifty outside Michigan.
The piece reflects a farm life scene with horses resting in a hay filled barn and a wartime food focus on Michigan beans as a meat substitute. It highlights dry beans as compact energy sources and outlines preparation steps and cautions for preserving vitamin content.
William Martin, a Detroit visitor, and Mrs Louie Kuebler with daughter Miss Orxia were in Detroit and area residents visiting last week. Two barns owned by John Gordon of Saline burned with livestock and grain losses. Local gatherings include Farmers’ Week events in East Lansing and St Pauls church society meeting.
The St James Ev Ref Church in Saline Township led by Pastor C A Hanehberg conducts services every Sunday at 10 a.m. located five miles west of Saline on US 112. Sunday school follows at 11 15 a.m. Everyone is welcome.
Divine services at 10 a.m. Sunday school at 11. English services every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Pastor M. C. Phillipp invites everyone to attend.
Henry Moorehead treasurer announces tax collection at multiple Milan sites. Collections occur Saturdays from Dec 19 through Feb 27 with specific banks on Feb 5 and Feb 26. Graphite used in pencil and paint manufacture noted. Five cents funds National Tuberculosis Association. 95 cents from each tuberculois seal goes to state drives.
A large funds drive collection followed by performances in the gym by the High School Band the Glee Club and soloists. Birthday tributes were held for Shirley Maschino and Katherine Hisasser by Home Ec girls. Freshman girls study grooming while Seniors tackle house cleaning tasks.
Worship begins at 10 a.m. with organ prelude and offertory and choir music. Church school at 11:15 marks Jesus Affirms His Deity as the lesser subject. Epworth League study-worship at 6:30 p.m. Miss Stark and Mrs. Curtiss sponsor. W.S.C.S. meets Wednesday in church parlors. Quarterly Conference Monday Feb 8 at 7:30 p.m. with Dr. Luther Butt presiding.
School news notes a busy costume committee for the Junior play with Gay Nineties fashions. Publicity posters go up and the stage crew hones the Nine ties setting for the Country Garden on the River Bank scene. Production directed by Marguerite Carruthers and Dorothy Horning runs March 11 and 12.
Colonel William A. Ganoe, professor of Military Science at the University of Michigan, will address the Michigan Education Association district meeting on February 24. Topics include what public schools can contribute to the war effort. Ganoe recently returned from active duty with the First Army Carolinas and has a distinguished record as a author and educator. He was born in Mifflintown Pennsylvania on May 14 1881 and has held posts at West Point Dickinson College Fort Leavenworth and Fort Scheven Go. Scholarships are available for seniors applying with top scholastic ratings for nurses teachers and other careers.
Mrs. Gertrude Lutz accepts a position with Burkhart Bros. W. L. Nissly and Martin Fucss visit Detroit on business. Miss Luella Nissly takes Elocution and English at Portland. Dr and Mrs C F Unterkircher visit her mother in Ann Arbor. Saline Farmers Club to meet Mr and Mrs Ralph Hammond. George W Miller rents the Aldich place from Albert Niethammer. Ladies of the M E church to meet Mrs Frank Buck. Five smallpox cases quarantined near Ann Arbor. Mrs Herman Josenhans and daughter Charlotta visit relatives in Ann Arbor. Mr and Mrs Fred Burkhart host the latter’s parents from Manchester. Mr and Mrs Ernest Monroe of Adrian move into John Gordon’s former tenant house. A cold snap grips the region with signs of an early end. Baptist society extends a call to Rev H W Mack of Dexter who accepts. Bert and Grover Gillen and Charlies Reeves go to Owasso with the Ann Arbor Independents. Owasso squad defeats them in new lineup with little practice.
Alwin Marion treasurer announces tax collection dates for Citizens Bank on December 19 and January 146 and February 20, and for Savings Bank on January 2, February 6, and March 6, with directive GET IN THE SCRAP.
Rev William H Bach leads a 10 am worship with Boy Scout guests and a 11 15 am Sunday school for all ages Bible study period and 6 30 pm Christian Endeavor led by Russell Wiedmayer. Evening service at 7 45 features a talk What Happens After Death. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 and choir practice that evening.
The Marines shift from the ordinary machine gun to compact Reising submachine guns in .45 caliber for parachute troops. The weapon features a pistol grip and a steel-frame stock that folds away when not in use. Treasury urges buying War Bonds and joining the Payroll Savings Plan to fund the effort.
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