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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1943
Page
2
The article notes enduring English Christmas practices such as in Okehampton where a post Christmas market allows a man to speak to or kiss any girl. In Cam the will of Margaret Trotman provides a loaf of bread to any parishioner and money to the first 50 widows who apply.
Chinese children begin Christmas day with folded hands and wishes before gifts as customs blend with American practices. A new oil drilling method could save 46 percent of steel by extracting oil from multiple levels through one well.
The Washtenaw County Probate Court in Ann Arbor on January 5 1943 orders creditors to present claims against Anna Clark deceased by March 17 1943 at ten in the forenoon. Public notice to run for three successive weeks in The Saline Observer. Judge Jay G Pray presiding.
Card of thanks advertising rates and policies for obituary and marriage notices published free of charge as well as rules for paid announcements and entertainment notices. Subscription rates listed with outside Michigan pricing and unit costs for single copies and lines.
In a Michigan Tradesman item from Saginaw, John Hay, 74, long claimed he invented the hot dog. A Jackson vendor sold warm water and frankfurters at Main and Francis streets, offering rye bread and condiments for a nickel, sustaining his family as he served many customers nightly.
Michigan's livestock region is iodine deficient with risks of goiters hairless pigs and deformed offspring. Michigan State College recommends free choice salt enriched with potassium iodide or a 0.02 percent iodide content. Farmers can also mix one ounce iodide per 300 pounds salt for practical supplementation.
Worship at 10 a.m. with Youth and The New Year as the sermon theme. Organ prelude and offertory with choir music. Church school at 11:15 a.m. Learning from Jesus is the day’s lesson. Arthur Wilson, superintendent. Epworth League 6:30 p.m. An hour of praise and study for the young people. Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Official board meeting. Wednesday afternoon the regular W S C meeting.
The Federated Church invites all to Sunday worship at 10 o clock with Rev William H Bach speaking Bless ed Are the Persecuted. Sunday school at 11 15 classes for all ages. Christian Endeavor 6 30 p m led by Russell Widmayer. Evening service 7 45 p m with hymns and evangelistic message. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 p m. Choir practice Thursday 7 o clock. All are welcome.
Divine services at 10 a.m. Sunday school at 11. English services every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Everybody cordially invited.
The St James Evangelical and Reformed Church in Saline Township led by Pastor C A Hanehere holds services five miles west of Saline on US 112 every Sunday at 10 am with Sunday School at 11 15 am. Everyone welcome. Note reports that Turkey experienced around 40 earthquakes during 1940.
Mr and Mrs Fred Rowe welcome a ten pound girl born Tuesday. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Henry Ormsby on Dec 31. Local social notices list visits and guests across multiple families in Lansing Ann Arbor Ypsilanti and nearby towns.
Indications point to a sleighing run as Henry Bredernitz buys the John Guenther farm on Clinton road and Albert Wiethammer purchases the Isbell farm east of town with immediate possession. Arthur Lutz, Ferman Clements and Orman Feldkamp attend Michigan Agricultural College in Hast Lansing. Mrs. George Bible visits Ann Arbor to help care for her ill father Alfred Acton Sr. New Year guests include Mr. and Mrs. C. F. FitzGerald and family of North Adams. Fred B. Clarke of Charlevoix visits his sisters Mrs. A. M. Humphrey and Mrs. Hdith Rouse. The Wallings host teachers, local flyers face rough travel from weather on the Ypsilanti interurban. Arthur G. Wood accepts a winter post with the Michigan Ladder Company and will tour the South.
Miss Mary Ehnis and Egbert Gillen were married Wednesday afternoon in Monroe by the bride’s brother Rev. G D Ehnis. They will reside in their new home on East Henry Street.
A reflective line from Ella Wheeler Wilcox urging believers and nonbelievers alike to speak or resist silence until faith returns. The quotation emphasizes choosing faith or confronting silence and suggests that not speaking harms no one.
Home economics experts at Michigan State College urge substantial, energy rich winter breakfasts for all workers and growing youths. They recommend fruit juice, ready cereals, hot cooked cereals, whole wheat in milk, and proteins like meat eggs or fish, with kidney, liver, or brains as Sunday options while preserving meat for service members. The note ends with a regional health detail and tuberculosis data from 1942.
Michigan’s 1942 corn yield averaged 42.15 bushels per acre with a total 66,930,000 bushels, bolstered by hybrid seed. Across seven counties tests showed 10 to 30 percent gains over open pollinated varieties, with Monroe, Ingham, and Saginaw among co operators. The Gettel farm posted 109.5 bushels per acre for top hybrid Michigan Experimental Hybrid 236. Sixteen hybrids tested, led by improved practices and adapted hybrids in increasing crib stock. A new six blade propeller design for American military planes was noted in the same report.
George J Brablie promotes himself as an experienced auctioneer who can sell anything anywhere. He invites contact for sale services and lists Britton Michigan as his location with a phone tag.
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