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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1931
Page
5
A Grand Rapids clerk earning 32 dollars weekly loses his job last fall. He moved to Howard City to work on a farm for board at one dollar weekly, proving diligent and resilient. The towns of Plymouth and nearby cities consider annexing to city status to gain the benefits of municipal government.
Leonard Hutzel returns to Elmhurst College in Illinois. Fred Burkhart and family visit Jackson relatives. Nellie Armbruster visits Nettie Simmons in Saline. K B Simmons and Fred Douglass families host New Year guests. Several locals attend church events and gatherings. A fatal hit and run on US 23 near Ann Arbor prompts inquest. Andrew Sawyer, 89, dies at Whitmore Lake home. Alphonse Schmitt family bids farewell as they move to Detroit.
Local notices report dances at the K P hall tomorrow evening. Charles and Mrs Dietike rent the P H Rouse house on Ann Arbor street. Several residents moved or traveled: Bracy to Parkersburg West Virginia, the McHenney family to Kalkaska area, and local deaths of John G Guenther and Philo C Sherwood.
Thirty years ago Fred Walker plans to move back to town after renting his farm to his son. A high school trio Charles Gregory Louis Schaffer and Earl Zahn are mentioned. Mrs Amos Kidder Ida Carson of Chicago dies January 1. Nellie M Isbell and H D Feely wed December 29 in Delphos Ohio. Presbyterian Ladies host Twentieth Century social January 16 at G J Nissly home. Robert McCart life prisoner from here in 1897 housed at asylum ward at Tonia after upper story accident. Petition circulates to contract with Mr Shute to light streets by acetylene with no upfront pay. Shute offers incentives and village ownership of lights may be cheaper than private gas. Residents near the depot favor pipe lay for light and tax support. See petition for details.
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