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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1941
Page
2
A New Year meditation contrasts happiness with earned rewards and family ties. A trip to New York highlights a Greece rooted Red Cross volunteer who visits Greece to see her grandmother and homeland. The piece urges daily thanks for America and its comforts as a path to happiness.
Scout Executive Walter MacPeek outlines 1941 goals focusing on better camping advancement and patrol performance. The Washtenaw Livingston area council will expand services to 14 communities with a bigger budget, funded by the Community Fund and local campaigns. A new plan groups senior Scouts into emergency service units to aid Red Cross fire police and sheriffs in emergencies, with regular conferences for patrols. Dr FA Peyton leads cubbing and parents are kept informed at monthly meetings.
The document reports the financial status detailing demand deposits held by individuals, partnerships, and corporations. It outlines liability categories, reserve requirements, and related banking indicators as of the reporting date.
Michigan State College dairy specialist J G Hayes will discuss fighting dairy cow feed bills at a Friday session in Ann Arbor with other meetings planned for February and March. Attendees include dairy herd improvement members and local farmers with listed stopovers and financial figures for deposits and liabilities.
Adrian residents and visitors share Christmas and New Year visits, dinners, and family gatherings. Names mentioned include Stimpsons, Hammonds, Gordons, Snearys, Forsythes, Gilbert family, and others from Milan, Tecumseh, Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Black regions. A nutrition column lists the nine daily food groups with specific servings for milk, vegetables, fruit, eggs, meat, cereals, fats, and water.
Worship at 16 a m features organ preludes and offertory with a sermon on Duty vs Ability. Church school at 1115 subject What is Personality led by Arthur Wilson. Epworth League 630 p m Miss Stark supervisor. Seniors led by Paul Davis meet Tuesday 730 p m for the official board. January February series honors church organizations each Sunday with the minister preaching on Duty and Ability and January 19 Church school honored.
Reverend Roy J Miller will be absent for the service on Sunday January 12 at 10 oclock. Dr Paul B Bucholz executive secretary of Detroit Presbytery will deliver the guest address. Sunday school is at 1 oclock and Christian Endeavor meets at 7 p m.
Pastor H L Engel leads 10 am English service and 11 am Sunday school. Church council convenes next Tuesday evening and the League meets next Thursday evening. Brazil produces more coffee than all other countries in the world combined.
Divine services at 10 am Sunday school at 11 with English sermons on the second and fourth Sundays. State police raided a cockfight on Robinson Road near Jackson, confiscating 24 game cocks and arresting 86 men. bonds were forfeited when defendants failed to appear. Automobile collision near Fast Guthrie crossing injures Nellie May Statin. husband Mr Canine drives away after accident. Appointment of administrator for J Frederick Schweitzer estate ordered with hearing set February 4 1941 in Ann Arbor. Public notice to publish in The Saline Observer.
Ormand Feldkamp travels to Lansing on business while Miss Helen Barr visits relatives in Chelsea. Mrs. Ida Chandler visits Toledo to see Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Ratner. Miss Louetta Schaible spends days in Ann Arbor with friends. Robert Parsons travels from Detroit to visit his parents. Viola Feldkamp visits the home of Mrs. Andrew Girbach. Marietta Robinson of Ypsilanti visits her brother Ernest and family. Farmers near Bridgewater husk corn. Herman Gross and family visit C. D. Finkbeiner group. Clara McMahon and Leonard Clapp visit Miss Ida Clements. Saline Farmers Club meets at Ralph Hammond’s. Fred Robison attends sheep producers’ meeting in Lansing. Serris E. Brady moves to the Henzler house on South Ann Arbor Street. A chimney fire at W. L. Sturm’s store is quickly controlled by volunteers. The file’s first thirty years’ issues are missing.
Citizens Bank of Saline announces a by law change effective January 1 1941 increasing savings deposit interest to one and one half percent per year with semiannual payments on June 1 and December 1. The notice reiterates deposits remain on balance for at least three months to qualify. Previous wording is replaced by the new term.
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