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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1937
Page
1
Local market celebrates winners of its Special Contest and thanks patrons for support. Advertisement promotes home dressed meats home made sausage smoked hams bacon and groceries with a trade card program and 4 to 100 percent savings on meat and groceries.
An afternoon with Mrs. John Bodmer reveals a German origin and a treasured collection. Items include a 1797 prayer book marked Johann Friederich Stark, rare German vessels, a snow white clock, a 1749 hand written letter with fine embroidery, and a family birth certificate guiding her passport history. Her four married children support a life shaped by valued keepsakes and careful preservation.
A friendly column offers inspiration and humor with notes from Alice Rollins and a Kasidah quote, followed by an orange chiffon pie recipe using gelatin, orange juice and whipped cream. Extracts recount H J Miller's Tower City letter, land plans, and a Saline High School 1880 subject list and student marks.
The local club holds weekly practices at the Polar Bear Casino basement range with improved facilities for more shooters. Notable scores include Donald Shurtz 100 prone and 100 sitting, O D Hoffman 90 offhand. Three position matches are tested this season. The Southeastern League opener is at Adrian tonight with a full schedule of Jan through Mar matches across Milan Saline Ann Arbor and Adrian.
Rotary Club members faced a 15 item questionnaire with only about half the questions answered. Gilmer C Townsend joined the club amid plans for an inter-city Tecumseh meeting and district events at Royal Oak.
Classified ads from The Observer Liner list items for sale rent and services from farms to autos to repairs. Entries include a Holstein cow a farm near Saline a dance at Polar Bear Casino linoleum and radio repairs and doctor services with several local names and contact numbers. The page also notes a St Pauls Auxiliary penny supper and a Katherine Weiennett farm listing.
Bernardino Molinari, guest conductor, will steer the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a notable program in the Choral Union Series at Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor on Friday night January 15. Molinari, a renowned Italian conductor, previously led the group in this capacity last year.
York Township taxes are due at listed banks in Milan and Saline on specified dates. Jan 16 at Peoples State Bank Milan Jan 22 at Citizens Bank Saline Jan 23 at Peoples State Bank Milan Jan 30 at Peoples State Bank Milan Feb 5 at Saline Savings Bank Feb 6 at Peoples State Bank Milan Harlan Holcomb is treasurer.
Treasurer W. Carr lists tax receipt dates for Saline Township. Citizens Bank accepts payments January 23 and February 20. Savings Bank accepts payments February 6 and March STAAL UL.
Farmers urged to claim payments for dead and disabled stock with Millenbach Brothers Company Detroit Michigan. Hayden Mills in Tecumseh Michigan advertises wheat for flour and urges farmers to exchange grain. Two Powers motion picture machines offered for sale or trade with equipment and inspection ready.
For sale or trade a brick and cement block business building in an Indiana town of 800 population, 47 miles northwest of Indianapolis. The 40 by 126 foot two story structure includes a six room apartment above, a 40 by 50 garage, a 20 by 70 business room and a 9 by theatre room. Fronts two main streets, ideal for garage business. Cash sale or trade equity for Michigan farm land. Write W. C. Bowers, North Adams, Mich.
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