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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1941
Page
2
The Saline Observer lists publisher Sim R Wilson and editor M G C Bbttelle and notes entry at Saline post office as second class matter. Card of thanks costs 6 cents per line and obituaries and marriage notices are published free. poetry requires 5 cents per line. paid announcements apply for charged entertainments with a 25 cent minimum.
In the National Editorial the Liquor Control Commission’s A Parrish proposes skipping taxes on liquor and cigarettes and instead buying a small plot for hens and worms to fish for entertainment. The piece critiques the plan as impractical for a jittery world.
The United States Department of Commerce notes 28 percent distribution costs in 1935 while advertising totaling 2 percent of goods value. Advertising thus makes up only 1-14 of total distribution cost, with some items showing minute fractions. Mass production and sustained demand, aided by advertising, keep selling prices from rising.
Examiners urged the county Board of Supervisors to cash in on about 150000 worth of drain bonds idle in the county treasury. The audit found departmental accounts sound and in agreement with records, and praised an excellent classification of general fund disbursements by county clerk J Martin Kempp. It recommended more care in posting receipts in the treasurer’s office and a separate journal for the County Road Commission to prevent intermingling cash expenditures with stock transfers.
Divine services at 10 a m Sunday school at 11 English services every second and fourth Sunday of the month Everybody cordially invited. Liners ads get results.
Adolf and Hulda Schmid share a lively Pasadena parade account noting the rose parade float with the Statue of Liberty and a front scout, Stanford’s 21 to 13 Rose Bowl win, Altadena’s Himalayan cedar avenue on Christmas trees, Kiwanis Club sponsorship, and California holiday enthusiasm amid war-era caution.
Rev Roy J Miller presides at morning worship on Sunday January 19 at 10 o'clock with a farewell sermon titled Fare well. Sunday school follows at 1 o'clock and Christian Endeavor meets at 7 p m.
Local notes list illnesses and social visits across several households. Entries include Jack Pennington visiting Dearborn aunt Eva Camburn, Doris Dixon staying with Carl Thomas in the village, and multiple families sharing meals and birthdays in Britton and surrounding areas.
Hammond District Miss Genevieve Gilbert and Clifton Gilbert ill with influenza and mumps. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Miller and sons from Macon visited Mrs. Mabel Needham. Mrs. Needham and Mrs. Ellen Collins visited Tecumseh. Mrs. Glen Gordon traveled to Detroit. Local social mentions include visits by the Hammonds, Gordons, the Hansons family, and others with Frank Allen and Cirra Kanouse named in Jackson calls.
Miss Vesta Mills was in Ann Arbor on business last week. Mr. and Mrs. George Hartman and family visited friends in Ypsilanti Sunday. A. A. Wood to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on Tuesday, Jan. 18. Kyte family moved into George Ehnis house on Tecumseh Street. Work continues on a new garage foundation by Wiedman Auto Co. Miss Helen Walker has joined Prof. Whitney’s office at the University of Michigan as a stenographer. The Lambarth family hosted guests including Herman Hutzel and son Leonard, Ben Roller, and the Wiedmans. The Schieh family of Federman entertained at dinner with F. C. Zimmerman and teachers boarding at The Tavern. Harold Layher and Clark Rouse were guests at a family gathering for Mrs. Meltina Rogers Hoppe’s wedding. W. M. Fowler left for Florida for several weeks of travel. A surprise 17th birthday party was held for Erwin Stierle. St. Paul’s choir attended. Oak Grove School students excused from December tardies include Harold, Helen, Fred Schroen, Beatrice and Margaret Schroen, Arthur, Clyde and James Desbrough, Thomas, Margaret and Lewis Connor, Mary Jackson, Electa Murray, and Howard Richards. Daphene A. Richards listed as teacher.
The note indicates the initial segments of a thirty year old file are absent. Archivists warn gaps hinder full historical reconstruction. Researchers request patience while cross references are sought to fill missing pages.
The Milan Methodist Church schedules worship at 10 a.m. with organ, special music, and a sermon on Making the Mind. Church school at 11:15. Epworth League at 6:30 p.m.. women’s society met last week with guests from California Joy Bringers. Evangels Miss Erma He and Miss Pansy Bray held meetings, with solos and a sermonette, and plans to attend Milan Friday night. In Detroit, Eugene Beissonneau, 30, died after a Sunday auto crash on US 223 near county road 445, skull fracture, died in Toledo hospital.
A reader call asks for household task ideas and better methods. Submit tips and favorite recipes with optional attribution. The page seeks reader insights on easier vegetable cooking and practical home hacks for possible publication.
A reflective notice blends a winter scene with a moral about charity as a starling invades a feeder. It then shifts to a feature on hobbies and collecting, citing pitchers baskets glassware silverware and antique items as educational and potentially valuable pursuits.
A man agrees to give a woman the money he spends on cigars as a running fund. She uses it to attend auctions and build a refined collection of refinished antique furniture. A simple salmon and mashed potato bake recipe is also included.
Rev H L Engel leads 10 a m services in German with 11 o clock Sunday school. The League gathers Thursday evening Jan 23 at the Brasstown home. Sales records show fruit merchants on New York's lower East Side sold half of the nation artichokes.
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