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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1921
Page
4
Local notices show Edward J. Mur’ store details and coal prices. The listing mentions a coal price of 12.00 per ton and references transportation or delivery terms.
Local store promotes a ten day stock reduction sale featuring kerosene gasoline and oils with discounted storage tank prices. Advertises Aladdin lamp 30 day free trial visible gasoline pump and auto Strop safety razors plus paints tools and Pyrex glassware. Also notes agents for Winchester tools and ammunition in Saline with offers to view items.
One mile from Saline on the main road, this farm offers good buildings, rich soil, timber, well fenced with fruit, two wells, electric lights in house and barn. The owner, in poor health, seeks sale at a fair price. 137 acres of level black clay loam feature a fine large house, furnishings, water, a new 109 foot barn, and a new tile silo in A 1 condition. Owner eager to sell at the right price.
Prime 9 acre tract in a corporation suitable for gardening and poultry raising. Features a large poultry house and several small buildings with desirable building lots. A bargain for buyers seeking value and expansion potential.
Walter Morden is seriously ill with catarrhal fever complicated by rheumatism. Arthur Petty and wife have moved to their new home in Toledo after selling his farm. Jesse Coller of Tecumseh and Miss Marvie Easterly of Detroit visited last week with his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Collar.
Orrin Camine has a new Olds car. Andrew Murray lost a good horse last week. Mrs. Lynm sold her farm. Howard Richards suffers a billious attack. Andrew Jackson attended a class party in Milan. Visiting nurse called at Oak Grove school. Anna Kelsey hosted cousin Wirt LeBaron and husband Friday. Frank Kelsey entertained cousin Mrs John Gooding Wednesday. Norabel and Inez LeBaron were Sunday guests of Frank Kelsey and wife. Frank Kelsey spent a day with Irving LeBaron and Mary Cobb. York Baptist church Sunday school class cleaned the church. Andrew Murray and wife hosted their son Marion Murray and wife from Dixboro Tuesday to Friday. Daisy Finch returned from Ann Arbor hospital after appendicitis operation. Dan Murray and daughters with Mooreville and Myrl Murray visited the Murrays.
West Mooreville residents share visits with relatives and friends in Saline Milan Detroit and Ann Arbor. Highlights include Miss Dorothy Squires recovering after tonsil removal in Milan and Mrs Julia Phillips visiting Arthur Canter and family.
Semester examinations occur next week as we review this week. Frances Smith of Ann Arbor enters the fourth grade. The second grade studies physiology. New library books list nearly complete for grades and high school. Chelsea visits Friday for basketball with two fast games expected. Our girls' game loss to Tecumseh 15 to 29 sparked protest over a supposed non resident referee and perceived unfairness. we praise the girls' play and condemn the boys' officiating while promising a future rematch.
The Saline Observer note shows its second class mailing status and mentions a foreign advertising representative. It indicates a small local newspaper with single copies priced at five cents and lists a Saline Michigan post office filing detail.
The Federated Church holds 10:00 a m service on holiness and 8:00 p m Bible reading on The Story of the Carnal Mind. Sunday school begins at 11:30 a m. Thursday at 7:00 p m features a study of the Book of Revelation at the praise meeting. All are invited and asked to bring their Bibles.
Mrs Bayless leads neighborhood prayer meeting at the Miller home 215 BE Michigan Ave tonight Thursday. Congregants urged to conserve two weeks of prayer by boosting attendance and bringing Bibles and testaments for the seven thirty start.
JUDD DISTRICT updates include Miss Siefker working for Mrs. Sommers and David Hanser attending a Tuesday auction in London. Local social visits list Mr and Mrs LeBaron with Mrs Anna Kelsey and Mrs Karl Theurer with Mrs Max Richards. Worship services at 10 and 7:30 with church school at 11:30 and EKpworth League at 6:30.
Arthur Carter and daughter Matreta called on Mrs W J Le Bar on Monday afternoon. Mr and Mrs D Richards Ford and Florine spent Wednesday evening at Grant Miller's. Sylvanus Mosher has returned from Ohio after visiting friends and relatives during the holidays.
Mrs. Jamies Hoyt 75 a longtime Washtenaw County resident died January 5 at her daughter Mrs Hiroy Bagley’s Dowagiac home. Funeral services were at Saline Presbyterian Church with burial in Saline Cemetery. Maiden name Caroline Cook she was born 1846 in York township and survived by daughter Mrs Bagley and two sisters Mrs Trumble and Mrs Dunlap. The body accompanied to Saline by family and friends.
An unknown element in screen art uses animal comedy to ease tension in Back to Gods Country adapted from Wapi the Walrus. Nell Shipman stars with Oakman Playter Awling and about two dozen trained forest animals. Critics praise it as a top attraction. Liberty Theatre event. Also ad for Crystal Block White Ash Coal from Eda J Muir.
The paper invites readers with legal printing needs for estate settlements to submit notices. Rates are universal for such matters and ( Probate judge ) must send the notices to this paper to publish.
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