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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1927
Page
4
Obituary and marriage notices are published free of charge. Advertising rates and terms shown by application. Poetry and announcements priced per line or word. Eight months and other durations listed for subscriptions. Reminders about rates for personal or business notices appear in the notice, with Michigan Press Association membership noted.
The era of thrift is highlighted with a January week from the 17th to the 23rd featuring Thrift or Bank Day Budget or Home Economics Day Life Insurance Day Safe Investment Day Pay Bills Promptly Day and Share With Others Day. The piece urges all to measure their financial program against Franklin's thrift precepts and pursue indicators of American prosperity.
An article critiques a Wayne County representative jailed for drunk driving and notes the judge’s 60 day sentence while appealing. It argues public servants must uphold liquor laws and integrity, warning that violations erode law and justice and fuel anarchy.
Thirty years ago Commissioner of Schools W W Wedemeyer narrowly escaped danger when his enclosed carriage was hit by a passing train while crossing the Wabash tracks. His horse bolted as the last car cleared, a second train approached from the opposite direction, and he waited a half hour before the danger passed.
Fifteen years past visitors from Pontiac and local residents attend gatherings with Mr and Mrs Luther Briggs and others. Orton M Kelsey remains in Ann Arbor psychiatric care awaiting placement in Pontiac. George Schroen sells 160 acre Saline farm to Louis Feldman. Ford Motor Co hires Harold Rouse in Detroit. Births reported for Dieterle Kuebler Rentz. Washtenaw Farmers Institute set for Feb 15 16. Smallpox vaccinations active. cold spell continues. Frank Buck and Matthew Phais save Raynor Pilbeam from a revolving shaft accident. Emily Walker and Rudolph Jedele wed Wednesday evening.
A Detroit statistician places Henry Ford’s fortune at two billion dollars based on his vast automobile interests. His cash balance with son Edsel in Detroit banks runs between 300 million and 350 million. The Ford Motor Company would continue supplying parts for 14 million Ford cars even if Model T four cylinder production stopped. In a separate item, William Stitt of Detroit was fined 40 dollars and 5 dollars in costs after shooting a pheasant out of season, arrested west of South Lyon by Game Warden Allen C. Wilkinson.
The piece notes a shift from the old Texas motto Raise more cotton and less hell to a time with plenty of cotton and no shortage of other materials, reflecting changing conditions and concerns.
The Better Homes campaign led by Secretary Hoover has spread to over fifteen hundred communities and will culminate in Better Homes Week from April 24 to May 1, 1927. President Coolidge chairs the advisory committee with Harvard’s Dr. James Ford directing the movement’s work.
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