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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1951
Page
5
League standings and results include Fowlerville Chelsea Webberville and Saline with wins over Lansing and Webberville. Also listed are used trucks tractors Holsteins for sale and local notices including care for children and a thanksgiving card from Minnie Esch’s family.
Several residents visited relatives across towns including Tecumseh Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. Notable gatherings included weddings and church group meetings with families such as the Finkbeiners Alberts and the Wiedmayers.
In Detroit visitors toured the zoo including Waneenetiausne aaa ater ner and Miss Sophia Roehm. Farm groups meet at Camp Waldenwoods and in Saline as George Taylor and Landon Taylor visit relatives. And Wilard Hertler wed Connie McCarthary in Saline while the West Saline Farm Bureau plans a July 9 meeting at the Finkbeiner home.
Ray E. Pfeifer Farm Forester for Washtenaw Wayne Monroe Livingston and Lenawee counties is recalled to active military duty. He served as an army aviator in World War I and will return as an observation pilot for an artillery unit at Camp Carson Colorado. He has worked four years with the Michigan Department of Conservation guiding forestry on over 8000 acres. Vern Thaler replaces Pfeifer in Ann Arbor during his absence.
The average price of farm real estate on March 4, 1951 in Michigan was nearly two and a half times that on March 1, 1941. Nationally land prices rose 14 percent in the last year.
Local items include Mr and Mrs Donald Shurtz visiting relatives in Marquette with son Tommy. Engagements and weddings noted in Three Rivers and Brittan. Class of 49 reunion at Saline Valley Farms with several attendees. Birth of David Allen Girbach June 18. Floral arranging talk by Mrs C A Harris at garden club event. Michael George Sharkey baptized at St Francis Ann Arbor with sponsors Mr and Mrs Robert Sharkey New York.
After his time in service, Feuell will return to station WJEF to resume his disk jockey and announcing duties. Miss Marilee Drake of Rolla Missouri is a guest at Rev. and Mrs Feuell. The Feuell family will escort Miss Drake and Private Feuell to Ft Leonard Wood soon.
The Hammond area school meeting is set for Monday at 9 PM in the school house. Local social notices describe guests visiting from Milan Ypsilanti Royal Oak Ann Arbor Owosso and Norwayne with several picnic outings and family visits around Belleville Point Monroe and Sterling State Park.
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