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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1920
Page
4
Edward J Main announces Hi Grade Gasoline to prevent engine carbon buildup and urges carburetor adjustments. He lists numerous equipment purchases and deliveries including mowers, binders, rakes, refrigeration, stoves, and Mobiloil products. Local residents buy gear, wind mills, and kerosene as prices rise.
Local hardware store Edward J Muir advertises hardware plumbing and heating supplies with a phone listing for orders and inquiries. The terse notice highlights tools implements and seasonal home improvement items available to customers.
30 acres with small house and barn three miles from Saline priced at 80 dollars per acre. 40 acres with house granary four acres timber in Jewel black OH, good location in a nice neighborhood at 90 dollars per acre. 80 acres with no buildings on clay loam soil six acres timber 444 miles from Saline. Big house with furnace barn silo hen house near school 215 miles from Saline. Very desirable for a home.
A dense list of visits and gatherings from Central York to Detroit detailing matches of relatives, neighbors, and friends. Numerous stops include Mooreville Milan Dixboro Saline and Ann Arbor with names like Murray Gooding Kelsey Richards and Tower. The piece also notes a garage robbery in St. Clair and a drive for rent-curbing laws in Detroit.
Esther Lenora Kelsey born July 3 1845 on the farm now owned by Samuel Craig daughter of James and Hannah Kelsey died July 10 1920 at her Milan home. She married George F Richards October 17 1872 on the George F Richards farm later moving to Milan in 1901. Four children survive along with sixteen grandchildren and a brother William Kelsey of Milan. Funeral held at her home Tuesday at 3 Rev Spooner officiating with interment in York cemetery.
Notice states Lottie Wallace treasurer will receive village taxes at the telephone office each Wednesday and Wednesday evenings and Saturday evenings from 7 to 9 o'clock. Other times at her home 202 North Ann Arbor Street.
Marshall Neilan directs Mary Pickford in a Liberty theatre program about Judy Abbot an orphan asylum girl and Angelica Wyckoff a pampered child. The piece blends delicate imagery with humor and follows courtship and a poignant death of an orphan baby, highlighting Pickford’s screen artistry.
Adolph Layher visited Toledo last week. Numerous Detroit relatives and friends visited local residents including the Bersuders, Reed, Kennedy, and Boettner families. George Rheinfrank, longtime village resident, died of heart trouble, survived by wife and three daughters. funeral at Bethlehem cemetery in Freedom with Rev. Ludickhoff officiating.
Mrs. George Hack visited her son Fred Hack and family in Lodi last week. Arthur Nissly has taken a position with First National Bank in Ypsilanti. John Boettner and family of Saline township were guests of Conrad Boettner and wife on Sunday. Miss Olive Townsend of Lansing visited relatives here Sunday while attending summer school at Michigan Agricultural College. The infant son of Mr and Mrs C D Finkbeiner, previously noted, lived seventeen hours. Mrs Emma Nissly and granddaughter Mildred leave for Baltimore for two months to visit her daughter Mrs Harry Parsons. Mrs Anna Blessing and daughters Ella and Anna with three grandchildren of Jackson visited Mrs Conrad Boettner Saturday afternoon for her birthday. Mr and Mrs John Girk of Weston Ohio, with daughter Gena and son William, are visiting A E Cole and R H Bamer and will then spend two weeks at Whitmore Lake.
A list of marriage licenses includes Charles A. Taylor 31 of Bridgewater and Myrile Deach 26, plus pairs such as Genevieve Beckwith 21 Lake Citys with Lloyd F. Ernst 19 Ann Arbor, and Arthur Burdreau 21 Ypsilanti with cenevive Panall 21. Other couples feature George W. Corwin 26 Ann Arbor with Tessie V. McIntyre, and Joe Vanderblank 35 Ypsilanti with Jennie Palmeter 42.
Adrian resident Miss Marjorie Chambers visited Macon while Lewis Coller toured Jackson on business. Tecumseh guests included Mr and Mrs C C Richards and Miss Florence Bailey visiting local families. Others stayed with relatives in Toledo and Vermontville while births and social visits continued through the week.
The notice lists annual subscription at £2.06 and six months at £1.00 or three months at 56c. Personal interest material will be published at regular advertising rates. Obituary and marriage notices are published free of charge.
Residents fret over a local ordinance barring loud gatherings after sunset. The writer laments selfish behavior and cites Saline as the noisiest town of its size, noting nightly disturbances from 9 PM to midnight. A call for more enforcement and basic courtesy is urged.
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