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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1932
Page
4
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The Home Market owned by Carl Rumsey offered free hot roasted peanuts all day Saturday. Shoppers flocked to the Pittsford store, filling the floor with peanut shells and consuming nearly three hundred pounds of peanuts. Rumsey reported record sales from the promotion and a successful customer turnout.
Washtenaw announces the county fair from August 20 to September with exhibit entries due by August 23. Organizers urge strong local participation to make it a successful event despite tough market conditions for livestock and grain.
Melvin A. Straus of Straus National Bank of Chicago urges maintaining advertising budgets to stimulate buying. He notes 1931 saw national advertisers increase ads and boost sales, while stressing self confidence as essential for the public. Mention of Tecumseh legend and Chief Tecumseh’s descendant in Virginia adds a local color note.
Friday through Sunday the community shared visits and events as locals such as Mrs. Leslie Bailey and Mrs. John Gooding hosted and hosted and fellow residents from Saline Milan and Saginaw attended parties. Electra Murray plans a Ohio visit with sister Mrs. Elwin Saunders. York Baptist class held a party at Paul and Allan’s home. A potluck supper accompanied a Ladies Aid meeting with Ronald Remington and Sylvia Fuller.
Local society notes record visits and family events across the Macon region. Susie Ziegler of Chicago visits Dill Burleson and Thelma Howell travels to Clinton to see the Howells. Harriet Jane born July 18 to Arnet Satterla. Attendees include Frank Gilmore and daughter from Parma, and many others visiting relatives in Detroit, Tecumseh, Leslie, Milan, and nearby towns.
Michael Klager was elected president for the coming year at the Klager family reunion held Sunday July 10 at Sigmund Klager’s home in Bridgewater. Seventy relatives attended a pot luck supper. oldest member was George Klager Saline township and youngest Roy Allen Baker Pleasant Ridge aged three months. George Klager was named vice president Erwin Klager treasurer and Mrs Harry Bernhbart secretary. Guests came from Pleasant Ridge Flint Ann Arbor Bridgewater Saline Manchester and Ridgeway. Ellis Stevens of Springfield Mass went to jail for three months rather than return to his wife.
Carl Feldkamp started threshing in the neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Weber entertained friends from Detroit and Ypsilanti on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carr visited. Mrs. Walter Gross was out Saturday evening and is quite ill. The Smith family of Saline and the Fulweiler and Cooper families from Findlay called on Carr and family Friday. The Schaible and Noble families attended a large Sunday reunion with Marjorie and Betty.
A vintage recipe notice describes Pepper Relish using chopped peppers sugar and vinegar with pectin and paraffin preservation. It also offers Rolled Orange Wafers a banana butter filling recipe with orange rind juice and pectin, detailing mixing baking and cooling steps.
Bree specialists from the United States Department of Agriculture advise that shade and ornamental trees with only a few dead limbs are usually worth the expense of treatment. Trees with extensive death or decay may not be cost effective, especially rapid growing, short lived varieties.
Governor Wilber Mi Brucker will dedicate two new buildings at the Ypsilanti State hospital at 2 p.m. on July 27 marking the one year since opening. The wings add 450 beds with two for men and one for women, plus a connection lobby and a near completed dairy barn. Public inspection will follow the ceremony and speakers include President McKenny and Rev W S Carpenter.
Miss Nora Gordon visits relatives in Detroit this week. Mike Eberle spent Saturday and Sunday there. Geraldine Vaness and Helen Armbruster are in Detroit for the week. Annerbee visitors include Mr. and Mrs. E. O Stimpson and Theodore Stimpson. Several locals host or visit relatives in Macon Ann Arbor Jackson Tecumseh Ypsilanti and Bridgewater.
M. C. Philipp, Pastor, conducts Divine services at 70 a.m. on Sundays with Sunday School at 11, and English services on the second and fourth Sundays each month. All are invited.
The What-So-Ever class sponsors the morning worship at 10 oclock with Rev Reuben Crosby in charge. Special music by the choir. Sunday school at 11 15 Junior League at 3 pm pworth League at 6 30. Everyone is welcome to join in this hour of worship.
The Federated Church lists a 10 a m sermon and music, Sabbath school at 9 15, with Y M C A superintendent Vernon Rowe and assistant Mrs House, plus Eileen Martin pianist. Evening service at 8 with Good music. Three Endeavor societies begin at 7 with a joint song service first.
The Christian Science Society of Saline meets in the hall above Citizens Bank for a 10:30 A M Sunday service with Sunday school for pupils under twenty after the service. Testimonial meeting is Wednesday at 7 30 P M. The July 24 service features Truth as the sermon topic with Bible citations including John 4 24 and a passage on spirituality replacing material sight. Correlative readings come from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Hillsdale’s 82nd annual fair, touted as the Most Popular Fair on Earth, lists premium exhibits and entertainment. The Lenawee County Fair runs September 19 to 23 in Adrian with officers including Charles E. Lovell and J. I. Post. Jackson and Washtenaw fairs span late August to early September, with Calhoun August 23 to 26.
State of Michigan Probate Court Washburn County announces four months from July 13 1932 for creditors to file claims against the estate of Flavius D Ford. Claims must be presented by November 19 1932. Hearings set September 19 1932 and November 19 1982 at 10 am in Ann Arbor. Judge of Probate Jay G Pray dated July 13 1932.
A testimonial touts Kruschen Salts as a safe weight loss method. The Cincinnati man reports dropping 26 pounds in three months, saying he now feels stronger with reduced wheezing and breathlessness. He urges others to try the product, claiming a 4 week bottle costs little and lasts.
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