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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1934
Page
5
Numerous Saline area residents and guests are cited in a long weekend society note. Guests include Miss Vera Ede with Miss Ora Renwick in Wixom and John Crawe of Grosse Pointe visiting the O Neills. The piece lists picnics at Wampler’s lake and Pleasant Lake, a Detroit ball game, family visits across Michigan, and community events from church auxiliary gatherings to Boy Scout trips.
Fifteen years ago on Sunday C. A. Curtiss with family and guests visited his old Camden home. Rev and Mrs C H Wittbracht returned from a two week auto trip to Ohio. Miss Ruth Bond spent the week with Grosse Pointe friends at a Lake St Clair cottage. Mr and Mrs K B Simmons and Mrs Luptey made an auto trip through Monroe county. Mr and Mrs H EB Cole and family from Gary Indiana with Mrs A E Cole and daughters and Mrs RH Bamer and Miss Jessie motored to Detroit one day last week.
Thirty years ago the town anticipated a balloon ascent at Clinton next Wednesday. Miss Julia Gordon visits Mrs A Ribbeck at Hillsdale. Tuesday rain benefits crops. Mrs H S Townsend departs to Buffalo. Q C Wheeler returns from a St Clair Flats fishing trip with good catches. The Blue Ribbon horse race meeting in Detroit is well attended by locals.
Commissioner Murray D. Van Wagoner announced the PWA highway construction program, funded by a 12 736 000 federal grant, with 297 projects under contract or completed totaling 12 385 209 93 dollars. The remaining 400 000 was to be advertised or let by August 1. 9 464 workers and 1 356 trucks were on the job as of June 30, with more crews added since.
Home economists at Michigan State College state beet sugar makes jelly equal to cane sugar as long as refining does not alter granule size. The article explains crystal size, acid and pectin balance, and provides a simple epsom salts jelly test plus a home pectin preparation using apples and lemon juice. It notes following manufacturer pectin rules for reliable results.
The Howard City Record urges at the annual school meeting to offer thanks to last year’s school board for their hard work and achievements amid funding and enrollment challenges. It calls the community to be more thoughtful and less critical of those serving.
The Julesburg memory centers on Joseph A. Slade known as Alf Slade and The Little Terror of the Plains. Born 1828 in Carlisle Illinois, he rose as a bad man killer for the Overland Stage. After feud with Jules Bene, Slade’s life ended with a vigilante rope in Montana. 1933 Western Newspaper Union.
Joseph A. Swett of Saco Maine shows a watch over a century old that remains in good condition. The chain-wind timepiece was purchased in London from an old sea captain, linking maritime history to a local keepsake.
The William B. Lutz unit of the American Legion Auxiliary was honored Sunday with its charter president Mrs Walter D Cool elected alternate committeewoman of the second district Beatrice Bair of Ann Arbor was chosen committeewoman Attendance at the district meeting in the Masonic temple followed by the banquet and drum and bugle corps drill in Yost stadium before an estimated 6500 spectators Officers elected for the ensuing year include Pauline Fosdick president Thelma Burkhart vice president Orpha Birkle secretary Tema Moehn treasurer Dorothy Lawrence chaplain Cercil Uphaus historian Amanda Kohler sergeant at arms
The annual summer meeting of the Michigan Beekeepers Association will be held at Floyd Markham’s apiary near Ypsilanti on August 1 with joint participation from the American Honey Institute and Producers League. Noted speakers from the U S and Canada will address beekeeping and honey marketing. An August 2 visit to the Kellogg plant and an August 3 state beekeepers round-up are planned, with attendance open to all beekeepers.
A publication argues that a population's quality matters more than raw birth rates, claiming higher moral character and education lead to stronger society despite lower birth growth. It frames intelligence and physical well being as core national assets.
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