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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1931
Page
8
Local ad urges readers to turn unwanted items into cash. It highlights furniture, radio, piano, stove, and car as convertible products. Strong emphasis on buyers with money reading the ads and making purchases.
The 81 students who earned top marks in eighth grade and agricultural tests will attend the Michigan State Fair and Exposition from September 7 to 10. Secretaries, county chairmen, and Fair officials note four days of instruction, lectures, physical training, and farm education under E T Cameron and B H McComb with 1500 alumni invited to return for Alumni Day on September 10.
Michigan State College horticulture officials forecast a strong peach crop in Michigan and other states. Home canners should stockpile to winter supplies with sugar prices low this year. Varieties for canning include Rochester South Haven Kalamazoo Engle J H Hale Gold Drop and Elberta plus others. Local tree ripened fruit offers best flavor for preserves.
Prime Ministers in London endorse extended German credit and short term loans while urging private banks to keep credits in Germany. France resists Hoover plans and hints at broader US British support for a long term loan. France seeks stronger guarantees and action framing a new disarmament approach under League rules. The World Court in The Hague hears Austro German customs union matters as Austria faces financial strain and seeks own credit measures.
The insurgent government at Canton plans to strike on August 1 led by Gen. Chang Fat-Kawi into Kiangsi, a Nationalist area. Gen. Shih Yu-San has started hostilities in northern China triggering martial law in Peiping and Tientsin and a Nationalist news censorship.
Albert B. Fall former secretary of the interior was moved from El Paso to Santa Fe to serve one year and one day for bribery in federal oil leases. He is in the prison hospital awaiting the physician's clearance for routine processing as interviews with press were barred by the Justice Department.
The No 1 army balloon piloted by Capt Karl Si Axtater and Lieut A S Couch placed fourth after an 80 mile flight toward Cus tards Pa. The Akron pilots Furculow and Rieker finished fifth four miles north of Ravenna after a 20 mile run. A second army craft under Lieuts Holgar Fogesonger and John A Tarro was last, covering 12 miles in 35 minutes. The Gordon Bennett race will feature navy and Goodyear balloons plus W T Van Orman of Akron.
Officials from the American Game Association urge anglers and commercial fishermen to study the federally enacted black bass law. It restricts interstate transport of largemouth and smallmouth bass that violate state laws, requires clear labeling of bass shipments, and allows seizure or forfeiture upon conviction.
The first rabies case of the year appeared on a Macon farm owned by Mayne Pennington after a cow died following a three day illness. Dr. E Bowler treated the animal and submitted to Pasteur therapy. authorities urged farmers to watch stock and report suspicious cases as tests confirm the death was due to rabies.
The Monroe Oil and Gas Company files suit in Monroe circuit court seeking possession of oil and gas wells and drilling rights in Dundee township. Deerfield Oil Producing Company and Hugo C. Gaertner are named. Hearing set for August 3. dispute over whether the lease from Gaertner expired and alleged obstruction of well cleaning.
Harvesting of wheat nears completion in Monroe county with reports of yields up to 46 bushels per acre. Oats harvesting is ongoing and expected to finish soon, as noted by the Dundee Reporter.
Entomology experts explain grasshopper outbreaks in Michigan counties result from blister beetles failing to check grasshopper eggs. Larvae fed on eggs cause beetle numbers to rise, then decline. now farmers must use poison bait, prepared cheaply in bulk with guidance from the county agricultural agent.
On Friday July 31 the Farmers Day program will feature President Robert S. Shaw Director Victor R. Gardner and Professor Howard C. Rathe discussing the college role in Michigan agriculture. They outline decades of farm service and research guiding state farmers and the farm programs. Music by the Boys Vocational School band and a top choir, plus a 4-H club entertainment segment and a lighthearted contest, will accompany the afternoon.
The Lenawee County Fair Association plans nearly $2,000 in summer improvements at the fair grounds for the September 21 to 25 exposition. Buildings will be painted, roofs repaired, and the half mile track rerouted and cleaned for drainage. Horses train on the track Tuesdays and Fridays as premium lists go to potential exhibitors and concession spaces are assigned.
Justice of the Peace Jacob Hummel officiated his first wedding at his home on Saturday afternoon. Thelma Waters of Jackson and John McCrum of Lyndon united in marriage in a ceremony promoted with the phrase it pays to advertise as quoted by Jake.
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