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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1953
Page
5
State Mutual Cyclone Insurance Co of Lapeer touts windstorm policies with strong protection at low cost. The ad emphasizes reliability and specifies cyclone coverage as a specialty for homeowners and property owners.
Michigan State College 4 H Club staff will run five two day training schools in early June. The sessions, June 3 and 4, are open to 4 H Club agents camp staff and to Boy Scout and church camp counselors. Arden Peterson notes the programs aim to improve recreation leadership.
Governor Williams signs a June Dairy Month proclamation urging Michigan residents to drink an extra glass of milk daily and include more butter cheese and other milk products in their diet. The note highlights peak milk production season and urges consumption to support the dairy industry.
Regional 4 H and youth camp events listed across Michigan in June. Camps include Camp Copneconic Genesee County June 8 9 Van Buren County June 15 16 Coldwater Lake 4 H Club Camp Isabella County June 17 18 Camp Vining Bostwick Lake Kent County and Hardwood Lake 4 H Club Camp Ogemaw County in June.
Mrs Eugene Bradbury of Ypsi lanti spent weekends with Mr and Mrs Lloyd Carey. Allison Gable and family visited Adolph Steinke and family in Ann Arbor. Fun Club met May 27 at Doris Zahns home to work on ceramics. Dora Holmes and Allen Mcintosh of Lansing visited Harry Holmes. Past Matron s Club to meet June 8 at Heininger cottage Whampler s Lake for a 1:00 luncheon.
Benton School closed for the year on May 26 after a Sunday picnic attended by parents and friends. A pot luck dinner followed a hot dog marshmallow roast. Eighth graders Wanda Boehm and Jeanette Widemayer received diplomas from teacher Mrs. Helene A. Monaghan and gifts for perfect attendance. Other perfect attendance honorees were William Wiedmayer, Janice Roehm, and Richard Coury. A Safety Award Trophy was also given for 100 percent safety activity.
A storefront advertises a broad choice of greeting cards and children's books with many styles and stationery options to help readers solve gift problems.
The Automobile Club of Michigan notes the period 1952 to 1958 as context. School will resume in September and Mrs. Monaghan will be our teacher.
A compact historical summary notes 1805 Michigan formed, a Detroit fire from a man’s pipe, and a 1809 Wash tenaw County settlement by Godfrey Pepin and LaSham ie in Ypsilanti. It cites Michigan population near 40,000 with 80 percent French, and a 1817 visit by President James Madison to Detroit.
A historically dense list notes 1819 Kentucky land claims in Michigan nullified by treaty, the Parsons brothers building the first saw mill in 1827, Eli Kelloge’s 1822 Ypsilanti land entry, Washtenaw County highway survey in 1825, first Saline houses and hotels, 1827 county court in Ann Arbor, earliest railroad charter to B and O, 1830 31 schoolhouse in Saline, and Orange Risdon as first postmaster with a 1830 post office.
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