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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
2
The document outlines charges for various notice types including poetry paid by lines at five cents per line and six cents per line for entertained events, with free obituary and marriage notices, and a minimum 25 cent charge. It notes fees apply to personal or business interest items and provides rules for paid announcements.
A 1939 piece recalls the Continental Congress flag resolution adopting thirteen stripes and thirteen stars on a blue field. Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia widow, is said to have designed the first flag with five point stars in a circle. The article urges reflection on liberty and democracy as World War II looms.
Harly gardeners may still plant by choosing proper kinds for late season harvests. Melons squash cucumbers beans and corn can go in now alongside peas lettuce radishes and spinach. New Zealand spinach offers hot weather greens and June seeding allows late tomatoes cabbages and cauliflowers to be set out. Michigan Milk Month kicks off with a capitol lawn milking ceremony as dairying supports state income with 70 million yearly from 915000 cows.
Detroit visitors and local social notes fill a page with names such as Nina Jackson Amanda Meyer and Louise Bayha. Memorial day visits, conventions in Bay City and Washtenaw County, and farm bureau meetings are listed along with chores, travel to Ann Arbor Detroit and Chicago.
In Michigan's West Ottawa district Soil Conservation Service leader Frank Trull reports about 750000 trees planted this season to curb erosion. Frank Garbrecht and his two sons set a pace with 3000 trees in a half day, while Frank Van Slooten has planted 29000 trees and Galbrecht 30000 total. Species include red pine Scotch pine white pine Norway spruce and some jack pine. District farmers plan another 100000 trees for either this fall or next spring to stabilize the area.
Sunday service at 10 worship with a sermon Captive Emotions. 11 15 Sunday school lesson apt for adulthood Trouble makers in the Church. Readers urged to analyze attitudes for church harmony. Hine 22 25 Michigan Christian Endsaver Convention at Holland. Frustrations should be paid cemetery dues.
Pastor MC Philipp at St John’s Lutheran Church announces divine services at 10 am with Sunday school at 11 am. English services are held the second and fourth Sunday each month. Everybody cordially invited.
Readers are invited to share better ways to handle tasks and new vegetable cooking methods. Names may be used if provided. The note quotes nature images and a line from Sam Walter Ross about hunting, streams, and thoughts.
The notes discuss finding articles lost in water with a flashlight in a fruit jar and sealing, then suggest geon as a method. They describe converting a small bedroom into a bathroom and remodeling a farmhouse after electricity arrives. The piece notes bedrooms are often large and that old houses lack closets, proposing partial room partitioning for storage.
A southern style recipe fragment instructs beating egg white stiff then gradually adding brown sugar, salting and folding in chopped pecans. The mixture is baked in small heaps on a greased pan in a slow oven for about 15 minutes, yielding a crunchy nut dessert.
A list of baking ingredients includes flour, butter, brown sugar, raisins, figs, almonds, honey and spices. It notes partridge eggs equal three chicken eggs, with salt milk and breadcrumbs as part of the balance.
The home economics extension service of Michigan State College urges refrigeration as rural electrification grows. Light affects fats in foods. green or dark containers delay rancidity. Green grass green is recommended for coffee and fat storage. store perishables cool and in small quantities during warm weather.
An old column recalls editors who moved from frugal trade practices to swaggering bravado. It contrasts past modesty with current showy behavior and mentions trades, jokes about patched pants, and the evolving tone of newsroom leadership.
A Saline Theatre lineup features The Story of Alexander Graham Bell starring Don Ameche Loretta Young and Henry Fonda, Union Pacific with Barbara Stanwyk and Joel McCrea, and Persons in Hiding with Patricia Morison J Carol Naish. Also screening is Stranger Faces with Dorothea Kent and Frank Jenks in a double feature.
A new extension service bulletin from Michigan State College reprints Extension Bulletin 182 titled Attractive Kitchens. It covers knife areas, curtains, color possibilities, wall and woodwork planning, cleaning ease, and work surface ideas. Obtain via the Bulletin Room East Lansing.
The article lists names of students including Donald Finkbeiner Max Collins Keith Kendall Robert Ormsby Grover Burgan Robert Thomas Stanley Gall Edwin Barnard Ther on Klager Walter MacArthur Wes ley Steiner Robert Vaughn Bernard Bamer and others for football basketball and reserves. It notes letters won in two or three sports with additional names across baseball and reserves.
Six new dairy herd improvement associations began operating since April, raising the statewide total to a record 83. Counties added include Hillsdale Livingston Barry Oakland Fenia and Presque Isle Cheboygan. Studying books may not help one to get rich. But studying men does.
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