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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1938
Page
4
A parable from the Albion Recorder about a farmer who halved his chickens shown against a city man with shirts. As prices rise for both goods the farmer and city man find themselves with one shirt and one chicken, losing wealth despite abundance. The moral warns against stopping work as a path to wealth.
The Saline Observer notes a Methodist Church event titled Children’s Day. It lists subscription details and pricing windows, and states obituary and marriage notices are published free of charge with poetry charged per line.
Washtenaw County farmers will pay a county rate of nine tenths bushel per acre for the 1939 crop insurance covering three fourths of a wheat crop. For 50 percent yield coverage the county rate is three fourths bushel per acre. Rates reflect the 1926–1935 ten year average and insurance costs cover only actual premium plus administration costs paid by the corporation.
Baccalaureate exercises were held at the Methodist church Sunday evening with Rev. W. B. Saxman as speaker. He spoke on "The Romance of Life" urging students to seek growth in all life stages and find adventure in the future, with God guiding the path. The program featured preludes, hymns, readings, scripture, prayers, offertory music, and a closing postlude.
Community church notices list Divine services at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11 with English services on the second and fourth Sundays. The piece also covers a county farm meeting in Adrian where 600 farmers protest county inclusion in a corn belt and plan a Protective League with 22 township directors. It urges paying cemetery dues.
Farmers visit the Michigan State College campus for the annual feeders day to learn about practical feeding experiments. George A. Brown notes high steer prices renew interest in breeding herds, with a herd of Aberdeen Angus cows serving as the core research. The school compares full feeding versus limited ration in calves, tracking costs and profits alongside winter costs and pasture use.
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