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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
4
New stock arrives including refrigerators varnish kerosene and lamp oils. Gasoline delivery offered with prompt service call 101. Paints brushes and sprayers a nd garden tools like Double Disc Har rows and Nisco spreaders promoted. Gargoyle Mobiloil available in various cans and barrels with price warnings.
Flint factory accident leaves Flint man 45 fatally scalded after falling into an oil tempering vat. Detroit car inspector H Gordon Powers killed when a car moved and crushed his skull. Pont iac infant dies from wagon accident. Standish boy drowns saving siblings on Rifle river. Muskegon electrocution kills 55 year old worker. 1920 Port Huron population up 7,781 to 25,940 per census figures.
Michigan Beekeepers Association calls for strict adherence to a law banning spraying while fruit trees bloom except for canker worm control. R H Kelly notes bees pollinate orchards and delaying sprays protects crops. some growers still ignore the rule. The group plans a campaign to remind growers that late spraying is less effective and harmful to beekeeping interests.
South Saline residents and neighbors report a weekend of visits and hospitality. Mr and Mrs Hugh Craig and children visited Sam Crat and family. Aubrey Pocklington cared for her parents William and Mrs Baglick. Fred Layher and children visited Henry Cornish family and Sunday with Nathan Holloway relatives. Earl Kutler family stopped by Sam Craig. Hamilton Moore family joined Fred Toufel's home Saturday night.
A long roster of individuals and firms are listed as agreeing to sell or hold six tickets each to assure the Chau tauqua season's financial success. The list includes Willis M. Fowler C A Curtiss E D Skinner George Burkhart and many others with a note of signed payments by C D Hinkbeiner A P Clark Lucy Cobb and Mrs Kate Wiennetti. A New baby in the home is noted as less interesting to a boy than a new rabbit-hunting hitter. WANTED People in the area with legal printing needs for estate settlements to have notices run in this newspaper via probate judge direction.
Harley Walsh returned home from Weston Ohio Friday. Lucile LeBaron stays at Max Richards for a few days. Mr and Mrs Max Richards entertained company from Ypsilanti Sunday. Mr and Mrs Tracy LeBaron spent Sunday at W J LeBaron’s. Mr and Mrs T S Boyd of Britton were calling Sunday afternoon. Mrs Mellett and sons Walter and Vernon visited D G Richards Sunday. Florrie and Paul Richards sang at the York church Children Day exercises Sunday. The man who wants to be right with his fellows should first get Night with himself.
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