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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1926
Page
5
Saline Observer announces postal details and rates for subscriptions and notices. Mentions poetry and obituary notices, plus policy on personal and business notices and advertising rates. Also references Alpena Knights of Columbus presenting a testimonial to a Protestant clergyman and a Catholic priest delivering a farewell address.
A teacher guides seven year old John and peers through the Great Heart Crusade teaching lifelong habits like hand washing and teeth brushing. The program, backed by the Michigan Tu borculsis Association, emphasizes consistent chores over months to build lasting health foundations for children.
A survey by the Oil City Detroit shows farm costs down and urban migration continuing. US farm population drops to 30,655,000 on January 1, 1926 from 31,134,900 a year earlier amid gradual labor-saving gains like tractors.
A collection of old time beverage recipes. Pineapple Lemonade uses lemons pineapple sugar and water with ice. Afternoon Punch blends orange lemon juice grape juice and sugar then water and chilling. Fruit Delight combines strawberries pineapple sugar and water boiled and set in glasses with paraffin. Orange Ploat blends orange juice lemon juice and sugar with cornstarch and beaten egg whites for a frothy finish.
The 1926 Saline High School senior class looks back at four years of study and forward to future paths in a twilight reunion style. Former students discuss careers, marriages, and lives after graduation while an alumni gathering is planned for next year.
Frieda Theurer appointed executor declares this to be the last will and testament of the Senior Clears of 1926 from Saline High School Satine Michigan United States. The document revokes all former wills and bequeaths property and rents to named persons.
The Washtenaw county fair premium book for 1926, mailed to rural box holders and local businesses, is 256 pages and claims to be Michigan's largest. It highlights village boosts, widespread advertising, extensive illustrations of county officers and bands, a cover designed by Catherine Howland, increased premiums, township specials, colored fiction on fair entertainments for August 31 to September 4, a rural declamation contest, Smith Hughes judging contest, and a full table of contents on page 256.
The Philadelphia Inquirer cites Jesuit Relations edited by Edn vn ton, revealing 1660s Canadian travels where Poualak Indians burned coal due to scarce wood. The Jesuits observed that coal from the earth helped fuel fires as wood was limited and small.
Thirty years ago Wheat rose rapidly as Miss Grace McMann closed her Gleason district school with a Friday picnic. The Arbeiter Verein plans a July 4 park celebration. Mrs. Derendinger and Miss Eva Davenport attended the L C T M annual meeting in Saginaw. George Johnson marked his sixtieth birthday by planting a rare lady slipper on his farm. A lively night at the school building ended with a long chimney blaze feared until midnight. Over one hundred dollars was raised for cyclone sufferers.
Fifteen years ago the village Sunday schools joined to plan a traditional July 4 celebration with appointed committees. Notables include Miss Nettie Simmirms hosting Miss Pearl Wood of St Johns and Mrs Jacob Cloush entertaining Charles King of Detroit.
Results of a year long series of feed lot experiments at Michigan State College were presented during Feeders Day. Reports covered five lots including work horses wintered on alfalfa and baby beef trials now in their third year, among other projects.
Wheat at 1.46 dollars per bushel oats 0.42 hens? wait. Calves 10 to 12 cents hogs 1.244 to 1.4? Regs 28 cents per dozen.
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