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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1936
Page
5
Work 55 started on stamp issues for Edwardian era after conferences. The first issue may total about 3.54 billion, covering six months of postal needs. Mourning stamps won't be issued. In about six months new coins bearing the sovereign’s head will circulate, with the profile reversing for the new reign.
Second in Texas production, Terlingua mining drives Brewster county status as a top quicksilver producer behind California. Journey Stoner and George Scott were arrested Monday for larceny from a factory at Tecumseh Products Co. in Adrian, held on $300 bond, pleaded guilty, and received two years probation. Four refrigerator units were returned to the factory. another Adrian man faces the same charge as the Clinton Local employees report.
Mrs. Harry Parsons seeks telephone calls at No. 6 on weekends and Mondays. Ruth Bond is home from Dearborn for summer. Miss Smitty’s Lewis street home repainted. Esther Sturm back from Ypsilanti for summer. Seven carloads of hay and one of grain shipped from Bridgewater. Various local visits, birthdays, and social events plus farm and school news and a Saline fire loss of about 300 dollars at the Leonard Smith farm.
Floyd and J. A. Fitzgerald visited Detroit on Tuesday. Mrs. Browning of Howell stayed with Mrs. Pope. S. Josenhans attended Bay City as Arbeiter Verein delegate. J. E. Rogers and family planned a trip to Belding. Wilbur Cornish went to Port Huron for the Maccabee temple dedication. J. W. Hull’s aging look noted. John Whitcomb, born June 9 in Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Voorhies vacationing with C. B. Warner family. Seventh and eighth graders picnic hosted by Miss Sears at C. B. Ishell home. A jab about merchants and advertising. Presbyterian church steeple struck by lightning causing damage and small fire. Towler and Koch extinguished the blaze. An arm rest for WPA shovels is claimed as a tax relief idea.
Fifteen years ago Ruth Mae Welter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Welter on Monday June 13. Mrs. Lucy Fairbank entertained guests including Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Stone of Hudson. Eugene Betz and family visited William Austin’s family, and Mrs. Elbert Wittbracht returned to Highland Park after staying with parents. Carlos H Webb from Irvington NJ visited relatives in Michigan. Local students in Miss Gert rude Jackson's room excelled in spelling with Bliss Curtiss, Glen Smith and Alfred Schmid. Julia Hartman hosted cousins from Ypsilanti, and Lida Isbell from Detroit visited Miss Lucy Cobb. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Schaible hosted guests from Ann Arbor. William Elfring of Ann Arbor joins EB J Muir's hardware store as expert repairman and salesman.
Mrs. Mary Jordan Atkinson contends Texas bore seven flags, not six, as she writes in a new book on Texas Indians. She identifies the Comanches as the seventh flag, noting their broad land control and early influence seen in Mexico’s missionary era.
A brisk street card game ends with Sh claiming victory after a tense exchange. The dialogue shows bluff and bravado as each player questions the other's luck and hands. Sh holds three aces against a rival's two nines and a razor.
The report details a Texas gas effort where a novel compound, developed with United States government backing, is used to treat esthr 4s when standard methods fail. It originated from North Texas gas entities and is now being extracted from gas in the Panhandle field.
Mrs H L Phillips a 90 year old artist of Stephensville Texas completed a collection of Texas wild flowers. She shows more than 100 specimens many rare each year with works exhibited in West and Northwest Texas towns drawing attention for quality and age.
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