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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1953
Page
3
A Blissfield family recently celebrated the birth of their sixteenth child as reported from the era. The item notes societal issues of youths and lewd remarks in villages, contrasting Grass Lake where a woman defended herself with an umbrella, causing a temporary market reaction in court plaster and arnica.
Holland city officials ban loitering around churches on Sunday evenings urging young men to attend church with the girls they accompany. The note adds a New York man was ordered to pay a woman 3000 dollars for kissing her 1236 times, a sharp jab at such conduct.
Twenty years ago Virgil Brown and Paul Rogers spent Sunday in Toledo. Misses Irene Dawe Clara and Frances Bowen and Murial Wood Bridge enjoyed a Canada trip on Wednesday. A group including Lorena Hertler Dorothy Smith and others spent Friday at Wamplers Lake.
Names and short events include Donald Miller clerking at Keveling's drug store Larry Wiedmayer staying with grandparents Mr and Mrs John Wiedmayer Pvt Keith Cammett stationed in Australia per parents letter Luckhardt family reunion at Walter Luckhardt home Judy Haswell visiting Detroit Mr and Mrs Cecil Davenport and Joyce visiting Garth Sangree home Mooreville Bessie Collins leases two houses to the government one on South Ann Arbor and one on East McKay Kenneth Taylor and daughter visit Toledo Bonnie Bearss and Pvt Grover A Burgan wed June 12 at Jefferson Barracks Missouri Arthur Heininger Dexter guests of Rev A A Schoen A C Lange and daughters plus Donna Litte spend Sandy in Detroit with relatives
A compact history notes Saline milestones from 1830s including the first steam locomotive landing in Baltimore, a race with a horse, and early town buildings. Highlights: Isle-Vivat store 1842 by Finch, American House 1883 by Laphaur, Saline Exchange Hotel 1834, first grist mill 1836, Wild Cat currency in Washtenaw, 1836 Jackson to Tecumseh railroad, York mills 1836, first Baptist Church 1836, and a 1888 Michigan Central trip train tale with a stalled return in Dearborn on its Detroit-Ypsilanti route.
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