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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1921
Page
4
Local notes show numerous visits among Mooreville, Milan, Chelsea, and nearby towns. Several residents are listed as sick, with partial updates on moves, hospitalizations, and a funeral attendance. A wartime casualty and traffic death statistics close the item with a call for enforcing traffic rules.
Mr and Mrs George Bersuder and family visited Manchester relatives on Sunday. Detroit visitors include Mrs Ghauncey Deitling and Maurise, and Misses Marguerite Riedel Marie Powers with a friend. Several Bersuder relatives, Riedel family, and Jackson guests joined Sunday calls at various homes and Hague Park. Relatives from Detroit and Clinton area made weekend calls to local residents.
Community residents from Ypsilanti Tecumseh Ann Arbor and Hillsdale spent the past week visiting relatives and attending gatherings in Saline. Families including Vealey Craig Losee Stilts Cortsen and Hendershot shared time with kin across nearby towns and cities.
Mrs Bowen describes two months of fear after a rat chewed matches in the cellar and almost set her house ablaze. She found the dead rat and credits RA SNAP for killing it. The ad promotes Three Sizes cream and hinges on local sellers C G Wheeter and RB J Muir.
Miss Leola Richards is spending a few days at home. Helen LeBaron and Zack Bunnett were married last Saturday. Reuben Rogers and family visited Ann Arbor Wednesday. Theurer family plus relatives spent Tuesday in Toledo. D G Richards and children T G and A J joined William Orr for Thursday evening.
Mrs John Gooding hosted friends while relatives from Detroit and Ypsilanti visited area families. The region saw multiple guests at Goodings and Richards homes and a large Children’s Day program at York Baptist Church with songs recitals and drills drawing a full crowd.
State taxes for the next two years will be about $1 lower on each thousand dollars of assessed value than in the past two years. Gov Groesbeck announced this with a digest of legislative appropriations. Total appropriations for the coming period are $903,144 less than last legislature. The decrease plus equalization on a $5,000,000,000 property base should cut taxes by at least $1 per thousand.
We thank neighbors and friends for kindness assistance flowers and comforting words. Signed by Mrs Elmira Rhoades Floyd Rhoades Gertrude Rhoades Mrs Grace Westfall Laverne Rhoades Harry Rhoades. The note ends with a quip about profiteers and a future name.
Clinton and nearby towns see a stream of visitors including Mr and Mrs Walter Cotton from Clinton and Mr and Mrs Barnard Valentine from Reading. Miss Ora Owen and Jessie Lee Tecumseh guests of Miss Mary Morris. various trips noted to Oakland Jackson Kalamazoo East Lansing and Gary Indiana. St Johns Day celebration planned with Clinton Lodge 175. Raymond Koering visits Ida Chandler after Boulder University graduation en route to Schenectady.
The Kaaba in Mecca houses the sacred Black Stone in its northeast corner. The oval meteoric stone, about seven inches across, is revered by Muslims. Mohammed spared it when destroying idols inside the Kaaba after his return to Mecca.
A reflective excerpt from Mrs. Gaskell in Cranford recalls reading old letters as sad yet joyful work. The letters reveal a vivid sense of the present and living hearts that feel immortal, contrasting melancholy with warmth and vitality.
The piece argues a farmer who neglects his equipment should face hardship with improvised tools. It insists love for farm machinery preserves plows binders and threshing machines and leads to better farming outcomes.
Woodchucks sit on their haunches and eat with fore feet, harming clover and destroying young corn and melons. Farmers claim they have a right to resist, as noted by the American Forestry Magazine.
A commuter rush leaves the platform in haste and suggests a valued time but does not guarantee avoiding fifteen minutes of street work as a gang lays pavement near the office.
Erich von Stroheim’s second Universal Jewel film The Devil’s Passkey debuts at Liberty theatre on Wednesday June 22. The Paris after the war setting stars Sam de Grasse Una Trevelyn Clyde Fillmore Maude George Ruth King Mae Busch and a strong supporting cast portraying American lives in Paris with vivid Parisian types.
The Detroit Board of Commerce reports Michigan offers roughly equal job opportunities for farm labor and higher wages than other states. It notes western grain fields pay $2.50 to $3.00 daily, while Michigan wages last year averaged $70 to $100 per month plus living quarters, with current rates from $40 to $70. Applications match demand.
A Kentucky family in Sebree suffers a series of mishaps after a man refuses to subscribe to his home paper. A neighbor lends the paper to his boy who, in a rush, breaks a bee stand and injures the father, while a fence accident scars him and tears his trousers. The cow dies in the corn, cream spills, teeth break, carpet ruined, a daughter elopes with the hired man, hens are disturbed, and shirts are damaged as animals run free.
The piece compares dining options from pricey, fancier spots to cheaper riskier choices, then asserts a middle ground offering fair prices and decent service. It uses a steak analogy to argue for sensible options and ends by noting a printing business, OBSERVER PRINT SHOP, embodies the balanced approach.
We express gratitude for the kindness shown by neighbors Rev Wittbracht the choir and floral offerings Mrs Emma Howard and children.
Lloyd H. McKin 24 of Ann Arbor and Margaret S. Lamb 20 of Detroit obtain marriage license. W BE Worden 27 of Detroit and Azora A. Backmann 22 of Ann Arbor obtain license.
Garden notes advise planting Golden Bantam sweet corn now to ensure ears late summer before frost. Emphasizes shallow strawberry roots need light mulch and careful cultivation. Discusses currant worm control with fresh hellebore and dusting options. stresses continuous cropping and June planning for late summer harvests.
Mrs. Geo. Powers of Revere Mass reports Foley Cathartic Tablets help indigestion constipation and biliousness. The ad argues women suffer as men and benefits include a sweet stomach active liver and regular bowels with Wheeler's Pharmacy as retailer.
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