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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1927
Page
5
Julius Feldkamp and family spent the weekend at their cottage on Portage Lake. Several social updates follow including marriages, visits by Mrs Ida Reilly to Detroit for millinery shopping, and multiple gatherings across nearby towns.
Michigan State College plans Farmers Day on Thursday August 4 as part of Country Life Week July 31 to August 6. A plowing contest Grange baseball finals and a band concert are featured along with tours of experimental plots orchards and livestock lots. A national figure will speak in the afternoon and seventeen organizations will participate in the week long conference themed Farm Income and Farm Life.
H. B. Foster & Co reports two strong flowing wells drilled in the past week. One lies on the Guinan farm in Lyndon, the other on Ed Guenther’s farm in Saline.
Michigan seeks 400 more enrollees for Citizens Military Training Camps at Camp Custer and Fort Brady. Lt. Col Wade Millis says Michigan will meet its quota. Camp Custer opens July 7 and closes August 5. No cost to boys. government pays rail fare food clothing and more. funds from National Defense Committee support gaps. Colonel Raymond Sheldon prepares Camp Custer staff and RO TC/C MTG instructors.
Arrests for speeding and contraband liquor after a patrol chase near a village. Jack Marshal and Kenneth Clarke face jail in Adrian after 36 quarts of Canadian liquor were found in their Chevrolet. Frances Szyezzak and Barbara Szynez zak receive prison and probation terms for beer and moonshine charges. Montcalm and Ionia counties see chicken thieves sentenced, with Melvin Van Horn on probation. Judge Hawley vows tough penalties for chicken thefts.
The ad proclaims a One Day Battery Charging Service that restores batteries to perfect condition in 8 to 12 hours, claiming rivals require 2 to 3 days and promising savings on rental costs while positioning it as the best in town.
The Chautauqua presents Wandering Spooks a backstage theatre mystery comedy with a strong cast led by Arthur McMurray. The plot follows a baffling net of intrigue as clues pile up and the audience tries to solve who The Flash is while characters include Larry Ott Dorothy Doiney Corrigan Hodge Mike McGinty Hilda Yensen Miles Standish and The Slicer.
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