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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
2
A parliamentary principle asserts that all government bodies handling public money must publish regular accounts detailing where and how every dollar is spent. It upholds democratic governance and transparency.
The First Methodist church of Ann Arbor hosts a summer series on its new three manual Kimball organ. Mary Eleanor Porter opens the series on June 23 with Hardin Van Deursen assisting. Recitals run weekly through August 11 with guest organists from local churches and a closing Choral Evensong.
Rev H L Engel leads 10:00 a m German divine service and 11:00 a m Sunday school at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Michigan District of the Wisconsin Synod meets in Scio this week from Monday through Friday evening.
Federated Church announces at 7:30 p m Thursday June 27 praise and prayer. On Sunday June 30 sacraments at 11:15 a m and Sunday school led by C Graydon Everett. Mr and Mrs S T Dunk of Grand Blanc Michigan invite church members to the marriage of their daughter Eunice Elizabeth to Wellington Relea at four o'clock July 6 in their church.
Michigan will host a summer meeting July 8 to 12 drawing more than 3 000 farm leaders from nearly every state to the 16th annual American Institute of Cooperation session at Michigan State College in East Lansing. The state hosts 3850 cooperatives with 80 million dollars in annual business and 10 000 national members. The institute will study business techniques cooperative principles and national farm programs.
In Bronkhorstspruit area South Africa farmers issue clay slab tokens with a secret mark to obtain cash for tax payments. Central exchange issues receipts for corn and buyers cash or trade eggs and other commodities for the tokens. The mark guards against forgeries and token misuse.
Local brief compilation notes visits and social events across Detroit Ann Arbor Lansing and Ypsilanti. Individuals mentioned include B P Davenport Mrs Ethel Cochran Miss Lucy Cobb Miss Ola Watson Otto H Gall and Gertrude J Coe among others with family gatherings and community activities.
Orange Gordon visits Detroit business. Robert Cullen and John Boettger of Belleville call on friends. Homer Wood and Nellie Congdon visit family ties. many relatives travel to Ann Arbor for events. Cement sidewalk laid from Wood Bridge to Hamlin corner. Alumni reunion attendees and university class members listed. Multiple residents visit Lansing and Ypsilanti. first names and family ties noted. Military name statistics: 51,180 Smiths, 25,720 Joneses, 29,960 Browns in the American Expeditionary Forces.
Readers are invited to submit ideas for household tasks and cooking tips. Contributions may include new methods, recipes, or vegetable preparations and can include names if desired. Replies should be sent to the newspaper for possible publication.
Home economics staff at Michigan State College explain shrinkage labels and proper pre shrinking for shirts. The piece notes labels must specify shrinkage limits and cautions that full shrink means entire garment. Also includes two simple casserole and ham strawberry dish recipes and a note on an old 93 year old Romeo house wired for electricity.
Michigan ranks fourth in alfalfa seed production in 1989 with a crop worth about 1.144 million dollars. State specialists note excess seed leaving Michigan as a concern and urge use of adapted local seeds. The Alcona Seed Growers' association reports improving finances and strong purity and margins.
New quarters for the annual egg laying contest will be built on Farm Lane near the river side of the Michigan State College campus. J A Han nah announced the plan to move farm operations from the campus as part of a four year program begun after laboratories and facilities were established on farm lands. The 19th annual contest starts in October in the new building, which will house 100 pens 8 by 10 feet each and stretch about 430 feet with a center alley and feed house. Existing contest coops east of the new auditorium will be torn down due to age.
A notebook of questions and answers from Michigan State College extension on potato spray choices, cattle lice, chicken roosting and lice, alfalfa and beans, grain fumigation, and cutworm bait. Includes a multi question set with answers by C B Dibble and a light firehouse anecdote involving Vince Yeager.
Experiments show up to half of the minerals and a large portion of vitamins may be lost in the cooking water. This finding highlights nutrient depletion through common boiling or steaming methods.
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