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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1931
Page
3
Local residents from Bridgewater and surrounding areas hosted and visited over the weekend. Families including Braun Gill, Rentz, Feldkamp, Schellenberger, Betz, Bersuder, Boettner, Buerle, and Klager shared meals, calls, and hospitality in Ann Arbor, Saline, Detroit, and Blissfield. Several illnesses and social calls noted. churches held services with pastor illness impacting attendance.
Divine services at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11. English services held every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Everyone is cordially invited.
More than 200 parents and friends attended Saline school’s evening session Monday as all grades from first through twelfth met. Morning classes were moved to the afternoon and afternoon classes to the evening to show patrons how daily work is conducted and why subjects are placed in the curriculum, said Superintendent A A Kalder.
The Simons Study club gathered at Mrs. Simons home in Ypsilanti on Friday February 21 for a regular meeting and program. A new class at Dearborn was welcomed and the pupils presented instrumental and vocal performances. Mrs Simons discussed Edward MacDowell life and work at the MacDowell colony before adjournment to reconvene in four weeks.
Walter Armbruster and family moved to Saline last Friday. Mrs. Albert Heininger battles grippe this week. Sutherland district men plan a schoolhouse play Friday night. George Day family near Belleville rented the A E Cole farm and moved in Monday. Rural teachers of the county meet in Ann Arbor Friday Fosdick district out for a day. Mrs. George Wiedman and son Donald visited at Will Boehm’s near Saline Thursday. Albert Heininger and family and Arthur Heininger party were in Holly on Friday. Shirley Kern receives x ray treatment at St Josephs in Ann Arbor for an injured arm. Lawrence Bishop of Moscow, Glen Smith of Plymouth, and Margaret Belbiadish of Detroit visited Clyde Wells’s Sunday. Albert Wenk and family from Ann Arbor plus Caroline Rentschler of Saline dined with Arthur Heininger Sunday. Mrs A E Cole celebrated with ten Pittsfield ladies for her birthday. They brought lunch and gifted a table lamp with a birthday card and games led by Mrs Wilson.
A Chicago Daily News compilation notes historic business downturns from 1819 to 1922, listing durations from 5 to 35 months. It concludes that all such lows ended except the present downturn, with a hint that relief may come.
Legislators in Michigan adjourned for party conventions while advancing many measures. The death penalty sparked crowded galleries as the House debated amendments, including a bid to use lethal gas and a push to speed a referendum. Other proposals look to cap real estate taxes, tax timber differently, tax stock transfers, and enforce departmental salary controls.
The Saline village council spent most of its final session Monday reviewing the treasurer Frank Camburn report, which was accepted. The meeting also discussed back water bills, audit plans, and cemetery indebtedness followed by bank loan considerations. President Mark Sugden noted a large surplus could allow paying down cemetery debt and reduce borrowing costs, with last year’s borrowing and interest also cited.
An advertising note promotes Kruschen Salts as a fat loss aid. It claims dramatic weight loss within three weeks by taking a half teaspoon in hot water each morning while cutting pastries and fatty foods. It promises restored energy, clear skin, brighter eyes, and a youthful feeling, with a money back guarantee at Sugden's Drug Store.
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