Town Pests The Gloom Spreader Harms Community
The piece criticizes a persistent complainer who spreads gloom and trouble. It notes widespread annoyance as people and even pets react by avoiding him and retreating from his negative demeanor.
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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1922
Page
2
The piece criticizes a persistent complainer who spreads gloom and trouble. It notes widespread annoyance as people and even pets react by avoiding him and retreating from his negative demeanor.
For sale 80 acres with a good house large barn silo new granary and a small young orchard. Land is level and well plowed located 74 miles from town on the main road. Also house and barn on Michigan Ave with water sewer and lights on a full size lot. Also new house with modern equipment on Ann Arbor street. I am sole agent for several regional insurance companies.
Gail Schmid spent Sunday with J. Madison Richards. Mr. and Mrs. Harley Welsh were Ann Arbor visitors Monday. Mr. and Mrs. William Visel spent Sunday night at A. Schmid's. J. Madison Richards is working for Con. Herkimer near Mooreville. Mrs. Alfred Acton spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. William Mc Kendery and others. son Carl and Miss Katherine were Ann Arbor visitors Saturday.
Macon residents report E W Payne in Detroit and Earl Hendershot visiting from Detroit while Mrs Mary Niblick dies of lobar pneumonia after a three day illness. Local families relocate move into new homes and community speakers attend Sun day School events with Dr Kelloge of Ypsilanti consulted on Niblick case.
A series of brief items records births in the Blaess and Esch families on February 22 and 24, attendances at funerals for Mrs. Price and John Campbell, and numerous social visits. Names include Otto Blaess Fred Mayer Mary Grosshans Arthur Drake Bert Moore and families Linderham Manor and Davenport relatives and neighbors among Ann Arbor Detroit and local residents.
Lester Faust and Leonard Faust are both ill with pneumonia. Fred Richards and Mildred Richards, Beatrice Schroen and others appear in social visits in Ann Arbor and Saline. Cariton Murray returns from New York state. George Spaulding buys the Dillon farm and plans to move. A house fire at Joseph Staughtcher's home damaged cellar and clothes after a chimney blaze.
SOUTH SALINE Floyd Cross is on the sick list. Miss Helen Craig is entertaining mumps. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Greenfield spent Saturday in Deerfield. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Moore visited relatives in Adrian Sunday. Miss Madge Garrett spent the afternoon with Miss Geraldine Kutler. Mr. and Mrs. Stilès spent Saturday evening with family. Walter Craig is spending the week with his aunt. Miss Maud Goodrich of Ann Arbor visited with her mother. Mrs. Bertha Hall returned from Manitou Beach after her mother's death. Mrs. Sam Craig and Mrs. S. Kile called on Hugh Craig. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stilts hosted a dancing party for about fifty. Ice cream and cake were served at the Baslick birthday gathering.
The Sebewaing Blade reports Peter Hi Wilson of Romeo is confined to an insane asylum after brooding over schemes. Smooth strangers from Romeo Armada Almont and nearby counties allegedly swindled residents out of thousands of dollars in worthless stock deals, with Romeo losses around eighty thousand dollars.
Rudolph Bersuder and Delia Reed visit Ann Arbor and Detroit while other residents travel to Lansing and Detroit for visits and business. The piece ends with a note praising churchgoers for sustaining public charities and community welfare.
State of Michigan notices a chancery suit in Washtenaw County against Josephine Mitchell nonresident. Order requires appearance within three months, filing of answer within twenty days after service, and publication of order in Saline Observer for six weeks plus mailed copy to defendant at last known address by registered mail.
The Probate Court has appointed commissioners to receive examine and adjust all claims against the estate of Charles Christian Fahner in Wash tenasy County. Creditors have four months to present claims. They will meet at Citizens Bank Saline on May 6 and July 6 at 10:00 AM to receive examine and adjust claims. Dated March 6 1922. Adam Klump? Kingsley?
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