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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1938
Page
8
A traditional method for boiling a 4 lb stewing chicken with carrots turnips onions potatoes and cauliflower. Simmer in seasoned water with bay leaf clove marjoram and salt until tender then serve on a platter with vegetables and a celery sauce.
A casual department note urges updating curtains and slipcovers to combat winter dreariness. It suggests sourcing sunbright prints, porch furniture revamps, and planning menus with nutrition tips, while promoting USDA bulletins on lawn care and healthy diets for the family.
It is noted that the extra feed above the amount needed to keep a hen alive drives egg production. Poultry specialists cite that a leghorn hen uses 64 pounds of feed yearly with no eggs, 71 pounds for 100 eggs, and 81 pounds for 200 eggs, confirming energy devoted to laying.
Jacob Visal and family were Ann Arbor visitors Saturday. Carl Zahn came home from Detroit for a visit over the weekend. Mrs. Leland Easton of Lima visited her parents in the area last week. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Buss of Highland Park visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nieland. Miss Rose Allen returned home after holidays with relatives in South Lyon and Ypsilanti. Mrs. Sophia Spears of Pleasant Lake spent a week with her grandson Chester Leonard and family. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Briggs of Royal Oak and Lemar Briggs of Ypsilanti visited Mrs Charlotte Briggs Sunday. Mrs. B. L. Longfellow visited relatives in Dekter from Thursday to Sunday. Geraldine Gauss came home to spend the week. John Guenther rented his new two family flat on East Henry street to William Phillips and Harold Jahnke and families will move in soon. Herman Guthardt of Toledo spent Sunday with his parents, returning to Toledo Sunday. The Welfare Club will meet with Mrs James Jones at Macon on Thursday March 29. Miss Rogers will attend to give the fourth and last talk on household economics. Miss Lulu Fairbank has been in Jacksonville Florida attending the mid winter convention of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. On return to Boston she stopped at Baltimore to visit Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parsons.
Thirty years ago the community noted the coming year would feature Mayor Rose. The piece lists residents visiting, property sales, farm rentals, local club meetings, business purchases, and a dry recount of an election with a single ticket and 110 votes cast, plus a water incident involving Mrs. Marian Marriott and Claude Harmon.
A collection of quotes on obedience from Mill Aeschylus Donald Mary Baker Eddy Romans 6 16. The excerpts praise duty discipline faithfulness and submission to God guiding readers to view obedience as central to virtue and safety.
Scoutmasters assistant scoutmasters and troop committeemen join an overnight training session at Camp Newkirk on Saturday March 26 at 2 30 p m. The event caps two months of courses on troop administration camping hiking and outdoor scouting led by Assistant Scout Executive Hall Woodalls with Professor Marshall Burn of Ann Arbor as committee chairman.
Advice on pen cleanliness lice checks and ready housing for chicks. Instructions include maintaining 55 degree hatch eggs inspection of breeders avoiding disqualifications and ensuring oyster shells cod liver oil greens and milk in diet. Emphasis on culling weak chicks caponizing Ancona birds and avoiding crowding with ample feeders and starter mash.
John F. Allan of Sullivan County Indiana demonstrates a prolific pork operation. In 180 days his 12 sows produced 24 480 pounds of pork from 102 pigs, averaging 240 pounds each. Allan breeds sows twice yearly and markets a ton of pork every six months.
A Michigan State College contest judged by the Publications Department selected six top rural life photographs. Winners include Mrs. George Thompson of Saginaw with a baby and lamb at milk, Lynn H. Grove of Pewamo with a farmer plowing a garden powered by a Holstein, and William Harris of Paynesville featuring a brother feeding a deer near Victoria Dam. Additional standout entries include Florence Culver of Grand Rapids with Homeward and Cora Shady of Newberry with Tahquamenon Falls.
A 12 day fattening trial on Light Sussex cockerels compares rations with 12 parts dried skim milk and 88 parts ground oats corn meal and barley meal. Immature birds gain faster, ground oats yield quickest gains, corn slowest. Corn or oats do not harm fat consistency. rapid fattening yields harder fat with corn than normal rations.
Feeding 24 week old White Leghorn pullets with dehydrated alfalfa as a vitamin A source showed 175 Sherman Munsell units per 100 grams of ration meet their needs. The Western Washington Experiment Station conducted the trial.
Stories from four counties show home management lessons by extension specialists at Michigan State College. Kitchens reconfigured to reduce steps from washing dishes to serving meals, with counts from 27 to 173 steps for common tasks.
Auditor General George T. Gundry urged Michigan readers to understand tax sale rules. He stressed that full or current payments protect property titles and that receipts prevent clouds on title. Tax records are compiled and at publishers statewide. taxes may be paid until midnight May 2 before the sale.
A playful dialogue features the daughter of a first film star asking about her new father while the daughter of a second star praises him. A group of scientific New Yorkers travels to South America to study wildlife, while a line from Emerson sparks reflection on redressing calamities with right words.
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