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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1929
Page
1
Michigan State College dairy department reports herd improvement testers in 25 locations oversee 96 associations and 25 000 cows. Each cow is a factory turning low priced materials into higher priced product, with one third of cows losing money and another third yielding no profit.
Morning worship at 10 o clock with 11 15 Bible school and 7 p m Christian Endeavor followed by 7 45 evening service. Thursday Bible study at 7 30. Union Easter sunrise service at Federated church Sunday 6 30 am with participation from St Pauls Methodist and Federated churches.
Sunday services in Falm include a sermon on The Kingship of Christ with special choir music. Bible school at 11:15, Epworth League at 6:30, evening service at 7:30 with junior choir. A Thursday and Friday meeting is announced. Deputy Sheriff Harvey reports Hutton Pratt of Valparaiso Indiana jailed after his Buick held seven cases of whisky. Lester Kelloge of Detroit was arrested for reckless driving.
Ronald Pocklington sent a radio from Liberia Africa to Akron Ohio saying he would leave March 12 for home. He has spent 18 months in Liberia working for Fire Stone Rubber Co. The message was relayed to Mr and Mrs Pocklington via the Akron Tecumseh Herald.
Regulations slash truck loads on state trunk lines from March 1 to June 1 with strict roadside enforcement by the State Highway Department. Rules set per axle width and tire area. max per inch of tire width 525 pounds for nine foot or more spacing, 450 pounds otherwise. Gravel roads cap at 450 pounds per tire inch. Vehicle length limits 40 feet for motor vehicles and 60 feet for trucks and trailers. Overall width 96 inches and height 12 feet 6 inches.
The Oakland Motor Car Company appoints Parsons and Dodge as Oakland-Pontiac dealers for the Pontiac Big Six and the All American by Oakland. The new showrooms display both lines and invite public inspection as the firm aims for a record 1929 with 260,000 Oakland and Pontiac Sixes last year and a substantial growth from 1927.
Central York reports Hattie Murray overseeing a new barn roof as the community notes a birth, visits, and a busy week. Mary Alice Murray arrived Sunday March 17. Marion Murray of Superior township visited his mother. The York Lakes Aid met at Sibert Richards home but attendance suffered from bad roads. The Oak Grove P T A held its March meeting at the school with an Irish program and officers elected: President Hattie Murray, 1st VP Jesse Bird, 2nd VP Mrs George Desbrough, Treasurer Pearl Dicks, Secretary Burt Kendail.
De Mille studio production based on the stage hit Chicago to be shown at Liberty theatre Saturday and Sunday. Phyllis Haver stars as Roxie Hart with Victor Varconi as the husband and Robert Edeson as the criminal lawyer. others include May Robson Virginia Bradford and T Roy Barnes. Frank Orson’s direction and Ceoil B De Mille supervision give emotional depth not found in the stage version.
Public auction to be held March 28 1929 at the Silas Briggs farm listing high grade cattle Holsteins Guernseys and crosses TB tested sows lambs ewes horses a Fordson tractor and a John Deere plow with lunch at noon. Terms of sale announced. Auctioneers P C Sommer Guy Thompson. Clerk Lloyd E Fairbank.
Mortgagee John George Alber will foreclose the mortgage on the West 60 acres of the West half of the Southeast Quarter of Section 11, Town 3 South Range 6 East in Washtenaw County Michigan. Sale at the court house in Ann Arbor on April 19 1929 at 10 a.m. to the highest bidder. The note is for 500 dollars plus 40 dollars interest as of January 7 1929. The borrowers are Andrew G Schroen and Katherine Sehroen of Pittsfield Township.
The marriage of Miss Matilda Acton to Walter J. Acton occurred last Thursday afternoon at the Meyer home south of town with Rev. G C H Wittbracht officiating. Attendants included Miss Erama Reyer of St. Louis as brides maid and Ludwig Reyes as best man. The couple plans to reside on the John Hartman farm south of town after a two course dinner for about forty guests.
The Christian Science Society of Saline meets in the hall over Citizens Bank at 10 30 a m Sunday with subject Matter Testimonial meeting Wednesday at 730 pm A cordial invitation to all Sunday school after the morning service pupils under 20 admitted The Galveston News notes cite a statistic about men's willingness to fund church expenses rather than wear them out
A dense snippet of classified notices and ads including farm products hay oats corn alfalfa and alsike seed. various businesses Parsons & Dodge Wiedman Auto Company Kaiser Brothers Wiedman Auto Co and Wiedman selling Ford tours and ton trucks. farm equipment and animal sales. local bake sale and a notice inviting legal printing requests for estate settlements.
Classified items from Saline include big reductions on radios at H Grosa & Sons and listings for lumber, acetylene welding, gasoline for lamps, used tools and trucks, dairy hay and alfalfa buyers, potatoes for sale, a 1925 Dodge sedan, a Nash truck, a black horse for sale, a 1925 Ford coupe, and furniture repairs. Also notices for fertilizer orders, real estate exchanges, and a student play “Adam and Eva” by Saline High School.
YPSL FIELD HATCHERY on Michigan Ave Ypsilanti offers modern all electric incubators for larger, stronger birds. They advertise Barred Plymouth Rocks White Plymouth Rocks White Wyandottes R Reds and White Leghorns with various price tiers and custom hatching at four cents per egg.
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