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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1942
Page
2
President Roosevelt highlights uninterrupted production as key to wartime success and urges strict waste paper collection. Citizens should bundle 100 pound lots, folding newspapers, tying magazines, flattening cardboard, packing wastebasket paper, and separating rags to aid collectors.
The Saline Observer lists Sim. R. Wilson as publisher and M. C. Boutelle as editor. It notes the paper is entered at the Saline Michigan post office as second class matter.
The notice outlines pricing for single copies and subscriptions and specifies rates for obituaries marriages and announcements. It sets 6 cent per line charges for paid entertainments and requests a minimum 25 cent fee. It also notes free publication for obituary and marriage notices.
The Charlotte Republican Tribune notes editors waste mass state and military propaganda copy. Bill Bryce of Grand Ledge Independent argues most releases go to the waste basket as self serving public payroll propaganda. Officials push costly print runs and salaries for publicity, urging government to practice what it preaches.
Governor Van Wagoner proclaims a state of emergency in the domestic coal supply and backs a national buy coal now campaign to begin in April. He urges all users including agencies, homes, offices, hotels, churches, and stores to place orders after April 1 and before midsummer to secure coal for the 1942 43 winter, even if it requires extra storage. He directs Budget Director Nowicki and Purchasing Director Gump to align state coal units with the early buying plan.
At 10 a m a confirmation service will feature George Brassow Jr Ruth Gensley Aldean Jedele George Jedele Jr Earl Gindemann Gladys Lindemann Margaret Steiner. An 8 p m special passion service follows.
St James Evangelical Lutheran Church Saline Township five miles west of Saline on US 112 holds divine worship Sundays at 10 a m with Sunday school at 11 15 a m Pastor C A Haneberg invites all.
St Johns Lath Church in Bridgewater invites parishioners to Divine services at 11:00 a.m. on Sundays with Sunday School at 11. English services are held every second and fourth Sunday of the month.
Palm Sunday worship at the Methodist Church offers a 10 a m sermon The Indifferent Crowd with organ preludes offertory and choir music Church school at 11 15 with Prayer as the class topic Arthur Wilson leads as superintendent Epworth League junior and senior meet at 6 30 p m Young people train for service Also note a Michigan farmer garden appeal and a USDA War Board target of 5 760 000 gardens nationwide Snakes live on animal food.
Otto Steele of Detroit visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cammet Sunday. Mrs. Emma Sanford visited friends in Ypsilanti Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Lyle Rankin and Miss Ida Clements were Ann Arbor visitors Friday. Mrs. Mable Case of Morrice is staying with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Warren. Miss Anna Bredernitz spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Bersuder in Bridgewater. Mrs. Edward Law and Mrs. Clarence Derr of Detroit visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry Friis Saturday. John Burkhardt has sold his farm to Detroit parties and expects to move to town in the spring. F. C. Hollis and wife entertained friends from Ann Arbor and Salem on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Feldkamp and Mrs. Lydia Lindenschmidt were in Ann Arbor midweek visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kelsey have rented the West Henry street house from John Meyer and will move there soon. Walter Cook installed a radio at home and now can hear programs. Mrs. R. H. Bamer and daughter Hlowene of East Lansing are visiting her parents. Misses Wealthy and Lottie Wallace hosted dinner with several guests including Rev. H. A. McConnell who died March 15 in Leslie. Lodi 4th district reports several pupils never absent or tardy: Loretta Jedele, Viola Jedele, Mildred Green, Lucile Hirth, John Klein, Miss Jessie Cole teaches.
Julius Zahn relocates to Ann Arbor while Tracy LeBaron clerks for Martin Fucss. Thorn, a Detroit business caller, stops in. Vern Rhoades moves to Irving Clark farm south of town. Gertrude and Margaret Miller return from Hastings for spring break. James Young and family move to C. R. Parsons farm south of town this 4 week. W. L. Walling attends Toastmasters meeting in Ann Arbor. Mrs. Baker heads home to Fen ton after winter visit with daughter Mrs. Lehman. Frank Cammet and family move to Will Wiedmayer farm west of town. Michael Sage buys old Lindsley place west of town. fifth sale of this tiny farm in two years. George Schmid Sr. celebrated 66th birthday with family visit. Will Marken relocates his sawmill to Alphonse Schmid woods to supply material for a future barn. Next Sunday confirms at German churches. Lutherans list Amanda Seeger Amanda Lindemann Robert Walker Oscar Niethammer Carl Wildt Raymond Luckhardt. St Paul’s confirms Leonora Wahr Sylvia Alber Melvin Alber Edwin Gall Reuben Wisel Walter Heimerdinger Walter Wahr Harold Alber Herman Schroen Hilbert Wittbract.
William H. Bach presides as pastor with 10 am worship on Palm Sunday and an 11:15 am Sunday school. Milton Haberer speaks at 6:30 pm palm events and the 7:45 pm evangelistic service covers The Message of the Cross. Choir rehearsals and midweek meetings noted in announcements.
Industry designers unveil women scientist outfits including a frontless dress with no catchable details. New designs also feature a comfortable housedress a divided skirt and numerous aprons for lab work and demonstrations.
Readers are asked to submit ideas for the Hodgepodge column including household tasks recipes and new vegetable cooking methods. Names may be used if requested and shared thoughts will shape future installments.
A fragment mentions a squirrel song praising autumn and a Forest God, then shifts to a renewed interest in handicrafts, highlighting rug making with hooked crochet and braided techniques from salvaged materials. It also offers a old fashioned cream pie recipe and method for cream pies with milk cornstarch eggs syrup butter and vanilla.
Michigan State College home economics experts describe 15 outfits designed by the federal bureau of home economics for women workers. Designs cover farm factory and home settings with patterns or ready mades available, including a shower proof protect all and a front opening food preparation dress.
Selections note drivers on the road facing shortages and oddities from a Florida motorist with nine flat tires to farms and businesses reverting to horse and buggy due to conditions. Mention of blackouts, citrus growers with oil burners, and a Texas farmer shifting to a horse for short trips alongside a broader note on chemurgy and farm plastics research in Chicago.
Mrs. Fleury is ill with flu. Mr and Mrs A G Richards and Tommie were in Detroit on Wednesday last week. Mr and Mrs George F Richards and family and Mr and Mrs D G Richards were Sunday callers of A G Richards and family.
Wednesday at 7 30 p m Federated church Rev F A Lendrum preaches Thursday 7 30 p m Methodist church Rev W H Bach preaches Good Friday 1 30 to 3 p m Methodist church readings on the words from the Cross are planned.
Saline General Hospital reports Mrs Russell Cripe and baby returned home Wednesday. Carl Seeger had an appendectomy Friday and is recovering well. Lorrin Bauer and wife welcomed a daughter born March 18. Walter Hosler and wife welcomed a daughter born March 22 in Mooreville. Barbara Begole had her tonsils removed last Friday. The infant daughter of Ralph and wife Hart, born March 19 at Saline hospital, died March 21 in St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor.
Poultry expert C. G. Card of Michigan State College urges strict sanitation in the brooder house to raise vigorous chicks. Clean movable colonies before moving ranges, scrub before occupancy, and prepare with dry litter. Maintain correct 90 degree floor heat and elevate mash hoppers to avoid spills. Direct sunlight aids vitamin D and health.
West Saline items list visits and greetings among area families from West Saline and nearby towns. A farm meeting is planned at William Schwoche’s farm on April 9 at 1 o clock with County Agent Qsler and home demonstration guidance by Miss Nugent for local farmers and housewives in Chelsea Manchester district.
An American diesel engine maker asserts Germany has fitted thousands of airplanes with diesels to extend oil supplies. The claim mentions companies like Bowling Merchants and Standard Oil in the context of wartime logistics.
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