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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1941
Page
2
The Saline Observer lists staff details with Smarter at the post office in Saline Michigan and pricing terms. It notes subscription rates, single copy price, and lines for notices such as card of thanks obituaries and marriages with respective charges.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt designates May 18 1942 as I Am An American Day urging observance nationwide. Officials and citizens are asked to promote citizenship awareness for those reaching majority or naturalized within the past year.
The Federated Church announces morning worship at 10 o clock with a sermon on Selective Service. Sunday School is growing with Graydon Hiverett as superintendent and Mrs Haz en Jewell guiding the Primary department. Christian Endeavor meets at 7 00 p m for young people. Activities include Ladies Aid May 7, prayer meeting May 7 30 p m, Friendship class May 8, and a Wiener roast moved to May 9 for the Young people.
The Trinity Ev Lutheran Church holds English divine service at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11. The Ladies Aid meets Wednesday with guests from the Solo Ladies Aid. The Men's Club also meets Wednesday evening. A note recalls that absence from church was a crime in the seventeenth century. British youths aged 14 to 19 are employed sanding sandbags and filling bomb craters.
Local notices recap visits and social events from Freedom to Ypsilanti with guests in Ann Arbor and Milford. A 72 year old cannon fragment reappears after a garden dig, linked to a historic street blast at Guthard Schroen and the old American hotel.
Thirty years ago a daughter born to Mr and Mrs Calvin Wolf. Mr and Mrs Carl Heininger move to the Davis farm east of York. Mrs Michael Mohrhardt visits Ann Arbor. Frost harms garden plants but fruit buds stay intact. George Burkhart plans to tear down or move their house for a new one. Others attend Baptist convention, visit relatives, or buy land on East Chicago street. Edward Alber and brothers take York mill, motor cars on Ann Arbor road teased as possible operation with a new bridge landing.
Readers urged to support soldiers in camps through personal actions. Suggestions include sending home papers via American Legion, sending books to camps, inviting soldiers to Sunday dinners, and contacting camp recreational officers for needs such as treats, letters, or magazines.
The Methodist church holds 10 a.m. service with a sermon Honest Loyalty and 11:15 a.m. Sunday school. Epworth League at 6:30 p.m. Seniors meet at 5:30 p.m. for supper and social hour. W S C S meetings follow with Mother and Daughter banquet on Friday night May 9.
The Hodgepodge urges readers to share ideas for household tasks and May basket gifts. It celebrates simple crafts for shut-ins and families, and includes a rice cheese pimiento fried ball recipe. A county bulletin outlines yearly per person food and supply estimates. Lamont Hunt suffers a severe arm injury at the county gravel pit when crushed between a conveyor and a truck near Tecumseh.
Mix cottage cheese and yolks with fat and vanilla. Beat whites with vanilla and sugar to stiff peaks. Fill a pastry lined pie tin, bake custard, top with meringue, and brown slowly. Cool before serving.
A preface praises farm families in Michigan for good meals from state crops. The new publication Feed the family from the Farm was prepared by Michigan State College extension service in agriculture and home economics for statewide distribution. Copies available by writing the Bulletin Room at the college East Lansing.
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