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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1942
Page
2
The Methodist Church offers worship at 10 a.m. for Mothers Day with organ prelude, offertory, and choir, church school at 11:15 a.m. and Epworth League at 6:30 p.m. A May 12 official board meeting is set for 7:45 p.m. in the church parlors. A W.S.C.S. meeting occurs Wednesday afternoon. It costs 1.60 daily to fill a London barrage balloon.
Classified policy note lists single copy price three cents subscription rates seven lines for card of thanks and obituaries free. Announcements with admission charges priced six cents per line with minimum twenty five cents. Outside Michigan rate one fifty per year.
The Lancaster Eagle Gazette won a suit against Fairfield County auditor forcing full financial statements to be published. An editorial notes the cost was about 600 dollars for full form versus 1800 dollars for the short form and argues records should be open to the people. It cites Saline council spending where full monthly publication cost 74 dollars in one year, not 300.
Charles Esslinger of Clinton Michigan sent 10c to cover a Rock Island deck advertised in 1891 by The Rock Island and Pacific Railway Co. The company返 returned a current deck with a note explaining prices rose to 50c plus 13.8c tax and recalling past officials.
Miss Clara Schroen visits Ann Arbor friends while Mr and Mrs FE Clark host relatives over the weekend. George J Schmid Jr of Toledo spends the weekend with his family. Several families visit Manchester and Grand Rapids over the period. A birthday party honors Bliss Curtiss with about twenty schoolmates. Alonzo Kutler’s large barn raising noted. Several health, travel and local social items from the area are recorded.
Saline General Hospital reports Little Warren Jaworski of Dun dee and Robert Henniman of Milan had tonsillectomies last Thursday. Mrs Clarence Fritz and her infant daughter returned home Sunday. Julia Carven, long at St Joseph hospital Ann Arbor, transferred to Saline hospital for care. Sadie Hasley Milan admitted Monday afternoon. The Redateins remain in hospital and are reported doing fine.
Trinity Lutheran Church pastor Reverend H. I. Engel presides at 10 a.m. English divine service and 11 a.m. Sunday school. Church council to meet next Tuesday evening at 10 a.m. Ascension Day service in German.
A column ponders small daily annoyances from tires to taxes while contrasting wartime sorrow with public complaints. Poet Hilda Butler Farr notes how tragedy dulls petty gripes and urges restraint in expressing discontent as society faces hardship.
A vintage recipe outlines mixing shortening and sugar then creaming. Sift flour with baking powder and salt, alternate adding with milk to a creamed base, fold in stiff egg whites, cinnamon coated rhubarb, bake in moderate oven for eighty minutes, serve hot with rhubarb sauce or whipped cream. Serves eight.
Merle Ford of Michigan State College warns fashion will favor simple styles during war. Clothes will tighten seams and shorten jackets as wartime limits push efficiency, durability, and multi use garments.
Divine services every Sunday at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11 15 a m in Saline Township five miles west of Saline on US T12 Rev GC A Haneberg pastor. Everyone welcome. In colonial times American iron industry used bog iron along the Atlantic coast.
John Bugas of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will address a county audience in Hill Auditorium Ann Arbor on Monday May 11 at 8 15 p m. This fourth lecture in a joint series by the County Council of Defense and the War Board of the University covers FBI leadership and investigative matters in Michigan including kidnapping extortion bank robberies and espionage under J Edgar Hoover.
A rare photograph in The Ann Arbor News centers on baby Anne Marie Buss of Manchester the fourth generation in her line. Her living grandmothers are Herman Guenther's wife and Nellie Russell's daughter, linking Saline and Ann Arbor roots.
Saline Rotary heard J. E. Burnett explain feeding 3,340 patients daily at Ypsilanti State hospital plus 600 staff. He noted 11,000 meals prepared daily, 95 cents per day per patient for feeding housing and clothing, and a staff shortfall of about 100. The farm is used for therapy, with some patients working the land despite limited skills. During early 1940, Quebec produced 497 333 fine ounces of gold.
The Observer reports April additions to its subscriber list including EB Gilbert Raymond Burkhart Henry Gorte Rudolph Schumaier Jr Raymond Girbach Pfe Laverne Moore Fort Cas ey Wash George Storey Detroit A R Taylor and Theodore Stroup Milan.
Divine services at 10 a m Sunday school at 11 English services every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Everybody cordially invited. The world's largest storage and shipping plant for raw drugs is located at Statesville, N C The largest towel factory in the world is at Kannapolis, N C.
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