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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1933
Page
5
Detroit visitors and Jasper and Ypsilanti guests populate a Saline area social page. Nearby farms plan an open house day on May 20 while St Paul church groups hold meetings and a mother daughter banquet is slated for May 19.
Last Sunday featured strong attendance with two baptisms. Next Sunday highlights include a Mother's Day sermon and special music at 10:00 a.m. followed by Sunday school at 11:15 a.m. Evening program at 8:00 p.m. by the Junior Endeavor with a full Mother's Day program.
Carlton Murray visited Hamburg while John Gooding hosted Jacob Stecher Saturday afternoon. Elections and hospital updates are noted as Electa Murray returns to Ann Arbor for mastoid operation care. Myrl Murray and families from Mooreville and Dan Murray from Ridge Road joined Hattie Murray’s birthday anniversary.
Morning worship at 10 o clock subject The Abiding Love Sunday school 11 15 H A Holmes superintendent Epworth League 6 30 p m Evening service 7 30 subject mothers Foster Mothers Mothers in Lawn School of instruction Wednesday Bible study 7 30 Thursday choir Ladies Aid meets today at Sam Boyd home Mother's Day program includes Prelude Going Home Dvorak From the New World Symphony Creed Hymn offertory readings and solos Seamon My Mother Taught Me Mother s Day Hymn Postlude Lullaby Dr Louis Falk
Central Lodi voices a plea that a social welfare driven economic depression ends through collective prayer and Christian belief. The piece argues faith must grow nationally to heal business distress, urging Christians to act on God’s promise and call upon Him in trouble. Local notes list visitors and family gatherings.
Eighteen years ago Howard Henne purchases a new Dodge Bert Derendinger was in Toledo Tuesday. Mrs. Caroline Scherdt and Julius Wahr bought Ford cars. Miss Minnie Baty and Helen Walker returned from Jackson for the weekend. George Schneider of Manchester visited his sister Mrs. George Koch. Mr. and Mrs. William Steinway and children visited Albert Steinway in Tima Center. John Boettner and children of Saline township visited Conrad Boettner and wife Sunday. Charles Miller and son Arthur, Lucinda Cobb, and Alfred Miller visited Ira Wood of Chelsea. John Wurster hosted Jacob Schaible, Mrs. Gottieb Jacobs and son Walter of Manchester, and John Clark with T. E. Schaible and Theodore Schaible of Ypsilanti. The hardware firm Muir & Gross dissolved by mutual consent. Edward J. Muir will run the business, while Mr. Gross turns to farming.
The Epworth League district gathering in Monroe included a banquet at 6 80 and 200 attendees with 34 from Saline. Rev Bertram Ede was elected president of the Ann Arbor district, and Saline received an efficiency certificate and banner for the top league, dethroning Milan among 53 leagues.
Mr and Mrs Hovey Needham called on Mr and Mrs Ray Gilmore of Britton Wednesday. Adrian Ellsman and Joan spend the week in Kalamazoo with relatives. B J Forsythe visited at Kalamazoo Friday to Sunday. E O Stimpson and Mrs Glenn Gordon were Adrian visitors last week. Kerry Gordon of Flint visited his parents the Gordons over the weekend. Dean Gordon of East Lansing spent the weekend with his parents. Harold Hammond and family visited Durward Young of Ann Arbor Sunday. Ellsman entertained James Ellsman’s parents of Kalamazoo for Hart Bragg and son Lawrence and Vera Goodin’s family Sunday.
West Mooreville keeps residents busy with visits and travel including Loyal Kanitz on business to Wyandotte. Locals report livestock losses as dogs killed several sheep belonging to George Reese Monday night. Other items mention births on April 26 in Detroit to Jacob and Mrs Shelton, and Lewis school honor rolls with students named Applgate Applegate Gregg Murray Reese and Reeves among others.
In Saline a wave of night callers unsettles residents, suspected to be an inside job tied to a long-time town resident. The writer warns the culprit, addresses a taunting note, and laments disturbances while urging locals to support home merchants and keep money circulating locally.
St. John's Lutheran Church Bridgewater announces Divine services at 10 a.m. Sunday school at 11 a.m. English services on the second and fourth Sundays each month. Harold J. Homann of Aston is ill with a dislocated jaw from brushing his teeth.
Thirty years ago the community anticipated a balloon ascent on Saturday May 23 led by Prof. R A Ray. Local construction includes G C Townsend building an additional wall on McKay street and Miss Augusta Bond rebuilding her wall east of town. Multiple residents attend events including Hubert Humphrey and his wife visiting Townsend and Miss Lillian Stang at the new telephone office.
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