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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
2
Card of thanks and announcements of entertainments must be paid per line. Personal or business interest notices charged at regular rates. Admission events billed at six cents per line. Minimum charge set at twenty five cents. Poetry lines priced at five cents each.
More than 10 scouts enrolled for the June 25 start as Walter MacPeek guides a large staff in Washtenaw Livingston Council leadership training and program roles. Names include Walter Holmlund, Jack Harwood, Harry Biecker, David Meier, Jay Smith, James Gormson, Douglas Murray, Hugh Wilson, Rog Smith, Robert Lovell, Hedley Downey, and John Swichtenberg across waterfront, nature lore, games, first aid, dining, and cooking duties.
Morning worship at 40 00 with topic Mother and Family. Sunday 11 15 church school led by Ray Davis. 6 30 p m Junior League led by Mrs Lilian Burgan with topic Obligations to Our Community. Mid week service Wednesday 3 30 7780 and Thursday 7 80 choir practice.
St John’s Lutheran Church Bridgewater announces Divine services at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11. English services occur on the second and fourth Sundays each month. The notice invites all to attend and mentions nuisance taxes due.
The account describes Treasure Island exhibits and night lighting, including Elephant Towers and Court of Flowers, the Chinese village, and the Palace of Fine Arts. It highlights the Woman’s Club Housing Association, Yerba Buena Clubhouse, and the California State building displays, plus the San Francisco hospitality suite and Hetch Hetchy displays.
An exhibit showcases California’s 1849 era with city functions like education utilities housing recreation and health. The piece mentions California Court and San Francisco Court along with a Chinese Barden and the south exterior of the San Francisco Juildiey in a descriptive display.
Mrs. Caroline Bernard visited friends in Ypsilanti Sunday. Several residents and visitors are named with travel to Ann Arbor Kalamazoo Clinton Bil lings and Norfolk. School notes report Ruth Camburn Katherine Briggs Clarence Fritz Charles Howard Doris Westphal and Howard Lamb were neither absent nor tardy in April.
Joe Gauss visited Bridgewater Monday. H. T Nichols of Detroit stayed in town Tuesday. The Jarvis property will be sold at public sale next Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Camburn were at home in Macon over Sunday. Austin White and family visited with Mrs. Harmon’s group Sunday. A Z Westphal and family move into the Jacob Sturm home. Mr. and Mrs. R. Finch visited the local schools Tuesday. Mrs. Ola Leveland and Mrs. Callie Miller of Milan joined Misses Mary Eccles and Lillie McMichael Tuesday. Mrs. Unterkircher attended the Ladies’ Literary Club closing in Ypsilanti yesterday. Dr. Dudley sold his dental practice to Dr. Guy T. Ratner of Manchester, who begins May 24. Irving Hamlin of Southern Pines married Miss Thomas of Southern Pines on Pride evening May 7. Six friends surprised Mr. and Mrs. Leon Vealey at the bride’s parents’ home. The Toastmasters club held its monthly meeting Monday morning with Esther Jeffbanks elected toastmaster and Vera Reeves named musical director.
While a trick was being played near the George Law residence, a walnut sized stone was picked up by a tire and hurled through a large front window. Mrs. Law, seated in the line of the impact, was struck by flying glass but suffered no injury.
Saline Theatre replaces Merchants Night with a mid week double feature program on May 16 and 17. The Jones Family in Everybody's Baby joins Arrest Bulldog Drummond featuring international spies. Also showing Never Say Die with Bob Hope and Martha Raye, Tail Spin a three woman aviation melodrama.
Addison MP A LeRoy Perkins lost the first joint of his finger during a freak basketball accident. A ring on his hand caught on a mat hook as he jumped for the ball, the weight of his body pulling the finger off. The finger was amputated below the second joint.
Elmer White, 51, renowned for balancing multiple bottles on a single match for a photograph, has died in Nashville. His earlier stunt reversed a bottle balancing fad and earned him media attention two years ago.
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