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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1938
Page
1
Pioneer feature highlights Saline as an early county settlement with historic trails and rail links. Merchants plan another Bargain Day amid strong shopper turnout and National Hardware Week, inviting locals and visitors to explore bargains and a growing park display featuring Michigan trees and college campus scenery.
Twenty one Saline Future Farmers members plus adviser C A Jewell attended the FP F A state meeting at Michigan State College in East Lansing. Delegates include Alwyn Finkbeiner Hildean Hanson and a ten member dairy judging team with Robert Bassett Glen Weber and others.
Aaron Barney arrived in 1824 and built rakes and cradles while his family grew. John Hitcheoek moved from Ohio with horses and kin, joining 25 land purchasers by 1825. Samuel Clements kept a diary of Indigenous visits, food scarcity, and frontier ingenuity as families relied on log cabins, makeshift cellars, and neighborly aid to survive in the new community.
The old Schweitzer house across from the Drake homestead in Lodi township crumbles after sixty years in the Schweitzer family. Jacob Schweitzer and Magdalena Keck raised three daughters and two sons here, and neighbors recall a once warm home with cherry trees, a wood box, and the scent of home cooking. Since Mrs. Schweitzer’s death, the estate changed hands and no one has lived in the house, now a relic on a knoll shaded by lilacs.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the residence for Gottlob Birkle who died Saturday morning after a long illness. He was born May 1873 in Lodi township and married Orpha Drake on February 14 1899. Survived by wife daughter Mrs Maurice Henderson and granddaughter Virginia Henderson of Saline, two brothers Jacob of Ann Arbor and sister Mrs Elizabeth Keck of Lodi. Rev Roy J Miller officiated and burial was in Lodi Plains cemetery. Birkle was a respected painter and paper hanger known for his reliable work and rare days off to fish.
A resolution was presented at the council meeting in the council rooms Monday evening May 9. The motion by Uphaus and supported by Lambarth accepted the Park Ordinance as read and to be put in the minutes. Yeas four, none against.
Saline establishes a Park Board with exclusive control over all city park properties and improvements. The board will consist of commissioners and manage present and future park assets, buildings, and related property.
Family expresses appreciation for acts of kindness during illness and death of husband and father. Thanks for floral offerings and for Rev Roy J. Miller in comforting words. Signed by Mrs Gottlob Birkle and Mrs Maurice Henderson.
Helen's Beauty Shop offers formal hair styles with each sham poo and wave for the J Hop and graduation. Catherine Beckington, experienced operator now at Helen's Beauty Shop, formerly of Del Mar Shop in Ypsilanti, invites early appointments. Reduction on all machine permanents, permanents as low as 2.50.
Classified list offers cemetery dues payment, sale of seed potatoes and furniture, bed with mattress, two work horses, an ice box, a Majestic radio and records. Also mentions machineless permanents at Helen's Beauty Shop and a farming work request at Crane road Ypsilanti with phone contacts. Includes numerous private sale notices and low price car offers.
Local notices list Gillen’s Shoe Repair services and multiple rental offerings on Michigan Ave. including furnished apartments at 402 HE and 215 East Michigan Ave. Business ads cover heating and sheet metal work by R. G. Wahl, Parson’s upholstery and clothing items, radio service by W. Kelly and Elmer J. Steele, seed corn by Saline Mercantile, baby items for sale, and various storefront and land rental listings.
Multiple small ads from Saline area featuring free tube testing at Milhan's Gulf Station, farm and livestock notices, a modern home for sale, hog worm preventive feed, eye care by Dr. Gibson in Ann Arbor, 1934 Chevrolet pickups and trucks for sale, and a large used car clearance with prices, plus additional garage services and local products.
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