Local Happenings Around Saline and Nearby Towns
Local society notes report visits by Mr and Mrs R S McCord to Toledo and Mr and Mrs S R Wilson to Clinton and Manchester. Saline residents prepare a May 21 Federated church supper for the County Sunday School Convention. A new ambulance hearse is pictured for Saline. Community events include Washtenaw County Brotherhood meetings and Saline 4 H Club activities. County officials urge reporting white grub pest activity to combat June beetle outbreaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. S. McCord
Toledo
S. R. Wilson
Clinton
Manchester
John Bodmer
East Henry Street
Saline Woman’s Club
Observer
J. W. Pinkstone
Enterprise
Swanton
Ohio
The
Federated Church
Henry Bredernitz
W. E. Dietiker
Saline
George Uphaus
Fred Schmid
Mintie Coe
Aquilla, Lee
Aquilla Lee
Arsenal Hotel
Ann Arbor
Dean Gordon
Walter Bredernitz
Michigan Legislature Closes Controversial 1929 Session
The 1929 Michigan legislature adjourned sine die after a session marked by hospital building drives and a slate of tax and policy bills. Key actions included direct appropriations for hospitals, a reformulated institutional tax, criminal code amendments, a new election code, and the creation of a state police radio network. Potential gubernatorial and statewide race speculation followed as leaders and veterans weighed future offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Gus Hartman
Senate
Calvert
Coleman
Clarence Dacey
Vincent Dacey
DeLand
Ospie
Goodwine
Hall
Harnly
Holland
Kistler
MacDonald
Miller
Snow
Watson Williams
Wilson
John Jones
Sam Smith
Conservation Department
Fish and Game
Howell
Transportation Committee
Michigan
Teachers’ Retirement Fund
Council
State Board of Aeronautics
Tax Commission
Michigan and U S crop prospects on wheat rye and fruit
Michigan reports 861000 of 892000 winter wheat acres remaining for harvest after an average abandonment this year. U S winter wheat output is forecast well above last year. Michigan rye production may reach 2297000 bushels from 160000 acres, while U S rye output tops 44366000 bushels. Hay outlook is better than average and pastures are advanced. Potatoes show 77.6 percent normal in the South, and Michigan fruit crops face frost injury but are expected to be good overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
United States
Long Forgotten Local Notices Chronicle Quiet Week
Thirty years ago C H Carven painted his house while Mrs H T Nichols and daughter Zoa visited Detroit. Austin Lessemer of Stockbridge visited family Sunday. Mrs John Schaffer went to Baltimore for two weeks. Henry Liesemer died at 74 after illness. John Gordon sold about four hundred fat sheep to local buyers. Glen Howard bought tobacco and cigars from J A Alber in Union block and will stock more candies and fruit. Eleanor Batty died May 9 in New York state. she was born in 1827. In a church service last Sunday 39 women bowed their heads in prayer and a bird’s corpse hung from each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Nichols
Zoa
Detroit
Austin Lessemer
Stockbridge
John Schaffer
Baltimore
Henry Liesemer
John Gordon
Glen Howard
J. A. Alber
Union Block
Glenn
Eleanor Batty
Sam van Duzer
New York State
Weekend Visits and Local News From Greenfield Area
Fifteen years ago Miss Jessie Gates of Greenfield Wayne county spent the weekend with old friends here. Miss Grace Mattison is spending the week in Ann Arbor. Mrs. C H Carven and Mrs. Abbie Snauble of Macon are spending the week with relatives at Mason and Lansing. Mrs. Samuel Josenhans entertained on Sunday her aunt Mrs. Elizabeth Jacobus and cousin William Jacobus and family all of Ann Arbor. Luther Briggs Earl Fosdick Leon Tower and Albert Neithammer attended a meeting of rural carriers at Ann Arbor Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Frank Blanchard left Wednesday for Springfield Missouri where she will spend the summer with her parents. Alphonse Schmid south of town had eighty fine ewes caught in the rush of high water Tuesday night and drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie Gates
Greenfield
Wayne County
Grace Mattison
Ann Arbor
C. H. Carven
Abbie Snauble
Macon
Mason
Lansing
Samuel Josenhans
Elizabeth Jacobus
William Jacobus
Luther Briggs
Earl Fosdick
Leon Tower
Albert Neithammer
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DIE
George W. Cook
Edna House
Mt. Pleasant
Violet Rogers
Cecil Davenport
Adrian
B. P. Davenport
W.E. Browning
Perry Drake
Edward Feuerbacher
Family Sunday
Brooklyn
Jacob Clough
Monroe
General Education Division
Washtenaw County Council of Religious Education
H. S. Osler
Michigan State College
Washtenaw County
Court House
Michigan Press Association
Congress
Green
Fred Ming
Cheboygan
Charles DeLand
John Haggerty
Wilbur Brucker
Loren Dickinson
Charles S. Sink
William F. Turner
Morley
George C. Watson
Capac
Fisher
Ternstedt
Chevrolet
GEO. V. Cook & Son
Liberty Theatre
SRF
Norma Talmage
World OF Today
Prudes
Ken Maynard
Tarzan the Mighty
wSe T Bros
South Fourth Ave
Ann Arbor, Mich
John Deere
Deere
H. Gross & Sons
Saiine, Mich
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