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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
2
Citizens insist that every public spending body publish regular accounting of funds. Officials and boards handling public money should disclose where and how each dollar is spent, a core democratic principle.
Bud MacArthur predicts Saline High will win two key matches this week tennis at Lincoln and track against Dundee. Next week Saline faces Romulus and Lincoln in a triangular meet with potential edge for Romulus. Baseball vs Bellevue may break slump if batters wake up. Chet Wojicki could extend one-hitter streak. Hope debt mystery noted in Bangor memo of $2.82.
Walter C. B. Laxman officiates morning worship with sermon Our Convictions followed by Church school led by Ray Davis. Junior League meets 6:30 to 7:30 with Mrs. J Stark Epworth League led by John Baker seeks delegate for summer camp. Fourth Quarterly Conference and annual church meeting Tuesday May 28 at 8:00 in church parlors. all members urged to attend.
Trinity Lutheran Church announces a 90th anniversary English festival at 10:00 a m with a special bank offering. Sunday school at 11:00 a m. Ladies Aid meets Wednesday and Men’s Club Wednesday evening June 5, League meets Thursday June 6.
A recent storm caused a lightning surge in a Bangor township farm home, damaging a barn light and a yard bulb but causing no serious damage. The rest of the text offers unrelated reflections and figures on life expectancy by gender.
Readers are invited to submit household tips recipes and vegetable cooking ideas. Names may be used with permission and readers can share methods for easier chores and fresh approaches to daily tasks.
An advertisement extols electric cookers for outdoor leisure. It highlights waterless cooking and sealed-in nutrition, claiming meats and vegetables cook in their own juices. The unit can roast a 15 pound turkey, bake pies, steam and stew. 80 000 neighbors use these cookers with displays in stores and Detroit Edison offices.
Federated Church announces events led by Rev. Roy J. Miller. May 23 and May 26 schedule praise and worship at Charles Tower residence and morning service with a Baptism and consecration of children. Children’s Day set for June 2 at 10 o’clock. Baccalaureate Sunday also observed. Potential joint sermon with Rev. Witt bracht if at Macon Ford school. Mentions British Navy vitamin C as a nutrition note.
An Los Angeles Museum of Natural History exhibit showcases perfectly preserved skeletons of mastodon and sabre tooth tiger. The piece notes 264 Asphalt as an indestructible petroleum binder preservative that strengthens four fifths of modern highways, tying ancient resilience to contemporary road building.
Central York Alger Allison was a business visitor at Toledo Monday. Joseph Sweeney, Monroe business visitor Saturday and Detroit visitors Sunday include Elwin Sanders and son Mal. Detroit residents Joseph Sweeney Jr and his father spent Saturday at their home. Miss Ruth Gable recovers from appendectomy in Detroit. Mrs. Gable caring for ill sister in Detroit. Mrs. Alger Allison attended a Friendship class at Mrs. Otto Hagen’s home. Marion Murray of Superior township visited his sister in Dearborn. Callers at the Allison home included Clarence Zimmerman and daughters of Milan, Glenn Allison of Ann Arbor, Grant Allison of Willis Road.
Edward Kasno of Detroit spent the weekend at his Macon home. Azalia's Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Robinson called on Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Payne. Ellen Collins returned from months with relatives in Van Nuys California. Detroit visitors included George Bailey at their cottage. Local residents visited friends and family across Jackson Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Britton Adrian Ridgeway Tecumseh and Macon. Mrs Myrtie DeSpelder burial funeral in Tecumseh noted. born Feb 15 1855 in Macon and longtime local resident.
News notes from Saline describe births, visits, and social gatherings. Geraldine O Fower born May 14 to Mr and Mrs Charles O Fower. local exchanges include visits by Harold Lutz from Hast Lansing and Miss Bertha M. Rogers wedding plans, plus Memorial Day services and a lawn social planned for June 3.
F D Be demonstrates an eight wood inlay portrait of President Roosevelt in Wood Richmond. Michigan State College staff spur a new apple juice packing industry with Roy Marshall perfecting flash pasteurization. H P Gaston studies marketing while 10 plants in 1939 packed 200000 cases of 24 cans. Markets reached southern citrus states and 150000 cases of unsterilized juice sold fresh. Quality aims to use better apples to retain the market.
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