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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1934
Page
4
Card of Thanks and condolences priced per line. Obituaries and marriage notices published free. Personal or business notices charged at regular rates with a six cent per line minimum for entertainment announcements. Poetry charged at five cents per line.
The piece salutes graduating seniors as the Octurus of Saline, noting college prep pressures and family support changes amid an industrial era. It urges pride, shared effort, and steady faith while reflecting on school life, exams, and upcoming futures.
The last week of the school year features student reflections on exams and learning. Eleventh grade reporters thank readers and staff, noting improvements and plans for the September return as the Jolly Juniors bid farewell on air.
Central details recall a small town set with Mrs. Alger Allison, Miss Electa Murray, and Mrs. Julia Carven among neighbors in Saline and Milan. A baccalaureate attended by Electa Murray and Charlotte Gable marks a local milestone alongside a ball game and wiener roast at the Gable home.
Franklin urges practical measures to manage debts and earn prosperity. He advocates balancing ledgers, prudent business, prompt payments, renewed notes with solid security, industrious work, time discipline, and economical living. He stresses charity within means and faithful prayer, church attendance, and virtuous conduct as foundations for seven years of effort. If unhappy after, he promises to repay debts.
John Ruskin argues education should shape character and conduct. The second fragment laments Towa mud storms and jokes about World Court intervention for a local nuisance.
Morning worship at 10 o'clock follows with Religious Thinking of Today. Sunday school at 11 15 led by H A Holmes. Epworth League at 6 30 p m and evening service at 7 50. Wednesday prayers and Bible study and Thursday choir practice.
The Federated Church lists worship at 10 a m with Pastor EB Kircher. Sunday school at 11 45 led by S Y Cotten, Carl Geddes assisting, Mrs House chorister, Eileen Martin pianist. Evening 7 00 p m gatherings of church youth and 8 00 p m program The Man Who Drives Fast contrasts labor creating with labor saving devices.
Mrs. Clarence Coon and Mrs. Roland Finch visit relatives in Manchester and Saline while Dorothy Moore stays with sister in Platt. Several households host guests at Grass Lake and Lincoln, including the Girbach and Chambler families. Lodi Center No. 10 closes for picnic day as students win citizenship and spelling prizes.
Macon figures show Lillian Schaffer travels to Utica for an indefinite stay. Numerous weekend visits and calls occur as Mr. and Mrs. Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, and many others entertain relatives from Jackson, Alma, Lansing, Detroit, and Ann Arbor. A light note remarks that Dillinger plans to give the world a rest from its worries.
Memorial exercises in Macon cemetery attended by locals. Miss la Jean Long out of school for measles. Mooreville Ladies Aid held a bake sale at Throop store in Milan, proceeds $5.25. Local visits and social gatherings cited, with birthdays and parish events. Obituary notes James Norman, operation in Ann Arbor Hospital, funeral in Mooreville Marble Park Cemetery.
A fragmented notice mentions St Sohir s Luther s and Divine services at 10 am with Sunday school at 11 in a Bem Grand school area. A student was fined one hundred dollars for slapping a teacher to the earth. The village pioneer recalls past incidents and public approval as current measure.
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