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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1937
Page
4
The Saline Observer outlines pricing for notices: six cents per line for card of thanks, poetry five cents per line, obituaries and marriages free, personal or business benefit items charged at regular rates, entertainment announcements six cents per line with a 25 cent minimum.
The article spotlights Thanksgiving gratitude and contrasts Pilgrim feasts with modern abundance. It also lists upcoming school activities including debates with Belleville Milan and Hudson, a major basketball turnout, safety programs for grades 5 through 9, a tuberculosis education clinic scheduled December 1, and hot lunch plans by home ec students after Thanksgiving.
Saline eighth grade girls organize a home economics club with officers including President Katy Lou Clay and Sponsor Mrs. Washburn. They plan professional, financial, social service and social meetings and work on a constitution. Members make headbands for the foods laboratory.
A safety message urges drivers to prevent accidents and value human life. A Barnyard ring tale recounts Mrs. Hickey losing a gold ring in 1910 and Bert Hickey finding it 27 years later in a cornfield after plowing.
Senior girls lead a four family kitchen program in which they plan market orders, cook meals in family sizes, and evaluate flavor color and texture. The unit includes health grooming first aid and manicuring with tables manners and silent grace before meals. Plans for a Bobo Brawl are under way.
A roundup of local happenings includes visits among Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor residents, a county O E S convention with 125 delegates, a shower for Miss Alice Nieland, Washtenaw Jersey Breeders Club event at the Y M C A with slides, and Masonic Masters night with degree work and toasts.
Thirty years ago Miss Mabel McKinnon visited Detroit. Mrs. Larzelere of Detroit and Miss Edith Kyte visit Saline. Epworth League tea and Baptist pie supper planned with gift sales. Marriages and club meetings noted. Vandalism in Macon with broken windows. Great Lakes Sugar run ends after 1714 days. 24,260 tons beets milled and about 6.1 million pounds sugar produced. beet sugar content 13.8.
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