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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1941
Page
3
Multiple social visits and family happenings are reported from Saline including relatives from Dearborn, Ohio, and Illinois. Army induction of local recruits, Thanksgiving plans, and visits to Lions Club and library improvements are noted. Red Cross drive totals and a successful Bethel Y P L comedy are highlighted.
Secretary Knox announced local communities gain credit for each naval recruit and that local Selective Service quotas shrink accordingly. Carl A. Curtiss, head of the local draft board, urged young men 17 to 31 for regular Navy and 17 to 50 for the Naval Reserve to enlist, noting parental consent required under 21. A high school diploma is not required, and the Navy seeks ambitious youths for the two ocean navy.
The council met in the council chamber with Mayor Gross presiding. Present were Haarer Schroen Lambarth Cole and City Attorney Kraizman. Bills totaling 1813.48 were approved and orders drawn. The meeting adjourned.
Ernest Dunagan is a medical patient at Saline General Hospital and is much improved. Frank Hollis underwent cataract removal surgery on Monday. A Michigan Tuberculosis Association quiz of 500 persons shows 80 percent believe TB is inherited, though experts say the disease is spread from the sick to the well.
Bruce LeBaron and son called at the Allison home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James O'Malley of Detroit visited Joseph Sweeney, Sr. Mrs. Mary LeBaron repaired upstairs rooms on Saline Miland road. Grant Allison and son from Martz road called on his brother Alger Saturday. Mrs. Alger Allison attended a Friendship class at Mrs. Lewis Ernst’s home in Saline Thursday.
Hammond district residents share visits, funerals and gatherings including Claude Gilbert with Rothbury, Mary Lewis with Ralph Hammond, and several others from Milan Ann Arbor Romulus and Detroit. Notable events include Mrs Maud Deem’s birthday and deer hunting plans near Ann Arbor with Mr and Mrs Frank McCalla.
A reflective elemental verse recalls early settlement, struggle for freedom, and enduring faith in liberty. It culminates with a note about New York's Aquarium Society displaying Asia's climbing perch, a fish said to walk on land.
Mooreville Burt Draper deer hunts near Baldwin Stanley Mandelska left Friday to deer hunt near Luther Mr and Mrs Joseph Musser wintering in Florida Mr and Mrs Garth Sangree visited at Jack son with Carl Coon Willing Workers held Thanksgiving dinner at York hall Ola Billau Tecumseh staying with Loyal Kanitz while Kanitz deer hunts W S C S Mooreville Methodist met at Mrs Glen Conde Milan Mrs Louis Smith Loyal Kanitz and Harlan Holcomb hosted supper Prudy Ann Brainard grand daughter at St Joseph Mercy hospital Ann Arbor Edna Kramer entertained Mooreville Methodist Young People class at her home Large Chinese moths with wingspread nine inches noted nowhere else.
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