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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1931
Page
8
Representative Earl C. Michener Republican urges a wartime style political holiday to aid economic conditions and asks legislators to represent all people not just party He supports higher income taxes restoration of a gift tax and higher beer taxes and opposes a sales tax.
Michigan State College agricultural engineers devised canvas duck tube irrigation that oozes water into soil along a 60 rod length. The system costs under $10 per acre, reduces erosion, and allows flexible placement. Potatoes irrigated this year yielded 128 bushels more per acre than rain only.
The corporation division of the department of state reports October requests for 5000 incorporation blanks, seen as evidence that many new companies anticipate better times. Advertisers are urged to act now and reading weekly liners is advised.
At Paris the League of Nations tackles the need to end the unofficial war between Japan and China while Dawes mediates. Japanese forces push into Manchuria with heavy casualties as Chinese defenses collapse around Anganchi and Tsitsihar. Dawes and Matsudaira seek a compromise, with Stimson denying U.S. commitment beyond treaties.
Italian Foreign Minister INO GRANDI and adviser Signor Rosso met U S leaders including President Hoover in Washington to push disarmament not yet public in outcome. Briand announced the armament truce effective from November 1. Dreiser and nine others face criminal syndicalism charges in Kentucky for alleged aims of unrest. Hils Snowden elevated to viscount and lord privy seal, resigning re-election bid due to ill health.
Gandhi tells the British government he will sail to Bombay on December 4 to lead a broader civil disobedience effort if demands are not met by December 1. He may call for social and commercial boycotts, and Indian workers may refuse to serve British interests.
Numerous Mooreville residents are listed with illnesses visits and travel. Births include a daughter to Mr and Mrs Clarence Searfoss born November 20. Social details cover shoppings, visits in Adrian Ypsilanti Milan and Detroit, and the Mooreville P T A meeting featuring Dr H H Hammel’s illustrated lecture.
Andrew Girbach is on the sick list. Ernest Girbach of Hast Lansing spent Friday to Monday at home. Several calls and visits occur across families including the Gleasons, Hammonds, Youngs, Heininger, Gordon, Saffell, Monroe, Goodrich, Gleason, Gilbert, and Girbach. A 4-5 club banquet was held in Saline.
Rev Neimann of Clinton visited Floyd Spence’s home. Mrs Mike Teufel spent Sunday with her son Fred Teufel and family. Hugh Craig and Hilah Jean Pierce called on Walter Craig in Clinton. Gleason PTA November meeting Friday at Floyd Spence home. Fred Drum family and Adolph Drum of Detroit visited Paul Metzger. Mrs Hugh Craig visiting Clinton to assist with daughter-in-law and infant. Donald and Sam Craig visited Hugh Craig’s family. Mrs Roy Carothers of Ann Arbor and Mrs Smith Pocklington of Ridgeway visited Helen Pierce. A shower for Clyde Spekce at Teufel home with about a hundred attendees and many gifts.
Five year old Donald Bringman playfully handling an axe injured his sister Dorothy Bringman by cutting off the two middle fingers of her right hand. The toddler was treated at Addison Community hospital where her hand was dressed. The family resides about a mile south of Geneva.
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