Road department feuds spur 1942 political clash in Michigan
Lansing faces a tax battle as state and county highway agencies clash over funding and defense driven cuts. Michigan Automobile Dealers Association calls for a $14 million tax cut, while officials warn that reduced revenues threaten roads, with opposition from Webber and Kennedy. The 1942 campaign looms with Roosevelt policy debates and isolationism scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Old Kentucky
Louis Webber
Doc” Webber
van Wagoner
G. Donald Kennedy
State Highway Department
National Defense
Michigan Auto‘Mobile Dealers’ Association
Nelson D. Brown
Ingham County News
Mason and Son
Vernon J. Brown
Michigan
Webber
Michigan Association of Road Commisioners and Engineers
Herrick
Association
Kennedy
American Association of State Highway Officials
Detroit
Democrat
Democratic State Central Committee
FFA Fair Draws 1 700 Attendees and Prize Winners Listed
About 1 700 people attended the F F A fair as organizers plan to improve departments and boost next year's Community Fair. The article lists prize winners in Division I Corn and Division II Fruit with multiple students named for each variety and class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Luickhardt
Fred Westphal
Leon Heimendinger
Wesley Haeussler
Stanley Gall
Waldo Hack
Gene Stull
Leonard Burmeister
Baldwins
Fredrich Wiedmayer
Andrew Luckhardt
Alvin Wiedmayer
William Austin
Max Fosdick
Grimes Golden
King
Waldo Hask
MacIntosh
David Vaughn
Sptush Luckhardt
Northern Spy
Starks Delicious
Frederick Wiedmayer
Northern Greening
Leon Heimending
Mooreville Social Roundup Highlights Local Visits and Events
Mrs Fred Lewis hosted the Ladies Aid. Saline Grange plans a Wednesday meeting with Mr and Mrs BE Gilbert. Monica Welch and Ruth Ann Seleska visited Mooreville school. Dale Reese left for Fort Custer. Mrs Sarah Kanitz of Milan visited Loyal Kanitz family. Nellie Holcomb was a supper guest. Grace Young of Los Angeles visits Ernest Dieterle family. John Dee Goldsmith family and Harry Brown visited Fort Custer. Loyal Kanitz family visited Belleville with the Schafer family. Willing Workers meeting at Ray Frisbee’s home. Birthday Club met with Harlan Holcomb. Pedro was played and prizes awarded. Nellie Holcomb and Alice Collins assisted. birthday cake baked by Louis Smith.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Lewis
Saline Grange
BE. M. Gilbert
Monica Welch
Ruth Ann Seleska
Mooreville
Dale Reese
Fred Reese
Fort Custer
Sarah Kanitz
Milan
Loyal Kanitz
Nellie Holcomb
Harlan Holcomb
Grace Young
Los Angeles
Calif
Ernest Dieterle
John Dee Goldsmith
Jerry
Harry Brown
Joseph Schafer
Belleville
Garth Sangree
Louis Smith
Central York Social Notes Include Movements and Visits
Mrs Rena Sanders plans a new house. Ann Arbor visitors called at Allison home. Miss Mary and Miss Bertha Hertler visited Mrs Alger Allison. Friendship class met at Mrs Lewis Ernst’s in Saline. Leslie Bailey hosted guests from Saline township including Walter Bailey and Mrs. Russell, and Claude Bailey from Macon. Two former schoolmates reunited after 50 years. Mrs Russell Richards is home six weeks while husband served at Camp Livingston. She and James returned to Louisiana. Russell expects discharge October 17 and plans to return to Saline-Milan road home with Sibert Richards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rena Sanders
Walker
Anne Arbor
Allison
Mary
Bertha Hertler
Alger Allison
Lewis Ernst
Saline
Clarence Johnson
Iane Bailey
Saline Township
Leslie Bailey
Walter Bailey
Russel
Tecumseh
Claude Bailey
Macon
Lewis Foster
Ridley
L. H. Tyler
Ypsilanti
Russell Richards
Seaway
Camp Livingston
James
Louisiana
Caswell
Shaw School News Highlights Student Wins and Incident
Lois Schnirring Jean Klumpp Michael Webber and Bonnie Webber grade attendance. Turtle Spelling Race winners Betty Von Sossan Donna Stoddard. Health Race winners Schnirring Bonnie and Michael Webber. Best Workers Contest winners Schnirring and Von Sossan. Seed chart plants bloom at school with petunias coxcomb deer's tongues wandering Jews gladioli fire bushes. Miss Marvel Lane 17 Cambridge Junction struck but not badly hurt. US 112 near Cambridge Junction. Civic groups urged to invest in Defense Savings Bonds Series F and G.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Schnirring
Jean Klumpp
Michael Webber
Bonnie Lou Webber
Betty von Sossan
Donna Stoddard
Bonnie
Michael
Pean Krumpp
Miss Marvel Lane
Cambridge Junction
George M. Kelley
Sturgis
Miss Lane
Us-112
Kelley
Clinton Local
West Saline Social Roundup Highlights Regional Visits
Mrs Andrew Jacobs spent several days in Detroit visiting friends. Mr and Mrs Lawrence Tucker and son visited Mrs Michael Sheehan of Saline Valley Farms. Theurer and Bredernitz families attended a Minnesota wedding and returned after four days. Arend bought a barn and chicken house from Dorothy Fairbanks. About 100 attended a Liskey farm homecoming on Pleasant Lake road with guests from across the state. Sunday visitors included Tucker Sieloff Schwocho and Schwocho families from Detroit and Plymouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Jacobs
Detroit
Lawrence Tucker
Michael Sheehan
Saline Valley Farms
Andrew Campbell
Platt
Fred Arend
Earl
Bondie
Ann Arbor
Carl Seeger
Seeger
Albert Bredernitz
Jacob Theurer
Mable, Minn
Dorothy Fairbanks
William Liskey
Pleasant Lake Road
Matthew Sieloff and Sons
Plymouth
G. E. Schwocho
Otto Schwocho
W. P. Schwocho
Local Social Notes Include Furlough Homecoming and Anniversaries
Central Lods reports Mrs. Bert Hummel in slow recovery after an auto accident a week ago. Owen Lambarth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lambarth, is home on a furlough. Mrs. Charles Naylor and daughter Mary Jane visited the school last Thursday. Mrs. Elmer Blumhgidt of Ann Arbor called on sister Mrs. Oscar Hirth last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Moore celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dresch and family and others spent Sunday with the Moores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Hummel
Owen Lambarth
Edward Lambarth
Charles Naylor
Mary Jane
Elmer Blumhgidt
Ann Arbor
Oscar Hirth
Bert Moore
Harold Dresch
Philip Dresch
Emil Rothenbecker
Ralph West
Mary Drake
Emma Drake
Foreclosure Notice on Ann Arbor Mortgage Issued 1942
Mortgage default by Richard T. Wasson and Josephine C. Wasson prompts a sale of lot 3, block 2 in Barton Hills Ann Arbor Township Washtenaw County Michigan. Auction at Washtenaw County Circuit Court South front door January 17 1942 at 10 00 AM to satisfy $13485 73 plus costs and interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard T. Wasson
Josephine C. Wasson
Ann Arbor
Washtenaw County
Michigan
Barton Hills
Washtenaw
Publication Order for Final Administration Account
In Washtenaw County Probate Court Judge Jay G Pray presides over the estate of Arthur E Smith. Administrator Lucy Vedder seeks final account approval and residue distribution with hearing set for October 27, 1941 at ten in the morning at the Ann Arbor office. Public notice to run in The Saline Observer for three consecutive weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Michigan
Washtenaw
Ann Arbor
Said
Jay G ‘Pray
Arthur E. Smith
Lucy
Vedder
Saline
Time for Hearing Claims in Washtenaw Probate
Probate Court of Washtenaw County appoints a claims period for the estate of Deceased Mary S. Cornish. Creditors must file claims by December 12, 1941 at ten o'clock in the forenoon at the Probate Office in Ann Arbor. Publication of this order is approved for three consecutive weeks.
Probate Court Notice of Claim Deadline in Washtenaw County
The State of Michigan Probate Office in Washtenaw County announces creditors of the deceased Julius E. Lindemann must present claims by December 9, 1941. Hearings and examination of all claims will occur before Judge Jay G. Pray on that date at ten o’clock in the forenoon. Publication of this order runs for three weeks in The Saline Observer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Michigan
Washtenaw
Ann Arbor
Jay G. Pray
Mary S. Cornish
Saline Observer
Michigan
Ann. Arbor
Julius E. Lindemann
Saline
St John’s Lath Church Services at Bridgewater
Divine services at 10 o'clock a m Sunday school at 11 English services held on the second and fourth Sunday of each month Pastor M C Philipp leads the St John s Lath Church in Bridgewater
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s Lath
Bridgewater
M. C. Philipp
Ann Arbor Visitors and Family Gatherings Across District
Mr and Mrs Harry Dawson visited Ann Arbor Saturday. Carol Acton stayed with grandparents the Acton family. Russel Acton and daughter were guests of Alfred Acton. Clarence Thomas of Plymouth called on Paul Richards. Paul Richards and Marjory Mae visited Clarence Roberts in Dearborn. George F Richards and Rose Marie visited D G Richards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Dawson
Ann Arbor
Carol Acton
Alfred Acton
Russel Acton
Clarence Thomas
Plymouth
Paul Richards
Marjory Mae
Clarence Roberts
Dearborn
George F. Richards
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Mics Henig
Gene Alleman
Birchigan Press Association
Crusader
Frank Herrick
Gate Dealers Association
Andrew
Fox DeLuxe Bus. Co
Grand Rapids
Central York
Shaw School News
Defense
West Saline
Lods
Nora O. Borgert
Register of Probate
Jones Iron & Metal
Wyoming
Michigan Ave
Oregon
Judd
BPS
Moambarth
Bowes
C. B.S
DODGE
ING
Elmer
J. Steer
West Michigan Avenue
Saline, Michigan
Hook
Livingston County
Robert K. Herbst
Brighton
Edison
Detroit Edison Company
Detroit Edison
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