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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1940
Page
2
The Saline Observer states poetry costs 5c per line, obituaries and marriage notices are free, and paid entertainments require 6c per line with a 25 cent minimum charge.
The editorial notes forthcoming city council elections with several incumbents including Townsend Gross Lambarth and others seeking re election. It mentions Adolph Lindemann not running and saline leadership likely to persist, while praising past administration but criticizing council for charter changes.
Worship at 10 a.m. with Youth Day as the sermon theme. Organ prelude and offertory plus choir music. Church school at 11 led by Arthur Wilson, superintendent. Youth meeting at 6:30 p.m. Friday the 18th features a family party in the church dining room with games and refreshments.
Divine service in German with Holy Communion at 10 a.m. Registration on Saturday the 11th, Sunday school. Annual congregational business meeting Thursday evening October 24 at 8 o'clock. The League meets next Wednesday evening at Otto Lindemann home.
Divine services at 10 a m Sunday school at 11 English services held every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Everybody cordially invited by Pastor M C Phillipp.
Rev Roy J Miller will lead morning worship at ten o clock at Federated Church with a sermon titled When God Gets Through With a Man Mr Miller will also deliver a sermon at 11 15 for Sunday school led by G Gray don Everett with Evelyn Jewell as primary superintendent Choir practice is set for Thursday at 8 p m A council and Presbytery committee will meet Thursday at Fort Street Presbyterian to decide the pastor’s future relation to the congregation.
The article reports on grades one to eight activities including leaf prints and finger painting lessons, design studies in the High school art class, expansion of the Homemaking Department to advanced coursework, canning projects, wardrobe and fiber studies, and a busy Amateur Hour at the Fifth Community Fair. It notes student achievements, reading tests, tardiness, and a personal update on Thelma Wahl’s absence due to illness.
Students describe a colorful border display and fruit posters in art class. They work on leaf prints and track booklet reading from the Library of Modern Wonder Books, noting readers Donna Little David Campbell and Danny McLean as top readers. Committees prepare health class posters on proteins carbohydrates and vitamins.
News notes from Ann Arbor and surrounding towns recount visits from Ruth Lindenschmidt and others, church anniversaries, PTA and athletic association meetings, and local social events. Items mention marriages, travels to Detroit and Canada, and a family death from Germany affecting George Hertler.
Mrs Anna Shaw visits relatives in Ypsilanti and Mrs G F Holcomb hosts the Ladies Aid Sewing Circle. Mooreville ladies raise 50 at a Friday supper at York hall. Local schools play ball with Lewis. Lewis wins 13 to 5. Detroit visitors Loyal Kanitz and Mr Mrs Frank Kanitz seen in town. The Grams and Atkins families host and visit nearby friends. Miss Lovabelle Russ misses school from a burned foot. Ward visits, bridge club, wiener roast for Hugh Gordon’s 11th birthday. P T A meets with God Bless America, piano solos, Halloween reading, and a moving pictures show.
Andy Jacobs bought a new tractor. The Seeger family bought a car. Harold Socks returned home from Saline General hospital and can receive visitors. Fred Arend found a horse dead in the pasture. Carson sisters and their mother from Ann Arbor visited the Seeger home. Several Detroit and Toledo residents visited Mr. and Mrs. Schwoche, Mr. and Mrs. Frey, and Mrs. Johanna Arend. Mrs. Johanna Arend planned an indefinite stay. Albert Graf hosted a family gathering for son Raymond of Platt, a National Guardsman, moving to Louisiana for a year’s training. He rented his home, bought a house car, and will travel with his wife, with a parade planned Saturday night before leaving Sunday morning. A humorous remark about gifts and taxes rounds out the column.
The Saline Township Clerk announces registration hours and political absentee rules ahead of an election. A Clinton business caravan promotes Homecoming days, drawing mixed reactions and a Dundee arrest scare during a station stop. A reformer advocates limiting the vote to the mentally capable, prompting satire on lawmakers.
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