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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1944
Page
2
The Saline Observer outlines publication details with pricing for subscriptions, single copies, and notices. It lists publisher Sim. R. Wilson and Esther Landwehr as reporter, charges for obituaries and marriages, and rates for poetry and paid announcements with a minimum 25 cent charge.
School announces honor roll with A and B grade qualifiers. Names include Seventh-Constance Gross Jer aldine Jordan Jimme Lemke Harl Moehn JoAnn Mummery and Wighth Irene Feldkamp Alwil da Levering Barbara Sinkule Susan Sugden Joan Winkle. Points tallied with A4 B3 C2 D1. several students reach top marks across grades 9 to 12.
In a fourth grade geography unit, students imagine a Lincoln Highway journey starting from New York City. They describe crossing the Piedmont Plateau and Appalachian Mountains and visiting Pittsburgh while tallying tin can drive posters and noting Sally Campbell and Robert Leufhouser as top students in their grades.
Seventh grade students work with blooming window plants and bittersweet on desks while drawing houses and transportation. They study contours in geography and have their class photos taken today, with options for mounting tinting or plain prints.
October 11 notes show eighth graders posing for class photos to mail to relatives in service. They collect tin cans for service members while Civil Air Patrol members Eugene Wilson Carl Miller and Kenneth McAllister stay active. Green plants decorate windowsills as winter nears and a Halloween party is set for October 30 at Barbara Sinkule’s house. Written by Barbara Sinkule Joan Winkle Alwilda Levering and Florence Dibble.
A historical note explains a candy method to ship caramels abroad and please the receivers. It details melting 12 pounds Baker's chocolate with 3 cups cane sugar and 1 pint white Karo plus 4 cups milk and 1 cup butter. The mix cooks to a hard ball, then adds nuts, cools, and is cut into squares wrapped in waxed paper. Substitutions include cocoa for chocolate, dark Karo, and butter alternatives.
The notice outlines worship and sermon at 10 a.m. with organ prelude by the choir, church school at 11 a.m. and a study on Religion in Education. Walter Towler leads Monday prayer circle from 7 to 8 p.m. with student participants. Mrs. C. A. Curtiss leads Wednesday Bible and prayer at 7:30 p.m. focusing on Great Christian Teachings. Go to church.
Mrs D Richards and Mrs Herbert Allen of Ypsilanti were recent callers. Mrs Martin of Detroit visited Mr and Mrs Joe Fleury over the weekend. Mr and Mrs A G Richards and family and the Desbroughs were guests of Mr and Mrs D G Richards on Thursday evening.
The American Red Cross asks residents to donate colored toothbrush handles and small musical instruments for recuperating soldiers at Percy Jones hospital in Battle Creek. A collection container is in the Burkhart store and money donations are welcome at downtown shops to fund recreation and comfort for wounded heroes.
The Federated Church invites worship at 10 30 with Sunday school at 11 30 for all ages. Young people gather 6 45 with Donna Stoddard in charge. Evening service at 7 45 features sermon and song. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 5 30 and choir practice at 8 30. Family weight potluck Tuesday October 24. Saline school teachers will be guests.
Local notes recount social visits and farm reports. Henry Leutheuser manages The Tavern as A C Lange visits Ann Arbor. Farmers report fewer potatoes harvested than planted and neighbors visit relatives in Indiana and Michigan. A birthday celebration, travels to Howe Indiana, and a skunk encounter near a chicken house are described.
Miss Nettie Simmons started as the new post office clerk. Births include a daughter born to Chauncey and family in North Adams. Alfred Schmid visits Ann Arbor. Louis Scherdt family with Henry Goltz group. Various illnesses and weekend visits are reported among local families and neighbors. Apples from Charles Graf appear in Wheeler’s east window.
A speaker urges teamwork with the Republican Congress, argues for an administration that works with elected representatives. The call stresses replacing the current chief executive to install such leadership next January 202.
An Ohio man, expert electrician and armature winder, describes two years of bureaucratic delays after buying a farm. Frustrated, he seeks work at a plant while dealing with USES and county agents in a tangle of approvals and 20 day feed credits. He asks, Is this America?
Mrs Grace B Reynolds of Cambridge Indiana a former state treasurer and Republican national committee veteran urges American women to join 1944 political effort She campaigns with Marion E Martin directing women’s activities for the GOP and lauds Dewey Bricker leadership highlighting practical politics and hard won experience
A vintage commentary notes that excess wool stockpiles in the United States and large imports from Australia make buying two trousers with a suit impractical. Idaho Governor Thomas E Dewey, after talks with Western sheepmen, warns the uneconomic condition could harm American sheep raisers and faces potential damage under the New Deal policy.
The Six Pillars of Peace framework proposed by John Foster Dulles and endorsed by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America emphasizes international cooperation through the United Nations, economic integration, adaptable treaty structures, autonomy for subject peoples, military controls, and universal religious and intellectual liberty. This set of principles was presented to guide postwar peace efforts and sustain a broad Protestant church coalition.
West Saline notes entertainments and visits from Detroit relatives and in laws. Local teachers and students in Midland see growing school enrollment. Members of West Latine attend the Ann Arbor Region synod meeting in Freedom Township with delegates and potluck lunch. Bethel and Sir James churches on synod budget honor roll.
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