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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1907
Page
1
The question on electric lighting passed 218 to 52 with many who opposed earlier now supporting it. The Manchester Enterprise notes public surprise and hints that if the council rebuilds the plant efficiently and offers good lights at fair prices, people will be satisfied.
At a Jackson Y M C A conference attended by several Ann Arbor people, L C Hollister reports Bible class work is growing this year. Classes are now held not only in Association rooms but in 32 diverse locations including shops, car barns, police stations, fire houses, jails, underground stations, lawyers offices and repair shops.
Prof B C Ford described his study of German schools in a Normal chapel talk He noted admission formality the common school at Dusseldorf a Black Forest country school the Cologne middle school with new manual training and a Munich gymnasium The key point is students fluent in their mother tongue and solid fundamentals.
Aon Arbor student fined 30.75 for stealing a dangeright street signal. Judge Parkinson of Jackson’s salary rises from 2500 to 4000 yearly. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs Grand Lodge meetings held in Jackson. Spur work starts from Ann Arbor Jackson line to Dexter. First Regiment Veterans’ Trophy won by Co. I Ann Arbor. Rev C M Creighton installed as Ypsilanti pastor. George Jackson of Ypsilanti injured repairing Cross street bridge. Two Ypsilanti pioneers die Sarah Smith 80 and George Thompson 78. Grand Lodge of the Colored Masons held in Ypsilanti. Glazier Stove Co clock at Chelsea due to run soon. Earl couple of Ypsilanti celebrate 67th anniversary. Howell to vote on sewer bond. L J Niblack named deputy state oil inspector for Hillsdale Branch Lenawee. Miss Conarty sisters Chelsea injured in Detroit. Orin Seaver’s condition alarming. gangrene leads to knee amputation. Mrs Catherine Shenk of Freedom dies aged 74 after 55 years resident. Old People’s Home at Chelsea completed and occupied. dedication next Thursday. Wesley Noggles of Manchester shows giant potato weighing 3% pounds. Clarence W Gubbeil, U M engineering graduate 1893, to Manila for government post. Brooklyn church ladies drop ten cent dinners to fifteen cents. John E Van Freet, Washtenaw convict, knifes fellow prisoner. murder preliminary in deputy warden’s office. Electric Bitters praised for elderly, weak children, and general debility. sold by O C Wheeler’s Pharmacy 50 cents.
About a hundred land owners near Norvell township organized the Protecto club to defend game and property. The group warns would be gunmen that the farmer will hand intruders to the law, stressing seriousness of the effort.
A moving picture film caught fire at the opera house Monday night burning about 100 feet of film. The small audience escaped safely and the performance finished after the blaze was extinguished by the operator sacrificing his coat. No other damage reported.
R L Godfrey of Rural Route No.3 showed a Times reporter a gigantic cabbage weighing 803 pounds. He lives two and a half miles east of town along the electric line and says he has many cabbages running from 25 to 28 pounds.
Hudson plans a cheese factory while Chelsea forms an organizing orchestra. Brighton stores will close on winter evenings except Saturdays. Blissfield expects a new post office by December built by Wm. H. Osborne of Tecumseh. A Hamburg farmer was fined $10 for Canada thistles on his land.
The Te sgumeeb News notes two weather prophets predicting a snowless early winter followed by heavy storms. One foresees a repeat of last winter with no snow until spring, while another expects a major storm on October 31 and six to eight snowfalls weekly into April.
An advertisement touts the Pittsburgh Perfect fence, asserting stays weld electrically to strands for unmatched strength. It promises no rusting wraps, no projections, joint strength, ground adaptability, and guaranteed integrity, claiming superior mesh due to amalgamation by electricity.
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