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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1936
Page
2
Subscription price list outlines yearly and short term rates with modest per line charges for announcements and poetry. Obituaries and marriage notices are published free while items aimed at personal or business benefit are charged at standard rates.
H C Moore of Michigan State College farms crops department announces Michigan Potato Week in Detroit markets stores and hotels December 1 2 3 Exhibits arranged with Michigan Quality Potato Growers Association Michigan State Department of Agriculture and Michigan State College Participation assured by Detroit Hotel Association Detroit Restaurant Association department stores and Detroit hastem farmers market Exhibits include information for growers jobbers restaurant and hotel men and consumers One hundred pound table stock samples from winners in Kalkaska Iron River and Mayville district shows will be displayed Represent large lots available for marketing with samples from growers holding carrot quantities.
Commander Harry W. Colmery outlines a U S objective to oppose Communist influence, defend constitutional rights, and repair Red Russia recognition. He states the Legion’s job is an American one and that government must protect individual rights per the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Excerpts from Paul S. Bond address at the Jackson conference of Michigan Society for Crippled Children argue the problem is never-ending. He cites Alpena and Cadillac clinics, noting hundreds examined and many new cases, and stresses continuous care, rehabilitation, and vocational guidance as essential to help crippled children become partially self supporting.
Michigan State College warns that about 300 000 lambs will be fed this year and that many will be underweight due to recent rains and new pastures. Professor George A. Brown recommends delaying pasture, using feed lots or barns with alfalfa and oat straw, careful salting, and possible increased hand feeding to prevent heavy losses. Economic guidance compares self feeding to hand feeding with hay and corn price thresholds for profitability.
Michigan farmers, elevator operators, and handlers are urged to maintain strict moisture standards in bean production and sale. Experts H C Rather and A B Love emphasize testing, careful grading, and prompt drying to preserve quality, with barn or field stacking storage and dry threshing recommended to prevent spoilage and preserve market access.
The Observer staff visits homes across the Hammond district as readers share autumn scenes, sorghum details, and crop harvests. Residents like Mrs. Gleason and Mrs. Gall welcome the crew, while 4 H winner David Gordon earns a year’s subscription. A Milan fatal accident is reported.
Home economics workers at Michigan State College suggest cooking methods by the animal age. Young game may be fried or broiled, older game should be stewed fricasseed or baked in casseroles. Wild birds taste better if hung a few days before preparation. Dairymen from Michigan attend the National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation meeting in St Paul November 9 to 11, with N P Hull of Lans ing, Mich., as president delivering the annual address. The federation includes Berrien County Milk Producers Association and Detroit. Tell it and sell it. Observer Liners are at your service.
The author notes motorists often criticize highway design yet ignore road markings and safety rules. He urges drivers to follow markings, use wide roads and shoulders properly, and set a good example to improve highway safety.
Fifteen years ago Carl Schnebelt and family with out of town friends drove to Monroe and Toledo Sunday. Detroit visitors Dr Roy Bixby and daughter Nancy stayed with O C Wheeler. Rankins visited Charles Rankin in Chelsea. Dietikers traveled to Saginaw to see his ill mother. Burkhardt and Rogers families visited relatives in Ann Arbor. Kempfs moved into a South Ann Arbor Street house. William Austin was called to Wayne due to his father Georges death. Dieterle hosted guests from Detroit Dansville Ann Arbor and Battle Creek. Fosdicks entertained Walter and Fred Fosdick from Dansville and Battle Creek. Girbachs of Freedom John Girbach and Wiedman family visited Andrew Girbach. Tescher family from Noblesville Indiana hosted Lee Tescher and Mary Alice Tescher visiting grandparents and father.
Regular preaching at 10 a m invites all to attend. Federated Sunday school at 11 15 o clock welcomes all. At 6 30 p m different young people meet.
Morning worship at 10 o clock Sunday school at 11 15 with Harry A Holmes as superintendent Epworth Leagues at 6 30 Evening services at 7 30 Wednesday prayer service and Thursday choir meeting at 7 30
St John’s Lutheran Church Bridgewater led by Pastor M C Philipp holds Divine services at 10 am and Sunday school at 11 with English services on the second and fourth Sundays. all are cordially invited. A humorous note recounts Harold Carroll hunting a mule instead of venison and losing his bearings before a rifle misfire.
Thirty years ago Miss Mary Webb visited friends in Ann Arbor while Rev. Dierberger spent days at Theodore Feld Kamp's home. Detroit visitors Miss Minerva Blakeslee stayed with sister Mrs P. H. Rouse. Pioneer Gay Friday marked Fosdick school led by Miss Jaiu Fairbank. Sidney Harwood's family hosted John Holden and wife from Jacksonville Florida. Hattie and Lottie Haltz hauer of Detroit visited uncle &. B. Vrelennett and wife, Bertha Burkhart returned home improved from eye treatment at Ann Arbor hospital. Mrs. William Onderfonk of Eaton Rapids and H. Rose and wife of Manchester spent days with brother Z. Rose and family. Rev. C A Lederer and Jake Burkhardt attended Evangelical Lutheran Church conference in Owosso. Lederer reelected president. Friends of Miss Ethel Taggart celebrate marriage to Ernest Cochrane of Lansing on October 11. she to reside in Lansing and is a 1898 high school graduate. J M Gross and wife moved to Ann Arbor to enjoy life there. their son-in-law and they bought a residence on Fourth Avenue.
A compilation of aphorisms about enemies quotes from Apocrypha Franklin and others followed by a local obituary note. Harry Cameron, 16, son of Lester Cameron, was accidentally shot while hunting on the Cameron farm near the Ohio state line. His body was found Monday after a search by deputies from Wauseon Fayette and Morenci.
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