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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1941
Page
1
The Rotary Club hosts a Halloween event for pupils with cider and doughnuts. Lower grades meet at 7 outside and 8 in the gym for games with teachers. Miss Hornung leads storytelling. cash prizes for costumes. Senior class hosts a dance from 9:30 to late to fund a spring trip.
Mr and Mrs Charles H Miller marked their 50th wedding anniversary with open house on Sunday October 26 guests included four living ceremony participants and numerous friends from Saline Detroit Palo Alto Ann Arbor Ypsilanti and other towns.
Ellen Jean Cuff and Clarence R. Johnson exchanged marriage vows Saturday evening at Federated Church in a candle lit ceremony. The bride wore a white taffeta gown with a mantilla and carried cream roses and blue forget me nots. she is a nurse in Detroit and a St Petersburg high school graduate. The groom, from Dearborn, is Ford Motor Company employee and Wayne University student. A reception followed for sixty guests in the church parlors.
A. J. Wiltse and Clair Foster of Ann Arbor were chosen as representatives for the Washtenaw county chapter of the America First Committee at a Polar Bear meeting. George Schmid was chosen to represent Saline. Bruno Papsdorf, Saline township. John Frey, Sclo, and Carleton Burkhardt, Freedom. It is now time to pay cemetery dues.
A miscellaneous local column notes a sign missing a letter at a wayside lunch room and hi lights stories about a hungry stray cat with Haberers, safety patrols, library trips, travel tales, a Napoleonic stirrup heirloom, and regional notes from Ypsilanti to Saline with family news.
About 1,000 fans, alumni, and townspeople watched Saline lose 12 to 0 to Ypsilanti Roosevelt Rough Riders in the homecoming game. Roosevelt built momentum after a first quarter fumble and used strong kicks and line plunges to score twice, with Saline failing to convert with several scoring chances in the fourth period.
Dr G J Prout reports a banded duck marked Write Jack Miner Kingsville Qnt B F Canada 40. Miner’s secretary explains the sanctuary at Kingsville near Detroit preserves bands for a museum and urges return of bands for study. The note highlights the history of Jack Miner a pioneer bird bander and notes Bible verses on bands used to engage local communities and Eskimo and Indian visitors.
The Saline Woman's Club held its regular meeting in the auditorium on Tuesday afternoon October 21 with good attendance. Miss Esther Landwehr presented a paper on Pan American Highway. A student band concert followed by two songs by grade school children. Alva Purnell of the Leader Dog League of Detroit spoke on the organization and training of Seeing Eye dogs, including a live demonstration with leader dog Joy.
Article asserts no ban on residential building in farm and rural areas despite a federal order curtailing non defense construction. It states there is no prohibition on private construction by dealers in farm and rural areas nor on rehabilitation and repair work.
Saline Chapter of Future Farmers of America No. 183 sent two representatives to the National FFA convention in Kansas City Missouri last week. President Dwight Carr and past president Duane Robison attended, paying half their expenses with the FFA covering the rest. The trip included visits to the NBC broadcast, the American Royal Stock Show, the Municipal Auditorium and airport. The boys praised Michigan as superior among the states they visited.
Public auction set for Thursday November 6 at 12 oclock noon on the Mohrhardt farm six miles southwest of Saline seven miles northeast of Macon and seven miles west of Milan. Livestock including Holstein and Jersey cows, wool sheep and pigs. farm equipment list and 600 bushels oats 1500 bushels corn 25 tons alfalfa hay. Terms cash. Fred Gladish Jim Finneill auctioneers Carl Carr Homer Kuebler clerks.
Max Blaess of Ann Arbor furnishes prizes for the Saline bowling league the scores cannot be published this week due to space limits.
Local classifieds list items for sale and services including work shoes at Parsons, rubber wear, and paper hanging. Entries mention a lunch supper event, household goods for sale, a prison of notices, a ride request to Ann Arbor, and a long ago bank deposit claim tied to Rebecca Wallace with a confidential notice signed by Bred Wallace of St Elmo Chattanooga Tennessee.
Classifieds promote suede jackets and new fall sweaters at Parsons plus farm and livestock listings, machinery and vehicle ads, local services, and general store notices from Saline and nearby towns. Listings include ram and boar stock, tractors, tools, repairs, and farm supplies with contact references.
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