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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1938
Page
5
Local items report visits and calls from Detroit and Wayne residents. Births, trips, church meetings, and a plan for the Coterie division gathering, along with school, farm, and legion activities, fill the Saline area notices. A large marijuana patch discovery, arrests in car thefts, and farm barn fires are also noted.
A reunion at the home of the late Mrs. Catherine Hertler in Saline honored Rev Edwin Hertler his wife and son of Lay Crescent Minnesota. About 60 guests attended and a good supper was served to all.
The Federated Church resumes normal activities after vacations. On Sept 4 worship at 10 AM with sermon How Good a Farmer Are You? at 11:15 AM Sunday school on Samuel’s life. 6:30 PM Christian Endeavor echoes from Clear Lake. Communion planned for World Wide Communion Sunday Oct 2. Ladies Aid meets Sept 7 at Mrs Rankin's home. Plans announced for a fall and winter spiritual effort.
Rural Michigan communities host afternoons inviting women to craft sturdy homemade toys for children. Projects reuse tin cans wooden bowls spools and cigar boxes to create drums dolls trains and boxcars guided by Michigan State College extension staff.
Macon residents host and visit across Michigan and nearby states with weekend and weekday trips. Rev Straup of Lansing calls on Macon friends. Gladys Hager visits Gertrude Scudder. many families entertain relatives from Detroit, Chelsea, Rome Center, Ypsilanti, Butler and more. Alva Mackey funeral noted. extended stays include trips to Smoky Mountains and Flowerville Texas with Ohio and Hinsdale connections.
E. L. Benton, formerly county agricultural agent in Tuscola county, becomes the new Extension Service member at Michigan State College. He succeeds D. H. LaVoi, an extension specialist in animal husbandry.
Tinister Methodist Church notes show a 10:00 morning worship service with a sermon titled Current Gods. 11:15 church school led by Ray Davis and assistant superintendent Herbert Pink. The Third division of the Ladies Aid meets at Mrs. Cecil Davenport’s home at 2:00 this afternoon. Official board convenes Wednesday September 7. all officers and committee members are urged to attend.
Detroit Free Press reports Ford plans a Macon high school and the consolidation of several nearby districts. Existing oral schools may serve as kindergartens and bus stations. Ford aims to add manual training, shop work, blacksmithing for boys and domestic arts for girls, with a restored Dutch Reformed chapel for pupils.
St. Mahn's Lutheran Church Bridgewater invites parishioners to divine services at 9:30 a.m. Sunday school at 11 a.m. English services held on the second and fourth Sundays each month. Pastor M. De Philipp issues the call for attendance and faith. The quoted line offers a moral reflection on scorn and self perfection.
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