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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1933
Page
5
Miss Evelyn Ernst receives social items. Various community names and places are listed, including Miss Lucile Aprill resuming teaching at Clinton school Tuesday. Spent weekends and visits span Ann Arbor, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and other towns. A coroner's inquest, a 100th birthday celebration, scout trips to Chicago, and church events are noted along with family happenings.
Baltimore readers report a craze for small-animal races with mice and frogs gaining attention. The Linthicum Heights fire department backs a mouse rating steeple chase, featuring field and white mice on a 12 foot course. A frog contest for youth groups echoes Mark Twain, while turtle and rabbit events crown a winner at Johns Hopkins hospital.
Forty years of effort to improve Michigan hog quality prompted a gathering at W. E. Livingston's Parma home to honor the veteran livestock man. Livingston has sold more breeding stock than any Michigan swine breeder and championed a steady, practical breed line. Attendees included Forest King, A. Beamer, George Eggleston, Prof. G. A. Brown, and Andy Adams. Speakers warned swine owners to align shipments with market capacity and to consult firms, agents, or buyers for correct dispatch dates to avoid market overload.
Fifteen years ago Mrs. Josephine Van Houten visited Saline. Velma Feuerbacher visited her uncle Christian Klumpp. Roy Richards of Milan called on Fred Richards. Nina Jackson of Paw Paw returns to millinery work. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Burkhart and family and Mrs. Harrington visited Ypsilanti. Helen Walker returns home from Jackson for a two week vacation. Lloyd Dell plans business studies at Cleary College. Jean Ross of Port Huron visited Mrs. J. B. Wallace. Pullen and Webb Coe of Ann Arbor visited Wilbur Coe and Otto Mast’s family. Ella Clark left for Alma. Helen Finch to Fowlerville. Hollis reunion at Arbor Island drew 38. Herman Heininger’s crew hauled 17 hinders and mowers to buyers at the depot. Preston Mason listed to Lafayette teachers but resigns for a Washington D C government post in agriculture research.
A survey by C C Garman of the New York State College of Agriculture shows New York City’s egg intake rose 12 percent in the first half of 1933 from the prior year. Middle Western shipments grew 16 percent, Eastern states 40 percent, while Pacific coast states fell 23 percent. New York State poultrymen boosted city shipments 66 percent, though the state supplies only 8 percent of the market. Feed costs rose 35 percent since February while egg prices remained stable and edging higher.
Morning worship at 10 o'clock with The Figure on the Hill. Sunday school at 11:15 led by H. A. Holmes. Epworth League at 7:30 with installation by Macon Epworth League and Rev. W. P. Ains worth of Denton as guest speaker. Guests from Milan Willis Ypsilanti Clinton leagues expected. Monday at 7:20 last quarterly conference to hear annual reports. Dr. J. A. Halmhuber presiding. Bible study Wednesday and prayer service. growing attendance. Thursday choir meeting.
Clean and cut rabbit meat then soak in half vinegar half water with bay leaves and onions for two days. Drain and brown in butter, add the soaking liquor, simmer covered. When done stir in grated ginger snaps raisins and a touch of kitchen bouquet for flavor. Eat while fragrant.
A weathered column recalls a rainy day picnic and a light frost with no damage reported. Homes on East Main and Harris streets see painting and moving. Local ministers fill pulpits as others visit Ypsilanti. Epworth League plans a church social Friday night. Corn crops show weak prices due to rains, plums mark a strong year with wagon loads sold at 25 cents per bushel in Shiawassee County.
Ohio's first cooperative egg auction in Wooster, serving 12 counties, sold over 20,000 cases in its inaugural year. The auction handles mail orders to New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with graded eggs overseen by federal and state services. Eastern buyers load eggs into insulated trucks and reach markets next day. A flock of white birds seen near Pickney Cemetery sparked local bird expert Sid ney Hyde to identify them as American egrets, rare and protected, roosting near Sigler Prove.
The regular services at Federated Church next Sunday start at 11 15 a m. Sunday school at 11 15 with S Y Sutton as superintendent and Carl Geddes assisting. Mrs House leads the choir with Miss Helen Martin at the piano. An evening session at 3 15 features three young peoples meetings. Mr John Finching will be guest speaker.
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Michigan State College animal husbandry officials announce a sixth annual mobile unit sale sending purebred rams to 35 Michigan counties from Sept 20 to Oct 20. Specialists accompany the truck to discuss sheep raising and help farmers select rams. exchanges occur for outstanding animals.
A North Side barber, Al Vandervoort, devised a guaranteed credit rule after hearing a tale of honest customers in Chicago. He painted the rule, shared it with J. C. Wilson of Northside Mercantile Co, and it reads liberal credit to persons over 80 only if accompanied by their parents, as cited by Wayne Dispatch.
The Department of Conservation announces a competitive examination on Friday September 15 1933 at 8:00 A M CST in the Odd Fellows Temple 310 South Mechanic Street Jackson to select two conservation officers. Open to bona fide male residents of the state unmarried aged 25 to 35 with a high school education or equivalent.
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