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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1926
Page
1
Regular Saline Common Council meeting in the council room on Monday evening August 2 1926 with president Rentschler presiding. Trustees Bredernitz Lambarth Crittenden Hutzel Alber Absent Fosdick attended. minutes read and approved. various bills approved totaling dozens of dollars.
Public auction set for Saturday September 11 1926 at 1 30 p m on the premises 112 North Maple avenue Saline to dispose of household furnishings including bed dresser chairs tables rugs and appliances plus yard tools and a typewriter. Local officials and merchants listed for hiring and work orders appear in the notice with standard sale terms and commissions.
$25.00 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of persons disturbing peace or acting disorderly near the Tourist Camp or annoying tourists. Call Saline Village president or Deputy Sheriff Harold Jahnke with name and message. Village president E M RENTSCHLER announces marshals Adam Klumpp and Fred Schaible at $10.00 monthly each. Carried motion to adjourn.
MS C ILORSES at Michigan State College swept Belgian and Percheron classes at the Ohio State fair last week. Every one of 12 horses won a ribbon. perfor mance highlighted by Pervenche the three year grand champion mare and multiple Belgian prizes. A carload of sheep also won 19 ribbons. The MS C string shipped home and shown this week at Detroit in the Michigan State fair.
On Friday August 25 the music pupils of Miss Viesta Mills held a recital and picnic at her home with parents and siblings as guests. The program featured top winners Dale Fosdick Alwin Marion Florence Wiedmayer Norma Dunk Alma Wiedman and included pieces like Haymakers March Elsa and Win Marion Fife and Drum Dale Fosdick The Violet Norma Dunk Silent Night Alma Wiedman and Reading by Rose Parsons
William Mason of Winfield Kansas works as a plasterer and runs a truck garden while oil flows from a well he helped bring in on his 20 acre farm. The giant Kansas well yields 10¢ per barrel with no windfall for Mason. He paid $3,000 for the land and there could be seven more wells. Mason remains calm, Mrs. Mason hopeful about future money, the piece noting the well is the largest in Kansas. The note cites a Grit article from August 29 and Mason’s Maple Grove township roots.
The closing services for the conference year will be held this Sunday at the usual hour. Reports and benevolences are due. pastor must submit by Monday night before leaving Tuesday for Detroit to attend the conference. An outstanding sum remains to meet missionary needs. members and organizations are urged to contribute. All services proceed in their usual order next Sunday.
The Christian Science Society of Saline holds services Sundays at 10 30 a m in the hall over Citizens Bank with the subject Substance A testimonial meeting is held Wednesday at 7 30 p m Sunday school follows the morning service admission for pupils under 20 applies A cordial invitation is given to all.
Morning service at 10 30 Bible school at 11 45. Evening sermon by Rev 5S Conger Hathaway. Strong attendance requested. Thursday evening Young People’s service at the church. All are welcome. The church needs you and you need the church so come and worship with us.
The Liberty Theatre will show a Pathe documentary on Lieut Com Byrd’s North Pole expedition as part of a double bill with Hoot Gibson’s The Calgary Stampede. The polar film contrasts with Calgary celebration scenes and Royal Northwest Mounted Police arrival in Alberta.
Raymond F. Spokes, Republican candidate, seeks nomination to the State Legislature. He is an industrial chemist and has lived in the county for twenty nine years, son of the late Reginald Spokes of Saline.
The rural teachers opening institute for Washtenaw County will meet at the County building in Ann Arbor on Saturday September 11. Miss Florence V. Essery, county school commissioner, announces a program starting at 10 o'clock with enrollment and supplies and introductions of county leaders. Edith M. Stoll will present health objectives for 1926 27 at 10 15, and Essery will give preliminary instructions with demonstrations of new child accounting forms at 11. Bee Gallup will speak on From the Ox Team to the Auto at 11 50, and W C G Hoppes will explain extension services from Michigan State Normal College at 12. A separate zone teachers meeting will follow at the Chamber of Commerce Inn.
A 100 mile championship automobile race will close the State fair entertainment on Saturday September 11. 14 drivers including Frank Lockhart head the field for a dirt track event billed as the greatest distance race yet. The event, sanctioned by the AAA, expects about 40 000 spectators and uses new west pocket speedway motors on a banked dirt oval.
Ervin A Fox 57 died Friday noon at his residence two miles south of town. Born December 13 1859 in Ann Arbor he is survived by widow Mary C Fox a daughter Mrs Floyd Anderson sons Claude E and Clayton B three sisters and two brothers. Funeral held Monday afternoon in Ann Arbor internment there. Also noted is a Brighton counterfeit incident where eight one dollar silver certificates raised to five dollars were passed, prompting a U S Secret Service investigation.
Nighttime vandalism disrupted tourists staying at a local campground as a group of hoodlums reportedly used obscene language and caused nearly a brawl. Police were unavailable, and investigators point to a specific group of rowdies.
House features six rooms a bath furnace hot and cold water electric dump in basement large garage hen house and park. Large fruit bearing lot with garden soil in splendid paved location with shade and taxes paid. Cheap price for a nice home act now.
W M Fowler offers 80 acre Hillsdale county farm with 9 room brick house hot water heat two barns silo and orchard. Four miles from town near school church on a county road, price 10000. N O Fuller owner Osseo Michigan. AL Wanted readers with legal printing needs for estates to send notices to this newspaper. probate judge to mail notices here.
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