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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1943
Page
2
Frei A. Lendrum will lead worship at 10 with sermon Life Abundant. Organ preludes and choir music highlight the service. Church school at 11 on What is expected of us. Official board meets Tuesday at 7 45 p m in the church parlors as fall activities begin.
Morning worship at 10 30 with a cordial welcome to all. Sunday school at 11 30 for all ages. Christian Endeavor at 6 45 with a lively youth program. Evangelistic service at 7 45 featuring a special pastor message and choir music. Friendship class meets Wednesday afternoon at Grace D Cook home. Prayer meeting Thursday at 8 30 and choir practice.
The Saline Observer lists post office entry as saline Mich second class matter. Jim R Wilson publisher Mrs Vincent Fox reporter. Subscription 1.90 yearly six months 0.50 three months 0.75 outside Michigan 7.50 yearly. Obituary and marriage notices published free. Notices charged per line and mint mun fees noted.
A Kansas youth, now stationed in North Africa, reports receiving a German program claiming floods destroyed all coffee plantations in Coffeyville. The absurd broadcast would shock a Kansas boy and amuse readers nationwide.
For the first seven months of 1943 Washtenaw County salvage committee reports metals 10 102 000 pounds rubber 367 227 paper 3 054 000 rags 146 469 tin cans 360 000 pounds This includes August pick up The chairman says the drive for household fats and silk and nylon hose was satisfactory and the county is far ahead of its quota George H Gobler chairs the committee He notes eight month totals in 1948 reached 357 905 pounds per capita 4 47 and the county ranks fourth among Michigan counties with 3 47 pounds per person Aug collections may move Washtenaw to third place. thanks to housewives for support.
The Michigan Tradesman catalogs debtors with liabilities including a paper mill worker at 1595.49 a truck driver at 1021.91 and a welder at 1306.91. A laborer once owed over five thousand dollars and many report assets above one hundred dollars.
Births in Michigan are forecast to exceed 123000 for the year, based on 61628 births in the first six months ending in June. The 1942 all time high 124069 could be surpassed if trends continue, though early 1948 hopes were premature. The rise mirrors population gains and higher birth rates during wartime.
A community warning urges citizens to support the war effort by buying War Bonds. It cites Secretary Knox and promises a return of $4 for every $3 after ten years, urging readers to buy extra bonds beyond their regular purchases. The editor signs off encouraging immediate action.
Twenty years ago noted names and local movements are recalled with Labor Day trips to Detroit visits by families including Feldkamp and Hertler. Residents and friends share updates from Romeo Lakeland Milford Keege Harbor and Green Bay with church and social notices among the county records.
Sixty relatives and friends of the Osborne family gathered September 5 at the pleasant home of Mr and Mrs D V Harris near Ypsilanti for a family reunion.
A short poem fragment describes a playful dog or creature named Dumb Animals guiding a keeper through a garden gate. Muddy tracks, blooming tulips, and a cottage door frame a scene of affection and forgiveness for the creature's mischief.
Friday travels include Mr and Mrs W L Nissly in Toledo. A seven pound girl born to Mr and Mrs Walter Armbruster. Library board meets tomorrow afternoon after hours. Frank Dieterle and Ernest Zahn toured Toledo. County fairs LP Lenawee and Hillsdale weeks ahead. Boy Scouts plan winter work at tomorrow night meeting. Ruth Schuler Sam Gall Anna Gall Edwin Rentschler at Pleasant Lake Friday. Saline Orchestra dance Sept 18 at the opera house. Wilbur Dee resigns from Cotton store. Byron Cole succeeds. Mrs Fred Ehnis and Florence return from six week visit to Ann Arbor. Rev and Mrs Hoffman spending a week at Deckerville for a wedding. Minnie Caldwell of Detroit visiting sister Mrs C F Unterkircher. recently home from Alaska trip.
A mixed column offers a wartime recipe for 24 hamburgers with a seasoned sauce, instructions for Lima beans, notes on fat quality and wartime food ethics, and observations on farm mechanization and hunting. It blends cooking, agriculture, and home front reminders with regional weather and plantings.
Michigan State College home economics experts explain fats as a major energy source and outline conservation. They urge low heat cooking, proper storage, and salvaging waste fats for munitions while noting tuberculosis can be detected early with tuberculin tests and chest X rays.
Divine services at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11 a m announced. English services held every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Everybody cordially invited.
The notice lists Rev C A Haneberg as pastor in Saline Township five miles west of Saline on US 112 with divine services each Sunday at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11 15. It invites everyone to attend and adds a line promoting the third war loan bonds.
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