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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1939
Page
2
Card of thanks six per line at five cents per line. Obituary and marriage notices are free. Poetry must be paid. Personal or business interest items charged at regular rates. Paid announcements for entertainments. Admission charged six cents per line. Minimum 25 cents.
A Wisconsin tale in New Richland shows a preacher aided by congregants who supply a cow hay and barn space. He lowers milk prices via competition, drives out the regular milkman and eventually raises prices, illustrating why taxpayers fund government enterprises. The piece argues governments cannot run businesses as efficiently as private operators.
Federated Church notes Rev Roy J Miller as minister. Dedication service at 7 pm for the organ and communion table with other furniture memorials to follow. 11:15 Sunday School. Upcoming events include Rally Sunday September 24 World wide Communion Sunday October 1 Enlistment Sunday October 8 and a two week period beginning October 15.
Local print shop owner proclaims their motto prints everything but dollar bills. The note emphasizes quality output and customer satisfaction with better printing as the goal.
A weekly miscellany lists residents visiting relatives in Ann Arbor Ypsilanti and Detroit and bears notices of gatherings and moves. People include Mr and Mrs Charles Wolf Mrs Roscoe Cammet Miss Elizabeth Feuerbacher Mrs Ida Chandler Mrs Florence Bond and others with visits to Bil lings Free dom Detroit and Brooklyn. An apron sale and church supper are noted along with the Epworth League and Ladies Aid events.
The note lists a morning worship service from 10:00 to 1:00 with a sermon on Love for One's Nation, a church school from 11:00 to 12:00 led by Ray Days superintendent, and Junior and Epworth Leagues from 6:30 to 7:30. The Sunday school board meets September 15 at 8:00 in the church parlor, and the official church board meets September 19 at 8:00.
The district reports 360 students enrolled this year up from 356 last year and 368 two years ago by late September. New entrants include many named students across grades from kindergarten to twelfth. First day activities focused on book lists schedules and class placements with several classrooms near capacity and minor timetable adjustments to improve the noon intramural program and facility use.
Parents and friends are urged to visit the school in all its phases during the evening. The extracurricular program including glee clubs and orchestra is set to begin this week. The athletic program has 37 to 40 boys out for football, the largest group in the school's history, with interest hoped to grow.
Saline High footballers begin week one practices with 32 players attending nightly sessions. Team captain Theron Klager leads a senior heavy squad including Walter MacArthur and Bob Vaughn among others. Coach Fuller guides the group as they prepare for the upcoming season.
Leaders of the Michigan Turkey Growers Association meet at Michigan State College Union Friday September 29 to address marketing half a million turkeys. They cite early Thanksgiving, demand from Michigan dealers and consumers, and a proposed native-bird trademark to boost sales amid out of state competition.
A drainage rehabilitation camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps will be set up near Kingston in Tuscola county about October 1. Staffer Orton H. Jones will schedule meetings with drainage groups to rehabilitate existing drainage works in eastern Tuscola and western Sanilac counties. The effort, under Soil Conservation Service supervision, aims to restore capacity of open ditches and tile drains while avoiding new construction.
When rug edges wear or fray the fix is simple. Home economics extension service members advise placing a heavy cord along the edge and binding the rug with yarn to secure it.
York Baptist Church on Stony Creek and Platt Roads lists Sunday activities including Sunday school and Bible class at noon, Young People's meeting at 7 pm, and Thursday prayer and praise service at 8 pm led by Pastor Rev. John E. Hendricks.
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