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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1936
Page
4
The Saline Observer lists mailing and pricing details including subscription options and advertising charges. It notes free obituary and marriage notices, and outlines charges for personal or business notices and paid poetry lines.
Fred Labelle 32 proprietor of a tavern near Saginaw rushed from his building with a deer rifle and killed two of three hijackers in a nighttime incident. His quick action halted the assault and saved patrons.
The notion that capitalism is doomed due to a lack of new lands to exploit is nonsense. The system has room for expansion inside the existing industrial and consuming world. Providing better homes for all would require more capital investment labor and profit than discovering a new continent.
A Great Man Said Edison praises farm living as the nearest happiness for a balanced life. He extols owning land, direct soil yield, a garden, and a healthy family to ease business strain.
Maurice P. Compton died at seventy two after a life started in Leslie Michigan. He arrived in the village as a penniless boy with two companions on a freight train and was taken in by Mrs. Sidney Russell. The trio grew to useful, prominent townspeople with Compton becoming a successful merchant and leader in Clinton County Michigan.
A Clinton Local editorial argues that taxes are paid by business and passed to consumers. households with low incomes bear tax costs through higher prices. It cites corporate tax totals and tax shifts to explain how every purchase funds government. The piece labels the notion that the rich pay all taxes a fallacy.
The passage laments drivers rushing with speed and distraction, noting crashes follow heedless haste. It argues media reports fuel public tolerance and calls for nationwide safety awareness to curb reckless driving.
The article counsels fortitude after bad periods and warns against reckless money grabbing. It urges restraint honesty and industry, cautions against get rich quick schemes and wildcat methods, and advises avoiding risky investments mortgaging homes or living beyond means.
Michigan Sheep Breeders Association and Michigan State College extension plan a ram sale and demonstration at Washtenaw county fairgrounds Thursday October 1 at 1 30 pm. LaVoi, from the college, leads the project with rams from prominent Michigan breeds for sale and teaching farmers flock management and ram selection.
Michigan expects to spend over a million dollars next year to buy more than 10 000 horses, mainly for replacement stock, as the state’s horse population declines due to weather, distemper, and foal mortality. R S Hudson of Michigan State College notes three to five years may pass before imports ease. He urges farmers to raise colts for personal supply, highlights brood mares as cash crops, and calls for better stallion distribution and suitable draft stock to fit farm needs.
Favorable weather and drilling conditions push the Milan field test well to 1500 feet with expected progress to 2200 feet and potential oil sand. In Brooklyn, Cliff Billmeyer’s passenger, Rome Blowers, sustains a severe leg injury after a head impact at a gate. he is hospitalized in Adrian with a long recovery ahead. North of Manchester, George Merriman of 3.5 miles NW of Manchester wins the Michigan State Fair Sheep Shearers contest and tops several events with his portable dip tank design.
Michigan State College entomologist I McDaniel recommends Dreft from drug and grocery stores to control boxelder bugs in Michigan. The bugs enter homes through cracks and are harmless but unsightly. use 6 ounces of Dreft per 10 gallons of water and spray directly on the bugs. Water under pressure from a garden hose can also help with repeated applications.
A cooperative to provide affordable veterinary services to low income farmers in Livingston County is proposed under Michigan State College guidance. The plan envisions farmers paying a $5 membership plus 80 cents per productive animal unit annually, with veterinarians making regular farm calls and offering emergency services at reduced costs. The unit includes one horse, one cow, two young cattle, five hogs, seven sheep or 100 poultry, allowing 70 prospective members to join at about $13 per year.
Scoutmasters Cubmasters and district leaders gathered at Ypsilanti Central High to outline inter troop plans for football ushering boards of review and weekend encampments. Eleven new cub packs formed in Washtenaw and Livingston counties to involve 9 10 and 11 year olds in cubbing with over 200 participating youths across Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Platt Dexter and Brighton.
Walter Mac Peek explains Lone Scout option allows any boy to join through a designated adult counselor. He notes Home Patrol groups where 3 to 5 boys meet at one home with a community leader directing the program.
Federated Church announces Sunday schedule with Sunday school at 11 15. All welcome at 6 30 p m for youth meetings and 7 30 p m for worship. Thursday mid week service also at 7 30 p m.
Divine services at 10 a m and Sunday school at 11. English services held on the second and fourth Sundays monthly. Everyone is cordially invited.
St James Evangelical Church Saline Township announces alternating German and English worship with English on the second and fourth Sundays. Sunday September 27 offers English service at 16 a m with sermon Work a Worship. October 4 features the Annual Mission Festival with morning and evening services.
Morning worship at 10 o'clock and evening service at 7 30. Sunday school at 11 15 with H A Holmes as superintendent. Wednesday prayer service in the evening.
Probate Court of Washtenaw County orders publication for three weeks in The Saline Observer. Hearing set for October 20 1936 at ten in the morning at the Probate Office Ann Arbor to consider license to sell estate real estate for distribution. Judge Jay G Pray signs the order Attorney Nora O Borgert registers. Sept 24 Oct 1 8 1936.
Morton Downey and Joe Laurie Jr. collect badges as a long time hobby with Downey carrying police and fire badges and Laurie admiring many kinds. Hyacinths tulips and narcissi planting times and depths for 1937 are advised by Michigan State College expert P R Krone noting soil types affect growth.
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