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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1939
Page
2
Classified boilerplate states rate schedule for notices. Card of thanks six lines per line at five cents each. Obituary and marriage notices published free. Poetry requires payment. Personal or business benefit items charged at regular rates. Entertainment announcements with admission charged pay six cents per line. Minimum 25 cent charge.
A six reel educational film program starts this week with a daylight screen and a biweekly schedule across subjects like science and history. World Letters brings weekly reports from travels through Mexico and Central America with stamps exhibits and messages from notable figures such as U S ambassador Josephus Daniels. The article lists student council leaders for all grades and outlines football home game dates and season ticket prize rules for classes competing to support the team.
Colombia’s department of agriculture sought permission to translate a technical bulletin by Professor C H Spurway of Michigan State College soils department The bulletin covers soil testing methods and the new use of a colorimeter for analysis Staff from the college were involved in translating the request from Spanish to English to frame an answer highlighting the significance of the bulletin and its methods.
Local notes recount residents and visitors across Milan, Ypsilanti, and Detroit. Names include Mrs Fred Mertler, Lloyd Dell, Charles Tower, Frank Camburn, Arthur Nissly, Walter Cook, Bernard Mason, Miss Margaret Rentschler, Carl Moehn, EF Bracy, Eva Rogers, the Betzer family, Reuben Corey, Margaret, and others. Encounters cover relocations, job changes, and social visits with church and college ties, plus a fundraiser for soldiers memorabilia and a new literary club opening. Historical community life centers on Ann Arbor area, Detroit trips, and university ties.
Sunday October 1 services include 10 o clock morning worship world wide communion 115 Sunday school with Ferman Clements superintendent 8 pm evening worship sermon Why Could We Not Do This Wednesday October 4 monthly meeting of the Ladies Aid Society at Mrs Lucy Clements home
Morning worship service from 10:00 to 11:00 with Holy Communion. Church school from 11:00 to 12:00 on Rally Sunday. The local church observes Rally Day this Sunday as the start of a new year and hopes for full attendance from members and friends.
York Baptist Church at Stony Creek and Platt Roads invites families to Sunday school and Bible class at 12 noon. Young people's meeting, B Y P U, at 7 00 p m. Thursday evening prayer and praise service at 8 o'clock led by Rev John E B Hendricks pastor.
Divine services at 10 a m with Sunday school at 11. English services held on the second and fourth Sundays monthly. Everyone is invited. Note mentions many rejected for military service due to defective vision still can obtain drivers licenses. Pedestrian safety observed as easily hit by vehicles.
Readers share practical sandwich fillings to vary noon meals as schools reopen. Suggestions include chopped chicken with almonds and mayonnaise, peanut butter with pickle relish, liverwurst and mayo, mashed sardines with onion and mayo, chopped corned beef with horseradish, creamed cheese with preserves, and tuna or salmon with celery and mayo.
A collage of recipe fragments for Orange Peanut Butter Cookies Graham Muffins and Yellow Angel Mood Cake with preparation steps and quantities, followed by a feature on Women Studying Fabric Qualities in Michigan. It outlines textural notes for cotton linen silk wool rayon and mentions Miss Marjorie Eastman and Michigan State College home economics projects.
Trinity Lutheran Church announces a German language divine worship at 10:00 a m and a Sunday school session at 11:00 o clock on the following Sunday. Rev Engel is listed as the pastor.
Two major events planned to promote livestock breeding in Michigan with Michigan State College cooperation. On Sept 23 at East Lansing a ram show and sale will feature about 300 top rams and 200 selected for sale as part of Michigan Purebred Sheep Breeder’s association program. On Oct 26 in Lapeer the first state beef cattle sale will parade 50 elite purebred herds down Main Street, with auction at 12:30 pm and a preceding cattle judging contest and banquet.
Twenty six reporters and Washtenaw County Agricultural Conservation Association members toured the Detroit Packing Company plant on September 20. The group, led by Harry M. Cole, heard explanations of the co operative model run by Michigan livestock producers and observed operations from live stock slaughter to sausage production. Attendees included Mark Sweetland, George Herter, Herman Laubengage, Ben Schneider, Fred Strath, Edgar J. Forsythe, L. Gale Riggs, Otto C. Hagans, Jesse Bird, Karl E. Theurer, and others from Lodi, Pittsfield, and Saline.
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