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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1926
Page
4
The Saline Observer explains post office status and pricing for subscriptions and copies. It lists rates for eight months four months and two months, and details charges for notices, poetry, announcements, obituaries and marriage notices, plus advertising rates and association memberships.
Regulations apply to quarantined areas for European corn borer. All corn stalks remnants and cobs must be destroyed or buried or shredded by May 15 each year, with burning allowed. Clean fields by May 15. penalties may be charged to owners. Emphasizes early low cutting and use of corn binders with low cutting devices to reduce borers. hogging down stalks is condemned.
A list of school lunch ideas with wrapped items and neat packing tips is followed by a playful note about a girl in Ohio parsing the sentence He kissed me. The prose shifts from practical meals to a grammar lesson on pronouns and verbs, ending with a humorous nod to the word me.
A montage of short items includes Schuman's nine defeating Ypsilanti Sports 20 to 6 before darkness ends a fifth inning. Notes on a Kalamazoo visit, local agriculture with a large apple crop, Washtenaw County tax figures, a Monroe chicken theft, a new 10 pound boy born to Elroy and Bern Briggs, and Election gossip dominates street chatter.
Will Kinsley sold his Pittsfield township farm to George Shaw. Rev. George EF Tripp becomes Methodist pastor for the coming year. Mrs Christina Wahr Stierle died September 24 born February 27 1862 in Scio joined to Philip Stierle of Lodi. Calvin Wolf and family moved to Ann Arbor. Michael O'Hara and family also moving to Ann Arbor. Roy Rogers visited Holloway. Mrs George Gartung of Chicago visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Adam Schroen. Mrs E H Cressy returned from a Chicago visit. Mrs Walter Brackel of Grand Rapids visiting her father P F E Friis. Grover Aber started Detroit school for electrical engineering.
The 1913 Michigan bill gave the public instruction chief power to place blind babies in state care. Monroe and Coldwater housed these infants as mothers remain slow to report. The International Sunshine Society and Judge Carl Frank back the program, urging mothers to report every blind baby to provide needed early, specialized care.
Washtenaw County youths lead Michigan effort with five Jersey Holstein and Guernsey calves selected for state calf club herds. The herd includes Stoneacres Buttercup grand champion at the Michigan State Fair and other prize animals. Calves travel to Detroit October 5 6 for exhibition with 25 states represented.
A U S Department of Agriculture system of swine sanitation promotes clean farrowing and pasture rearing to cut infestations. It gains growing adoption in Illinois and other Corn belt states with southward interest including a Tennessee fair demonstration under UT and state officials.
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