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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1943
Page
2
Obituary and marriage notices are published free of charge. Announcements or entertainments with admissions must be paid at the rate of five cents per line. Subscription price listed as $1.00 per year, six months 7, three months 25 cents outside Michigan 31.51 per year. Poetry must be paid for at fire rate of seven cents per line.
The Federated Church led by Rev. William Bach invites worshipers to observe the Lord's Supper during morning worship. Sunday includes 11:30 a.m. Sunday school, 6:30 p.m. youth service, 7:45 p.m. evening service, and a midweek schedule with Ladies Aid, prayer meeting, and choir practice.
Divine service at 10 a m Sunday school at 11 English services every second and fourth Sunday of the month Everyone invited to attend.
Rastor Saline Township west of Saline on US 112 offers divine services Sundays at 10 a m with Sunday school at 11 15. All welcome. Also notes public health aim to stop tuberculosis by preventing germ spread and a call to buy 8rd war loan bonds.
The article notes no school on Thursday and Friday October 14 15 due to the annual Teachers institute. The ELF FAIR dates shift to October 21 22. The band meets Thursday nights at 7 with Mr Breen of Ypsilanti State hospital directing temporarily while seeking a full time leader. Former graduates are invited to join band rehearsals.
The article lists returning lettermen in the backfield and across the lineup, notes many newcomers on the football team, mentions possible late joiner Don McAllister, and describes junior class magazine sales and safety patrol duties in the fifth and sixth grades.
Fourth graders study Safety at all Times with autumn leaf posters as a border. Enrollment is 21 in third grade and 19 in the fourth. First grade notes lateness with 27 pupils. A bear cub tale from Saline Valley Farms ends with a joke about riding them. Freshman initiation day includes costumes, speeches, a party, and a square dance.
A long, varied local items column notes movements, visits, resignations, business changes, and social events. It records Rev. C H Wittbracht leaving Detroit, tavern sale to William Gebhard, Washtenaw highlights, farm prizes, and a dry harvest season with scarce pumpkins and squash.
Thirty years ago Bert Gillen repaired a motor boat in Lakeland. Vera Reeves visits Pioneer Ohio friends while Alta Daniels and George Towler spend time with Mrs. Bert Rogers. Ypsilanti and Hartford visitors noted. Lewis Cool elected to school board, replacing D A Townsend. Buck home sold to Kather ine Biness of Lodi for Nov 1 possession. Canine family guests of Van Houten. Charles Cressy ferries a horse to Detroit for George Burg. horse shoeless delaying trip. Reception for local businessmen by the band at the opera house capped the week.
The Methodist Church observes World Wide Communion Sunday with Holy Communion at 10 a.m. A organ prelude and offertory follow, the choir sings an anthem, and church school meets at 11 o'clock. Lesson titled The Commandments. WSCS divisions meet Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday with the Plan for Victory Go to Church theme.
Last week at Saline General Hospital Mrs D Franklin Stanifer and her infant returned to Milan. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Ray Hildreth on the 22nd. Daughters born to Mr and Mrs Morris and Mr and Mrs Russell Rattray on the 24th. Mrs Roahn Stant land and infant daughter and Mrs George Kimerer and infant son returned home. Mrs Homer Cowdrey and infant son also went home. Ton sillectomies included Ronald Richards Azalia Gary Kempf Ypsilanti Patty Chapman Whitaker and Dorothy Faust Milan.
Macon J Howell of Adrian called Tuesday in the E W Payne home. Several visitors and relatives from South Bend Detroit Cleveland Toledo Pontiac Lansing and New York gathered at various homes for weekend social visits. The Morgan family planned a 50th wedding anniversary open house and family dinner on Sunday.
More than 500 communities and organizations in Michigan receive folders from the University of Michigan to discuss postwar plans. The materials titled Win the Peace Now and This War Is a Conflict of Ideas prompt leaders to organize discussions, and a pamphlet Hints for Organizers and Leaders of Discussion Groups explains how to run them.
Former City Attorney Roscoe Bonisteel of Ann Arbor spoke at The Tavern Rotary meeting last Thursday about Saline’s 3rd War Loan drive, urging active citizen involvement and governance. Alwin Burkhardt and C A Curtiss outlined Bend Drive plans, pledges were sought for prizes, and the Honor Roll on the school lawn will be dedicated Oct. 10. Rotarian H J LaDauceur of Milan attended as a guest.
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