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SALINE, WAJSHTKNAW CO., MICH., THURSDAY*- APRIL 1. 1915
NUMBER 27
LAST OF PRE-FESTIVAL SERIES I
SALINE TOWNSHIP
If' Concerts,
Hill Audiiormss, Ann
■ Evening, April 8.
OJ"   Thursday '• An*"1*! Statement for the Year Ending!
March 23, 1915.
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Contingent Fund.
March 24. 1914, Balance on hand..
Received from tax roll.	
Received excess of roll .....	
....5 170 33
.... 80000
....     44 96
; Total S101529'
j           Paid out:-—                                   . J
'■ Election board, gate keepers r.nd hallrent 198 00 |
Health officer's salary and services...  14 00;
Sim. B. Wilson, printing..; '.. 32 75;
Township board; meetings............  16 30 '
i Board of review , .  18 00 :
Decoration dajt exercises  15>O0 ".
Treasurer's returned taxes .  109 13 '■
Treasurer's supplies  3 30 j
, Supervisor's salary ..  300 00
* Clcri's salary... 1..  ISO 00
i Clerk's postage and supplies ;  6 36 '
'■- Ed. DePuy, overcharge in school tax  7 56-
, Mrs. P. W. Weiennett, overcharge in tax. 7 30 \
J. H. Sbults, official supplies  3 17
Balance on hand March 23, 1915  134 22
Total..
..$1015 29
! Highway Improvement Fund.
' March 30, 1914, loan from Joe Schaible..S 360 00
! Return check from Crossyrell Bridge Co..       1 SO
; From tax roll  2492 So
: Prcm tax roll for 1913 overdraft    354 S2
From tax roll, special for 'bridge    and
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MADAME J?REM8TAD
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i    The last number on the Pre-Festival' powers and her fame grows steadily
Series of Concerts in Hill''Auditorium,   from season to season.     Her voice is,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, will be given on   beyond all question, one of the greatest
the evening of Thursday,  April 8,   at
the world has known.  . At once power-
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which time Madame Olive- Fremstad, ful, sweet, clear and brilliant, it offers
the distinguished Wagnerian soprano a combination of vocal qualities so rare
of the Metropolitan Opera company, and productive of such beauty in pet-
will appear in song recital. fdrrr mice that no phrases of apprecia-
Madame Fremstad comes as a substi- tion and praise can do justice to it.
tute for Leo Slezak, who was scheduled      Patrons of Ann -Arbor's -May Festi-
to give a recital early in  March, but ^als will recall with great deal of pleas-
who. on account of the war in Europe, ore her appearance at one of  the last
was unable to keep his appointments in festivals held in  University Hall when
America.    Madame Fremstad has been she was the star of the season.    At that
in'the limelight for  a dozen years and time University Hall was packed td the.
has won a" place  in the very forefront doors and so great was the demand for
of operatic and concert song-birds. Her tickets that many had to be refused
success in New York has been tremend- admission.
ous and when it bfcam.- known i. year      She will, be heard in the following in-
ago that she was to devote the present wresting program:
season to concert work,  the ovations      Die Allmacht, Die Liebt hat gelogen,
which she was given in New York,   be- Der Wanderer an den Mond, Erklenig.
carne historic.     On the occasion of her hy J. Schubert.
farewell appearance at the Metropoli-      Madchenlied, Trennung, Vergebliches
tan Opera House last season,  the audi- Standchen,    Heimkehr,   Von   Ewiger
ence would not let her depart until she Liebe, by J. Brahms,
had appeared and  bowed  more   than '   Folksongs—When   the . Nightingale
forty times.    Such was the superb trib- Sings,   Old Troubadour-1180;   Ma Ga-
ute accorded to the woman who, for the zelle,  Moorish of Algeria;   Tir nel tue
last eleven years,  has been one of the letto a fal' de'Segni d'ere, Neapolitan;
leading  artists   of   the   Metropolitan Hush-a-bye  Darling,    Scottish;    Kom
Opera House, and who is this season Kjyra, Norwegian,
being heard from the platforms of the     Mit deinen blauen Augen,  Sie wis-
leading concert houses throughout the sen's mcht, by E. Strauss,
country.     Madame Fremstad is" just     Gesang Weylas,  Ihr jungeri Leute,
now  entering  the  plentitude   of   her Cophtisch'es Lied, by H. Wolf.
; Total	
; Paid out:—
; Crosswe'l Bridge Co .5 27 00.
. Michigan Bridge & Pipe Co   2S3 70
I G. D. Ellis, bridge plank  3G 00
■ M. J. Pardee Bros., lumber and cement.. 99 54
' Alber Bros., sawing plank  7 00
' Wm. Higgins, 545 loads gravel  8175
■ W. D. Mead, 200 loads gravel  30 00
j Hugh Craig, 42 loads gravel  6 34
j E. C. Young, 933 loads gravel, and 26
j           loads sand  145 15
j Sam Weiennett, 235 loads gravel  35 25
' Mike Alber, 115 loads gravel and hauling 45 75
} John Gordon, 422 loads gravel.  84 40
'; F. 1). Pord, tile and cement  52 05
; Joe Schaible, note and interest  375 00
John Hack, 231 loads gravel  34 65*
Orrin Briggs, storing culverts  10 00
Geo. Schumacher, 190 loads gravel and
overwork  32 00
John Staebler, 121 loads gravel  18 15
John Boettner, bridge plank  51 00
BankTeepe, grave! and sand .<  94 15
John P. Wiedmayer, labor and material.. 17S 05
To orders drawn for   grading,   hauling
gravel and putting in culverts...:.. 1186 57
Balance on hand March 23,1915  795 97
Total .....S3709 47
Road Repair Fund.
Balance on hand March 24, 1915 S   64 40
Received from tax-roll  3094 00
Total S3158 40
Paid out:—
Orders drawn S3030 85
Balance ou hand March 23, 1915    127 55
order, for i
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given now, as we can
i give yon the best price when ship-
I ping carload lots.   /
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Total S315S 40
Poor  Fund.
Balance on hand March 24, 1914 S 175 77
Paid out:— |
Mrs. Collum, for care of Mrs. S. Powers.. 4 00
B. & F. E. Jones.'coal for Mrs. Drake  24 22
B. & F. E. Jolie3, coal for Miss Allen  7 75
Burkhart Bros.,- goods for Mrs. Drake,... -1 43
C. O. Woodbridge, services      12 00
i Balance on hand March 23, 1915    123 37
EASTER CANTATA
To Be Given at the. Methodist Church
. Sunday Evening.
Introduction—Organ, Mrs. Unter-
terkircher: piano, Mrs. Hicks.
Opening chorus; Silent the Sleeping
Town—Choir.
Contralto solo: In the Gardeo—Miss
Grace Mattison.
Soprano solo: Shall Heavy Hook-
Chorus, ohoir.
Soprano solo: The Break of Day—
Miss Eda Clark. . .
Bass solo: As It Began to Dawn-
Mr.' Walling, women's chorus.
"Chord: Onr-'Lord  Indeed is Risen—
Full chorus.
Tenor duet: All Hail—A. F. Clark,
Chris. Burkhardt, and chorus.
Bass solo, recitative: Lo. I Am With
You Alway—O. B. Herbert, A. F.
Clark and bius chorus.
Chorus: Chri>t Is RUen.
Ten,or solo—Clarence Derr.
Finale: llalleiu'ali—Full chorus.
Kindergarten Class.
'Children 6 years, of ass by July 1
will be admitted to a kindergarten
class whis'.h will be started Mondav,
April o, 1915.
W. L. WALLIXG', Supt.
Card of Appreciatioa.
. The teacher and pupils. of Lo'di
school district No. -L fr. appreciate the
kindness of the parents and neighbors
in their dwustion f.*r the new clock,
which has benn. plated inthescliool
as au Easter giit k,r 101c.
OBITUARY
James Toliver was born in Covington, Ky., March 4, 182S. At-theage
of three years he moved" to Augusta,
Bracken county, Ky., where he lived
until the early fifties, when he went to
Amherstburg, Ont., at which place he
was married to Miss Sarah Buetley,
Seven children, three boys and four
girls, were born to them. In the earlv
seventies they came to Saline. Ho
leaves one son, Albert Toliver, who
cared for him the past two years, ant.
, four daughters, Mrs. Mary Burns and
; Mrs. Anna Burns of Battle Creek, Mrs.
Beile Butler of Portland, Ore., ano
Mrs. T. P. Mahamutt of Om tha. Neb
Death of Tobias Sutherland.
Following a stroke of paralysis from
wiiich he had suffered for two weeks,
Tobias Sutherland <-f Ypsilanti, u
former citizen of Pitisfield township .
died last Thursday evening.
His death came a week after that of
his wife. He leaves two children, Mrc.
Fred Everett of .Y'psilanti, and Erues-t
Sutherland, who"" resides on his fata-
>er's farm- in Pitts Qeld.   -       .
The funeral was held at his home in
^Ypsilanti  Monday' morning, and tha
{remains will betaken to Forest Hill
i cemetery,  Ann Arbor.   The body of
Mrs. Sutherlaiid^ whicli was placed in
the vault at Ypsilainti, will be taken to
Ann Arbor.for interment at the same
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Melvin Alber is spending the week
in Detroit with liis brother-. Grover.
Total S 17577
Dos Fund.
Balance on hand March 24, 1914 S   21 62
Received from tax roll      96 00 !
Total.... S 117 62
Paid out:—
Sheep killed and viewing same.. S   21 50
Balance on hand March 23, 1915      96 12
Total...,. S 117 62
Bounty Fund.
Balance on hand March 24, 1914 $   44 34
Loan from Saline Savings bank      75 00 '
lteceived from tax roll....    200 00
Total $ 319 34
Paid out:—
Xoto and interest at Saline Savings bank.     77 25
Orders drawn .* ,     17114
Balance on hand March 23,1915 ;...     70 95
Total $319 34
School Funds.
District No. lfr S1296 59
District No. 2    199 90
-District No. 3fr    227 00
District No. 5fr.._       64 75
District No. 7 '..   230 00
It will soon be time to put that
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"fixed up now.    We have room
for yours.
Let us take your order for a new harness.    We
have a good line and prices are right.
Call and get a color card of the swellest Interior
Paint you ever saw.    We have a ful! line in stock.
SEEGEE & SCHROEN
Total S201S24
Recapitulation.
Balance in Contingent- fund S 134 22
Balance in Highway Improvement fund.   795 97
Balance in Iiond Repair fund    127 55 '
Balance in Poor fund     123 37
Balance in Doc fund      96 12
Balance in Bounty fund      70 95
Balance in School funds  201S 24
Total amount in treasury....S3366 42
We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that the foregoing annual -state-
oeat is true and correct to our best
•int.wledge and belief, and that the
same is hereby made by order of the
Tovimsnip board of the Township of
Saline. .
Dated,-March 23, 1815.
Herman Gress, Supervisor.
Martin Fuoss, Clerk.
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