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COVEHNMENT
i^LUME XXXIX.
SALINE, .WASHTENAW CO., MICH., THURSDAY, MAY 29,1919
NUMBER 37
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The Opportune Time
TOTJ HAVE OFTEN THOUGHT THAT
YOTJ WOULD LIKE TO STABT A SAVINGS ACCOUNT SOME TIME.
THAT "SOME TIME," WHICH IS THE
BEST TIME, IS NOW HEKE AND. 3IAT
NEVEK COME AGAIN.
DO IT TODAY WITH WHATEVER YOU
HAYE ON HAND.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MAKE ANY
PKEPABATION IN MAKING THE START.
SALINE SAVINGS BANK
The One Story Bank on the Corner
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If you do want something that you don't see, *
ask for it.   We may have it put away some- 4
where on our shelves.    But if it isn't in our *
stock and is in the hardware line, we will make *
it our most earnest business to get that article *
for you as scon as possible. *
Phone 73
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S. Y. COTTON
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The powerful Nash Six
is quiet and economical
Beautiful in line and appointment,
the roominess and riding comfort of
the Nash Six with Perfected Valve-in-
Head Motor make it especially attractive to buyers. And its unusual
power economy and quietness have
- caused it to be recognized as one of
America's leading motor car values.
Sam. J. Gall, Agent
,( Phone 61-F2
AT SALINE GARAGE
OYER THE TOP
End of School Year Draws Near
Saline Methodist Church Attains Its
Goal iu the Centenary Drive.
Class oi Twelve Will  he Graduated
This Year—Need of New
Building: Felt.
Last w.eek the Saline Methodist
church went over the top in- their
Centenary Drive. To celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary of the
Missionary society the Methodist
church planned a missionary work
for .ithe coming years which would
demand the sum of $105,000,000, The
week of May 18th was set aside as the
time to raise that vast sum in pledges
of so much per year for five years.
At the end of the week the workers of
the Methodist church in this town reported a total-of §1-,06S per year for
five years, subscribed.. This mtans
that the Missionary offering of the
local Methodist- church tor the next
five years will total $5,340. A great
offering for a great work and the
Centenary workers are fee'.ing very
happy over the church's splendid
showing. The Centenary work here
was managed by the Centenary Council and the Minute Men: jose_.li
Kyte, Earl Payne, J. W. Hull, C. A.
Curtiss, H. W. Bartlett, Mrs. Ola. Hammond, Mrs. Martin Fuoss and Miss
Lottie Wallace.
TWO DANGEROUS
WHEAT DISEASES
The office of the county farm bureau has received notice concerning
two new wheat diseases which have
been identified in several of the winter wheat producing states. These
diseases are "Take-all" and "Flag-
smut". Specialists in plant diseases
from this state have had occasion to
investigate these diseases in one of
the central states arid found th.at considerable damage had been done.
The plant specialist examined one
Held of 80 acres which was rendered
practically worthless; not only for
this year's crop, but for all future
wheat, barley, rye and possibly oat
crops.
"Take-all" is a fungus root rot
which until now has not been known
in the United States. It is extremely
prevalent in Australia and is undoubtedly their worst wheat disease,
In its attack on wheat it causes the
plants to remain stunted, the diseased
"stools sprawling on the ground and
looking like quack grass. Instead of
producing a normal head the sheets
are replaced by wiry spindling outgrowths, which never amount to anything. It is characteristic that the
diseased parts are discolored and rotted. A mahogany brown color is
characteristic.
"Flag-smut" is another Australian
disease, so far unknown in the United
States.* This disease is readily recognized by the black streaks along the
leaves of the wheat plant.
It is extremely significant that the
two diseases were found together in
the same fields in the nearby state,
It seems evident that the two diseases were brought in on the seed at the
same time.
The plant .disease specialists of the
Department of Agriculture as well as
the Michigan Agricultural college are
bending their efforts to find how extensive these troubles have become.
The stunting of the wheat plants
caused by water-logged soil, frost injury, etc., should not be confused
with these diseases.
Already two suspicious cases in
Michigan have been reported to the
state plant disease specialist. Any
suspicious fields in Washtenaw county
should be immediately reported to the
farm bureau office, so that immediate
steps can be taken to have them inspected. Special precautions ought to
be taken where fields have been
planted from seed of unknown origin,
purchased through seed dealers, It
is hoped that the farmers of the
county will cooperate with the county
farm bureau in keeping these two
dangerous diseases out of Washtenaw
county.
TO ALL MICHIGAN
CHAPTERS RED CROSS
Attempts have been made in various parts of the state to raise money
by using the name or emblem of the
Red Cross. In some instances, cards
have been sold asking the buyer to
give 25. cents apiece for them and
stating that the proceeds will go toward helping the Belgians.
Of course, all who are familiar
with the methods of the American
Red Cross will know that no expedients of this kind are authorized. Our
organization owes it to the public,
however, to take prompt measures to
stop any efforts made by individuals
or organizations to enrich themselves
hy the use of our name or symbol.
Should you find anything of this
kind in this county, will you- please
follow it up vigorously and advise
this office fully.
Sidney T. Miller,
Director for Michigan.
William A. Comstock,
Associate Director.
Henry W, Douglas, Chairman,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Saline school will soon close
for another year of its existence. A
class ■> of twelve j, are completing the
work as outline^ by previous courses
of study. It hasjbeen the constant effort of the teachers to adjust and
plan the work to meet the ever
changing conditions through which
we all have passed during the year.
Ideas have been so numerous, and
suggestions so conflicting, that to obtain a harmonius result required ihe
combined help of all the factors making up the school community, and how
well they have all responded, the
patrons, parents, school board, and
pupils. The school is not unmindful
of the suppoit given it.
A school is largely imitative of the
composite surroundings, both the immediate and the remote. Customs,
habits, behavior, morals, etc., are
taken on or lent by coming in contact
with nearby schools and communities,
and our school is trying, collective y
and individually, to leave a clean;
kindly influence and to absorb nothing that is not commendable.
The course of study for the ensuing
year has heen drafted to meet the requirements of the time, omitting the
frills, keeping the fundamentals, and
making it wide enough to admit of
college entrance ujon graduation.
The new state law requires physical
culture to be taught in all the schools
of the state, -and it is hoped that at no
distant date our young city may have
a new up-to-the-minute building, "With
all the departments, befitting a locality like ours.
Methodist (Imrch Item
Rev. E. R. Stevenson. Pastor.
10:00 .a m.—"Dry Bones."    7:30 p.
m.—."Ananias,"
Sunday schoohmeets at 11:30 a. m.
Epworth League at 6:30 p. m.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening.
Christian Science Notes
This society is an authorized branch
of the Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston,
Mass.
Services held in the Citizens bank
building.
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
Subject June 1: Ancient and Modern Necromancy, alias Mesmerism
and Hypnotism, Denounced.
Golden Text: Exodus 23:13. In ail
tilings that I have said unto you be
circumspect: and make no mention of
the name of other .gods, neither let it
be heard out of thy mouth.
Wednesday evening testimonial
meeting at 8:00 o'clock.
All are cordially invited to these
services.
Sunday school at 11:00 o'clock
to which pupils to the age of 90
years are admitted,
Presbyterian Church News
Rev. W. H. Hoffman, Pastor.
Subject Sabbath morning: Strength
Given to Meet a Great Opportunity.
Evening theme: How to Meet the
Flight of Time.
The-joint meeting of the Junior and
Senior Endeavor societies last Sunday
evening- was an inspiring and interesting occasion. The Juniors well
sustained themselves in the presence
of the Seniors and carried off all the
lipnors.
Monday afternoon of this week the
ladies met with Mrs. Mead and extended their greetings upon her birthday, A very pleasant social hour was
spent and many pleasurab'e reminis--
cehces were recalled.
The Memorial services at the M. E.
church Sabbath evening were greatly
enlivened by the presence of young
men in uniform acting as an escort of
the veterans of the Civil War.
Our country is safe from all insidious and treatening evils if patriotism can be made the inheritance of
succeeding generations.
Americanism should be made the
keynote of our Memorial services this
year,
All hyphenated distinctions should
be ohliterated and the graves 6f our
heroic dead become the shrines" of
our consecration to the highest ideals
of civil and religious liberty.
It should be plainly and definitely
understood and emphasized by the
most drastic measures that America
is a place to enjoy liberty and freedom, but no haven for political demagogues and atheistic philosophers and
schemers of every known vagary to
plot against all forms of government
and undermine the very foudnations
of Christianity and civilization-.
WANTED—People in this vicinity
who have any legal printing required
in the settlement of estates, eta, to
have it sent to this newspaper. The
rates are universal in such matters,
and to have your notices appear in
this paper^it is only necessary to ask
the probate judge to send them here.
'The Lightning Raider"
CAST
Frank  Dedman Hop Sing
Henry Gsell- Thomas Norton
Warner Oland Wu Fang
Pearl White...The Lightning Raider
SIXTH  EPISODE
THE  MYSTIC   BOX
After their desperate leap into the
water from the train, T,pm Norton and
The Lightning Raider swam for the
opposite shore of the river. Lightning reached a float on her side first
and as a man reached down to help
her she-noted a police badge on his
vest and immediately took to the water again and swam to the opposite
shore and joined Tom, They went to
a farm-house near by, secured new
clothing and, hiring a machine, proceeded on their way to Manton. Meanwhile, Wu, on the train has found out
from the conductor that Tom and
Lightning bought tickets for Manton.
Wu and his syepohant Hop Sing got
off the train at Manton and the first
..eople they encountered on the vil-
'age street were two small town
sweethearts, Amarilly Hopkins and
Wingate Cobb. Wu questioned them
and found that they had seen a man
nd woman who had questioned th m
is to the whereabouts of old Michael
Jgdeil's shack. Wu and Hop Sing,
following the directions of .the two
•weethearts, came to the shack where
i^htning and Tom, after a thorough
earch, had found another eto ly
jloc-k, similar to the one The Wasp
■ad g'ven them. Wu fifed through
the .window,   wounding  Tom   in  the
rm and, Lightning glancing aiound
"or a weapon, noted a box of dynamite
sticks, She quickly lighted the-fuse
jf one of them and holding it aloft,
dared Wu  to   enter.    "I'll   take  the
dock," said Wu.    "If that dynamite
xp'odes we will all die together."
.iut Lightning stood her ground and
Wu did not dare to proceed. Finally
is the fuse burned low she hurled it
.'rom the window and a terrible ex-
lo.-ion just outside wrecked the
shaCiA. Bruised and battered by the
shock  and convinced that both Tom
nd Lightning had been- killed by the
•xphsicn, Wu Fang and Hop Sing
started away from, the ruined shack
.ieanwhile Amarilly and her three
stalwart brothers who lived near by.
lurried to the scene of the explosion.
'We must watch her c'.ossly," Wu
■.coke to his man. "She has that
.*h'ch we desire."    So Amarilly re
urned to her home, not knowing the
,vily chinks were shadowing her ev-
2i*y movement.    The next day Ama-
illy went to a village fortune toller
.vho told her among other things thai
.he was to be followed by a dark man.
jater as she sat in the kitchen of her
"iome curiously examining the ebony
block she disce.ned a sinister Chin-
se face at the window and jumped at
once to the conclusion that this was
he dark man who was to follow her,
Wingate, her sweetheart, came up
just in time to see Wu and Hop Sing
leap for the girl and he gave battle
-oyally. Amarilly's. three brothers
rushed into the kitchen and the two
Chinamen seeing they were outnumbered, fled. Then Wingate grew very
valiant and hurled any object he
could get hold of at the retreating
Chinks. Among the objiects he threw
was the ebony block and it struck
Hop Sing, who stooped to pick it up
•nd then ran on chuckling.- Lightning
bad only been stunned by the explosion at the shack and when she recovered she dragged herself to an
abandoned shack. Soon Wu and Hop
Sing entered but did not see her, as
she was lying in a bunk on the wall,
They were in great glee over the
ucky recovery of the blocks but they
both stepped outside to investigate
some noise and Lightning seized the
block and again hid in the bunk.
When Wu returned and found the
block gone he accused his man of
stealing it and a knife -fight almost
ensued until, Wii, long accustomed to
reading faces, decided that his man
was not guilty. Suddenly his eyes dilated for he had noted a dainty" woman's powder puff lying .underneath
the bunk. He leaped to the bunk and
struck downward again and again
with his long knife. "The Lightning
Raider" will be shown at The Liberty
Theatre on Friday evening of each
week.
Willing Workers' Meeting
The Willing Workers for the May
meeting met with Mrs. Minnie Boyd.
Roll call responded to by a verse of
Proverbs.
After the business meeting a short
program was given: A select reading, "The Song of Our Syrian Guest,"
by Mrs. Mabel Needham. Mrs. Cora
Walters gave a paper on "The Passion Play."
After a "bountiful supper, served by
the hostess, the meeting adjourned to
meet with Miss Julia -Gordon in June.
A hub cap for a Ford car awaits; an
owner at his office.      . :' •'   -
OBSERVER LINERS
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Ge per Line first insertion-:  Then 3c
per Line; Minimvui charge 25c.
Crows Can Be Kept
Ont of Corn Fields
Treatment of Seed Will Stop Destruction by Birds and Rodents. -_
For Sale—Yellow Dent seed corn.
37    «G. J. Feldkamp, phone 198-F31
For Sale—Four year old horse.
38     August Braun, phone 192-F31:
For Sale—Yellow Dent Seed Corn,
hanger dried and tested. 38.
.    Albert Graf, phone 192-F3.
Gasoline. 25c per gallon, in lots of
five gallons or more.
Wiedman Auto CO.
For   Sale—Barred  Rock   eggs   fo*
hatching, Park's laying strain.
29tf * Walter  Gross.
For Sale—Quantity of barn timber,
suitable for tool house. 37
Frank Tower, phone 208.
Cash paid for Liberty Bonds. David A. Kill ins & Son. 107 First National Bank Building, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Wanted—An old-fashioned four-poster bed, cherry preferred.
Lillian Ottmar,
409 Thompson street, Ann Arbor.
Wanted—Painters and paper hangers; good wages, steady work; NO labor troubles.     Hubbard & McKie,
37x Ypsilanti, Mich.
To Rent—The flat above the printing office. Electric lights, bath and
■ther conveniences. Rent very low.
Inquire at Observer office.
For Sale—The coal business, scales,
yard and sheds as conducted by B. &
F. E. Jones; also the office building
on McKay street, to be removed. Inquire of Frank E. or Minnie R.
lones. 31t£
WANTED—CARPENTERS, CABINET
MAKERS, BOAT BUILDERS,
JOINERS, AND PAINTERS WHO
UNDERSTAND HIGH CLASS FINISHING. Our plant is light and
w*ell ventilated. Port Clinton is legated on Lake Erie in the famous
growing section, midway between
.^Toledo and Cleveland oil the main
4line of the New York Central R. R.
A good, inexpensive little town in
which to live. Plenty of fishing,
hunting and boating. Attractive
summer resorts near by. Steady
work.—The Matthews Co.. Port
Clinton, Ohio. 37x
A. E. A. MUMMERY, M .D.
Physician and Surg-con
Ann Ai*l)or, Mich
">ffice: Hutzel Bldg. Hours: 1:00-4:00,
7:00-8:00 p. m. Sundays by appointment.
Res. 502 E. Jefferson.    Phone 1935.
Will be at The Tavern Tuesday and"
and Friday evenings from 6 to 8.
A great deal of the loss suffered
annually because of destruction of
newly planted corn by erow*s and burrowing animals ean«*be avoided if
proper methods are used, according to
Prof. J. F. Cox of the farm- crops de-
artment at M, A. C. While Professor
Cox believes that the crow ccmes in
"or more than his share of blame for
corn "pulling", he recommends treatment of the seed as a protection.
That some crows are worse *cbrn
lestroyers „. than others has been
proved. Certain of the birds seem to
pull out corn for the love of the work,
'ong after their arpstite has been
satisfied, while the majority do very_
'ittle damage. For these occasional
marauders Professor Cox recommends
the use of a reliable shot gun.
Scare crows and other devices to
frighten the birds away are all effective in a measure. Hanging dead
crows around the field is one of the
best methods, Treatment of the seed
to make it unpalatable is the most effective measure known, however, the
"ol*owing being recommended as a
good practice:
Put the seed corn in a tight vessel;
moisten it with warm water, and stir
in about two tablespoonsful of coal
tar to each bushel of seed. After
draining the tarred corn thor uglily
to remove any water remaining free,
add ashes, land plaster, road dust, or
any similar material to absorb surplus tar and prevent the seed from
being sticky; or better, after draining,
spread the corn on a barn fl.or or
similar surface, and let it remain two
or three days, when little oi* no dust
will be required. The thinner the
tar, the better. Crows rarely pull
c-ore than a few kernels of the tarred
corn.
Transfera-
Real Estate
Furnished by the WashteiTaw
Abstract Co.. Ann. Arbor.
Charles E. Alber and wife to Edwin j
C. Warner and wife land on sections j
1 and 2, township of York.
Julius   H.  Feldkamp   and   wife   to
Orrnond J. Feldkamp land on sections !
18, 7 and S,. township of Saline, j
Harry  B.  Taylor and  wife to Arthur   G-.  Wood  land   on   section  25, ;
township   of   Lodi   and   section   31, i
township of Pittsfield.
Marriage Licenses.
James Gregory Tiplady, 31, Detroit; :
Martha Ellen Nanry", 31, Ann Aibor.
Christian Gebhardt, 26, Ann Arbor; |
Olga Alber, 25, Freedom.
Marcelle A. King, 26, Wellsville, N.'
Y.; Anna Blodgett, 20, Ann Arbor.
Claude Hall, 34, Ann Arbar; Lena
Dannel, 30, same.
Frank Stainbrook, 19, Ann Arhor; i
Blanche Zimmerman, 19, Fostorio, O. ]
Henry Danz, "21, Ann Arbir; Corj,:
Schmidt, 30, same.   '
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Oranges 50 and 60c per doz.    Bananas 40c a doz.
PINEAPPLES 20c, 25c and 30c each
Lettuce 20c per pound Lemons 30e a dozen
Grape Fruit ISoeach ■    Maple Syrup 50cpt.
Lima Beans 18c a pint, 2 for 35e
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