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WASHTENAW  COUNTY, MICH., THURSDAW, MAY 6,4920.
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Few states have hanking Taws as
strict as has the State of**Michigan.
Few states are as- rigid in their
enforcment.
Few states have-done so' much to
.throw special safeguards around the _
sayings depositor." ;<
You are fortunate in having in.
this community a. bank which is operated under these laws. '.„,
The Saline Savings' Bank is a
' strong bank. Strong because it is
supervised by the State of Michigan.
Strong because of its ample capital
and surplus, "strong because of the
conservative management of its
present officers.
• It's a good bank for you
Saline Savings Bank
'Member of Federal Reserve Bank
_Why Wtipberg Brand Work Shoes?
If you'll divide; the price you pay by the num-
foer-of days of wearf%u will have the answer
Weyenberg Brand Shoes of Hardy Hide Leather
will actually wear 50 per cent longer than any
other' shoes made. A number of tests have
■proven this. Thev cost no more.than 'ordinary
kinds—$4.00.       ' *• .   *
And at prices between to $6.00.
For the best work shoe in the world ask      .
for Weyenberg dark tan Hardy Hide at....$6.50
BURKHART BROS
The Quality Grocery
PHONE 86
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For Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
Red Star Oil that will not Smoke
Garden Seeds in Bulk and Package
Plenty of White Onion Sets
Salt Pork, Bacon and Picnic Hanis hy the chunk
Apples, Oranges, Bananas, Grape Fruit
Cocoanuts.
' Lettuce and Head Lettuce'
LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING SENT EVERT FRIDAY.
BEING US YOUR BUTTER AND EGGS
YOURS  FOR  MORE  BUSIiN'ESS
Phone 86
MARTIN FUOSS
Woman's Club. Meeting
Crowded out last week.
1 The meeting of the Saline  Woman's club    was- held    Tuesday after-
! noon   in the  M.  B.   church  parlors,
I This   meeting  was  quite  out of^ the j
! ordinary,  being    Pioneer Day,    and
guests were invited wlio were either
near pioneers or descendants of the
first settlers of Saline." »
After the usual order of business
was concluded, roll call was .responded to by each club member
answering questions previously given them in regard to the early history of Saline
The program Avas in charge of
the Art committee and was carefully and' ably prepared as well as
most interesting, A -paper on "The
History of Saline," that had been
prepared and read at a club meeting gome years ago by .Miss Anna
Jewett, a former member, was read
by Mrs. Fred Burkhart. This paper was much enjoyed and clinched
the various' points brought out in
the roll call.
Then the room was darkened and
a series of tableaux were given,
with spotlight thrown on the "picture-frame," representing thfe various
stages of American history, as follows: - ■ ■
."The First Pioneers" was represented by Miss He'en Gauntlett as.
the Indian maid Minn hah a, while
Mies Hazel Fuoss .sang from "-H'a-
watha."
"Pioneer Days" showed Miss Ruth
Rose and Harold Layher represent-,
ing Priscilla ^and John Alden,,
Miss Mary Louise Taylor reading-
selections from the poem.
After this .Mrs, Fred Burkhart^
read a short paper ton "The Making*
of Our Flag" closing with the flag
■salute by all, While (Mrs. T. N. Ross
was shown as Betsy Boss malting*
the flag.
The Civil war was represented by
Mrs. Dell as Barbara Frietchie, as
Miss (Edna Smith .recited the ponn
by Whittier.
j Margaret  Matzenauer,   Contralto
at the Ann Arbor* May Festival
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spot. A large -village soon sprang up.
It must -have been quite an in»port-
ant one,, flrom the fact that six trails
led frpm it,- -On the east bank of the
river was ? their ljiriying ground?
Many* Indian ffjlicg have been found
there^ As the Indians were led jto
join the English in the war of 1812,
they could nevea* feel fully at peace
the government.* Travel was slow
and hard and these-^tavarns w-Sre usually full".
Daniel D. Wallace" ran an ashery
and made potash, or soda as w'e call
it. The old ash pile is still thei e on
the left hand side of the road.
Archibald Armstrong came vithhis
son in 1832, and died in 1846. Most
of you were present when his grave
was decorated and a tablet placed to
his memory at the cemetery.
The first 'mill was built in tbe
town by Orrin and Chester Parsons,
on.the Saline river, about two miles
south of the village, in 1827.. This
■was a saw mill. They also built the.
first frame house in the original
"township of Sal-ine,- in 1829, on -section 12. _„This is still standing and
known, as the Sumner place. They
also were the first to etect Ik, grist
mill. Tt had two runs of stone, and
is now known as the Friis mill.
Schuyle,r mill was built in 1845 by
Schuyler Haywood, of Barnagat, New;
Jersey, and the little settlea: ent ihai
Every Slice Satisfies
An outstanding superiority of Schnebelt's
Home Made Bread in its uniform quality, which is
impossible where guess work methods are used.
The highest standard of qualify Inid flavor
constantly maintained in our bread is recognized
by those who are familiar with its gAodnessi-
Schnebelt's Bakery
Another glimpse o! Civil war- (jayS
was   "Chained - 'in"A"*'-sr-_-.^r.C* 'J'6*lint'
Morris  taking the part  of  tlie  fettered slave, while Miss Audrey Jordan sang "Down In Ole Virginny."
Next came a peaceful scene entitled "Grandmother's Bay," '. Mrs.
Ross posing as g.andmoMier and
Miss Pearl Wilson .reciting,"In Days
Of Old*' accompanied by Mrs. Taylor
playing a minuet.
-"The Spanish War" was lepre-
resented by a soldier, Harold Layher, in the uniform of that war,
while Miss Audrey Jordan sang "A
Soldier's Rosa'ry."
"School Da.yo" with Miss Irene
Ban* as a little school' girl,. Miss
Adadel Forsiythe Ringing ,a school-
day song.
Next came "The World War" with
the iwell known picture of the Red
Cross (Miss Doris Wheeler) standing between the Army (IJarold Layher) and the Navy (Edward Smith,)
while everyone sang the ^horas of
"Keep The Home Fires Burning,'"
The last tableau wa« "Peace"
shown by Miss* Helen Barr as "Columbia."
Mrs. Harry Taylor accompanied
all the tableaux with appropriate
music and deserves many thanks,
as do all the ipartieipants, who
helped so  splendidly.
Singing the, club song closed the
program, after which .refreshments
were served by the committee in
charge.
with us afterward, and this accounts
for that wonderful disappearance and j*80011 sprang up around the mill Be
retirement as the wave of civilized | named   Barnagat,   after   his   native
i t lace.
The York mill was built by Mosas
Hfe approached them,.
The first white" settlers were I.e:n-
aird Miller and wife, who came in
1826 and built a log cabin near the
salt-lick. It w-is really the first tavern*. The sign he hung out read "Live
and Let Live."   A daughter Was born
Rider in 1S36.
The first school house was on the
Chicago road, about one mile west of
the village, and was built malny
through the efforts of Russell Eriggs
there,  the  first  white  child in  the • 'n the year 1S31. Galvim Lamb taught
town.   /Mr. Miller died in 1830. j the first school, in the winter of 1831-?
Dianiel Gross built the second ! 1832. Miss Harriet Sumner taught a
house, in 4-82g, near Mr-. Miller's [ term and Mrs. Russell Mills taught
That was a, tavern . also. The ql<3 [ the next summer school. The schcol
salt-lick, or well, was quite an im- j districts were changed so many times
portant place all through the early J that }t is difficult and would be too
history of Saline, There was always long to wa'ite out,
plenty of game to be found pear- and t The first school house to be built
there is plenty of evidence showing , In tlie village stood where Julius
that salt had  bqsn   made  there** f.i'   Bredernitz now lives.
years.
Other settlers in 1826 were Russell
Brig'gB, Orrin and Chester Parsons.
Orrin Fuller came In 1828,  Samuel
The first church to he organized
was the Biaptist, in 1831, at the home
of Deacon Jesse Stephens. There
were seven members.    Rev. Thomas
Cross and George Miller in 1830. Bit-ley became the first pastor. The
Samuel Douglass entered the first Hest ehure'h was built in 183?.. Tlie
lind in the town, the date of his pr.j*- Presbyterian church was organized
debase being June 6, 1824. He bo -gh; , i.i Newark, New: York, you might say.
8i> -acres on section ."5, Orange Ris-'The following certificate will show:
^on* b"oflg_"r; "tlife'""nortHfe"<^r**quaTtfs'i' *-ef' r-1 lrosfdlloW'iti_^persensJmeirtbei*s*-of. the*-
■section 1 August 12, 1824. Mr. Risdon Presbyterian, church at Newark,
-did riot settle here until some years j Wayne county, _*Tew York, are -about
later. He was a. surveycr by profes- 'to leave this part of the country and
sion. He had surveyed and laid cut settle in.Michigan: JSter Cook, Jacob
several cities in the state of New Cook, Rachel Cook, Eve Cook, Abra-
Ycrk, Buffalo being one of them. In | ham Csok, Betsey Cook, David Hafh-
1S24 he surveyed the Irdad between j away, Phcebe Hathaway, Ira Hatha-
Detroit and Pontiac. In 1825 the , way, John Kanouse, Jr., Sally Ann
great military road from Detroit to j Hathaway, Nelly Kanouse. ' They
Chicago was commenced by the TJ. S. j were dismissed from the said ehu'rch
government, Mr. R's Ion being * the ' on the' 22nd. day of May, 1-831, and
chief surveyor. F om this time until j were organized into a church at Kew-
1858 he was mainly in the employ of ] ark aforesaid on said 22nd day of
the TJnited Ejtates. At least seventy- i May. Theodore Patridge, Clerk of
five townships were surveyed by him   Session.
and 45 otheirs examined and resur- j The families left Newark May 23,
veyed. In 1829 Mr. Risjdon built the ; landed in Detroit May 29i On the
first house in the village: This also j 18th of July, 1831, the chutrch as-
was a tavern, which he 'kept for • sembled together and determined to
about ten years,   Everything seemed ' take the name of Presbyterial church
SALINE'S EARLY SETTLERS.
By Miss Anna Jewett.
With the passing away of the old
settlers,  or -pioneers, of the village,
we have lost many of the old traditions .and bits p£ unwritten  hi'tor-y
that were fully as interesting- as that
written.    The first tradition tells us
about Gen. Anthony Wayne, with  a
pairt of his army, spending the winter
of 1794-1796  down by the old saltlick.   The army made salt, game was
plentiful; they rested and madeieady
for the spring campaign ^against the
Indians.    In .July,* 1875,''jpj3acs  was
declared with the' differehf?tribes and
the long, contest of jears was ended.
As the white settlers inroaded the
eastelrn part of the state the Indians
were  driven  further  west.   A large
tribe,   Pottawatamas   by  name,  left
what is now Wayne county and settled
jhere near  the   old salt-lick.   There
i was good planting ground, game; was
t abundant 'in the   -nrobds  arid 'plains
;| and fish  was -plenty  in  the "riveirs.
I The Saline .river   at    that  time1" was
? very  -muchr larger  tlgHs -now.'. The
channel, rid\v.
in a different ipl
The" Indians'
tp be favorable for the building up of , of Saline. Rev. Reuben Sears remain-
a fine village or city, and in S'eptem- ed with them five Sabbaths. Meetings
ber, 1832, Mr. Risdon suirveyed and '. were held in private houses and
platted the village to which lie gave | school houses until 1842, when a
the name. Saline", after the town and j church was erected. Rev. Mr. Wells
river. I think the name was origin- ? was the first pastor,
ally given by the Indians, Saline j The Methodist church was organ-
meaning- salt. Mr. Risdon was post- t ized February 12, 1833. It consisted
master from 1830 to 1840. Some time | of one member, Mrs. Ansyl Ford*. Mr.
before Mr.' Risdon platted the village i Risdon generously donated a lot and
a brother-in-law, Mr. Silas Finch, j a church was erected, many new
came from the state of New York for | members being added. In 1836, I
the purpose of openings general | thiink, the. church was -struck by
store. There being no suitable place ] lightning and two of its members, AI-
Mr. Risdon rented him his parlor, ! len Burnham and Dennis Kelly, klll-
and in this iroom goods were first sold i ed and burned with the building,
in the village! ♦ \ The first regular pastor was W. M.
In 1832 Mr- Finch erected the first " Sullivan
store building, on the .corner of Chicago and Adrian streets, later known
as the McKinnon block. Caleb Van
Husari was the next to open a general
stare.
The first marriage in the town was
What was called the first hotel was
erected in 1833 by Smith Lapham.
We remember it as the .old Kansus^
house. Saline Eschange was erec.ed
in 1834 by Daniel D. Wallace.
The first town! meeting was held on
held   in the  Benton district  on the   the first Monday in April, 1830.    It
Chicago road. The parties were Robert Craig .and ,Mlss Polly Gilbert; date
April 12, 1829. Mr. Risdon, justice of
the peace, officiated.   Mrs. Risdon ac-
was held at the nome of Mr. Risdon-.
The'-villkge  was   incorporated   in
1866. '    *
Perhaps it would not be out of
oompiiiied her husband, On the same , place to speak of the way the early
hoirse, to witness the ceiemony. You settlers lived. Most of them came
must see by ihis time how closely the ' from the east with their own ox
life of Mr. Risdon and the life of the ' teams and usually, a few things with
village are Jinked together. This is , whicli to start housekeeping, and a
but a sketch, a rough one at that, of certain amount of supplies to help
his life. He had5 traveled all over the 'tliem through the year until they
country, riding here and there, but could raise .crops of some»lrind. -The
the natui»al beauty of the place drew first thing to do was to build a log
Kim back to found a 'home iand a cabin. Neighbors came Irom far and
village. , . near to help" and .the cabin waS^oon
Daniel jand Daniel Di Wallace came * ready.   One window,. "usujaiyycbvevned|
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in l'831,.'*-pu)-*chasiflg land three "onlles j with oiled paper, a -jaodr mads pf
■west of the village*: Their place was spliced: clapboards* just'ifastened-with.
called tlie "Old Tavern Stand."    In, a latch.   The huge *firepla*ce -was at
those .-days' taverns  w.ene,-not more *_ne/end.   It had one tor Wo cranes,,a5
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OBSERVER LINERS
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
6c per Line h'lrst insertion*:  Then 3c
Iier Line;' iHir*In--*i;i charge 25c.
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To   Rent—My   barn,   for  use   as "a
garage.     Mivs. Frank Tcw.r.    (35)
For  Sale    Jersey   cow  and  ealf-
(15)   Ff ank Daniel?, Phone llE-F,!
For Sale—New mi'eh cow .'and two
weeks old calf.   R. W. Mills.       31
For Sale—5-year old track horse;
will sell ehcap.       A. Daniels.   34.
For   Sale—7-year-old  bay   gelding?
wt. 1400 lbs. Fred Richards.      32tf
For Sale—Fine Wool Ram.      32tf
W. H. Barr, phone 14-F2.
Get your cyclone insurance through
George J. Feldkamp. Phone 198 F31.
For Sale—My barn. Also my' land
to rent.   Miss Gugerty, *phone 171-F2
Lost—Cap of gasoline tank of
automobile.* C. A. Jordan, postmaster.
32tf.
For Sale—Ringlet Rock: eggs, "i"i.00
per 15, or 100 .for $6.00. Frank
Stilts, Macon phone 7-F9. JI
Hemstitchiffg orders promptly filled. White Sewing .Machine Company, Ann Arbor, Mich.
For Rent—=A small piece of land
to put in to potatoes, either cash or*
on shares.        (34)        R. W. Mills.
For Sale—Good early cabbage
plants at'the Green House; early Jersey Wakefield and, Charleston.     34
Certified high' grade Senator Huiir-
lap strawberry plants a specialty..
Send for booklet. J. E. Hampton &
Son, Bangor,' Mich. 33-4-x
Found—Auto    tire    on    the    rim.
Owner may have  same by  proving
property and paying for this notice-
Chris. Rentschler, Phone 196-F31
For Sale—rWe have several new
cultipaeikers, spring tooth harrows-
and disc harrows, which we will sell
at old •prices. Also one Stover feed,
grinder.    Wiedman Auto Company.,
TORNADO INSURANOE
in the old reliable companies. A
Strong and sure-pay policy, with;
rates as low as the
You need this! We have it for you.
rates as low as the Mutual companies.
A. J. WARREN-
NOTICE
?Having leased the Josenhans
blacksmith shop we wish to remind
the patrons we are prepraed to do.
anything in the line of general
blacksmithing, horseshoeing, repairing, and all branches of wagon anii
carriage work. \,
Satisfaction guaranteed.
30tf E. C. Rowley & Sons.
HIGHEST PRICES RAID FOR ALL-
KINDS OF TIMBER.
Either standing, or delivered to the
Saline mill. There are always a few
trees that have reached their maturity, and it is better to. cut them.
Write, pr phone No". 37.
Saline Manufacturing Comjianj;,
H. H. Hallock. ■     Saline, Mich.
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear?" There is
only one way to curerCatarrhal Efeafness;
and tha't is by a .constltutional&remedyi
HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE acts
through the Blo6dson'the"iMucou_5Surface3 -
of \he. Syst'enu "Catarrhal Deafness is
caused; by <Sn JnflaSned conditio"? of the
mucous lining1 of! the Eiistacriian .Tube.
Wh"eri"'.thJsJtub6'.'ls inflamed" jiJSu ha_e a
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TIMBER  WANT "ID.
Hjaving-leased the mill of Charles
Fahrner for ^another year, we are in*,
the market for all kinds of saw tim-,-
ber, especially elm and oak. Our
market will permit us to pay you. a>
good ..price,, standing or at the mill.
Write, or phone No. 70„ and we'll be
pleased to call and see what you
may have.
33tf.- G. F. BRACEY & SON.
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