1929-01-17; Saline Observer

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VOLUME 48
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, 'MICH., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17,1929
NUMBER IS
Our
Watchword—
SERVICE
Service has ever been our watchword.
The broad, comprehensive servic of a live,
.progressive institution.
But back of that is a guiding principle
which has been with us since we began—
friendliness—fairness—co-operation.
No matter how we may grow in our effort to give to our customers the superlative in banking service, this same old spirit
will prevail here always.
Saline Savings Bank
The One Story Bank on the Corner
While DND—the ideal gasoline for
high compression motors and motors that knock—costs- more a gallon there's economy in its use, for
it costs less per mile. Try DND
gas.
STAEBLER OIL COMPANY
Orders may be left at Henderson's.   Phone 272
The Quality Grace
' PHONE 86
- FOR GOOD THINGS TO EAT
The Customer is Always
«   -   • RIGHT     - -----
This has been our motto for years—and you are
assured of satisfaction—or your money returned.
Quiet, efficient service, prompt deliveries and
prices that are proportionately low, are three
of the reasons for our large list of satisfied
patrons.
Fhone86 MARTIN   FUOSS
SCHOOL BOND ISSUE DEFEATED
Violin
Tower.
lessons   given  by
Opponents Mustered a Majority d£ 38 i
Out of the More Than 300
Votes cast.
The election held Tuesday afternoon and evening to ratify or disapprove of the proposed §175,000 bond
issue for a new school building, passed off quietly, but that there was
intense interest was manifested by
the large vote cast—something over
300.
Just what measures will be taken
to relieve the situation that confronts
the school board" time will, have to
settle.
HAREM KIDNAPPED
For Sale—House and lot.
A. Jordan.
Dorothy
9tf
fMrs. C.
9tf
Big reduction on radios at fS. Gross
& Sons hardware.
Acetylene welding *by  an  expert.
Wiedman Auto Company.
Naptha  for   cleaning purposes,   at
the "Wiedman Auto Company.
Aviation   Gasoline  for  lamps   and
stoves*   Sanford .Hardware Co.
To Rent-—The fiat above the market. George Schmid. Jr., phone 3S-
F2. 4Stf
DETROIT EDISON  COMPANY
Plans  "Large  Construction Program
"  Jorl929.
PRINTING
- •   is the Bflseparable Compaiiioa of Achievement
About thirty million dollars will be
spent by The Detroit Edison Com- (
pany on new construction during
1929, according to tentative plans recently announced. "Plans are sufficiently flexible so that the construction program may be expanded or reduced to keep in step with general-
business conditions, and there will be
revisions of this budget as the year
advances.
This . budget covers construction
work only) and is entirely separate
and distinct from the Company's operating and mihtenance expenses.   •
l As detailed below, about two-thirds
of the complete program is to "finish
construction work already under way,
and the balance will be spent ior projects to be begun during the year. ' j
A large portion af the 1929 cori-
struction   program   is   neoessary   to
keep  ahead of the  rapidly t growing
consumption of electricity in homes,
stores,   offices   and  factories  in  the
4,400 square miles served by The De- ',
troit Edison Company in fDetroit and
southeastern   Michigan.     More   than j
2,000,000 people live in the area serv- '
ed by the Company, and the expected •■
growth of population during tne next .
12 months will alone exceed the entire population of Detroit during 1881,
when electricity was first  used for
lighting.
The largest Single item in the budg-
" et calls for $6,100,000 for completing
the construction of the first two turbine-generators of a new steam-eiec-
trict plant at Delray in the west side
of Detroit. This new generating
plant, the third such plant on the Dei-
ray site, was begun in 192Y and will
not be completed until mid-summer !
of 1930. It will be sufficiently advanc- J
" ed, however, for two 67,000 horse
power turbine-generators to begin
service in the early fall of 1929.
At the Company's Connors creek
steam plant, in the east side of Detroit, a new building will be begun
to house very large, modern type
electrical switches. The cost of this
building and its equipment will ultl-
■ mately amount to about $2,500,000,
but it is expected that only the substructure, possibly also the steel
frame work, will be finished before
the close of this year, at a cost of '
approximately 5300,000. J
1     At   the   Trenton   channel   plant, j
: across the Detroit river channel from j
. Grosse He,   the   sixth   67,U00   horse
• power turbine-generator and an ad- j
■ ditional steam boiler are practically J
I ready for service; however, 5350,000
I* is yet to be spent to completely finish
j the work.
'     At Marysville, an outdoor switching station is being built on a site
across Gratiot highway opposite the
generating   plant.     This   switching
station will cost nearly $350,000 and ;
is being built as a protection against \
interruption by lightning and other ;
normal hazards   of a large   system,]
thus facilitating continuity of Service 1
to Port Huron and surrounding terri- ,
tory by providing an alternate major \
source  of  energy  supply  for these!
communities. |
Numerous   other,   though smaller, j
projects   at the four  steam-electric
plants will amount to 5750,000. j
To provide for the .expected normal
increase in consumption of current,
it is planned to spend aDOut 55,000 -
000 for new substations in Detroit
•and throughout the suhuraan terri- !
tory, and 52,000,000 more will be re- '
quired    to    rebuild    and   modernize ]
many of the older substations. j
"Underground lines for tne trans- '
mission of electricity from the.pbwer ,
houses to new substations, under- ^
ground tie lines between substations.'
and "underground distribution lines in ;
Detroit will cost $4,500,OUU. Overhead »
lines wiU require §2,000,000 more for
miscellaneous additions, betterments [
and replacements throughout the j
Company's territory. j
The   cost   of    extending  lines   to,
many new homes, new stores and new j
factories, and to many of tne tarms
which do not yet have the conven-.
ience of electric service, will amount
in all to more than 53,000,00b. This i
figure covers the cost of installing
meters for measuring the consumption of electricity, and the cost of line
transformers for reducing the voltage to the level of supply to residential and commercial customers.
It is expectted that about 35,000 new-
customers will be _added to the Company's lines during the year. Extensions to these new customers and
replacements of poles_ for existing
lines will require the setting of more
than 50,000 poles duriner 1929.
The Company's centval heating system, which furnishes steam for heating in the downtown business district
of Detroit and as far north as the
Grand "boulevard, will be supplement-,
ed by an additional 4,145 horsepower
boiler at the Beacon street plant 3,t
a cost of 5365,000. Also, the first
unit of a new coaling station, to cost
$321,000, will be built-on Dequindre
street as a third coal-supply base
for the Company's heating plants.
Other expenditures by the heating de^-
partment will total about 5300,000.
The Port Huron gas division of The
Detroit Edison Company, which already supplies gas to Port Huron,
Marysville, St. Clair, Marine City and
Algonac, will spend $675,000 to further extend its service. The gas plant
.at Marysville will be increased in
■output* "and "the gas 'transmission
mains extended to New Baltimore,
Anchorville, Smith's Creek, Memphis,
Richmond, Armada, Romeo and New
Haven. An additional $100,000 will
be spent for betterments to present
gas equipment and mains in territory
already served.
A great variety of other itmes, individually rather small and uninteresting but together amounting to a
very'large sum, makes up the balance
of the construction budget. There
are projects such as branch offices
and warehouses, land purchases for
new substations, new warehouses, offices, etc., in various communities in
the territory served. Also, there are
allowances for the purchase of trucks,
tractors, automobiles, furniture and
fixtures and all kinds of construction
equipment. The cost of planning, engineering, drafting, and other general
expense necessary to carry out a
large construction program completes
the Company's .budget,   •
During 1929 the Company expects
to add 1,400 new electric customers
in its Ypsilanti district, which includes Tpsilanti and the territory
along the Huron river from a point
just west of Ann Arbor, down to New
Boston and west from New Boston to
Manchester township.
To give service to these additional
customers it will cost the Company
about $25,000 for line extensions, service connections, meters, etc. New
farm line extensions will cost an additional 580,000, of which a portion
will be paid by the customers.
The highway lighting program for
1929 in this district involves some
$10,000 and street lighting betterments in Milan and Belleville will
Cost $1,200.
To improve operating conditions
and service, $66,000 will be spent for
rerouting and rebuilding overhead
lines in the vicinity of Milan, Saline,
Belleville, Ypsilanti, French Landing
and Brownstown.
To provide additional capacity to
take care of expected increased business, new substations will be .erected
at Milan and Ypsilanti at a cost of
$142,000. The substations at Saline
and Augusta will be completed at an
additional cost of $83,000 and 53,000
will be spent for an addition to the
Superior substation.
The local sales office at Ypsilanti
will be remodelled at a cost of about
55,000.
Super Comedy-Drama Billed for "Liberty Theatre Next Wednesday.
One of the funniest sequences ever
screened is said to occur m "Plastered in Paris," Fox Films super, com-
'edy-drama, which comes to the Liberty theatre next Wednesday, when
Sammy Cohen and Jack Pennick
steal into a Riff chieftan's desert
stronghold and kidnap his entire harem.
Pursued by the brigand and his followers, they lead their beautiful captives into a buried Roman city containing the head of an idol forty feet
in height.
By subterfuge they lure their pursuers into a passageway winch leads
through the idol's.mouth from where
the sheiks drop into, the ruins o£ a
series of ancient Roman baths, where
they are overcome and captured by
the team of comics.
Wanted—To Duy dairy hay,'alfalfa,
and clover mixed. E. L. Klager, phone
186-F11.' 44tf
Wanted—To buy dairy hay, alfalfa,
and clover mixed. E. L. Klager, phone
186-F11. 44tf
For Sale—Two 8-weeks-old Ship-
herd dogs. Gottlieb Finkbeiner,
phone 151-F31. 13
Phone 60-F2 for your advertising
and job work.   We can give you tb
best of service.
P. T. A. Meeting Monday Night
Jff>r. H. fH. Hammel of Tecumseh
will show lantern slides made from
still pictures and fifty minutes of
moving pictures showing a complete
hunting -trip on which were taken
moose,! caribou, mountain sheep,
goats and grizzly bear. These pictures were all taken by Dr. Hammel
while hunting in the Canadian Rockies and he will lecture as he shows
them.
Music will be furnished by the Kiddies' Band of the first grade and the
Federated Male Quartet.;
A record attendance is hoped for.
The meeting will start promptly at
8 o'clock.
Alemiting service for all makes ot
cars. Prices reasonable. Wiedman.
Auto Company.
Wanted—To buy dairy hay, alfalfa.,
and clover mixed. E. L. Klager, phona
186-F11. 44tt
High class plumbing and heating.-
Estimates- furnished. H. A. Schroen,
phone 177-F4.
For genuine fuel for every machine,
use our Better Gasoline. Hendei'sonV.
Dixie Service;
Hi-Class   Plumbing   and   Heating..
Let us figure on your next job.   Sanford Hardware Company.
SEED GROWERS TEACH
"-METHODS AT COLLEGE
All phases of the production of
Certified seed will be studied by the
Michigan farmers at a short course
to be given at Michigan State college,
January 28 to February 1.
Prominent seed growers who have
made a success of their work will aid
members of the farm crops department at the college in instructing the
students in this course. The classes
begin with directions for laying out
the farm and conclude with instruc-.
tions on seed marketing.
This course is designed for the use
of farmers who Can leave their farms
only for a-short time and who wish to
get the maximum value for the time
that they spend away from their
business.
A woman 'wouldn't care to be an
invaiTM if she' couldn't tai-k of her ailments.
CORRECTING AN OMISSION
The telephone operators, in their
card of thanks last week, neglected to
include the names of Fred Koch, Martin Fuoss, Saline Mercantile Co. and
Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Ward as among
those who had remembered them at
Christmas time.
What did the bandits do before we
had "any filling stations to rob?
THE OBSERVER LINERF
Classified Advertising
6c per line fiist InsertloUj 4c ner line
each subsequent Insertion.
MINIMUM CHARGE, 25 CENTS
Complete stocks at lowest prices r
Dletlkers.
Stop that knock with Ethyl gasoline.     "Wiedman Auto Company.
For Sale—Cows'; milkers, springers,
2 with calves by side. Easy terms.
C. H. Miller, phone 19. 13tf.
Smoked Hams—Bring your hams
to us and we will smoke them for
you.    Fred Layher Market.      lltf
Have your chickens culled. It pays.
Three cents per head for small flocks.
Klager Hatchery, Bridgewater.
Wanted—Heavy and medium hens;
also broilers 1% up to 4% lbs, Wili
pay highest prices. Ypsi-Field Hatchery, Ypsilanti, Mich., phone 7102-FS
Salesman for Lubricating Oil and
Paint; two lines combined. Salary or
commission. The Royce Refining Co.,
or The Royce Paint Co., Cleveland, O.
1928 CHEVROfLET ROADSTER
This is a repossessed car.   You can
have it for the balance.
GEO. V.. COOK & SON
Authorized Chevrolet Dealers
Saline  Township Tax Notice
You can pay your taxes at Savings
Bank Tuesdays and at Citizens Bank
Thursdays of each Week.
George Burkhart, Treasurer.
1928 DEMONSTRATOR
Biege Brown Chevrolet Landau &.
sale.   Ask us about it.
GEO. V. COOK & SON
Authorized Chevrolet Dealers
Monuments, "Markers and Cemetery -
Work of all kinds. Jos. L. Arnet, Ann?
Arbor, Michigan, phone 8914.
Chocdlates 20c per pound, two for
35c; peanut brittle 15c, two pounds,
for 25c.    Saline Confectionery.
USE WONDER TEED FOR THOSE
EATING   HENS.     NONE   BETTER:,
SALINE MERCANTILE COMPAN1. ,
Save money by buying your Tractor'
implements from the Wiedman Auto^
Company.   We ear.ry complete lines.-.
Use Avicol Tablets for White Liai>-
rhoea and Cholera and keep those;
chicks healthy.   Saline Mercantile Co-
Highest market prices paid Tor'
your poultry and small pigs. See me
before selling. Emil Milkey, phone
145-F13. 51tf
Furniture repaired, spindles aid
rockers; high headboards lowered;
saw filing. Orrin Briggs, phone
137-F14. Stf
HI  TEST
Full line of guns, ammunition and
sportsmen's supplies.   Sanford Hardware Company.
Special discount on all orders for
Fertilizer either phoned in or personally left at our office. Saline Mercantile Company.
Nothing will relieve a cold lilje CA-
HOW'S RED PEPPER COLD CAPSULES. Sold and guaranteed by
Wheeler's Drug Store. 47tf
For Sale—The Chris Rentschler
house, North Ann Arbor street; 8
rooms and bath, large lot, double
garage. George A. Becker, Admr.,
phone 1668-J, Ypsilanti, Mich.     0-16
*    1926   CHEVROLET fLANDAU.
Price reduced to $295. This car has
bumpers, spare tire, automatic windshield wiper and an excellent motor.
"GEO. V. COOK & SON
"   "* '    Radio Dept.
Westphal's Real Estate Exchange
Good homes in, village, cash or
trade. A few choice lots on Michigan
avenue. Good choice farms for cash,
trade or terms. William Westphal*
phone 204-F32. ";
WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING
1925 Ford Coupe—Balloon tires..
,, 1923 Ford Tudor.
1925 Ford Tudor.
Ask us about them.
Authorized Chevrolet Dealers'
GEO. V. COOK & SON
Wanted—People in this vtcintty
who have any legal printing required
in tbe settlement of estates, Tetc„ to
have it sent to this newspaper. The
rates are universal in such matters,
and to have your notices appear Vd
this paper tt is oaly necessary to aeh
the Probate Judge to send then? here.
WANT TO BUY—Old pieces of
household articles and furniture;
farm tools,, live stock, etc. Locate
ready buyers for anything you have
to sell—or want to buy—through
an Observer liner ad. Cost is only a
few cents. Read the liner ads and
use them to your advantage.