Saline Sidelights Celebrate Christmas Past and Present
Christmas evolved from harsh Puritan prohibition to widespread celebration. Saline tows a festive Main Street with decorated windows and lights. North Carolina’s 90 foot wateroak in Wilmington features thousands of lights, a Star of the East, and attracts up to 180,000 visitors yearly since 1929.
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New England
Bethlehem
Saline
Sam Lambarth
Christa Moser
Helen
Bill Dusterbeck
Moser
Capt. Moser
North Carolina
Wilmington
Saline Hospital Births and Procedures Report
Saline couples welcome two newborns Diana Sue Hieber born December 17 weighing six pounds eight ounces and a son born December 21 weighing seven pounds fourteen ounces. Listed tonsillectomies include Diana Sweet Milan Kenneth Brown Milan Sandra Bruckner Dundee Jean Thompson Ann Arbor Lavone Ackerman Ypsilanti. Medical and surgical entries name Paul Jones Saline Mary Joyce Ratliff Willow Run Carl Schaeffer Saline Merrell Curtiss Saline Robert Pietrzak Brighton Eugene Hunt.
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Erwin Hieber
Saline
Diana Sue
Walter Lamparter
Diana Sweet
Milan
Kenneth Brown
Sandra Bruckner
Dundee
Jean Thompson
Ann Arbor
Lavone Ackerman
Ypsilanti
Paul Jones
Mary Joyce Ratliff
Willow Run
Carl Schaeffer
Merrell Curtiss
Robert Pietrzak
Brighton
Eugene Hunt
Christmas Eve Program At St Pauls Church School
St Pauls Church School nursery and primary departments plan a Christmas Eve program at 7 30 p m with readings songs and pageant. Erwin Schmid guides the event with Miss Karen Taylor and Pastor Siemsen providing parts and welcomes.
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St. Paul’s Church School
Erwin Schmid
Karen Taylor
Pastor Siemsen
Welcme
Myrna Griffin
Ronnie Feeman
Johnny Finkbeiner
Diane LaRue
Donald Morton
Bobby Girbach
Billy Blumhardt
Patty Lange
Christmas Program Cast and Events at Primary Church
A church Christmas pageant lists participants including Gale Finkbeiner Keith Armbruster Sherri Schaible and Gary Green with a manger scene featuring Barbara Finkbeiner Karen Siemsen and others. The program includes songs prayers offertory distribution of gifts and a kindergarten section with a Baby Jesus segment and a Benediction.
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Gale Finkbeiner
Keith Armbruster
Bell
Sherri Schaible
Gary Green
Little Town of
Bethlehem
Barbara Finkbeiner
Karen Siemsen
Robert
Saline Fair Board elects officers and hears notes
The Saline Community Fair Board held its annual meeting at Saline High School with about 15 attendees. Raymond Girbach was re elected president Webb Harwood vice president Charles Osgood secretary Kenneth Rogers treasurer Marvin Rorick fair manager. directors named Hammond Arend Heininger Miller Gross Deede Gall. Receipts 5804.83 Disbursements 6421.01. exhibitors and attendance set records. 1954 fair planned pending school board approval.
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Saline Community Fair Board
Saline High School
Observer
Raymond Girbach
Webb Harwood
Charles Osgood
Kenneth Rogers
Marvin Rorick
Robert Hammond
Fred Arend
Arthur Heininger
Arthur Miller
Alwin Gross
Frank Deede
Albert Gall
Christmas Parties Held Across Saline Firms and Police
The Saline Savings Bank hosted its annual Christmas party for staff and wives at the Saline Hotel. The 8M Publishing Company held its party Friday at publisher Fred Geisel's home. A Saline Police Department party occurred Sunday at the Saline Hotel, and Weidman Auto Company employees gathered Tuesday at the Seline Hotel for theirs.
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Saline Saving’s Bank
Saline Hotel
8M Publishing Company
Fred Geisel
Police Department
Weidman Auto Company
Seline
New Year's Eve Dance at Saline American Legion
A large New Year’s Eve Dance will be held at the Saline American Legion Home. The event features dancing favors and a smorgasbord with a promise of a good time. Tickets available by calling Milt Hartman Deede Radio Legion members or the Legion Home.
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Saline
American Legion
Saline American Legion
The
Milt Hartman
Deede Radio
Legion
Saline Board and Council Host Education Bond Talk
Radio broadcast on Saturday December 26 at 10 39 a m over Station W P A G features Saline people. The panel includes Saline Board of Education members and Saline Educational Advisory Council to discuss the Saline Area School Building Program and the bonding proposal.
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Saline Board of Education
Saline Educational Advisory Council
Saline Area
Cub Scouts Present Made Ark To Ypsilanti Nursery
Cub Scouts Den No 1 delivered a handmade ark to Woodruff Day Nursery in Ypsilanti on Tuesday morning. The ark previously displayed at Saline Community Fair and at the week’s other show. Mrs Harold Fry serves as Den Brother.
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den No. 1
Cub Scouts
Woodruff Day Nursery
Ypsilanti
Saline
Harold Fry
Watch Night Party at Federated Church
Members of the Federated Church will hold their traditional Watch Night Party on New Year’s Eve starting at 10 p.m. The event includes the annual Midnight Devotional Service in the candle lit sanctuary followed by entertainment and a pot luck supper in the church dining room during the evening.
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Congregation of Federated Church
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Saline Savings Bank
Klager’s Hatchery
Clinton Merchants
J. Winkle
St. Paul’s Ch. School
Christ the
Redburn
Allan Karn
Susan Dechert
James Steiner
Mary
Barbara Fritz
Joseph
Gene Girbach
Herald
Angel
Donald Dechert
Cheri Wood
Bonnie Cammet
Baby Jesus
Janice Rogers
Roger Braun
Carol Funk
Sandra Thomas
Jeanne Reed
Rosemary Blumenhardt
Gary Girbach
Nancy Girbach
Mary Dept
Fair Board
Berlin
Sabine Zettl
Berlin-Zehlendorf
Free University
Visi
America
West Berlin
Kurfurstendam
Michigan
Dusterbeck
Dad
Santa Claus
Alfred Zettl
Cub Scouts News
the Saline Observer
Oscar Hosmer Dee
Janie Burdick
Carol Girbach
Reuben Herter
Carl Moehn Dee
Janice Jo Jordan Dee
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Federated Church
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