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Local social notes from Washtenaw County area and church movements
Miss Ethel Spike returns from Michigan State College for the holidays. Numerous social visits occur among Spitler, Silvers, Erskine, and Fritz families. A birth at St Joseph's Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor is announced. Red Cross news notes no more surgical dressings until further notice. Rev. Bach resigns Federated Church to lead Hazel Park’s First Baptist. Washtenaw youth guidance group discusses a community youth center. Sleighride party and New Year gatherings documented.
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Ethel Spike
Michigan State College
East Lansing
Kenneth Spitler
Belleville
B. J. Spitler
Lewis Ernst
Arthur Silvers
Peter O’leary
Brooklyn
Walter Silveus
Manchester
Arthur Silveus
Vernon Allmendinger
Dexter
Clarence Fritz
Constance McCartery
Oliver Stanchfield
Ypsilanti
Henry Erskine
Walter Sturm
Marilyn
Nancy
Roy Rogers
Donald Leidheiser
Ric Nelson
St. Joseph’s Merce Hospital
Ann Arbor
William Austin
Florida
Bessie
Fred Ballen
Plymouth
Francis Lockwood
Ballen
Red Cross
Clyde Lowe
Evelyn Kendall
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
W. D. Kendall
Miss Kendall
George Martin
Erwin Schmid
Elvin Armbruster
William Jakab
Ruben Finkbeiner
Will Stierle
Linnie McKinnon
Gust Esch
Family of Freedom
Stierle
Leland Sanitarium
Washtenaw County Youth Guidance Committee
Clark
American Red Cross
William Bach
Ederated Church
First Baptist Church
Hazel Park
Bach
Federated Church
Roy Stoddard
Les Name
Arthur Silvens
Phillips