First Communion at St John’s Lutheran Bridgewater
Members of St John’s Lutheran Church Bridgewater confirmants will receive their first communion on Sunday June 4 as part of Divine Worship at 10 30 a m. Junior choir rehearsal Wednesday 7 30 p m senior choir 8 15 p m Fellowship Circle Friday 8 p m Sunday school 9 30 a m. Pastor H W Ray leads the service and the congregation is urged to attend.
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ST. John’s Lutheran Church
Bridgewater
H. W. Ray
Duane Girbach
Memorial Day appeal for U S Savings Bonds plan
The U S Treasury urges families to enroll children in the Independence Drive payroll savings or Bond A Month plans. Each three dollars invested now could yield four dollars in ten years, helping education, business, or home ownership.
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U. S
U.S. Treasury Department
Prized paintings inspire soft blue room palette
A room used prized paintings as cues for color, walls and woodwork in soft blue highlighting mahogany and maple pieces. Additional colors from the paintings, soft red and bluish green, appear in the room’s decoration and are echoed in an antique star wheel quilt used as sofa upholstery.
Food of Ocean Life Plankton Versus Nekton In Ocean
The staple food for both big and small oceanic fish is plankton, a broad group of mostly non moving plants and animals carried by tides and currents. In contrast nekton are animals like whales and fish that swim actively independent of currents, from a Greek root meaning swimming.
Steel Industry Hits New High Amid Strikes in 1949
The steel industry produced 77 million tons in 1949, the third largest peacetime output, despite two major strikes and raw material shortages. Over 341 million tons have been poured in four years since the war, and 1950 outlooks suggest output surpassing 400 million tons with strong backlogs and expanded capacity.
Domestic workers decline boosts women in other fields
Postwar labor shift reduces domestic service from 18 percent of employed women to about 10 percent while opening pathways in clerical, sales, and operative roles. With plentiful jobs, young women leave long professional training for immediate work, totaling about 18.6 million employed or seeking work, roughly 30 percent of the labor force.
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United States
Defective Home Appliances Worn Wires Can Be Fatal
A study of 34 accidental electrocutions shows defective cords and appliances cause deaths in homes. Sixteen victims died from contact with heaters and lamps. five from bath tub shocks. Doctors urge UL labeled safety and careful replacement. Cancer linked to chronic ulcerative colitis discussed by Mayo Clinic doctors notes cancer as a complication in 41 cases curing no gender bias. patients had long-standing colitis before cancer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Journal of the American Medical Association
William G. Sauer
J. Arnold Bargen
Graduation Attendance and Local Building Permit Notes
Local items show Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hartman and family along with Mr. and Mrs. Max Collins and family attending the graduation of Robert Clay at Michigan State College. Norwin Brock has a building permit to construct on South Ann Arbor Street, estimated at 13 500 dollars. A cottage at Pleasant Lake formerly occupied by Gordon Gary was destroyed by fire. Other notes include social visits and dinners among local residents and guests from Detroit and Ann Arbor.
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Linda
Pleasant Lake
Herbert Bersuder
Manchester
George Bersuder
Adrian
Glenn Barnes
Gordon
Ernie Sepulveda
Detroit
Christ Finkbeiner
Glen Feldkamp
Ruth Bertke
Marguerite Lawrenz
Clarence Hertler
Jackson
Hugene Betz
Ed Burmeister
Carol
Lillian Love
Milan
Shirley Schultz
Erwin Wild
Wild Home
Florine Wild
George Barnes
Howard Wild
Ann Arbor
Kettering
Vaughn Williams
Ypsilanti
Chris Korte
Harold Bersuder
George Swank
Kenneth Furgeson
Nick Homick
Milton Hartman
Max Collins
Robert Clay
Michigan State College
Norwin Brock
Ann Arbor Street
Gordon Gary
Daniel Hall
Margaret Wallace
Don Burkhart
Arthur O'Neil
Joe Cook
Fred Schmid
William Schmid
Soapless Soap Sets Higher Cleanliness Standard
Lawrence H. Flett of the American Institute of Chemists told the Detroit section of the American Chemical Society that record production of synthetic detergents will lift cleanliness. He cited industrial demand, street cleaning, firefighting uses, and highways washed by powerful cleaners, predicting three billion pounds annually within a decade.
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America
Lawrence H. Flett
American Institute of Chemists
Detroit
American Chemical Society
Flett
Fiett
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Farmlym
Saline Mercantile Company
Rapp
Saline
Macon Rd
Attix
Husky
H.p. Westinghouse
Harvey Young
Dexter
Michigan
W. P. Schwoche
Michael Sheehan
Chester
Eldean Hieber
Weber Road
Rudy
Rudolph Haas
Marshall Rd
Baker
Dexter, Mich
Universal Die Casting & Mfg. Corp
Saline, Michigan
Pfister
Simonton & Widmayer
Ann Arbor-Saline
Michigan Associated Telephone Co
Loren Hinderer
WN. Lewis
D. L. Brown
N. Lewis St
Burmeister Road
Youngstown
Mullens
Milton A. Hartman
Michigan Ave
United Roofing & Siding Company
John F. Seitz
Bemis Road
Nicely
Morgan
Evelyn L. Ware
Sitix
Good Hunter
Ann Arbor St
Imeem
Ee Bridgewater
Euouai Tnuaret EE Mms
Astros Teeter
Poe Uge ET TL
J. W. Layer
Edwin Winkbeiner
Marlene Nissley
Shirley Sanderson
Carol Burmeister
Marian Sanderson
Janice Schultz
Janice Westphal
Elizabeth Prong
Ray Kruger
Arnold Girbach
Bill Prong
Gordon Schultz
King
Mooreville Rd
Federal Land Bank
Robert Hall
Sec
Treas
National Farm Loan Association
E. Liberty St
Fenkell
Mich
al Hagen
Roy
Schmid
Saline Methodist Church School
Max Spike
Carroll Frost
Juel Eder
Jackson Ave
Huron Valley van Lines
Ypsilants
North American
van Lines
Stuhlmann
Godfrey
Packard Rd
Ann Arbor, Migqhigan
N. R. Wiedmayer
M. Mitchell
Optometrist
Optical Service
Optical Laboratory
W. Mich
Irbusnrue
Lodi
Russell Finch
Platt Road
Radio TV
Crothers’ Radio Service
S. Ann Arbor St
E. W. Frahm
Milan, Mich
W. Main St
Guardian Memorials
Evergreen Memorial Works
East Village
Us-112
Clinton
Harold Frey
N. Ann Arbor Sr
Stanger Furniture
Liberty St
Main
Ann Arbor Lee
Central Dead Stock CO
Delux
S. Fourth Ave
Alon Arbor
Adrian Tankage Co
Ray Sand
Belleville Rd
Belleville, Mich
Uncle Sam
Tripolis
G. T. Woods
University of Illinois
Woods
Colorado
U.S
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