West Saline News Highlights and Local Notices
West Saline residents report visits and moves including Mr and Mrs Fred Arend and Mr and Mrs Wallace Jordan. A new daughter born to Mr and Mrs John Arend prompts telephone notices from Oxford Mississippi. Michigan State College forester outlines trees for victory gardens and windbreaks with special AC program allotments. Naval affairs note mentions War department administration until 1798.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Arend
Oxford
John Arend
Forestry Department
Michigan State College
W. Ira Bull
Norway
Agricultural Conservation
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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
MacArthur Addresses Australians on Liberty and Victory
General Douglas MacArthur speaks to the people of Australia asserting unity and liberty. He describes a crusade against perpetual slavery, pledging full resources and the blood of Americans in the cause, and declares the free world will not compromise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Major Eaton Nominated for U S Senator by Hastings Volunteer's Campaign
The Hastings Banner sponsor a volunteer campaign to nominate Major Elton R. Eaton of the Plymouth Mail for U S Senator on the Republican ticket. Eaton is praised for defeating Kalamazoo Democrats who held the sheriff’s office 25 years and is urged as the banner carrier for the party in the third district.
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Stanley
Hastings
Major Elton R. Eaton
Plymouth Mail
U. S
Major Eaton
Kalamazoo
Apostle Paul
Charlotte Republican-Tribune
Editorial urges support for newspapers to sustain communities
The Alpena News editorial warns that newspaper viability affects local readers and merchants as wartime advertising declines. It urges retailers to defend press independence, avoid cutbacks, and back paid newspaper space to aid postwar growth and community stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpena News
George V. Sheridan
Ohio Council of Retail Merchants
Sheridan
Canada
Turning Back the Pages of the Files
Notes from Detroit and nearby towns recount visits and social ties. Families and individuals including Boettger Hutzel Stierle Hammond Rouse Gauss Vealey Betzer Zahn and Schroen are listed with visits, purchases, and local events such as a May basket outing and a Dodge car purchase. A West Virginia prize check and a bank radio installation are noted among community happenings.
Snowy week yields visitors and events in town
Nearly three inches of snow fell Monday as residents like Mrs W M Fowler spent time in Detroit and Mrs George Van Houten Jr visited Ann Arbor friends. The Epworth League will lead a union service at the Methodist church. Local band plans a street exhibition next Wednesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Boettger
Detroit
Herman Hutzel
Will Stierle
Ola Hammond
Edith Rouse
Carl Moehn
John Haeussler
Freedom
Carls Sciuleh
Ann Arbor
Joe Gauss
Leon Vealey
Joyce
Jean
Ypsilanti
W. M. Fowler
George van Houten, Jr
Clifford Shaw
Chicago
William Hoeft
Albert Hoeft
Lodi
George Finkbeiner
George Cook
Methodist Church
Epworth League
Olga Schroen
George Gartung
J. B. Wallace
Carl Schlieh
Band Boys
Seeser
Schroen
Alonzo Kuter
Frank Rose
Mary Eccles
Frances Kelloge
Mesdames B. P. Davenport
Myra Lawrence
Detroit Opera House
Prune Dish and Michigan Farm Breakfast Spotlight
A prune dessert recipe shares a method from soaking to baking. The piece also surveys a Michigan farm breakfast evolving with fresh fruit, eggs, and dairy products, noting shifts toward prepared cereals and improved poultry farming for winter eggs.
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Michigan
Michigan State College
Methodist Church Service With Musical Prelude and Sermon
Worship starts at 10 a m with organ prelude and offertory and choir music. Miss Roberto Munro from Ann Arbor to sing offertory solo. Church school at 11 15 lesson How Do We Reject Christ Arthur Wilson superintendent Epworth League 6 30 p m for the young. Tuesday 7 45 p m church board of education meeting. Go-to-Church-somewhere Sunday. An oceanographer notes the Pacific Ocean is two feet higher on the Australian side than the American.
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Roberto Munro
Graduate School of Music
Ann Arbor
Arthur Wilson
Epworth League
Church Board of Education
Ancient School Report Honors Students 1888 Oct 26
A school report from an 1888 month ending October 26 lists pupils honored for scholarship across primary, grammar, high school, and includes totals for enrollment and attendance. Principal Co L Blodgett notes name spellings differ from modern usage.
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A. Haili
Lizzie Druse
Alice Sturm
Florence Briggs
Mina Wbordine
Mollie Briggs
Estella Cross
Agnes Sears
Roscoe Wood
Minnie Baty
Eddie Sears
Daisy LaRue
Lillie Schaffer
Fred Nissly
Minnie Schron
Mabel McKinnon
Lucy Gakie
Ed, Caldwell
Mary Druse
Melvina Schron
Ollie Warner
Minerva Brown
George Lutz
Willie Yokum
Allen Wood
Fred Clarke
Charles Rogers
Carrie Cullen
Gertie Smith
Ralph Mason
Rena Young
Willis Case
Rosa Wheelock
Alta Briggs
Alden Isbell
Elmer Bassett
Amna Cobb
Reinhold Josenhans
Rena Simmons
Frank Blanchard
Cynthia Hurd
Bertha Schairer
Ervin al- Saver
Tulip Time in Holland Michigan Amid War Echoes
Tulip Time in Holland Michigan returns this year with hundreds of thousands of tulips along streets and bulb farms. Citizens wear Netherland costumes and wooden klompen for a street scrubbing ceremony and festivities May 16 to 23. Also noted are ration quirks including an Adrian woman securing a ration book for her parrot and a cat ration request. Miss Elizabeth Layher wed Corporal Donald Dechert at Fort Riley after a personal shower attended by fourteen.
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East Africa
Holland
Mich
Klompen
Harceld Dechert
Elizabeth Layher
Layher
Corporal Donald Dechert
Fort Riley
Kansas
Trinity Evangelical Church Service Schedule
Rev H L Engel presides over a German Holy Communion service at 410 a m. Sunday school at 2 p m. The League meets Thursday evening.
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Sundsay School
St James Ev Ref Church Saline Township Service Schedule
Divine services Sundays at 10 am and Sunday school at 11 15 am at St James Evangelical Reformed Church Saline Township three miles west of Saline on TS 112 Pastor G A Haneberg welcomes all. Government scientists have invented a cellophane bag to reduce air shipment weight for flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James Ev
Saline Township
Saline
G. A. Haneberg
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Wallace Jordan
Gordon
Carl Seeger
Matthew Seeger
Dell
Mildred Bondie
Observer
United States
The
War Department
E. W. Frahm
Michigan Ave
Roy Bixby
Grove Bros
D. G. Leidheiser
Osteopath
South Ann. Arbor St
Jim Finnell
the Observer Office
Gikiti
Seo Silo
Sim. R. Wilson
M. C. Boutelle
Saline, Mich
Wetice
William Betzer
Virgil
Harry Friis
Clara Schroen
Pease Farm
Harold
Carl Zahn
Eva
Gertrude Zahn
Albert Heininger
Edward Henne
Max Blaess
Joseph Schmid
Grover Alber
K. B. Simmons
Dodge
Clarke Rouse
Saline Savings Bank
Co. D. Finkbeiner
West Virginia
York
Murray
Death
William * Morris
Fred A. Lendrum
Walter Andrews
Gerald Beetle
George Barnhart
Matthew Ehnis
Jakie
Willie Fucss
Eddie Firebacher
Harry
Carl Gillen
Herman Gable
Hermann Josenhans
Herman Lederer
Henry Schreen
John Williams
Dot Druse
Mary Ehnis
Olive Howard
Lydia Klein
Mabel Kyte
Helen Lindenschmidt
Dora Mason
Rhona
Jessie
Maud
Helen Schaffer
Aileen Sears
Lea Schreen
Edna Wood
Myrtle Druse
Melissa Hull
Ida Walker
Gertie Stang
Maude Oppenheim
Artie Yokum
Otto Schaffer
Lulu Harmon
Clara Sturm
Minnie Klein
Agnes McKinnon
Linnie Rogers
Effie Hartwell
Nellie Cressy
Aggie Josenhans
Nettie Moore
Eva Schairer
Ralph Walker
Ash
Detroit Edison
Detroit Edison Company
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