Saline High Majorettes Perform at Detroit Lions Game
Ramona Owens Doris Alber and Joan Wurster led Saline High drum majorettes in a half time display at Briggs Stadium Detroit. The performance marked the second Saline High participation in Detroit Lions game festivities with 500 musicians from ten high schools and Wayne University and about 1,000 singers on the field.
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Saline Hish
Ramona Owens
Doris Alber
Joan Wurster
Briggs Stadium
Detroit
Saline High
Detroit Lions
Wayne University
Clinton Couple Weds in Saline Parish Ceremony
Dorothy Kohler daughter of Mr and Mrs Herman Kohler and Robert Girbach son of Mr and Mrs John Girbach were united in marriage at St James Evangelical and Reformed church five miles west of Saline. The double ring ceremony was performed by Rev C A Haneberg with a reception for 200 at the Polar Bear Inn. The bride wore a white slipper satin gown and halo veil and blue suit for travel. The couple will reside on a Brown Road farm in Saline Township.
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Dorothy Kohler
Herman Kohler
Clinton
Robert Girbach
John Girbach
St. James Evangelical and Reformed Church
Saline
C. A. Haneberg
Marie Girbach
Edwin Bailey
Helen Kohler
Melvin Armbruster
Leland Dicks
Michael Sheehan
Polar Bear Inn
Clarence Girbach
Mrs. Girbach
Brown Road
Saline Township
Saline Woman's Club Plans Wheelchair Gift to Veteran
The Saline Woman's Club met Tuesday at Mrs. Bessie Collins home. President Mrs. J N Lewis led the business session announcing plans to present a wheelchair to a veteran at Percy Jones Hospital and raise funds for the effort.
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Saline Woman's Club
Bessie Collins
J. N. Lewis
Percy Jones Hospital
County Federation meeting reports in Ypsilanti notes
The Ypsilanti County Federation meeting on October 20 covered Red Cross work by Mrs Edward Clark and Field Service responses for veterans and families. Reports highlighted home nursing classes, Gray Ladies, Girl Scout sponsorship, and scouting work with girls. Members also sang and discussed district activities with plans for the next meeting at Mrs Earl Fosdick’s home.
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Ypsilanti
Dan Hall
Max Fosdick
The
Red Cross
Edward Clark
Merritt Martin
Edwin Hering
J. C. Little
Unterkircher
America
Mary Goddell
McDowell
Earl Fosdicvk
Victory Loan drive and local notices from Saline
Saline's Victory Loan quota sits at 107000 with an E Bond target of 27500 as a community urged to back the campaign to fund wounded veterans and future discharge needs. The column also reports local births and military updates, plus Halloween mischief, irrigation and a hospital water outage affecting an appendectomy procedure in Saline.
Gilbert-Austin Wedding at Stony Creek Church
Miss Betty Austin daughter of Mrs and Mrs Grant Austin of Stony Creek married Pic Clifton Gilbert son of Mr and Mrs E M Gilbert of Hammond District in a Saturday ceremony at the Methodist church in Stony Creek. Rev Ma Percy Lomas officiated with organ music and a traditional wedding march. The bride wore a white wool dress with brown accessories and a lavender orchid corsage. Attendant Mrs Harold Holcomb sister of the groom wore pink with gardenia. Best man was Mr Holcomb. A reception for relatives followed at the bride’s home and a shower in Milan at Odd Fellows hall. The couple planned a short auto honeymoon to the South and return so Pfc Gilbert can report to Fort Benjamin Harrison by November 5 after 18 months in overseas service. he was twice wounded in the hand and is in Bil lings General Hospital. The bride, formerly secretary to the Lincoln Consolidated School principal, expects to join her husband November 15.
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Methodists
Stony Creek
Betty Austin
Grant Austin
Pic
Clifton Gilber
E. M. Gilbert
Hammond District
Percy Lomas
Harold Holcomb
Milan
Holcomb
Pfc
Gilbert
Fort Benjiman Harrison
Ind
Billings General Hospital
Patton
Lincoln Consolidated School
Child Study Club to Meet at School Tuesday Evening Speaker from Clinic
The Child Study Club will meet at the school Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock. Mr Whittman of the Ypsilanti Child Guidance Clinic will speak and members are urged to attend to express views on holding two meetings monthly.
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Whittman
The
Ypsilanti Child Guidance Clinic
Veterans Return Home From War Service And furlough reports
First Lieut Paul E Davis enjoys a 45 day furlough with wife Ir magene Blair and their seven week old son Richard plus in laws Mr and Mrs Martin Blair and Pauls parents Mr and Mrs Ray Davis. Davis returned from Tinian after three months and 18 missions as B 29 navigator over Japan. He will report back to California or further orders. Lorrin Jedele came home with discharge papers after four and a half years in service arriving five days before from overseas in Germany and France. Edward Wiedman also granted wear civilian clothes again with discharge papers. Flight Officer Myron Gallagher Jr released from Las Vegas Air Base October 17 a three year five month in service. He and Mr Gallagher arrived in Saline on the 21st and plan to settle here.
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Paul E. Davis
Irmagene Blair
Richard
Martin Blair
Ray Davis
Paul
Tinian
Marianas
Japan
States
Myron Gallagher, Jr
Las Vegas, Nevada
Mr Gallagher
Saline
Sister Dies in Milwaukee Hospital
Mrs. Edward Alber learned Thursday that her sister Mrs. Paul Kionka died in a Milwaukee hospital on October 24 after two years of poor health. She was formerly Ella Klein and remembered by Saline friends. Mrs. Maude Greenfield, who broke a hip in Milan, is a University Hospital patient.
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Edward Alber
Paul Kionka
Milwaukee
Ella Klein
Maude -Greenfield
Milan
University Hospital
They Make It Rather Nifty Bill’s Tavern Remodel
Bill’s Tavern on West Michigan Avenue has a blue front plate glass with neon sandwich and refreshment sign. The interior is dark stained with lattice work. booths with deep seated leather will be added at the rear for guest comfort. A Lincolnshire, England policeman now covers 14 villages on his beat.
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Bill
West Michigan Avenue
Jay Harmon
Lincolnshire
Eng
Infant Baptised Sunday in Trinity Lutheran Ceremony
Mary Margaret Curtiss two months old, daughter of Mr and Mrs Bliss Curtiss, was baptized at Trinity Lutheran church by Rev H L Engle on Sunday morning Oct 28. Sponsors were Mrs H L Engle and Miss Josephine Decker. Guests at the Curtiss home included Rev and Mrs Engle C A Curtiss Miss Decker and Mrs Irving Knapp of Monroe with Mrs Scherdt assisting at dinner.
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Mary Margaret
Bliss Curtiss
Trinity Lutheran Church
H. L. Engle
H. L. Engel
Josephine Decker
Engel
C. A. Curtiss
Irving Knapp
Monroe
Emanuel Scherdt
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Woman’s Club Meeting
Great Victory
David Vaugh
Harold Vaughn
Valley Farms
David
Michigan Star College
Goodfellowship Field
Texas
Major Heart
Martin Heart
Willis Road
Howell
Pvt
Kenneth Wanty
Theron Wanty
Wisconsin
Hallowe'en
Europe
Hallowe’en
Schmid
Saline General Hospital
Malcolm
St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital
Ann Arbor
Gilbert-Austin
Lorrin Jedele
Germany
France
Edward Wiedman
U.S. Navy
U.S.S. Missouri
Randall Jacobs
Harry S. Truman
Secretary of Navy
James Forrestal
Fleet
Ernest J. King
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