Michigan and Nation Face War Economy with Rising Expenditures
The piece surveys Michigan’s role in a looming war economy, highlighting federal spending rises from July to October 1940 and projected growth into 1941. It notes mass production in Detroit area, potential booms and downturns, and the link between war profits and national policy while asking if history will repeat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
National Magazine
Department of Labor
Washington
Detroit
Flint
Saginw
Lansing
Pontiac
Henry
Ford
Ross-Royce
Tors Fox A
United States
Automoeera Paniss
Geneal Motors
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Britain
The
Wall Street Journal
America
United States Steel
Jones & Laughlin
Glenn Ix
Martin
Business Week
General Motors
Motor Wheel
Mooreville Social Roundup and Community Events
Mooreville reports include bridge club hosting by Mrs Earl Gordon, visits by Mrs Louis Smith to Milan and others, a Methodist church dedication program, Thanksgiving and Grange programs, and hunting trips returning with bucks. Several social calls to area families and O E S installation in Milan are noted. A humorous line notes guests leaving half empty cigarette packs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Gordon
Bridge Club
Louis Smith
Mike O'Brien
Milan
Mooreville Methodist Church
Joseph Norman
A. J. Turner
H. W. Gilman
Frank Gilman
Clinton
Garth Sangree
Cecil Davenport
Joyce
Saline
Grange
Harold Miller
Ralph Lang
Stanley Mandelka
A. R. Atkins
Weston
O. Robert Turner
Dan Murray
Loyal Kanitz
Harlan Holcomb
Floyd Ganong
Jesse Norman
Jay Agner
Helen Bees
Carl Agner
Frank Holcomb
Thanksgiving Visitors Gather Across Detroit and Saline Areas
A fragmentary social page notes several visits and gatherings. Highland residents Hammond and Gilbert welcomed relatives from Michigan cities including Ypsilanti Detroit Belleville Ann Arbor Saline and Milan. Families hosted Thanksgiving dinners and birthday celebrations with spread across multiple homes.
Saline area notes and family events in brief
Karl Bredernitz bought a new gasoline truck. Fred and Mrs Arend visited Toledo Friday. Mrs Lawrence Tucker weighs tumor removal. Harold Socks returns to work after severe burns. Tucker and Tucker plus Frank attended North Adams dinner. W P Schwoche hosted visitors from Fort Wayne and Hillsdale to Ann Arbor game. Tucker Bauer Luckhardt brothers and Zahn returned from hunting. Tucker and Bauer brought home a deer. Leo Bendie hosted a 50th wedding anniversary party for Mr and Mrs Mott of Wayne. Thanksgiving dinner served to twenty guests. A quote reflects on wealth and front collar buttons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl Bredernitz
Fred Arend
Toledo
Lawrence Tucker
Harold Socks
Frank Tucker
North Adams
W. P. Schwoche
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Hillsdale
Mich
Ann Arbor
Mr. Bauer
Luckhardt Brothers
Thomas Zahn
Tucker
Leo Bendie
School Arts and Glee Club Plans for Christmas Program
H S art students design dresses and Christmas cards while planning watercolor and craft projects. The Girls Glee Club performed with Armistice Day songs and will present Christmas anthems with duets and soprano solos at the Saline festival, joined by Boys Glee Club and a guest conductor from a college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. S. Art
Glee Club
America
Land
Saline
Senior class studies democratic ideals in Lincoln Emerson Thoreau
A senior American literature class explores democratic ideals from Lincoln Emerson and Thoreau noting Lincolns simple speech and devotion to country Emersons self reliance and Thoreaus life of self reliance plus his prose on nature. The unit also surveys romantic writers Hawthorne Poe Melville Longstreet and Simms.
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Lincon
Emerson
Thoreau
Lincoln
Emmerson
Hawthorne
Poe
Melville
Longstreet
Simms
New England
South Seas
Charleston
Scout Salute Duty Taught In Uniform and More
The article notes scouts must learn saluting the flag in all conditions and mentions recent drill. It lists Northwestern game witnesses: Herbert Lange, Bob Leonard, Bob Clay, Kenneth Gramer, Donald Gordon, Wilbert Bradley, Bill Koebhe, Roy Dechert, Donald McLean. Scoutmaster Pente cost announces swimming planned after Thanksgiving. assistant scoutmaster O Bradovich has attended nearly every meeting in 1.5 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Arbor
Herbert Lange
Bob Leonard
Bob Clay
Kenneth Gramer
Donald Gordon
Wilbert Bradley
Bill Koebhe
Roy Dechert
Donald McLean
Pentecost
Banking Career Talk Inspires Local School Assembly
Harry Holmes of Citizens Bank outlined why banking appeals as a career and how credit enables business at a school assembly. Prize themes will be judged by a committee. Chapelle, Ypsilanti superintendent, praised as a top speaker and invited to return. Rev. Scott spoke on Thanksgiving with his two sons and the Saline band providing music.
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Michien Wr
Bitler
United States
Michigan
Britain
Harry Holmes
The
Citizens Bank
Chapelle
Ypsilanti
Saline
H. C. Scott
Baptist Church
Napoleon
America
Scott
Enrollment steady at 396 pupils in Nov check
A Wednesday morning check on November 20 shows 396 pupils enrolled, the same total recorded on October 15. The figures confirm enrollment stability between the two dates.
Prompt Report Cards Sent Home Prompt Teachers
Report cards were sent home with students on Wednesday to reflect prompt teacher efforts. Parents have a brief window to view the cards before pupils return them promptly.
St John’s Lath Announces Sunday Services
St John’s Lath invites parishioners to 10 a m divine services and 11 a m Sunday school. Fenglish services held on the second and fourth Sundays each month. Everyone is cordially invited.
Probate Court sets claim deadline for Adam Stoll estate
The Probate Court of Washtenaw County Michigan orders creditors to present claims against the estate of Adam Stoll by January 30, 1941. Notices will run three weeks in The Saline Observer. Judge Jay G Pray presides.
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STATE
Michigan
Washtenar
Ann Arbor
A. D
Jay G Pray
Adam Stoll
Saline Observer
Said
Jay G. Pray
Foreclosure Notice on Saline Township Mortgage
Mortgage default by Floyd Rhoades and Luella R. Rhoades on land in Saline Township Washtenaw County Michigan. Bessie Collins administrator of Charles H. Carven estate. Sale set for January 25 1941 at 10:00 A M at the south front door of the Washtenaw County Courthouse Ann Arbor. Property described as six acres in Saline Township. Attorneys: Wv. E. Van Ameringen. Public notice advertising dates listed. The Burmese consider tattooing a fine art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd, Rhoades
Luella R. Rhoades
Saline
Washtenaw County
Michigan
Bessie Collins
Charles H. Carven
the Register of Deeds
Julia E. Carven
Bessie E. Collins
Register of Deeds
Ann Arbor
Circuit Court
County of
Waechtenaw
Jilia EB
Carven
Fassie FE
Collins
E. van Ameringen
Ann Arbor Trust Building
Death on hunting trip shocks local community
Percy B. O'Brien aged 39 died suddenly of a heart attack while hunting near Lather. His body was found by Tedmaseh Heald after leaving from Prosper with a cousin Wayne Ash of Reed City visiting a aunt in Leroy. Samuel Hoffman 32 of Frontier was killed when his road grader was struck by a train near Hillsdale. He was employed by Hillsdale County road commission and was alone on the machine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy B. O’brien
Lather
Wayne “Ash
Reed City
Leroy
Mr. O'Brien
Mr. Bush
Tedmaseh Heald
Samuel Hoffman
Frontier
New York Centry 31
Hillsdale
Sammie
Kewn
Hillsdale Cennty Road Commission
County Road
Addison Courier
Willow Run Plant to Begin Auto Part Production Soon
Dearborn Michigan report notes Ford Motor Company village plant at Willow Run near Ypsilanti will start producing automobile door and ignition locks around December 1. The plant sits on a rural waterpower site with two 10 horsepower water wheels powering the turbo generator that supplies electricity for the facility. All village plants manufacture small automobile parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dearborn
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Village Industries
Willow Run
Ypsilanti
Aili
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Hotysen Wold Bench
Defense 1 Arms
Ray Stannard Baker
Wilson
Jerome Frank
Securities and Exchange Commission
Spr
Eskesanta
Roosevelt
Pave
Woodrow Wilson
McAdoo
Credi
Peen Secetary Lansing
Mooreville
Mickie
Mooreville Hall
Dell
Union
Dell School
Plymouth
Irene Schwoche
Grange Social
Hammond District
Clifton Gilbert
Donald Heininger
Genevieve Gilbert
Harry
Florence Shaw
Mabel Needham
Lloyd Carey
Grand Lodge
Charlotte
BE. J. Forsythe
John. Moody
Lester Hanson
Charles Glove
Azalia
Shirley O’brien
Glen Gordon
Mabel Stoll
John Boettger
Belleville
Lena Gordon
Arthur Miller
Gerald
George
Ellen Collins
Macon
Ralph Hammond
Mary McMann
Ella McMann
Mary Lewis
Minnie Hammond
Robert Hammond
Saline Scout
St. John’s Lath
Bridgewater
M. C. Phillipp, Mastor
Appoinelvyg
Tia
Detroit Edison Company
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