New League Lockwood Funeral Home Adds Space and Style
The remodeled Lockwood Funeral Home at 301 East Michigan Avenue Saline showcases enhanced services and a refined interior. Features include accessible chapel via French doors, deep carpeting, a new reception and cloak room, redesigned casket display, tiled rest room, and a music system with amplified sound throughout the building.
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Francis
Alice Lockwood
East
Michigan Avenue
Saline
Thanksgiving Snow Delays Travel and Local News Bunch
Readers report winter travel woes as snow blankets Ohio and Michigan routes. Saline residents plan winter stays in Florida, while auctioneer Guy Thompson postpones an sale. Rotary sponsorship and junior chamber work toward Christmas preparations in Saline.
Blissfield Rotary to Decorate Downtown for Christmas
Blissfield Rotary Club will decorate the downtown for Christmas replacing a former Junior Chamber project. President Edgar Ericsson will appoint a committee by Friday after a unanimous vote to sponsor it. Village President H. J Hoenig may seek power from Consumers Power Co to tap lines for lighting. Kenneth Lynn Townsley, six, died at University Hospital on November 21 after a four month leukemia illness. His parents are Charles and Mrs Townsley of 241 Wabash St. He was born March 18 1944 in Ann Arbor and recently lived with his parents.
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Don Campbell
Saline Valley
Cleveland
Ohio
William Austin
Clermont
Florida
Herman Kohler
Kohler
Birdie
Washtenaw County Farm Bureau
Pittsfield Grange Hall
Farm Bureau
Columbus
Ohio State
Michigan
Mary Deede
J. B. Wallace
N. E. 83Rd Street
Miami
Observer
Hudson
Detroit
Saline
Germany
Henry Leutheuser
Th Rotary Club
Holmyra
New York
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Blissfield
Edgar Ericsson
H. J Hoenig
Consumers Power Co
Milan
Kenneth Lynn Townsley
University Hospital
Charles Townsley
Wabash St
United States
Kenneth
Ann Arbor
Milan funeral held for child with local ties
The article notes services for a Milan area child at Stevens & Bush Funeral Home with Rev. Hughes officiating. Survivors include parents and a brother, maternal grandmother Lucy Royal of Milan, and paternal grandparents Townsley of Ypsilanti. Burial followed at Marble Park Cemetery. Also reports business moves in Ypsilanti with Extru ed Hinge Co purchasing Ford Cherryhill plant and Flat Rock Finley Funeral Home sale to Jerry and Mrs Schepel of Battle Creek.
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Ents
Marshall
Ypsilanti
Milan
Lucy Royal
Clarence Townsley
Stevens & Bush Funeral Home
William ™. Hughes
Methodist Church
Marble Park Cemetery
Flat Rock
Mush Moore Returns With Alaska to Maine Dog Team
Cecil A. Mush Moore and a pack of nine half wolves arrived at the Saline Hotel after a 5000 mile trek from Fairbanks Alaska to his Maine farm. Crowds cheered as kids and locals gathered around the bearded husky hero and his dogs before a Detroit stop en route to the welcome awaiting him at home.
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Cecil A. “Mush” Moore
Saline Hotel
Fairbanks
Alaska
Maine
Detroit
Scissors in Kitchen Drawer Speed Prep
A pair of scissors kept in the kitchen drawer speeds vegetable prep trimming celery chives peppers and other vegetables. They also cut pastry efficiently for quick kitchen tasks.
Highway Dollars and Miles: Rebuilding Our Roads
The piece argues that highway legislation overemphasizes money while underestimating the concrete improvements needed. It notes that delaying the 1948 plan would require costly full rebuilds of roads now damaged by rising traffic and heavier loads.
Saline High 1950 51 Basketball Schedule Card
Saline High School announces the 1950 51 basketball schedule with games at University High Carleton Milan Dexter St Thomas Alumni Dundee Lincoln Chelsea Milan Dexter Flat Rock Roosevelt and league games through February 23.
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University High
Carleton
Milan
Dexter
St. Thomas
Dundee
Lincoln
Chelsea
Flat Rock
Roosevelt
Michigan Highway Study Report Details Deficient Road Funds
The 1947 Highway Study by the Michigan Good Roads Federation outlines expenditures needed to fix deficient miles on state trunklines, county roads, and city streets. Washtenaw county shows total deficiencies of 1,839,487 with 109.8 miles on trunklines, 741.5 miles on county roads, and 5,683,582 for city streets.
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Michigan Good Toads Federation
Lsted
Washtenaw County
Federated Church Women Hold Annual Christmas Party
The Women’s Class of Federated church invites husbands to attend Friday evening December 1 at 8:00 in the church dining room for an old fashioned box luncheon. The program committee vows a unique box packing entertainment with Mrs. Silas Jord and Mrs. Howard Johns coordinating.
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Federated Church
Silas Jord
Howard
Michigan Lawyers Called Upon To Conduct Recount
Joseph W. Planck announces 120 lawyers will be chosen to direct supervise and control Michigan governor recount under county canvassing boards. Special assistant attorneys general will operate without pay in each county with three in the 14 largest counties and twelve in Wayne county. A Lansing training session is planned for the group.
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Joseph W. Planck
Lansing
State Bar of
Michigan
Stephen Roth
Planck
Wayne County
Roth
State Bar
Dexter Livestock Market Report November Sale Highlights
Dexter Livestock Sales reports results from Monday's sale with feeder pigs at 10 to 12 dollars per head for nine weeks and 14 dollars for ten weeks. Hogs 180 to 220 pounds brought 17.75 to 18.00, Yough hogs 16.40 to 17.00. Lambs 30.00, aged ewes 14.60 to 14.75, calves 19.00 to 27.75 for dedcom and veal calves 32.00 to 37.50. Cows canners and cutters 16.50 to 17.80, medium to good 17.80 to 20.00. Stockers and feeders show feeder cattle 21.50 to 23.90, common to fair steers and heifers 18.20 to 21.50, light feeder bulls 22.00 to 23.60. No heavy bulls offered.
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Dexter Livestock Market
Heaviest Buck Contest Closes Saturday in Saline
Deadline is Saturday December 2 for Saline Observer readers to enter the Heaviest Buck contest. A $25 cash prize goes to the heaviest deer weighed at Saline Mercantile Company scales by bonafide subscribers. Only deer legally brought home count. the big buck noted from the north is ineligible.
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Saline Observer
Saline ‘Mercantile Company
Mrs John Jaeger Dead Funeral Services Saturday
Violet Mae Jaeger 53 died at home in Ypsilanti after a long illness. She was born January 31, 1897 in Van Buren Ohio. Survived by husband John Jaeger two daughters son two step sons seven grandchildren and other relatives. Funeral 2 pm at Evangelical Tabernacle Ypsilanti with interment Oakwood Cemetery.
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Violet Mae Jaegar
Ypsilanti
van Buren
Ohio
Jacob
Mary Lyon Smith
Clarence Rogers
John Jaeger
Melbourn Apple
Charles Gregory
Dearborn
Evangelical Tabernacle
Women’s Missionary Society of
D. Baughy
Oakwood Cemetery
Lockwood
Benton School Pupils Deliver Thanksgiving Program
Benton school pupils presented a Thanksgiving program for parents on Wednesday afternoon November 22. Mothers attended to hear poetry stories and music broadcast on WUOM and view a large freehand cut frieze of the first Thanksgiving Day.
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Benton
WUOM
Saline Observer invites news and social items
Call Saline 37 or drop items in the Jetter box at the Saline Observer office to submit news, social events, or items for publication.
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Saline 37
Saline
Three Are Jailed On A Larceny Charge
Virgil Lee Howard of Dearborn waived examination to Municipal Court in Ann Arbor and is bound over for trial December 5 in Circuit Court on a grand larceny charge for allegedly stealing $70 from Glenn Jackson. Howard and two men Kenneth Garrison and Walter Garrison were arrested after Jackson reported the wallet theft at a lodge on US 112 and Platt Road. Jackson later found $70 missing while the Garrisons had about $2.50 and Howard carried $82.23. They were found with a 1950 Kaiser car at Saline Body Shop and are jailed awaiting trial.
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Virgil Lee Howard
Dearborn
Ann Arbor
O’brien
Howard
Glenn Jackson
Wellsville
Kansas
Us-112
Platt Road
Jackson
Kenneth Garrison
Walter Garrison
Carlton
Five Points
Garrisons
Kaiser
Saline
Saline Judge Joins Crackdown on Drunk Drivers
Saline Municipal Judge George Wood backs the December Holiday Hazard Program to cut alcohol related crashes. He displays an official poster in court and urges motorists to cooperate, noting table cards reading if you are driving TAKE IT EASY. The program is sponsored by the Michigan Safety Commission and 69 safety organizations.
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George KE
Wood
Michigan
Michigan Safety Commission
Traffic Violations and Fines Listed Across Multiple Cities
A compiled list shows numerous penalties for traffic offenses including improper passing speeding reckless driving and running red lights. Amounts range from five to sixteen dollars with several entries indicating bonds or court citations across Michigan Illinois Wisconsin and Indiana and accompanied by names and home towns. A stray line about a famous Alaskan husky hybrid is noted at the end.
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Lockwood Funeral Home
Cherryhill
Ford Motor Company
Moore
Melvin Armbruster
Armbruster
Gene Betz
Jthn Ty
Hugee Betz
Fred Welch
Bridgewater
Houghton County
Dexter Livestock Sales
Benton School
Shirley Hagen
Nancy Merz
Binghamton
Chris Klimedinsz
Bloomburg
Penn
Dick Dillon
Michigan State College
Arthur Hagen
University of Michigan
Carlos Lopez
Quito
Equador
Ishwailal Patel
India
Joseph Valdey
Adrian
Harold Bernstein
Elmhurst
Ind
Faith Washer
Kenneth Ensign
Wayne
Robert Kantola
Clarence Troutner
South Bend
Indiana
Jack Mann
Onsted
Pauline Stevenson
Birmingham
James Allen
Pontiac
Frank H. Klemzels
Speeding Leoounty
Donald J. Moss
Clinton
Iowa
Norman Westgets
Hillsdale
Med Scholes
Reginald Fracher
L. Granot
Chicago
Tinois
Joseph Bauer
Coldwater
George Moser
Illinois
Arthur Buck
Fort Wayne
Phillip Zwyewski
Hamtramck
Emanuel Canter, Jr
Deerfield
David Baughey
Florine Ann Johns
Marine City
Roger Minor
Pittsford
John Kovach
Vernon Keeling
Ralph Warren
George Connor
Kenosha
Wisconsin
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