Kroger Announces 32500 Contest for Customers and Employees
Kroger opens its seventh annual fall sale today through November 18 featuring a $32500 prize contest for customers and a parallel employee contest. Detroit branch manager C Olaf Talla notes 2524 merchandise awards will be given to all store employees in the district with the highest sales gain. Personnel from 168 Detroit branch stores entered the contest.
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Kroger
C. Olaf Talla
Detroit Kroger
Detroit
Kroger Saline Store Competes Among 168 Stores
Claude Engelhardt, manager of the Kroger store in Saline, said today the prizes include automobiles watches suits of clothing and portable radios for a contest where this store competes against 167 Kroger stores in the area.
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Kroger
Claude Engelhart
Saline
Kroger Fall Sale Contest Rewards Stores and Staff
Kroger runs an eight week fall sale campaign from September 25 to November 19 with a customer contest awarding 32 500 in cash. All employees in the winning stores receive prizes and winners are announced at the end of each four week period.
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Kroger
Michigan FFA honors two top presidents with plaques
Dale Bradfield of Midland and Duaine Mizer of Alma display plaques won in the State Best Chapter Contest. Sponsored by A&P Food Stores, the event selects state representatives for national FFA competition in October. Twelve chapters received cash awards for exceptional programs.
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Future Farmers of America
Michigan
Dale Bradfield
Midland
Duaine Mizer
Alma
A&p Food Stores
Bedtime fashion for Rosemary Rice’s sleepwear option
Rosemary Rice of NBC and CBS TV adopts a shortie nightgown resembling a man’s old fashioned nightshirt. The design blends comfort and chic style for viewers who dislike traditional pajamas yet want tailored sleepwear.
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Rosemary Rice
NBC
Cbs-Tv
Such a Low Cost. Use a Saline Observer Want Adt.
A brief want ad notice from the Saline Observer promotes low advertising costs. It highlights affordability and wide readership as key benefits for readers seeking insertion options.
Social Roundup Notes From Saline and Nearby Towns
Several local families visited relatives in Detroit Lansing Ann Arbor and Flint over the weekend. Names include ONeil Arend Levleit Bennett Curtis Muir Mann Ewing Reveling Carter Lange Watling Michalke and others with travel by auto to Niagara Falls and a wedding anniversary dinner at the Saline Hotel.
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Lucile Wenderson
Lansing
Clara Schroen
Saline
If Your Daddy Could See You Now column
Mothers critique and photograph their children at home with camera ready for action. The piece urges keeping film loaded to capture everyday moments indoors and outdoors. Local note mentions families visiting and activities with Lindemanns and Naylors.
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Abe
Cynthia
Junior
John van Guilder
Local Socials and Visits Highlight West Saline Events
West Saline activities include birthday surprises for Willard Hertler and Willard Kohrer, baptisms for Bonnie Jean Lawrenz, and multiple family visits. The community gathered for four birthday parties, church events, and a funeral in Blissfield for G C Bittner. Guests traveled from Dexter Detroit Rochester and Ann Arbor to attend various gatherings.
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Elmer Alber
Claira Meyer
Freedom
Willard Kohler
Karl Hertler
Willard Hertler
Clifford Finkbeiner
Dexter
Clarence Girbach
Peter Schroeder
Detroit
Bonnie Jean
Lauren Finkbeiner
Willard Hehler
BE. F. Lawrenz
Marguerite
Bonnie Jean Lawrenz
William Lawreng
Daugh
Friday Night Bowling League Schedule and Teams
The fragment lists two shifts for 9-22-50 and 9- later dates in 1950 with scores and team names. It enumerates twelve teams including Haviland Tavern Saline Hotel B and B Recreation Frank's Texaco Service Haarer's Quality Market Saline Firemen Burkhart Store Standard Oil Gilbert's R and B Tool Co Hartman Insurance Old Masters.
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Haviland Tavern
Saline Hotel
B & B Recreation
Frank’s Texaco Service
Haarer’s Quality Market
Saline Firemen
Burkhart Store
Standard Oil
Gilbert's
R. & B. Tool Co
Hartman Insurance
Old Masters
Central Lodi visit with Bert Moore Dresch couple
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Moore and Ralph spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dresch in Central Lodi.
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Homer Kuebler
John Duff
Detroit
Bert Moore
Ralph
Harold Dresch
Set Livestock and Meat Day in October
Michigan pastoral producers packers and retailers gather at Michigan State College October 1 for a one day Livestock and Meat Day. The program emphasizes hog grading marketing trends and consumer meat demands with speakers from farm to retailer.
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Michigan
Michigan State College
Don Stark
Stark
Starkh
Nothing's Really Lost Unless a Saline Observer Wanted
A peculiar lead notes that in Saline, nothing is truly missing unless an observer deems it worth seeking. The item story hints at local curiosity and the town’s habit of tracking vanished goods or stories.
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the Observer
Dan Giltrow
U M
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Junans
Oscar F. Frede
Woodman Accident CO
Woodmen Central Assurance Co
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Amherst Ave
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Arthur O’neil
Jack Arend
Fred Arend
Dan Levleit
Tom Bennett
Lloyd Mann
Charles and
Barbara
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Jay Mann
Jennie Ewing
Hugh Reveling
Frank Carter
Florida
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A. C. Lange
Nelson Watlings
Flint
Ivan Ecker
Walfred Larsen
Frank Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Kenneth Rogers
Ormond Bredernitz
Wes. Jahnke
Manchester
Nelson Watling
Niagara Falls
Richard Michalke
The
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Clara Withington
Hillsdale
Harry Clark
Walter Hochrein Sr
Ypsilanti
Walter Hochrein, Jr
Richard Evinger
East Lansing
Floyd
Henry Street
Observer
Mann Apartments
West Michigan Avenue
John Schmidt
Peggy
Campbell
Curtis
Josephine
Rebecca
John Knight
Gerhardt Cekan
Saline-Milan Road
Reschke
Rockwood
Harold Girbach
Michigan Ave
Carol Uphaus
John Girbach
Clinton
Uphaus
Milan
Frank Gifford
Toledo Optometrist
Milan Hotel
Iche Snapshot Guild
Erwin Lindemann
Dianne
William Lindemann
John. Alexander
Charles Naylor
Carlton
Raymond Lambarth
Stanley
Carl Schaefer
Island Lake
Ernest Wild
Ruth
Marlene
Cora Grosshans
Hileen
West Saline
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Cathryn
Janice
Caroline Chall
Ed Weismiller
Rochester
New York
Ray Mason
Herman Howeisen
Robert Girbach
Gottlieb Finkbeinen
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