“Church Collecting Scrap to Help Pay Off Its Debt” from the October 16, 1942 Door County Advocate
Church Collecting Scrap to Help Pay Off Its Debt
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Drive to Climax Sunday; L. A. to Serve Lunch
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SISTER BAY, TOO
The Sister Bay Men’s club is sponsoring a scrap drive in its area and requests that all persons take their scrap to a pile on the north side of the village hall.
Proceeds from the sale will be used to buy new equipment for the hall’s newly finished basement.
Clyde Casperson, Ed Berns and Roy Knudson are in charge.
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Baileys Harbor — “Help Uncle Sam lick the Axis” “Help Your Church lick the Budget!”
That is the battle cry of members of Immanuel Lutheran church just now.
Men and women of the congregation have been busy collecting scrap metal and rubber for the past two weeks, and the climax of the campaign will come on Sunday afternoon, October 18, when everyone has been asked to bring his final contributions to the parsonage lawn and to help sort the scrap for shipment to dealers. The Ladies Aid will serve refreshments after the job is finished.
Faced with the problem of paying off the church debt before the celebration of the congregation’s Golden Jubilee in September, 1943, and of meeting a deficit in current expenses, the membership took this means of raising money. So far the results have been beyond expectations, and an impressive scrap heap is growing in Rev. A. C. Baumgaertner’s yard.
Members of the church in Jacksonport have been asked to leave their contributions at Henry Spille’s, and in Fish Creek at Henry Eckert’s.
The use of several trucks has been offered so that individuals who cannot bring in their own scrap have but to notify Rev. Baumgaertner or one of the committee and it will be called for.
The committee in charge of the drive is Mrs. Fred Traven, Frank Oldenburg and Otto Voeks.
Boys and girls of the church have been asked to spot scrap piles so that the volunteer workers can locate them quickly.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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