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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1931
Page
6
The Congregational Church calendar week features sermons on life and faith, a junior Endeavor farewell for Mr. Reid, and a 175-person calendar supper with a $50 table proceeds. Mr. and Mrs. Reid were honored with a desert scene gift.
Barstow Review’s Wo man’s Benefit Association members earned honors at the Quadrennial State Convention in Long Beach. Barstow was tapped to perform the Patriotic Service on the convention’s Big Night. Mrs. Jennie O Whicker was chosen as delegate with Anna Caley as alternate and Whicker named chair of the Resolution Committee. Convention HQs were at Breakers Hotel with Supreme President Bina West Miller as guest and State Regional Director Julia C Ginn overseeing events.
Delegates and alternates were chosen for the Supreme Review to be held in Chicago the week of July 20. The event promises a colorful display at Soldiers Field with 5000 guards and 1000 garland girls in the Temple of Youth. The Friday Banquet at Breakers Hotel hosted 500 guests, with Barstow attendees including Mrs. L. G. Palmer and several others.
Miles Wickens of Huntington Park earned honors for catching a seven foot blue shark weighing 103 pounds while fishing from the Olympic barge two miles off Hermosa Beach. The shark fought for over an hour before dying, marking the largest blue shark seen in the waters for three years.
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