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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1939
Page
5
Children at the Shafter Farm workers camp received an Easter egg hunt with 60 dozen eggs. A golden egg was found by Miss Jackie Mitchell yielding a prize of a live white rabbit.
Motion pictures dealing with the automobile industry were shown to members of the senior class at Kern Academy Monday evening. Yesterday afternoon the class went to Bakersfield where pictures were taken of the graduating group.
Willie Carpenter of White Spot area was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail after an altercation with her husband. During the fracas she received a severe leg cut from broken glass and was taken for first aid.
Miscellaneous ad clippings advertise Protect Your Income Insurance by Harder & Mougin at 332 Central Ave Bakersfield. Bakersfield area listings present Shafter real estate bargains including 4 piece Monterey bedroom set and other furniture, plus cheap piano sale in Shafter district.
All jobs thoroughly reconditioned and sold with a written guarantee. Listings include Allis-Chalmers tractors 35 and 35-Ges, John Deere, McCormick Deering, Wide-tracked models, disc harrows, cultivators, Rumsey harvesters, bean spray rigs, deep-well turbine pumps, and C D pipe and casing. Stansfield and McKnight Inc. Tulare County distributors.
The Shafter Public Utility District announces a general election to be held Tuesday May 2, 1939. Directors At Large Jake Neufeld and W Scheoth are named as Election officials. Polls open 1 PM and close 6 PM with polls at the district polling place.
Sportland in Bakersfield hosts its first one day show sponsored by VFW Post 1468. Daredevil stunter Happy Jack Miller will crash cars and perform risky acts while a famous daredev woman stunter crashes a flaming board fence. Motorcycle races are also booked for Sunday.
Richland school board reviewed two bids for sprinkling system work on Lerdo road near the primary and school grounds. Dan Loewen offered 999.50 and Charles Leistikow 823. Action was deferred pending technical clarifications. Planning included ground leveling from the building north toward Lerdo highway and east to Wall street. The session also approved bills and routine matters.
Geraldine Mundt of Bakersfield has reopened the beauty shop in the rear of Jake Neu feld's barber shop on Central avenue. The shop, to be known as Jerry's Beauty Shop, reflects her many years of beauty culture experience. Her daughter Celeste Adams has moved to Shafter to join her.
Rail infrastructure notes that Pennsylvania has more miles of railroad track in tunnels than above ground. The observation contrasts with exposure to surface lines and highlights tunnel concentration within the state.
About 500 guests attended the Monday evening wedding of Edgar Carter and Irene Burkett in the recreation hall of the Shafter Farm Workers' camp. The ceremony was officiated by Sister T. Edwards of the Pentecostal Gospel Mission in Shafter. The couple, residents of the Shafter district for about a year, currently live in the Farm Workers' camp.
The article notes that not all trees shed leaves in winter as evergreens such as pine trees keep some foliage year round. It contrasts deciduous and evergreen behavior and explains that some trees remain green while others lose leaves.
A public certificate records WALLACE CONCRETE COMPANY as sole owner operating at 812 Walker Street Shafter Kern County California under an assumed name. The document dates March 29 1939 and includes signatures of J G Wallace and Annabel Wedge Public.
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