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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1943
Page
4
Fourteen members attended the regular Tuesday evening meeting of the American Legion Post Auxiliary. A nominating committee was chosen for the coming year and election will occur at the next meeting. Members were asked to bring two Mothers Day cards for mailing. Light refreshments followed the social hour.
Miss Mary Fast married Henry H Nikkel Tuesday evening at the Mennonite Brethren Church with J D Hofer officiating. The ceremony featured fern and calla lily decorations, a white satin gown for the bride, and musical selections by Helen Schellenberg Arnold Bergen and a quartet. The bride, daughter of Mrs Anna Fast, teaches at Maple school. the groom has been a rancher in the Shafter area. A reception followed in the church basement with gifts on display and several musical numbers performed by local performers.
A terse note describes using three temder to remove and drain.
In honor of Mrs Edith Van Bever a layette shower was held Tuesday evening at Margaret Bennet’s home with Misses Tae thy Wright and Margaret Greer as hostesses. Guests received gifts and played games with Edna Armstrong winning prizes. The pink and white decor plus light refreshments were arranged by Mrs W A Livers and Mrs Josephine White.
Mrs Laurence Baughman entertained last evening at her home 207 Atlantic Avenue with three tables of bridge and late refreshments. Easter decorations and roses highlighted the rooms as guests joined in social games and light conversation with several ladies in attendance.
Mrs J A Roscamp hosted a bridge gathering at 252 Golden Street Avenue last Thursday at 1 pm. Members enjoyed spring flower decor as Mrs Ella Immel of Bellingham Washington won first prize while Mrs T V Little and Mrs C G Lingnir received honors.
The Business and Professional Women's Club plans an Easter breakfast at 7 30 PM at Cafe Neiman with guest speaker Monte Bedwell past president of the Bakersfield club Kay Rodgers to conduct the business session and plans for a breakfast for service members from Minter Field. Mrs Ralph Janzen chairs the committee urging member attendance tonight. In another note Mr and Mrs J J Siemens entertain at dinner this Sunday for their son T Sgt Reuben Siemens his wife and newborn Phillip Dennis with other family and guests before Siemens leaves Monday for his camp in Louisiana.
The First Baptist Sunday School's primary junior department hosted an Easter party on Saturday afternoon at the church. The event featured an egg hunt on the lawn and Eastern motif refreshments, organized by teachers Ruth Gates Alma McLain Winnifred Wiebe and E M Anderson. A Michigan refinery workers project displayed the motto You will learn to duck lower if you don't Buy a Bond.
A regional campaign to retrieve more than 100,000,000 returnable bottles will run April 19 to 24 with support from bottlers associations and dairies and participation from retail grocers. The drive targets bottles for carbonated beverages milk and beer to ease a Western shortage worsened by overseas shipments and civilian and military demand.
An appeal urges supporting soldiers and their families by donating money to a veterans fund. It highlights sacrifices made by service members and frames the appeal as a communal duty to back those who risk their lives. Endorsing organizations and exact donation details are not specified in the fragment.
The phrase appears to honor soldiers and encourage continued efforts in battle. The language emphasizes patriotic duty and collective resolve during wartime.
The drive targets a 13 billion dollar increase in the Public Debt for the 1943 fiscal year. This push supports wartime finance as the government seeks funds for defense and national needs.
A three month old sex terrier woke his sleeping master Robert L. Atticks in a smoke filled second floor room. They escaped down a back porch pillar as flames and smoke filled the area.
Des Moines story shows Second Lieutenant Howard O. Smith leaving his rifle club to train recruits at Camp Crowder Missouri while his wife runs their basement rifle coat factory. She handles books supervises six workers and keeps the home together as coats roll off the line.
In London Ontario three 10-year-olds Marjorie Beattie Donalda Macpherson and Beverly Parker solved a ration day fundraising problem by offering fortune telling. Clad in bright costumes they went door to door selling fortunes and raised seven dollars for the queen's Canadian fund after several days of effort.
James Russell Davis pleaded innocent then switched to guilty and received six years and three months for impersonating a United States Army Air Force major and escaping federal custody in Chattanooga Tennessee. He posed as a high ranking officer with an overseas record and circulated a grandiose tale about seizing a local air field. The FBI noted a long criminal history of impersonating officers and he claimed to be from Champaign Illinois.
Cairo report says Capt Edward R Stone of Washington DC, a U S doctor serving with Britain's desert forces, ran into a shell burst to rescue wounded men. he and two British soldiers were killed while making the rescue effort in a front line slit trench.
Edna Mae Rogers pursues Ned Greer with schemes to teach him a lesson in love but ends up marrying him. Ned, a rising songwriter, remains calm as she plots, then proposes. He recalls Mel Fairfields theory on courting and reveals Alma’s departure, challenging her assumptions.
A roundup of religious observances in Wasco include multiple congregations. Services feature Easter sermons, choir performances, and special music with pastors Rev. P. E. Penner Rev. Wm. S. Harper Rev. Cama 191 ee, plus universes of Sunday schools and prayer meetings.
A wartime relief message promotes selling Second War Loan Bonds to fund military effort. The call to action urges citizens to invest, framing bonds as the means to preserve freedom and avoid economic hardship under enemy pressure.
Editorial urges readers to consider the impact of not supporting the war effort by purchasing Second War Loan Bonds, highlighting soldiers who fought without such backing.
The notice urges purchase of Second War Loan Bonds as a wartime funding measure. It also reports that in Relea 14 year olds are being torn from families by the Nazis and placed with German foster parents as farm laborers.
The article notes government bonds from the Second War Loan pay interest as part of wartime financing and suggests they are used to combat inflation. The piece underscores financial instruments backing wartime efforts and the ongoing effort to stabilize prices.
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