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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
3
Local residents share visits and events from Tehachapi to Lindsay. Miss Marion Enns of Newton plans to stay, Abe and Elma Goertzen host dinner guests, the Schirmers tour San Joaquin fairs, and Crockett family plans Texas trips as community ties and weekend gatherings unfold.
The item lists several local residents and visitors. Rev. Sam and family returned after a trip to Paragould. Shafter and Taft area residents like Mr. and Mrs. Arnold and Pete Bender took vacations to South Dakota. Mount Pinos outing with Mr. and Mrs. Reynold Duehren is recorded, along with guests from Los Angeles and San Fernando staying with the Sanderson family over the weekend.
A J Willards and family traveled to the coast visiting Shell Beach Pismo and Santa Maria with Willard and Carl remaining in Santa Maria. Richard Hetz returned from a week in San Francisco visiting his mother and attending a fair. R E Youells attended a Kern River picnic with Bakersfield Local 199 Sheet Metal Workers union. Bill Bitters, working in Shafter with family, also joined.
Leonard G on vacation travels through southern California for about a week. Mrs Pearl Foster and G W Palmer spend Sunday in Santa Maria visiting relatives. Rev Allen A Hunter of Mount Hollywood Church visits Shafter with Mary. Latta family returns from northern state. Frank Latta presides at a League of Western Writers meeting on Treasure Island. Mendocino party ends hunting trip. deer not brought home. Nebraska guests visit Shafter area.
Fred Vaughn, injured early in the season with the Indianapolis baseball club of the American Association, has returned to his home in the Shafter Oil field. He will miss the rest of the campaign while on a three week vacation trip to Catalina Island and San Francisco. The party accompanying Vaughn includes Pierce and Wasco residents Myron Cannon and several others who enjoyed the evening.
Mr and Mrs J D Janzen ce and Mrs Ben Harder and Shirley Harder depart for a Southern California tour with Santa Barbara as a stop and expect to return home. Rev Alfred Chandler leaves Shafter for two weeks to visit parents at Asilomar attend a district assembly in Monterey and tour San Francisco San Jose. Vernon Pierce and family plan a trip up the coast to Yosemite visiting Orro Bay and Petaluma then stop at Clear Lake and will be away until August 28.
South Dakota residents including Mrs A D Wipf and Miss Una Wipt of Menno, visited relatives in Shafter after weeks at home. Ed and Herb Wiedenbach returned from a vacation to the Oakland area and Bay Region, Bakersfield relatives noted.
fragmentary text indicates a two week period starting Saturday involving Dr and Mrs L H, with McG reporting to Cam medical imprint and Mrs McGrane to in Salinas. No clear events or full names.
A local doctor joined a Catalina Island fishing outing and caught a 21 pound albacore. He was accompanied by Piney Ripe Bera Sas and Mrs. Klassen who also fished for albacore during the day on the coast.
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