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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1939
Page
4
Miss Leola Kirschenmann was honored at a linen shower hosted by Rohna and Vernet Mettler at the Arnold Puefle home south of town. About 40 guests attended and played games during the evening. Milo Mettler mentioned in the near future.
Mr and Mrs Walter Poznoff and Mr and Mrs Bill McClain entertained at the Poznoff home in honor of Bot McClain and Miss Jane Ingalls the Bakersfield bride elect. The event highlighted plans for a marriage to take place later this month.
The Shatter Hi Y club tops the recreation league with three wins and no losses. The Shatter Juniors and the colony share second place, Rio Brave trails with two losses. Last Thursday the Hi Y edged the Juniors 11 to 10 after a nine-run rally in the final inning. On Monday the Hi Y beat Belridge 12 to 4. Tuesday the Feather Merchants were defeated 9 to 1 by the I T Young club of Anasco.
Miss Lena Hein was honored Tuesday evening at a dinner at Wesr's hotel in Wasco with Lois L. Berry Mrs Alma Skaggs and Miss Koleeta Osborn as hostesses. Tables were decorated in lavender and pink with flowers. Gifts were presented at the Berry home. Attending were Miss Hein the hostesses Miss Kay Stubblefield Mrs Lee Thomas and Mrs H L Comfort.
The tournament finals will be held next week with leaders Richard Gribble Dewey Annis and Harvey Gaede. Results this week include Gaede defeating Lewis Edwards 6 3 6 4 Annis defeating Ed Nikkel 6 3 6 3 and Leonard Gaede beating Elmer Unruh 6 2. The tennis ladder will close next week offering chances for players who have been beaten or not yet played to challenge higher-ranked opponents.
The United States civil service commission announces an open competitive examination for rigger in the Forest Service at Placer ville Porterville and Weaver ville. Applications must be on file by August 28 1939 with the manager in room 119 at the Federal Office Building San Francisco.
The position of junior public health nurse in the Indian field service, department of the interior, is announced. Applications must be filed in the commission's Washington office by September 14, with full information obtainable from John F. Roskam at the Shafter post office.
Growers report the cotton crop in the Shafter district appears healthy and ginning may begin shortly after September 1. The season is not expected to start broadly until around mid September.
Mrs. Margaret Goodrich of Pasadena visited Miss Rae Collins in Shafter over the weekend. She returned to Pasadena Monday morning.
The name Sylvester, from Latin meaning forest dweller, has been borne by two popes and two anti-popes in medieval Europe. Dr. Sylvester Gardiner helped colonize part of Maine and inspired Gardiner, Maine, while introducing smallpox inoculation. Sylvester Graham, born 1794, is later noted in the same lineage.
The Belgian horse leads as the largest draft breed developed in lowland regions ideal for massive growth. The Percheron shares roots in Flanders with the Belgian. Believed origins tie to Moor defeats and Charles Martel era crossbreeding. Arabian and Andalusian blood later infused. The Shire and Clydesdale show long hair on lower legs linked to lowland lineage. The Clydesdale traces to a 1750 import of a black Flemish stallion by John Patterson into Scotland.
An article notes that larger animals tend to have smaller litters. The opossum averages 18 offspring per birth, but only 11 or 12 survive due to limited nipples and pouch incubation. It adds mortality rises with litter size and hints twinning may be genetic.
A historical note on mortgage moratoriums argues the relief tool is not new, tracing its use to Hammurabi era. It cites Adad caused floods and drought as reasons for delaying debt repayment and waiving interest for that year.
Cynthia Pearl Maus notes the hymn known as the Crusaders Hymn likely never sung by Crusaders. The text was written in 1677, translated into English by Richard Storrs Willis (1819 1900) and published in America in 1850. Willis arranged the tune from a Silesian folk song found in 1842. Willis was a musician and newspaper man.
A prayer attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson asks for daily strength to meet petty duties with cheer and laughter. It requests cheerful industry, steady progress through the day, a content night’s rest, and a peaceful end without dishonor.
Fort Worth Texas Mrs B F Cloud set a rat trap in the attic and caught a half grown skunk. She ran upstairs with a broom and summoned her grandson to finish the job after the animal caused a commotion in the attic.
In Philadelphia 24 000 cousins race to claim part of the $20 000 000 snuff fortune left by Henrietta Garrett. The estate, size growing from 7 000 000 at Walter Garrett’s 1895 death to 20 000 000 and more, faces deep legal wrangling as heirs and claimed relatives contest the will and seek assets. Isaac Newton Sheaffer asserts he is Garrett’s son, challenging the widow’s heirs with church and family records amid ongoing hearings.
LAS CRUCES NM The hang mans tree at the Dona Ana county courthouse yard was cut down to make space for a junior high school. Three branches died after each execution. The tree last saw use in 1901 with two men and one woman executed, the woman hanged in 1897 by Sheriff Pat Garrett.
BERKELEY CALIF Mrs Muriel Eldridge Barringer Burg Hoppe has had seven marriages in a row. Her sequence shows five husbands through a series of deaths, divorces and annulments tied to legal finality issues and remarriages.
The text recalls Abraham Lincoln in his 50s facing political defeat after three decades of effort and claiming no personal victory, yet it foreshadows his later rebound from disappointment and heartache.
In Huatla village, a conjurer accused of bringing evil to residents was burned to death in the main square as villagers led by local authorities stormed the home of San Juan Salvador. The Universal reported the mob action and the resulting death.
Researcher Smith shows that the cotton dauber’s sting causes plant damage through physical injury, not chemicals. Observations cover insect development, control methods, and the potential 10 percent yield gain if daubers are eliminated, with notes on field timing and habitat cleanup.
Top calf price reached 10.50 per 100 pounds at the California Farm Bureau Marketing association sale in Visalia last week. Cows sold to 6.10, heifers 7.85, bulls 6.70, and steers 7.10. The year to date totals 11 660 head.
A land utilization conference at the University of California, led by the former Giannini Foundation director, examined Dust Bowl migrants and marginal and abandoned farmland. The aim is a nationwide effort to map conditions at their source and explore state and federal cooperation on farm and forest land use.
Tip Henderson opens a new barber shop with four chairs. Boots Perry, Herb Russell and Jake Neufeld assist. Neufeld previously owned Jake's shop, now closed to expand the Justesen store in town.
Louie Becker spent Tuesday evening in Taft for a business meeting and dinner.
Rio Bravo Union school district trustees met Monday with full attendance. Architect John P. Perrine reported on the new Dodge school bus facility progress while Wayne Patterson, Kincade, and Ivan I. Roberts were named as bus drivers. Additional equipment purchases and a new janitor's room were planned and a workers wave disrupted a small room previously used.
M. B. Church at 400 Kern Street led by Pastor H. D. Wiebe offers 9 30 a m Sunday School 11 a m sermon Repentance 6 45 p m Prayer Circle 7 p m Christian Fellowship 7 p m Bible reading 6 p m sermon Come For All Things are Now Ready 8 p m Mid week prayer service Wednesday
The text lists masses at 6:30 a m and 8:30 a m with confessions on Saturday at 7 p m. No church name or location is provided.
Fragmentary note recalls the earliest European arrival on the land later known as Chicago. It notes white explorers setting foot in the area long before formal settlement and city founding events.
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