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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1950
Page
8
Mr and Mrs William Sieman prepare to take their sons Billy and Wanne to Mount Herman but decide to stay a week longer with grandparents Mr and Mrs Ge Siemens in Shafter as the boys enjoy their time.
Evelyn Warkentin returns from a three week trip to Salem Oregon with her parents Mr and Mrs I. Warkentin and sister Serene Willems. She stayed with Miss Betty Isaac as a houseguest. After leaving the Tage home she will stay with her sister Mrs Adolph Goertzen at Shafter to complete wedding plans with John Nickel planned for the near future.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Gribble return from an eight day motor tour covering 1600 miles through Northern California and Oregon They visited Morrow Bay Santa Cruz San Francisco Grant's Pass Shasta Dam Trees of Mystery and logging mills along the coast Their car was showered with embers from a nearby forest fire near Crescent City After a ten day stay in Southern California they completed the journey.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Loewen and children spent the past weekend at their summer home in Pismo Beach. Also staying were Mr and Mrs A F Isaac and son Donald and Mr and Mrs John Enns and family. Other beach visitors include Mr and Mrs Henry Gaede spending a week at Cayucos.
Mr and Mrs Herman Janzen attended a family reunion in Medford Oklahoma with plans for an indefinite stay with relatives. The Janzens, now Reedley residents, previously lived in the Maple district several years ago.
Mr and Mrs Hawk of Corcoran with their children Leon and Sharron were dinner guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Cecil A Eagle at 188868 Beech Avenue.
Shafter churches and groups prepare to unite for a fall revival modeled on a two year ago event that drew about 1200 attendees. Dr Don Householder of Los Angeles is invited to speak for a two week series in a large tent on Kern Street. Navy 5 19 dates set.
Mr and Mrs E J Peters left on a business trip to Chicago last Saturday. They flew to Stockton then continued by train eastward. In the east they plan to buy a new car from a Detroit factory and finish the journey by auto. They will visit Mr and Mrs Norman Roberts in Saginaw Michigan and Mrs Roberts the former Rosella Willems of Wasco.
First Baptist Church parishioners join summer gatherings. Ten youths attend Hume Lake youth conference for a week in July, followed by Eleven junior youths at Camp Gaffies near Lake Sequoia in late July. July and August see attendees at Mount Hermon encampment with multiple families and ministers listed. The article notes the date February 7, 1788 for the New South Wales colony proclamation.
Miss Josephine Banducci daughter of Mr and Mrs A Banducci had an operation at a Bakersfield hospital.
Manuel Marquez 25 was killed in an auto accident last week. Funeral services were held Monday at St Johns Church Wasco officiated by Rev Fr Patrick Breslin. Interment at Shafter Cemetery Flickinger Janzen Mortuary officiating. Survived by widow Nizaria Rodriguez Stason Manuel Jr two brothers Paul Mauro and sisters Rosie Romeriz Mary Medrano. James Bone left for San Jose to visit his mother Emily Bone and brothers Alex and Andrew plans to be away about a week.
PHIL HORWITH formerly of Shafter and Taft studies at the University of Southern California preparing for law school. He was formerly editor of the Shafter Press. MRS FLOYD COOPER writes this week with her aunt Miss Ruby Gowett of Padena.
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