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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1943
Page
2
Shafter Future Farmers group their fancy stock for the Kern County Livestock Show set for Sept 9 to 13 in Bakersfield. Shafter entries will focus on sheep and hogs as local breeders have sold cattle amid high costs. Visiting Mrs James Thompson of Missoula, Montana stayed with her son James Taylor in Shafter.
War time notices outline sugar stamps for home caning meat stamps and ration adjustments through August and October 1943. Draft of fathers with young children begins around September 15 1942 while August crop reports praise yields and warn harvest labor needs. Civilian access to soya products rises with 1943 44 allocations and war balloting forms issued for Army voters.
Miss Miriam Klaudt is employed at the Shafter branch of Bank of America. The article notes her new position and workplace, highlighting the move within the bank's local operations.
Local church notices list Union Congregational in Shafter with services and address, Mennonite Brethren at Kern street, Wasco with Sunday school and German and American sermons, John’s Catholic Church at 1018 Broadway Wasco with Mass times, Confessions, and a Christian Science Society at Sixth and E streets Wasco with Sunday lesson and midweek services.
Mr and Mrs Harvey Gaede and their son Kenneth are enjoying a two week vacation at Long Beach. The Roses announce the birth of a daughter Darlene Mae on August 4 at Mercy hospital Bakersfield. Mr Rose works on the Mettler ranch southwest of Shafter.
The Sunday Lesson Sermon on Mind at The Mother Church in Boston cites Psalm 147 in praise of divine power and references Jesus forgiving sins to discuss spiritual healing. A quote from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures notes that mental states, not material medicine, affect health and do not cure unless mental change occurs.
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