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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1938
Page
3
The T. V. Little family returned Sunday from a two week coast to California vacation. They called on Dr. Sternberg of the San Diego museum who excavated fossils at Mc Kittrick tar pits years ago.
Vacation reports from residents and visitors list trips to Long Beach Bass Lake and coast resorts with names such as Katherine Stubblefield Loucretta Grisso Bud Janzen Art Hein C C Janzen David Letkeman Abram Sawatsky Lee Hosterman Ole Howlett Jake Reimer Henry Becker Carl Pfeifle Arnold Pfeifle D G Pendelton Jack Palone Jacob Funk Claude Stewart Emil Stoller Bob Seaman Jim Taylor Betty Taylor C D Schroeder J W Feitzell and families. The items note travel to Los Angeles Redondo Beach Seal Beach and San Jose with camping boating swimming and fishing in Oklahoma and California.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Baughman returned Saturday night from a week long trip through the northern part of the state stopping at San Francisco Marysville Yuba City Folsom and Watsonville Mr Baughman who is interested in finger print work visited police offices in several northern towns
A series of brief items report new births and travels. Eldon Ebels welcomed a daughter at home on Retzlaff Lane west of Shafter while Ted Voth and wife celebrated a seven-pound girl Virginia born at their Voth residence. The Weyands visited Pomona, J J Peters did a Los Angeles trip, Dale Smith attended a meeting in Arlington, and women returned from an educational institute in San Francisco. Two families then returned from a ten day New Mexico trip visiting relatives in Elmora.
The Rev. Alfred Chandler of the Union Congregational church returned Tuesday morning from a weeklong vacation in the northern part of the state. He visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. Will L. Chandler of Oroville who were in San Jose. He attended the opening of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley on Monday.
Cc L Black returned Thursday from Glendale where he spent a week with his family. He was not feeling well but states he has been better the past week. Mr and Mrs Dan Lee and Mr and Mrs Frank R Jost of Hillsboro Kansas returned Monday night from a two day pleasure trip to Los Angeles. Mrs A B Gaede of Reedley spent a month in the south accompanying them back to Shafter. Mr and Mrs Jost viewed the Pacific Ocean for the first time Monday afternoon.
Mrs P J Gaede came home Sunday from St Helena where she visited her parents Mr and Mrs John Kraft. She had previously attended a two weeks WPA educational workers institute in San Francisco. Ralph Janzen Return To Shafter
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