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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1940
Page
3
A collection of Shafter residents hosting and visiting friends and relatives over the weekend. Highlights include Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sutton of Paso Robles in Shafter, Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Schmidt hosting Wasco guests, and various trips to Bakersfield Los Angeles and Oregon for family and social events.
Claud Newsoms returns from Texas. Miss Betty Spry comes home after Barstow visit. Wastbinders visit Los Angeles and southern California. Boys back from camp trip in Sierra. Sunday guests at the Tabb home include Mr and Mrs Creath and Mr and Mrs Fulton. Don Klingenberg returns from Santa Ana Catalina trip. JAck Janzen family heads to Santa Barbara for vacation. Tillman Cornelius returns from Chico Rosesville and San Francisco.
W. M. Barnes of Ventura plans to establish a nursery in Shafter to handle shade and ornamental trees shrubs berries bedding plants and other items. Barnes, a former Shafter resident and the town's first nightwatch man, expects the business to open by October first.
Shafter by McFarland 15 to 13 under lights. Lucille McMillan hit a home run and batted five for five. Mary Connell pitched for Shafter with Koop Moore Nelms Senn Bartel Guenther Neufeld and Brockway in the lineup. It was Shafter’s second win over McFarland.
A Kern County public health official Dick Forker spoke at the Shafter Business Men’s Association luncheon at Ruhlman’s on mosquito abatement. Business session covered routine matters. Guest speaker W. A. Stein of Bakersfield attended the meeting.
Dr Murray R Benedict of the University of California Giannini Foundation notes many people will work as hired agricultural laborers for a long time or permanently. At Shasta Dam near Redding a conveyor belt moves sand and gravel at 1100 tons per hour.
This week work began on a four alley bowling hall at the rear of Cafe Neuman. The former banquet room is being extended to form the alley space. Bob Neuman is building the four alley hall and completion is expected in about a month.
The Shafter Kiwanis club and their wives are invited to a barbecue at the home of Harry Wilkinson in Wasco on the evening of September 5.
Increasing need for knowledge of the economic factors involved in conservation of forests fieldlife and allied natural resources has led to the appointment of Dr. H R Josephson to the faculty according to Dean C B Hutchinson.
Shafter Future Farmers shipped three carloads of live stock by rail to Sacramento for the California State Fair set to run August 30 through September 9. Holger Hansen J Bobst C Sanger A Roberson C Harris and R Senn accompanied the stock, with Art Johnson leaving Monday evening to drive to the fair.
Glenn O Nay head of the high school agricultural department will take field crop exhibits from the Shafter district to the event. This move highlights the district’s participation in the agricultural showcase and aims to display local produce and techniques.
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