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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
3
Local Shafter notes recount Thanksgiving gatherings and visits by residents and guests from Tulare, Visalia, Los Angeles, and Bakersfield. Families such as the Buchanans Furgasons Freys Duerksens and Wiebes share meals, trips, and church events while others describe outings to Fresno, Los Angeles, and coastal trips with relatives and friends.
Thanksgiving guests at the Sam Schultz home included many Schultz family members and friends from Wasco San Luis Obispo and nearby towns. Mrs J C Siemens returned home to Shafter after a Bakersfield hospital visit for an apparently serious ailment doctors could not determine the exact nature of her illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rempel and family along with the Dinuba Duecks and the Nord and Rosedale families spent Thanksgiving at Henry H. Dueck’s home. Rempel Nord and J. M. Dueck are H. H. Dueck’s children. Elmer Kattenhorn and family were dinner guests of W. A. Livers. autumn-themed tables and a pleasant social time followed.
Thanksgiving visitors at Dr. and Mrs. L H McGrane included Norman M McGrane and sons John and Gordon with Dr McGrane's Los Angeles parents J B McGrane. They stayed from Thanksgiving Day until Sunday afternoon before leaving. Art Stepp and John Hymer drove to Kernville via Kern canyon reporting substantial snow on mountain peaks.
Bill Miller spent Sunday in Los Angeles with his sister Miss Jane Miller to accept a position and returned to Shafter that evening. Roy Packard and Mrs. Packard of Bakersfield visited in Shafter over Thanksgiving at the home of Mrs. Flora Cavner. Packard had been a resident there until recently after his marriage three months ago.
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