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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1937
Page
3
Thanksgiving scenes in Shafter and surrounding towns as residents host family reunions dinners and visits. Snaps include Mr. and Mrs. Tucker hosting in Shafter with Los Angeles guests, and many locals traveling to Bakersfield Reedley Wasco and Delano for holiday meals and events.
Angelenos Ave Irving Wallack of Beverly Hills and Henry Claman of Los Angeles visited Shafter over the past weekend. Wallack is connected with the Wallack Stores of New York. Louie Edwards Gregory Maiory Harry Bergen and Bill Schultz, students at the California Agricultural College at Davis, were in Shafter from Thanksgiving Day to Sunday visiting their parents.
Miss Frances Midgley, a University of California Los Angeles student, visited her parents Mr and Mrs H Midgley at the Shafter Mercantile Company home over Thanksgiving.
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Mrs W Mitchell returned to Shafter after a Nebraska visit with friends in Omaha by rail. She spent a short time visiting relatives during her trip this week.
Mr and Mrs W W Tannahill hosted Thanksgiving guests including Fred E Houk of Riverbank and Mrs J S Tannahill of Fresno. Lawrence Beavers, son of Mr and Mrs A Beavers, returned from visits with his brothers and their families in Merced.
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