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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1949
Page
8
The text presents Isaiah’s Golden Verse defending Jerusalem, and Matthew's account of Jesus feeding the crowd with seven loaves and a few fishes. Mary Baker Eddy notes miracles follow God's law, and that Spirit supplies all.
Shafter Business and Professional Women’s Club held a formal initiation with a Christmas motif and candlelight dinner. Executive board members attended along with numerous new members and guests. Violin solos by Quentin Young accompanied by Emery Hobson provided entertainment.
Mr. and Mrs. Silas Kelly entertained honoring their daughter Freda on her sixteenth birthday. A number of young people enjoyed hospitality with gifts and games including Ruth Tiner Eunice Guenther Minta Joyce McGuire Lela Kelly Pauline Charlotte Davis Marion Tatum Carrol Cooper Harold Cluck Don Davis Otis Johnson Ray Preston Richard Miller Paul Tiner Bill Carter Dickie Rankin Jimmy Lacy Kenneth Kelly and the guests.
The American Legion Auxiliary unit held a Tuesday meeting in the Veterans Memorial Building. Reports covered gifts to veterans hospitals and purchases for a needy child and mother, meals and medicines for families, school Americanism activities, Poppy poster work, and cooperative sales. New member welcomed and Christmas party plans announced with donations urged.
Betty Gaede wins the Shafter Press football contest with the highest score of the week and receives a ten dollar prize to the winner.
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