Emil Bender Installed as Wasco Masonic Master
Emil Bender was installed as master of Wasco Masonic Lodge No. 583 in Wasco on Tuesday evening, becoming the first Shafter area resident to hold the post. Marvin Mouser of Shafter served as organist, with officers including James Williams, Lester Smith, L. M. Parker, J. W. Legate, Fred Pritschke, Harry Pollock, Clarence Campbell, Arch Beckes, Dr. T F Prather, and Joe Hunt. Arthur Crites of Bakersfield led the ceremony as former grand master of California attended guests and members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil Bender
Wasco Masonic Lodge No
Clarence Campbell
Arch Beckes
T.F. Prather
Joe Hunt
Marshall
Arthur Crites
Shafter Men Open New Potato Land
A 240 acre tract about two miles south of the Standard tank farm in the Saco district is being opened for potatoes by W McClain and George Chernabaeu of Shafter. Planting should start soon. The land lies in a frostless belt and suits early potatoes. A well delivering 1933 gallons per minute has been developed. No crop has been grown there before. Press advertising pays.
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Saco Districts
W. McClain
George Chernabaeu
Shafter
McClain
Christmas Pageant Schedules at Union Congregational Church
Union Congregational Church at 311 James Street posts a Sunday School for children at 9 45 with Christmas offerings. A Friday 7 pm Christmas Pageant and a 11 am service on Christmas day feature Cantique de Noel sung by Mrs Wendall Allen with Miss Davis at the piano. The Christian Youth meet at 6 30 pm at Plymouth House.
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Union Congregational Church
James Street
Alfred Chandier
Wendall Allen
Christmas Services At Mennonite Brethren and Related Churches
Church notices from Mennonite Brethren and Evangelical Reformed congregations detail Christmas programs and services. The Mennonite Brethren church lists Sunday School at 9 30 a m with German and American sermons, a Christ centered program, and morning and evening services around December 25. Evangelical Reformed notes bilingual services at 11 a m 7 p m with a Christmas eve program and a bilingual Christmas morning service.
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Mennonite—Brethren — Church
Kern
Wiebe
Christ the Lord
Evangelical Reformed
R. Klaudt
James
Sun Set Streets
First Baptist Church Extends Seasonal Greetings to Shafter
The First Baptist Church Lerdo East Shafter invites the entire community to a week long Christmas celebration. Services begin Sunday with Bible School at 10 am and morning worship at 11 am followed by Young People and evening devotion. Christmas exercises Tuesday at 7:30 pm.
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First Mennonite Church
J. PD. Clanger
Christ-in-the Inn
First Baptist Church
Lerdo East
Shafter
Wm. Jackson
Min
Bible School
P. A. Schmidt
Bethlehem
Willie
Old Rugged Cross
Th eother Church branch services in Wasco
The fragment lists Christian Science Church Society in Wasco with the Boston branch name, corner Sixth and E streets. It notes Sunday services at 11 a.m. and Sunday school at 10 a.m.
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Christian Science
Christian Science Society
Theother Church
Fi Church of Christ, Scienties
Boston
Massachusetts
Sixth and
E Streets
Wasco
Parish Notices From St. John’s Wasco
St John s Catholic Church at 9th and Broadway Wasco lists Sunday Mass from 8 to 10 AM. Confessions are held Saturday at 7 PM under Rev Owen McMullan the pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. John’s Catholic Church
9Th and Broadway Streets
Wasco
Owen McMullan
Household repairs and safety notes from a 1940s advisory column
A long Q and A feature covers coal gas leaks from furnaces, best practices for oil burners, aluminum paint primers, cementing porcelain repairs, basement wash tubs with soil pipes, asphalt driveways for amateurs, repairing peeling brownstone stoops, gilt protection, and a roundup of related industry and defense news including gas safety, cabinet opinions, and wartime production notes.
Intervention of German army to save Italians in Egypt hinted in Berlin
Berlin hints at German intervention in Egypt to rescue Italians while warning the United States to cooperate with Germany against Britain. British forces reportedly push into Italian Libya, with Greek advances in Albania and heavy German air raids on Hamburg and Sheffield. Two hundred Jewish refugees drowned off the Turkish coast. ongoing war news center on Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Egypt
Berlin
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Libya
Tepelini
Albania
Oslo
Norway
Pierre Laval
Marshal Philippe
Petain
Hamburg
Sheffield
Great Steel Center
Lord Beaverbrook
England
Vatican
Italy
Pope
Pius
San Francisco
California
Sacramento
Franklin D. Roosevelt
James H. Corley
Mondesto
University of California
California Home Guard
Sally Stanton
Pasadena
Stockton
Fresno
United States Navy
Los Angeles
A. A. Randall
Culver City
Harry Bridges
Local Groups to Distribute Christmas Baskets in Shafter
About 30 baskets will be distributed by non church groups in Shafter. Home Economics students at Shafter High School under Miss Martha Wedin will assemble them. Contributions come from Shafter Rotary Club Future Farmers of America Kiwanis Club and Holger Hansen. Pre-made baskets come from Leslie L. Robinson Post 213 American Legion and Auxiliary M A S Richland P T A and the Wednesday Afternoon Club. Candy to be provided by Business and Professional Women.
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Shafter High School
Martha Wedin
Shafter Rotary Club
Future Farmers of America
Shafter Kiwanis Club
Holger Hansen
Leslie L. Robinson
American Legion and
American Legion Auxiliary
Richland P.T.A
Community groups coordinate drive to aid needy families
Local groups organize cooperation to distribute baskets to families in need with no duplication. Churches join in, offering baskets and gifts to residents in the district.
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Ous
Bakersfield Oddfellows Hold Regional Initiatory Degree
Ralph Short Art Regier and Jim Stone attended the Kern county Oddfellows regional meeting in Bakersfield Saturday evening. The initiatory degree was dictated by the two Bakersfield lodges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Short
Art Regier
Jim. Stone
Kern County Oddfellows
Bakersfield
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Era Proclaninid
Nont Roy Oil jRisTmas
the Ring Lumber Co
Shatter, California
H.C. Moore Ginning Co
Home Appliance Co
Shafter, California
Supe
Jack's
Pontiac
Jack Janzen
T. Harvey Gaede
Church News
Roger B. Whitman
Coal Gas
Annie
Aluminum
USS Home
Norfolk
Aerovaution Mechanics Union
Seattle
Donald P. Keppler
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Communist Party
America
Culbert L. Olson
Ickes
Central Valley Project
TVA
Washington
Henry Ford
Sidney Hillman
National Defense Commission
New York
Texas City
Texas
Roosevelt
Duke of Windsor
Morgenthaus
House Appropriations Committee
Cincinnati
Stanley Abel
Federal Air
Taft
Relano
Mount Abel
Bakersfield National Guard
Arvin
Louis J. Brandt
Bakersfield Realty Board
Merry Christmas
Harold Unruh
Shell
Shafter, Calif
Sam Lachenmaier
Santa Fe Way
Heath
S. P. Depot
Hanford, Calif
Jack A. Lighthill
Sunset Ave
Canaday Nursery
Shafter Branch
Lerdo Road
W. M. Barnes
L. H. McGrane
Optometrist
Shatter, Calif
Shafter Mercantile Co
Federated Stores
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