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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1939
Page
4
Maudie L Harris married Jack Harris in Las Vegas Nevada on Friday in a ceremony reported from the social pages. The couple then toured Boulder Dam and other Nevada sights before returning to Shafter where they will reside.
The Wednesday Afternoon club sponsors a holiday dance tomorrow evening at the clubhouse with decorations and music by the Roland Evans orchestra of Bakersfield. Chairman Mrs Karl Wells says the event promises an outstanding evening of entertainment.
A Christmas dinner was held at the George Enns home on Monday with 22 guests in attendance. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Grover Fields of Pontiac Illinois Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Eyman and family of Reedley Mr. and Mrs. John Enns of Santa Cruz Mrs. Anna Enns and the H J D Janzen family.
December 20 at the Mettler cafe Wasco featured eight attendees including Misses Mary Catherine Lockard Dean Lockard Tommie Lockard June Lachenmaier Eleanor Reimer Eleanor Fox Phyllis Prieve Norma Neu feld Eloy Bergen and Russell Blair Russel Flint and Wallace Tucker of Bakersfield also present along with Marvin Neuman Merwin Schirmer Tommy Dorris Harry Bergen Elmer Anderson and Stanley Lewis.
Christmas was celebrated by local families with gatherings at home or visits to relatives. Fern Calvert and Tommie traveled to near San Diego. Minnie Bush stayed with relatives in Kingsburg. etc. Families from Rio Bravo grouped across California spending the holiday with kin from Berkeley to Bakersfield.
A cooperative store at Shafter Farm Workers camp north of town continues operations this week. It offers gasoline, oil, bread, tobacco, milk, candy, soft drinks and vegetables. The camp governing committee opened and financed it with funds from tent platform rents.
Fashion trend notes New Yorkers pairing handkerchiefs with lipstick shades. A leading cosmetics house highlights French sheer handkerchiefs dyed to match lipstick colors, creating coordinated looks.
The item records multiple Christmas weekend visits in Oakland San Jose Burbank Shafter Hollister Long Beach and related host locations. It notes Jim Beard guests of relatives in Oakland F L Hudsons in San Jose Dr and Mrs Taylor Tabb at Bur bank Mr and Mrs Donald Fulton and Mrs Geraldine Mundt visiting southern California M L Thomas and Bessie G Thomas in Hollister and Barbara Buxton spending holidays in Long Beach with Mr and Mrs L Deck.
Judge F B Manuel returns Tuesday evening from Oakland after Christmas with his daughter. Miss Elsie Manuel and Mr and Mrs Grover Fields visit Shafter for the holidays at Anna Enns home. They plan to return east tomorrow. Art Regier and others visited Odd Fellows Lodge No 356 in Deing for a social gathering. Historical note recalls Talleyrand’s 1790 remark on distant capital. Women in America spend about 25 million yearly on bathing suits with two classes and only about half reach the water. Tea in 1859 New York sold for a dollar a pound prompting a store founder to cut prices and start Modern chain distribution.
Birling is described as a sport using logs on water with three classes racing rolling and trick performances on turbulent rivers. The activity centers on navigating, balancing, and performing stunts while the log floats.
Alfred T. Chandler minister announces Sunday school at 9 50 a m and church service at 11 a m with the sermon Ideas that Go in Retrospect A last Sunday of year sermon Christan Youth meets at 8 p m to watch to 11 30 p m New Year Watch service 11 30 p m to midnight public invited Character Development meets Wednesday 7 30 p m Kunkel lectures reported by Mr Chandler
First Mennonite Church announces a Sunday program in German with a sermon at 11 12 and Sunday school 10 11. A special evening service at 7 30 features a sermon titled 1939 Ye Now or Never. The week includes services on Monday Tuesday Thursday and Friday with subjects Counting the Cost When It Pays to Be a Christian and Effective Christian service the New Year is a new way Take Christianity with you as your guide.
First Baptist Church at 289 East Lerdo Highway lists Edgar H. McAllister as pastor. Bible school at 10 a m with P A Schmidt superintendent. Morning worship at 11 with sermon On the Threshold of the New Year and communion. Young People Crusaders and Prayer League meet at 6 30 p m followed by Evening service at 7 30 p m with sermon Bitter Waters. Midweek prayer is Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
St John s Catholic Church at 9th and Broadway Wasco California with Rev Owen McMullan pastor. Sunday masses at 8 am and 10 am Confessions Saturday at 7 pm Weekday masses at 7 am.
The Christian Science Society branch of The Mother Church in Boston announces services at 11 a.m. on Sundays and a Sunday school at 10 a.m. at Corner Sixth and E streets in Wasco.
About 15 members of the Kern River Leptist Young Poo-Pie’s association intend to join fellow members from county towns for a skating party in Bakersfield this evening. Attendance is expected to reach around 150 people.
The famed Lost mine of Ramph remains unfound as heirs of a Pennsylvania prospector continue the search. A fortune was reportedly taken centuries ago, but the mine eludes seekers and awaits an energetic digger.
Ray Mark camp manager told the Shafter Business Men's Association that the cooperative store at the Shafter Farm Workers' camp is run by residents with no federal approval or opposition. The camp committee funds the venture from tent-site rents, the committee governs the camp, and Mark aims for a peaceful orderly sanitary camp.
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