Mrs Wilkinson Visits Daughter in Burbank
Mrs Amelia Wilkinson, who has stayed with her parents Mr and Mrs J P Weitz in Shafter, has departed for Burbank to visit her daughter.
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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1943
Page
2
Mrs Amelia Wilkinson, who has stayed with her parents Mr and Mrs J P Weitz in Shafter, has departed for Burbank to visit her daughter.
The Shafter Wasco religious roundup lists Christmas to New Year services. Rev. Orval Seago hosts a December 31 dinner followed by a New Year message and January 2 worship at the Nazarene church. St John Catholic, First Baptist, Christian Science Wasco, Mennonite and others schedule Masses, sermons, Sunday schools, and youth activities.
The note lists seventh grade through senior activities with 7 30 start and a first in a six part prayer series. Sunday night topic is Hallowed Be Thy Name. No children's classes or Bible studies due to the series. A son was born to Corporal and Mrs H H Ferguson on December 23 at Wasco Maternity Home weighing 11 pounds 14 ounces. The father serves in an overseas MP battalion. Mrs Ferguson is the daughter of E E Peters of Shafter.
Second Lieutenant Ewald J. Goehring earned his navigator wings from the Army Air Forces Training Command at Hondo Texas. He and Mrs. Goehring visited Mrs. Emma Spitzer over Christmas. He heads next to an Army Air Forces school in New Mexico.
Holiday guests at the home of Mrs. Emma Spitzer include Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Schaeffer Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Spitzer and John Spitzer of Cuyama Valley and Mr. and Mrs. A. Kirschenmann all visiting for the season.
Mr and Mrs Adolph Goertzen were guests in Shafter with family members Mrs Elizabeth Goertzen and Mrs H A Warken. The Goertzens are employed at Tracy and spent Christmas with relatives.
A ten day flu wave hits Shafter with most cases mild and few families spared. Marling Back Hospital reports Mrs. Paul F. Marling home and able to tend affairs while Dr. Marling remains hospitalized in serious condition.
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