Christmas Guests and Homecomings Across Shafter Reedley and Los Angeles
Local families share holiday meals and greetings across communities. Cornelius Klassen and family from San Jose visit Shafter Wasco schools friends while John J Siemens and others host Christmas dinners. Unruh Strauss Thiessen families travel for kinship and a Kansas trip yields a new car.
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Cornelius Klassen
San Jose
Shafter
Wasco
Klassen
Maple School
H. H. Unruh
Kansas
Kattenhorns Spend Holidays With California Parents
Albert Kattenhorn teaches at Point Arena California and is spending the holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs. E Kattenhorn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Kattenhorn
Point Arena
California
Mrs
E. Kattenhorn
Christmas Gatherings Across Shafter and Surrounding Areas
Community members shared holiday celebrations at multiple homes including the Goertzens and Stollers, Hansons, and Ohannesons. Notables such as Dr. Taylor Tabb and banker Harry Diller visited and a newborn Elmer Don Reimer arrived weighing 9 pounds 4 ounces.
Christmas Visits Highlight Riverbank and Nearby Towns
To Riverbank W W Tannahill and family enjoyed Christmas at Mrs Tannahill’s parents home in Riverbank. Oregon visitors Vercl and Edna Fiske dined with Harlen Wilson’s family in Eu gene. Harlen Wilsons joined his parents in Rio Bravo for Christmas. L A S A Camp spent early week in Los Angeles on business. Rev and Mrs J W Bergen hosted holiday guests Chris Stephen of Sacramento. E P Jones traveled to Bakersfield for a midweek business trip.
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P. P. Rempel
Peter Rempel
Los Angeles
Anna Rempel
Reedley
Jack F. Neufeld
George Strauss
John Strauss
Wm. Bestwater
E. J. Thiessen
Lowell
Bacrsfield
E. P. Jones
Shafter High School
G. W. Garrard
Frances
Baersfield
Taylor Tabb
Lancaster
Alfred Chandler
San Jose
Wedge
Long Beach
Donald
Anabel
Miss Wedge
Long Beach Junior College
Riverbank
W. W. Tannahill
Vercl
Edna Fiske
Eugene
Oregon
Harlen Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Mrs. W. B. Wilson
Rio Bravo
Capital
J. W. Bergen
Chris Stephen
Sacramento
Mystic Letter Society
Johnny Siemens
Shafter
Caroline Moore
Maxine
Evelyn Unruh
Aldeen
Edna Beese
Elma Wilson
Venona Bergen
Mary Neufeld
Former Publisher Visits Shafter as Adoptive Baby Born
Former Herald publisher M G Watkins visiting Shafter now residing in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Edelman announce the adoption of a baby boy from Los Angeles Children’s Home named Donald Albert.
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M. G. Watkins
the Herald
Vidal, California
Los Angeles
Shafter
Emil Edelman
Childrens Home
Donald Albert
Financier Sees Bright Future for Shafter Crops
Mortimer Fleishhacker of San Francisco, chairman of the Anglo-California National Bank, praised Shafter's potato and cotton prospects for 1937 during a Kern county visit. He noted Shafter early potatoes are known in every major market in the nation.
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Shafter
Mortimer Fleishhacker
San Francisco
Anglo-California National Bank
Kern County
Family reunion and community notices from Kern County
Social notes describe a Christmas reunion for H. H. Dueck and family in Shafter with relatives from British Columbia and California. A M. A. S. ladies gathering in Shafter and Rosedale features sewing, gifts, and games. County notices cover County Road No. 942 hearings, a January 4 1987 meeting, and a trustee sale of land in Section 6, Township 28 South, Range 25 East, Bakersfield.
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H. H. Dueck
North Shafter
Peter Dueck
British Columbia
Canada
California
H.M. Dueck
Frank B. Dueck
Shafter
J. M. Dueck
Dinuba
Peter Rempel
Reedley
John Nord
Rosedale
Mineral Men to Host State Mineral Societies Meet
Kern County Mineral Society leads California Federation of Mineral Societies annual convention in Bakersfield. Two day event at Bakersfield Junior College with headquarters, exhibits for public viewing. Paul Vander Eike expects 300 delegates. T V Little organizes field trips and may display prized specimens.
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Kern County Mineral Society
California
State Federation of Mineral Societies
el Tejon
Bekersfield
Paul Vander Eike
Kern Group
Bakersfield Junior College
T. V.little
Shafter
Little
Mineralogist
Portland
Oregon
Rev Wm J Bestwater to Speak at Kansas Bible Conference
The Rev Wm J Bestwater plans to depart for Kansas soon after the new year. He is scheduled as a speaker at a Bible Conference at Tabor College Hillsboro Kansas. He will be away about eight weeks for this and other engagements.
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Kansas
Wm. J. Bestwater
Tabor College
Hillsboro
Property interests listed in Kern County board order
By order of the Board of Supervisors of Kern County California dated December 7 1936 the county clerk F E Smith notes interests in various fractions of sections including W of SW and NW of Sec 28 27 25 and other fractions held by August Bender William Bender Frederick W Handel J C Ohannesen S A Camp Wm F Mettler and others. The notice is dated December 17 to 31.
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Mount Diablo Base
Meridian
A. D. M. Osborne
Dana G, Bing
S.W
August Bender
W. C. Handel
William Bender
Frederick W. Handel
S.E
N.W
S. A. Camp
Wm. F. Mettler
N.E
Board of Supervisors
County of
Kern
State of
California
F. E. Smith
Language mastery not tied to geography or state
The passage asserts that fluency in English reflects culture and education, not place. It notes skilled speakers are scattered across the United States, not confined to any region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Unrevealed 15 Percent Electricity Tax Sparks Debate
A new public concern argues that Your Light Bills the New Deal imposes a 15 percent tax on electricity usage without informing customers. Critics say the hidden levy raises costs and erodes transparency in utility charges.
Inventor Frederick Walton and Linoleum Origin
The text credits Frederick Walton of Maguisse with inventing linoleum in 1858 and coining the term from finum flax and oleum oil. It notes five years of solitary work on one machine to produce Smah linoleum, assembling color blocks into patterns.
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Frederick Walton
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Es Koki Gaijocals
Nee Er
H. E. Unruh
John Harder
J. E. Unruh
Barnhard Harder
John W. Suderman
J. J. Siemens
Menno Siemens
Abe Isaac
Betty Lou
Jackie Siemens
Ruben Siemens
Darrel Janzen
U.S. C
Elmer Chindberg
Mrs. Chindberg
Sophia Chindberg
Shafter Drug Store
James
Goertzen
Pete Goertzen
Emil Stoller
Katherine
Elizabeth
Margaret Goertzen
Adolph
Goertzens
Stoller
Gilroy
Mrs. C. C. Osborn
Lois van Gorkom
Harold
Berkeley
J. C. Ohanneson
Phil Ohanneson
John Ohanneson
Alameda
H. Gray
Woolland
E. Ohanneson
Fresno
Ohanneson Brothers
J. B. Henderson
Henderson
Della Benadon
Hansen Home
J. P. Hansen
Mrs.Hansen
Mary L. Reid
Escalon
E. B. Stringham
Harry J. Diller
Bakersfield
A. H. Mettler
P. P. Bender
F. W Handel
Lydia and
Ella Bender
John C. Reimer
Elmer Don
Abe Strauss
Dueck
T. 27
Emil Bender
Dana G. Bing
Nick L. Susceff
Hazel Susceff
Sam Lachenmaier
Henry G. Krock
Mary Krock
County of Kern
State of California
Ers
Altimore Hotel Ltd
Shafter Dairy
J. P. Harris
Oldsmobile
Geo. F. Oliver
F. C. Schweitzer
Power Company
San Joaquin Service
SAN Joaquin Light and Power Corporation
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