Closing program announced for Hermon Bible School
The Hermon Bible School of Shafter marks the end of its term with a closing program at 7 30 p m Friday in the Mennonite Brethren church. The event features hymns prayers orations and musical selections led by Prof H W Berg Evelyn Unruh and Rev John S Dick with certificate presentation and closing benediction.
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Hermon Bible School
Shafter
Mennonite ‘Brethren
H. W. Berg
Thnee
Prince of Peace
Victor Becker
Sara Balzer
Edward Schellenberg
Edna Beese
John S. Dick
Jesus
Evelyn Unruh
J. P. Rogalsky
Bestwater
Debaters Named for New Sierra Forensics Topic
Six Shafter high school students won spots for the conference debates with an affirmative team of Gregrey Malory Reba Evans and Dorothea Peak and a negative team of Ernest Siemens Henry Janzen and Waldo Unruh. Reserve speakers include Jack White James Livers and Harold Pedersen. The question tests universal medical service legislation. Debates begin January 28 in Bakersfield with Shafter negative vs Bakersfield and Shafter affirmative vs Delano, followed by a final round February 11 when Shafter faces Wasco and McFarland. Shafter and McFarland lead the league with three wins and one loss each.
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Shafter High School
Gregrey Malory
Reba Evans
Dorothea Peak
Ernest Siemens
Henry Janzen
Waldo Unruh
Ing
Jack White
James Livers
Harold Pedersen
Shafter
Bakersfield
Delano
Wasco
McFarland
Statues Erected to Many Other Than Military Men
New York University Hall of Fame for Great Americans lists 69 honorees chosen by a national, distinguished panel. The roster covers fields from statesmanship and literature to science, education, religion, philanthropy, and the arts, with many nonmilitary figures represented.
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National Hall of Statuary
Washington
Lst
New York City
New York University Hall of Fame
Lee
Grant
Sherman
Farragut
John Paul Jones
Lincoln
Franklin
Webster
Jefferson
Clay
Adams
Jackson
Madison
Monroe
Hamilton
Patrick Henry
Emerson
Lowell
Whittier
Longfellow
Stowe
Irving
Trawthorne
Bryant
Bancroft
Poe
Cooper
Holmes
Parkman
Mark Twain
Alicé
Palmer
Emma Willard
Edwards
Beecher
Channing
Williams
Brooks
Frances “Willard
Peabody
Peter Cooper
Cushman
Saint-Gaudens
Whistler
Stuart
Ends
Morton
Marshall
Choate
Kent
Story
Daniel Boone
Monuments to Apples and Originators Across North America
The Detroit News notes at least seven monuments to apples and their originators in the United States including the Baldwin Delicious Northern Spy Rome Beauty Wealthy and York Imperial and a Dunela Ontario tribute to the McIntosh Bed. A Concord Massachusetts 1900 tablet honors Ephraim W Bull, originator of the Concord grape, with his account of finding the best early seedling and selecting the Concord as the sole worthy seedling among wilds.
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United States
Detroit News
Baldwin
Rome
York
Concord
Mass
Ephraim W. Bull
Names for NYU Hall of Fame span many fields
The NYU Hall of Fame selects dead candidates aged 25 or more years past from authors and engineers to missionaries and explorers. A college of electors from across the United States and various professions chooses inductees. Fifty were inscribed initially and more names will be added until 2000 to reach a total of 100 inscriptions.
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New York University
Hall of Fame
Street Two Blocks Wide Gruyeres Market Day Tale
In Gruyeres Switzerland a single main thoroughfare hosts a central fountain and a busy washday scene where village housewives wash laundry. A nearby oblong stone bears depressions used by a grain dealer as makeshift measures on market days. The buyer signals quantity and grain is poured into sacks through a bottom plug.
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Gruyeres
Canton
Fri ‘Bourg
Switzerland
Canada Builds Its Own Navy and Relys on Britain
The Canadian defense system relies on both a domestic navy and the British fleet. Dominion forces guard local waters while Britain leads strategic imperial defense. The Canadian navy was established in 1910.
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Canada
Dominions
British Empire
Imperial Defense Committee
Esta
Baxter State Park and 90000 Acre Wildlife Sanctuary
The article notes a state reservation Baxter State Park with a 90 000 acre region preserved as a game sanctuary. Deer black bear and moose live there within the protected area.
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Baxter State Park
Richland P T A Plans Panel Discussion At Next Week
Richland grammar school sponsors a special meeting Tuesday January 14 at 2 45 P M A panel on art teaching will be led by Misses Dederick Maddox and Mrs Engle from the focal grammar school faculty The program aims to inform parents about art education.
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Richland
School District Trustees Elected In June Under New Law
County superintendent of schools notes a change from March to June elections for district trustees under a new law. Current trustees will automatically continue in their roles until next June, according to Healy.
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Healy
Mineralogists of State to Meet in Kern Co Next Year
T V Little, president of Kern county Mineralogical Society, announced on returning from Pasadena that the California Federation of Mineralogical Societies formed at its weekend meeting will hold its first state convention in Bakersfield in 1937. He was joined by his son Donald and Paul Vander Eike of Bakersfield, and described a highly instructive gathering at Pasadena.
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Shafter High
Bakersfield
Ed Hein
Julia Cross
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
Shafter
California Federation of Mineralogical Societies
Pasadena
T. V. Little
News Organization
Little
Kern County
Donald
Paul Vander Eike
Music Man Phillips Visits Shafter on Monday
P. L. Phillips, proprietor of the Phillips Music Company and the Phillips School of Music in Bakersfield, spent Monday afternoon in Shafter transacting business and visiting friends. The Shafter Press notes his pleasant visit while in town.
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Phillips
Phillips Music Company
Phillips School of Music
Bakersfield
Shafter
Shafter Press
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Enns
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18Th Street
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Santa F Railway
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New York
Fred Harvey
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