Shafter Colony Emerges As Model Farm District In Kern County
Shafter grows into a thriving settlement site 17 miles northwest of Bakersfield on the Santa Fe line. More than 150 families have located here after land sales, with water proven for pump irrigation and a colony bank opening. The district supports dairies, orchards, vineyards, and diverse trades, aided by promoter H. A. Jastro of Kern County Land Company. Notable homesteaders and farms include G. L. Robinson, Thad W. Roe, and P. P. Bender ranches. The area features a four-teacher grammar school, sandy loam soil, 19 to 55 foot water lifts, and vigorous agricultural output including grapes and deciduous fruits.
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Shafter Colony
H.A. Jastro
Kern County Land Company
Colony Town
Bakersfield
Santa Fe
Colony Bank
P. P. Bender
Shafter
Wasco
Kern County
Thad W. Roe
Good soil cited as key to farming success in Shafter colony
The son helps sustain farming after the father sells 20 acres for 10000 dollars. In 1919 about 500 acres were planted, debt cleared in two seasons. The Shafter district attracts settlers with diverse crops including beans potatoes melons and garden truck. The soil is easily worked level and free from objectionable features with ample domestic and stock water.
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Shafter District
Shafter
Haag wins American Legion oratory award medal
Haag wins local level of the 47th annual National High School Oratorical Contest held by American Legion Post 213 on January 8, 1984. Kim Haag and Denise Regier took turns delivering prepared and extemporaneous speeches on the Constitution and the Third Amendment with a panel of five judges.
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American Legion Post 213
United States
Kim Haag
Denise Regier
Fachgirl
Barbara Hays
Shafter High
Kathy Abernathy
Bill Thomas
Larry Wooden
Shell California Production, Inc
August Caires
Gene Guenther
Kenneth Twisselman
Margaret Hansen
Norman Spicer
Dan Hammett
Grady Bartlett
Bakersfield
Death notices for Viola Cobb and Robbie Cast in Shafter area
Death services were held January 23 for Viola Cobb 77 who died January 19 in Bishop after illness. Rev J A Maxwell officiated with burial in Shafter Memorial Park. Survivors include four sons two of them Dennis Tenn and Dennis Arroyo Grande Milburn Independence Troy Joe Courtland and one daughter Goldie Norman Courtland plus 16 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Also notice of burial for Robbie Estelle Cast of Shafter who died January 4 in a Bakersfield hospital. Interment was in Rush Springs Oklahoma. Cast was born Breckenridge Texas and moved to Shafter in 1983. She belonged to the Mr Baptist Church and enjoyed gardening quilts and homemaking with three children Sovera Compton Shafter Claudia Couch Oklahoma City and J R Cast Marlow Oklahoma and one brother Ennis Ray Carmichael California.
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Viola Cobb
Bishop
J. A. Maxwell
Shafter Memorial Park
Cobb
Shafter
Campbell
Missouri
Independence
Milburn
Dennis
Tenn
Arroyo Grande
Troy Joe
Courtland
Goldie Norman
Grace Killion
Marlo
Oklahoma
Bobbie Estelle Cast
Bakersfield
Rush Springs
Brekenridge
Texas
Sovera Compton
Claudia Couch
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Kern
G.L. Robinson
F.E. Mannell
R. Stansberry
Charles E. Russell
G. H
Ben’’ Grundy
Caribbean
Viola
Bobbie Estelle
J. R. Cast
Marlow, Oklahoma
Ennis Ray
Carmichiel, Ca
Spades
Veterans Memorial Building
Shafter Rosary Club
Inchetos
Shafter Sports Center
Shafter Drug Store
Levi
NIKE
Adventura
Interwonen
OVENS
Mens Lab
Converse
Central Ave
Calif
Lages
la Levi Hendoneers
Beno’s
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