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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1947
Page
6
Members of the Shafter High School Horizon Club will travel to Sequoia this Sunday February 2. About twenty five senior Campfire members have signed up for the outing. A school patron funded a bus for the trip and the group will leave early to ski skate and toboggan for the day.
The Council explains its service aims for a healthful, sanitary city and notes cooperation with Kern County Board of Supervisors. Ordinance No. 59, the garbage ordinance, was drafted to be county wide and is progressing toward routine adoption.
Miss Ruth Hilbert of Shafter High begins teaching artcraft for the new semester replacing Miss Violet Brughelli. The change frees Brughelli to supervise the school lunch room, a duty she holds in full. Several schedule shifts move Hilbert from an English class to her new home economics role.
Esther Linda of Kingsbury spent time with her brother Wesley Linda and his family last week, according to local notices.
An all-star Fresno State alumni basketball team will play the current Bulldogs in a charity game at Roosevelt High School in Fresno. Coach Gib Rambo led the 1932 to 1935 squads, with Dutch Warmerdam joining the alumni squad. he is now at Stanford coaching track and soccer.
Funeral services were conducted at 2 00 p m Wednesday at the Reformed Church for Emanuel Goehring 66 a retired farmer and Shafter resident who died January 24 at Camarillo State Hospital He was born November 9 1880 in South Dakota He leaves a wife four sons a daughter 13 grandchildren his mother eight brothers and three sisters living in South Dakota Iowa and Idaho including Emanuel Raymond Theora Albert Gustave Reinault Alvin Eugene Katie Frier Anna Roth and Martha Kaufman
Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Hoffman reside at Kern Homes after a Fresno January 19 wedding at Francisca chapel. Rev. Bunny officiated in a candle lit ceremony. Mrs. Hoffman wore apple green gabardine with silver trim and carried white orchid and cyclamen. The couple honeymooned in Yosemite before returning home.
Mrs Hanley Witcher and her children along with her brother Charles Poston traveled to Santa Paula to visit Mr and Mrs Oscar Poston.
Week end visitors at the Al Finkbeiners home were Mr and Mrs Floyd Gower of Glendale.
Midwinter Fair opened in San Francisco on January 27, 1894. The week also marks January 30 the birthday of Franklin D Roosevelt and noting Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30, 1847.
The Pinochle club gathered Saturday night at Esther Miller's Wasco home with guests from Shafter including Oscar Weidman C G Lindquist and Ralph Sanderson and Wasco visitors John Rogers Harry Fowler and Jeanette Stoner and Miller Prizes awarded to Mesdames Stoner Rogers and Sanderson.
Richland teachers Marjorie Patton and Hilma Potter spent the weekend away from home visiting Fresno and Los Angeles respectively.
Mr and Mrs Mylo Mettlex and family spent Sunday at Ft Tejon trout fishing at Crystal Falls Rainbow Trout Farm. They caught two dozen, which they purchased and brought home.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Nay and Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Dickson head of the Ag Department at Bakersfield High School went to Santa Barbara this week for school business.
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