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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1949
Page
3
Mr and Mrs Joe Westbrook spend ten days in Los Angeles visiting the home of Mr and Mrs Shelton Carpenter. They will return to Shafter via Inyo Kern and visit with Mr and Mrs Levi Gaskins, former Shafter residents.
Torrance resident Richard Boal, nephew of Mrs. Al Finkbeiner, is visiting at the Finkbeiner home this week.
Mrs Larry Weimer and her daughter Suzy are spending the week in Bakersfield at the home of Mrs Weimer’s sister.
Week end guests at the home of Mr and Mrs R C Kirkham were Mr and Mrs Fred Kirkham of Berkeley Mr and Mrs William Kirkham and children Carol Lynn and Bill of Oakland and Mr and Mrs Ted O Neal of San Francisco.
Mr and Mrs Arnold Heffley will spend the Fourth of July weekend in Richmond with their son Wayne Heffley his wife and child Michael and Patricia Louise. They will stay at the home of Wayne Heffley and family.
Mr and Mrs Dee Hampton and John Hampton plan a weekend visit in Los Angeles from Saturday to Monday at the home of Mrs Hampton sister in law Mrs J C Cosby.
Mrs Hugh Sill and daughters will leave for Bakersfield today to live for two months in the home of Mr Sill's mother Mrs Catherine Sill while she vacations in Carmel.
Mr and Mrs Chuck Cottrell of Los Angeles stay with Mr and Mrs Al Finkbeiner in Kern County to attend the Shrine convention.
Muriel E Kirkham of Bakersfield married Jack Hale Kitchings in a June 25 ceremony at the Little Chapel of Sacred Memories Bakersfield officiated by Rev Gordon J Baker. Attendants included matron of honor Mrs Roy Crockett and best man Charles Lynch. Guests, reception details, two-week honeymoon, and home at 1720 Palm Avenue noted.
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