Shafter Social Notes Highlight Birthdays and Weddings
A flurry of Shafter social events includes Norma Lea Cloud wedding Fred Stillman with Rev. Alfred Chandler officiating and a two week honeymoon in the northern state. Virginia Stone birthday sock shower at First Baptist with guests and families present. Ten Shafter girls head to Greenhorn Girl Scout camp for a week. Dorothea Peak wed Albert Peters in Bakersfield Little Chapel of Sacred Memory. Both couples planned to reside in Shafter after graduation.
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A. P
Virginia Stone
First Baptist Church of
Shafter
Miss Stone
Miss. Stone
Frances Kattenhorn
Barbara Caldwell
Margaret Wiebe
Winifred Wiebe
Jessie Gwin
Hulda Suderman
Molly McAllister
Bob Stone
Bob Abrams
Lawrence Kattenhorn
Clarence Kattenhorn
Paul van Gorkom
John Hetz
Richard Hetz
Phil Sielig
Edgar McAllister
Greenhorn
O. T. Olson
Evelyn Hadlock
Frances Clawson
Ruth Scott
la Rue Livers
Dorothea Peak
J. F. Peak
Albert Peters
Jacob. Peters
Monteen Pateete
Ben Peters
Thelma Hilderbrand
East
Middle West
Mrs. Peters
Shafter High School
California Farm Prices Fall in June Says Giannini Report
The Giannini Foundation reports June farm quotations show 21 of 24 commodities below June 1937, with eggs, chickens and potatoes rising. Sixteen items also fell from May to June 1938, including beef cattle and wheat, making the 1938 May-June index 80 of the 1910–15 base and among the lowest in recent years.
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California
Giannini Foundation
University of California College of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Local Names Listed in Community Directory
A fragment lists individuals including Peters Misses Ruby Brown Nell Chennis Evelyn Dohner Kathryn York Kathryn Tillotson Rubena Peters Jessie Gwin Nellie Peak Winifred Wiebe and Poteete.
Coroner’s Verdict Declares Moody Death Accidental
A coroner’s inquest at Janzen Funeral Home ruled Vernon Moody 22 of Oklahoma died accidentally near Wasco when a radio aerial on a water tower touched a 10 000 volt line. Moody’s body was sent to Oklahoma for funeral services as responders failed to revive him. He leaves a wife and a five month old baby hospitalized in Merced, plus his mother, father and two Wasco brothers Elmer and Willie.
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Janzen
Vernon Moody
Oklahoma
Wasco
Poso
Moody
San Joaquin Light and Power Company
Elmer
Willie
Merced
Examiner Warns Drivers To Check License Expires
California Highway Patrol official Vern L. Roberts urges motorists to verify license expirations. An event at the American Legion hall runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to assist with license checks and renewals.
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Vern. L. Roberts
California State Highway Patrol
American Legion Hall
Fair Glamour and the Endless Fair Talk
The piece mocks sensational New York fair hype, listing grand but dubious attractions such as a 200 foot steel globe and a 700 foot spire, an escalator into the globe, a colossal sundial, and a parade of unlikely wonders. The tone questions whether press hype should be trusted as the event nears.
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New York
Origin of the White House name debated in history
A writer in the Indianapolis News notes the origin of the White House name is disputed. The residence built of Virginia freestone was gray, and after the 1814 British fire and 1817 restoration the exterior darkened from its former color.
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United States
Indianapolis News
Virginia Freestone
Nighttime dilemma over a doctor's prescription
A distraught wife contemplates how to fill a fever prescription for her child. She hesitates to tell the doctor her husband Joe is late, thinking of delivery options while recalling Joe’s absence at the minstrel show. The scene ends with uncertainty in the dim hallway.
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Connor
Joe
Western Union
Joe at the Door in a Night of Illness
Allison and Joe share a tense night as their sick child asks for care. Joe arrives for medicine on the steps, visits the doctor, and returns with toast and malted milk. Allison questions Joe’s reliability while he offers quiet support and plans to get tickets for a future outing.
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Joe
Allison
San Joaquin Valley letter targets Secretary Wallace
Ed Ainsworth recounts in a Stockton letter that the San Joaquin Valley farms, workers, and observers blame Secretary Wallace for agricultural cuts. He notes 40 percent reductions in cotton acreage and widespread job loss, with farmers' despair and pauper babies in Kern County hospitals. He ends urging Wallace to sleep well, as he is the man who killed farm work.
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San Joaquin Valley
Ainsworth
Wallace
Stockton
Washington, D. C
San Joaquin
Farley
Kings County
Great Valley
Kern County
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J. C. Ohanneson
Norma Lea Cloud
Fred S
Norma Lea Cloud of
Shef
Janssen
Verna Mae
Edna Louise
B. Dorris
Mary Lamb
R. B. Hedrick
Gertrude
Dorothy Major
Jerry Griffith
Hanna Jean Grose
Rome
N. New York
White House
Secretary Wallace
Fen
Heris
Bakersfield
the Lower
Sam Joaquin Vallon
Warneree
Jean Hersholt, Peter
Preston Foster
Madge Evans
Neil Hamilton
Ruth Donnelly
the Nile
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