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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1940
Page
4
Miss Barbara Caldwell hosted a layette shower at her Los Angeles avenue home Monday afternoon in honor of Mrs Leon Smith and Mrs Floyd Barton. Guests included Mrs Ray Mettler and many friends. Prizes went to Mrs Smith and Mrs Ernestine Waller.
Rio Bravo notes list visitors including Miss Winona Wade from San Jose and Mrs C L Martin from Bakersfield. Mr and Mrs E B Suydam toured Los Angeles. Mrs Birdie Grose, Kernville, is recovering after Mercy Hospital surgery. Haag family and Curtis relatives spent a week in Martinez and San Joaquin. Jim Parker and family planned return from a weeklong trip in Oklahoma and Texas.
In Las Vegas July 11 wedding anniversary honor for Miss Laurene Sanderson now Mrs George Gaede. Mrs Harvey Gaede and Mrs Ernest Schnidt hosted at Mrs Lawrence Annis home. Bunco prizes to Miss Dorothy Johnson Mrs Ray Mettler and Mrs Gaede. A buffet with a white silver centerpiece, and a musical bridal cake played Lohengrin’s Wedding March.
Shafter library received thirty adult books in the regular mid month shipment per librarian Mrs. Thomas Wedge. The list includes titles by Bassett Bechdelt Douglas Faulkner Oppenheim Seltzer Seltzer etc, plus widely known children's works and biographies.
Clarence Campbell of Wasco spoke at Tuesday noon on the romance of lumber during a Shafter Rotary lunch. Rodney Turner discussed tax cuts at the state capitol, noting California loses about a billion dollars annually. Guests included T. W. Little and visiting Rotarians Henry Eissler and Walter Foot. Mrs C B Yates was hospitalized for a broken leg after a fall. Fred Vaughn plans to stay after returning from Alabama, and baseball with Birmingham is halted by an infected eye. Berkeley visitors included Jim Kokchritz and Mrs Kokchritz, niece of A R Duehren.
A public notice outlines the proposed current expense appropriation for the 1940 41 school year. It details funding priorities for classrooms, administration, and maintenance to support district educational programs.
European war effects hit Shafter potato growers as orders for sulphate of ammonia are cancelled and prices rise. A Canadian miner withdraws fertilizer materials for war needs, Shell pro rates supply to about 20 percent, and eastern firms may start making fertilizer to meet demand. Unsettled timing disrupts next season’s plantings.
July 24 1940 notice states a proposal to sell beer at Savage's Cafe on Shafter Highway Kern County fifteen days after posting. Application filed with State Board of Equalization in Sacramento for an on sale beer license transferred from Jess W Smith to Ralph J Smith. Protest grounds may be filed with the State Board of Equalization.
Rev. A. A. Smith principal of the City Mission of the Mennonite Brethren conference in Minneapolis and his wife and family visit the Karber home this week. He spoke at the Shafter Mennonite Brethren church Sunday evening and led services at the Bakersfield church Sunday morning.
Mrs. Dave Unruh returned last evening from Oakland where she had visited for several days.
Miss Vernice Carruthers of Montebello has spent a week in Shafter as guest of Miss Rachel Mouser. Miss Mouser planned to depart today to visit Miss Carruthers at her home.
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