Shafter News Highlights Local Weekend Travel and Visits
Numerous Shafter residents and families spent Sundays and weekends visiting Pismo Beach Kern River Park and Jack Ranch. Individuals included F M Foster of Taft Gas, the Neufelds, Gages, Norin, McClain, Grose, Frizzell family, Buren Mayfield, and others on trips to California coast parks and twin rides to Vernon Texas and Oakland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. M. Foster
Shafter
Aee Coe Gas Company
Mr. Foster
Taft
Phil Ohanneson Leaves for Woodland to Join Wife
Phil Ohanneson departs this evening for Woodland to unite with his wife who is staying with her mother Mrs. H. Gray. Mrs Ohanneson plans to spend most of the summer there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Ohanneson
Woodland
H. Gray
Local Shafter Social Roundup Spans Towns and Travels
Sunday visits and family outings fill the Shafter area notes. Mr and Mrs T V Little and others spend the day at Sugar Loaf cabin. Dave Unruh and family at Jack Ranch report locals seen. Miss Erma Cox and Ruby Ayres visit San Francisco Bay area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gages
Jack Ranch
Sugar Loaf
Mrs. T. V. Little
Lee Wade
Gene Boserdette
Dave Unruhs
Dave Unruh
Shafter
Erma Cox
Denver
San Francisco
Bay Region
Ruby Ayres
Western Union manager leaves Shafter after potato rush
Andy Hardie arrived in Shafter in mid May as special Western Union manager and departed Friday after overseeing the potato season rush. Misses Rubena and Lena Shultz returned from Mount Hermon where they attended a Bible conference and enjoyed a cool week. Herbert Midgley Jr and James Stone visited Santa Barbara for ocean swimming, traveling via Taft and Cuyama Valley and returning Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abe Isaacs
Mt. Hermon
Abee Isaac
Mount Hermon
Andy Hardie
Shafter
Western Union
Rubena
Lena Shultz
Herbert Midgley, Jr
James Stone
Santa Barbara
Taft
Cuyama Valley
Mother And Cousin Visit California Home
Mrs Linton Jones and Miss Fanny Tommerson of St Louis arrived Saturday at the Herbert Jones home for a two weeks visit. They are Mrs Jones's mother and a cousin and are seeing the California mountains for the first time.
Potato buyers to head for Santa Maria for harvest
D. W. Ferguson potato buyer joins William Streeter Hugh Loughlin J J Siemens shed owner and spud grower R B Hendrick J C Siemens to travel to Santa Maria at week start to oversee potato season expected to begin August 1. They spent Sunday there and report ample labor ready for the harvest draw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. W.ferguson
William Streeter
Hugh Loughlin
J. J. Siemens
R. B. Hendrick
J. C. Siemens
Santa Maria
Klingenbergs Return From Vacation Trip
Mr and Mrs Don Klingenberg returned Sunday night from Santa Ana where they spent a week with Mr and Mrs A A Klingenberg. They visited beaches in the south drove to San Diego and crossed the border to Tia Juana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
J. J. Klassen
Reedley
J. P. Neufeld
W. Heads
L. W. Head
Sequoia Park
Park
L. N
Waldo Unruh
Orville Schenkowski
Hillsboro
Kansas
Waldo
South
C. H. Stewart
C. B. Hammond
H. H. Schmidt
Elsie Schmidt
Capitola
San Francisco
Concord
Alex Bietz
Schmidt
Schmidts
H. C. Skinner
W. K. Lee
Bakersfield
Kernville
Walter Stepp
Charles Blansett
McAllister
Oklahoma
Arthur Stepp
T. L. Bryant
Mary Turner
Midget Phares
Isabella
Greenhorn
Blansetts
Don Klingenberg
Santa Ana
Mr. Klingenberg
A. A. Klingenberg
Klingenbergs
San Diego
Tia Juana
Potato Yields Rise in Kern County
Agricultural Commissioner M A Lindsay of Bakersfield announced a dramatic rise in potato yields in Kern County from 75 sacks per acre in 1927 to 287 sacks per acre in 1938. He credited better seed treatment and correct fertilization for the increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
M. A. Lindsay
Bakersfield
Richland School Rebuilds Old Shop for Bus Storage
The old manual training building at the north edge of Richland Grammar School yard is being rebuilt by school janitors to house two buses for use when the fall term opens. For the past year the structure has been used for storage.
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Richland Grammar School
County Crew Sprays Park Trees With Arsenic Oil
In Shafter a county truck crew treated all trees in the county park with an arsenic and oil spray to combat red spider and elm beetle officials said Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
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Oscar Newsom
Pismo
K. G. Neufeld
Pismo Beach
George Noriis
George Norin
San Jose
Mrs. Lawrence
She- Walter
Roy Huss
Bernice Denio
Kern Park
Mrs. Otis McClain
W. C. Grose
Pismo Sun
Mrs. Grose
Ocean Resort
Mrs. Harvey Wheat
Pearl Chafin
Miss Deweather
E. H. Griffith
Eddie
Arline Ethel
Hollywood
A. K. Garnes
Griffith
Mrs. Garnes
Alfred Chandler
Los Angeles
Alfred T. Chandler
Union Congregational Church
Young ‘People’s Commission
Tannahills
W. Tannahill
Santa Fe
Alex
Pacific Grove
E. G
Gamegen
Tannahill
J. W. Frizzell
Virginia
General Grant Park
Badger Road
Long Beach
Z. C. Bartel
J. W. Nickel
Vernon
Darby
Texas
Darby Day
Don
Ben
J.B. Witcher
Plainville
Lone Star State
James Livers
Portuguese Meadows
Buena Vista Lake
Lester Neufeld
Vernon Neufeld
Ruth
Edna Neuman
Lester
Geneva Payne
Oakland
Berkeley
Carter
North
Lyn Mason
Miss Payne
Payne
Ronald Savage
Roy Skaggs
Tommy Friesen
Elmer Richards
Johnny Dirksen
Buren Mayfields
Jerry Billyard
Ira Unruh
Kenneth Unruh
Max McKinley
Furgasons
C.R. Furgason
Delano
River
Ed Weidenbach
D. Nix
Kern River Park
A. C. Neufeld
Arnold
New Mexico
Henry Janzens
Shaffer
Henry Janzen
el Centro
Mr. Janzen
F. H. Janzen
Lester Hunter
Mrs. Hunter
Jones
Charles Starrett
Call OF the Rogkies
Ronald Regan
Dorothy Lamour
Martha Raye
Bob Burns
Melvyn Douglas
Richland Building
Mobilgas and Motor Oils
Westinghouse
Top Shelf
Westinghouse Proving
New West
Home Appliance CO
Emil Stoller
Acciatore
Aas
L. H. McGrane
Central Ave
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