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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1937
Page
4
Voters in Shafter Public Utility District head to the polls on Saturday to approve a 28000 bond for sewer work and a 5000 bond for a new water well, with federal aid of 27000 already assured pre election. Local officials stress civic duty and urge turnout to ensure a strong yes.
A reflective poem recalling childhood by a rushing rill and waterfall. The speaker longs for evenings beneath trees to hear the whippoorwill and its plaintive call. The verse travels from childhood memories to adult wanderings and the wish to return to peaceful hours by the waterfall.
Delano prepares for a county oratorical contest meeting next Tuesday evening to draft arrangements. The event is planned for late March or early April with attendees including W. B. White, J. H. Porter of Shafter, and several public speaking students from the high school.
A critique lauds The Chinese Orange Mystery as a peak of baffling suspense. Inspector Richard Queen seeks the murdered man’s identity, uncovering a web of suspects on the Hotel Chancellor’s twenty second floor.
Numerous global incidents populate the week including the death of veteran actor Edward Irwin in London at 70, Italian firing squad killing Ras Desta Demtu, and a Belgian military camp explosion that claimed seven officers. Other items cover aviation honors, royal fortunes, political moves, court cases, disasters, and regional local notes from New Orleans to Bakersfield.
The Men nonite Brothern church male chorus of twenty traveled to Ventura on Sunday to perform at the First Baptist church. Arnold Bergen directed the group.
A Los Angeles museum exhibit shows a dark wood crossbow nearly four feet long. The weapon features a top magazine slot that would hold 20 arrows, feeding new shafts as fast as one is fired, illustrating the premodern parallel to a machine gun.
The police area covers London county and neighboring territory spanning about 700 square miles. The metropolitan police oversee public order in this central England region and answer to the home secretary of Great Britain.
Francisco Goya born in 1746 in Fuendetodos, Aragon, to peasant origins. The note highlights his regional roots and early life background.
At a Wednesday meeting the Girls Letter Club decided to hold a bicycle ride and weiner roast after school on March 28. The group also discussed awarding pins to members who have earned 1000 athletics points.
A fragmentary passage suggests eyes hidden in sand or beneath decaying matter as part of a morgue or burial scene. The wording implies preservation or concealment of a body element within decomposition.
Shafter High School track athletes gear up for the inter class meet on Friday afternoon March 19. Team rosters show A class led by Mike Janzen and Jim Horton, B class with Merwin Olson and Darrell Griffith, and C class including Dick Kliewer and Elmer Unruh. The squad aims to improve on last season with optimism for strong performances across divisions.
Senior Hi Y members voted to plant trees and shrubs in Shafter park. The group met at Shafter High School where secretary Mr Ford of Kern County Y M C A will address the boys next Tuesday about Hi Y aims and scope. The meeting reviewed Ford’s earlier speech to the organization.
Canada covers 3 694 863 square miles as shown. The United States excluding Alaska measures 2 026 789 square miles. Alaska adds 586 400 square miles. The United States and all possessions total 3 728 895 square miles.
Ten month old Donald Bruce Heinrichs son of Mr and Mrs John died of pneumonia at a Bakersfield hospital. He was buried in Shafter cemetery Tuesday afternoon with services at Janzen Funeral Home led by Rev Co C Van Gorkom and hymns by Sam Janzen.
Church notes list 9:30 a m church school with seven departments and an 11:00 a m service. Text is Mark 4 25. Sermon by Alfred T Chandler with Mrs J H Porterfield as minister of music. 6:30 Christian Endeavor leader Gerald Starrh.
A Reformered Church with Pastor A. Funck outlines services at 9:30 Sunday School 10:30 Morning Service and 7:00 German evening service. The sermon cites Revelation expert admonishing churches to repent or face discipline, urging rejection of worldly compromise and strict doctrine.
The excerpt cites a Bible verse on mankind created in God’s image and discusses God as Father and Mother. It references the Christian Science text and Mary Baker Eddy’s Health with Key to Scripures, highlighting themes of divine dominion and eternity.
The Christian Science Society of Boston, a branch of The Mother Church, advertises Sunday services at 11 a.m and Sunday School at 10 a.m. A Wednesday evening meeting is held the first Wednesday of each month at 8:00 o’clock. The Lesson-Sermon on Man features Isaiah’s words and scriptural verses from Genesis.
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