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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1950
Page
4
Mrs Ray Cummings honored at a layette shower Sunday afternoon in the Veterans Memorial Hall. A large group of friends attended and were served ice cream punch and cake from a table decorated in white with a stork centerpiece.
Women modeled in a fashion show during the sixth annual Potato Growers Convention luncheon in Bakersfield. Heading committee for other arrangements were C J Vignolo Clarence Neuman and Rolf Jacobsen. Engagement dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Oliver Unruh at Acacia Avenue featured newly engaged couples Peggy Nikkel and Leland Kroeker Ella Dueck and Bob Bergmann among other guests. Table decor used pink and yellow with ring napkin holders. Vote April.
Saturday brought birthday celebrations in the Ralph Boel household. Brenda Ann marked her eighth birthday with a group of friends, while Bonner Boel enjoyed his tenth birthday with a lunch and motion pictures in the afternoon.
Evangeline Steele the 1949 Shafter Potato Festival Queen will marry Kenneth Allen of Bakersfield at 4 p.m. Sunday in the First Christian Church Bakersfield. The ceremony precedes reception for about 500 guests with soloists and organ accompaniment.
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