Shafter Faces Wildflower Festival Clash With Progress
The 1937 Kern County Wildflower Festival in Shafter is praised for its lavish displays, while Arvin loses festival status due to 5000 acres under cultivation. The piece suggests setting aside 640 acres as a national monument to preserve fields, warns of extinction of poppies and lupines, and notes Los Angeles racketeering as a separate vent.
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Shafter
Kern County
Arvin
Los Angeles
Underworld
Holy Week and Easter Observances Worldwide
The article describes Holy Week practices celebrated globally by Christians from Palm Sunday to Easter. It highlights Shafter’s sunrise Easter services among wildflower fields and recalls events from Maundy Thursday washing of feet to Good Friday crucifixion. It notes Christians honor Christ and reflect during the week.
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Shafter
Nature
Christ
Easter Cantata and missions program at MennoniteBrethren church
Church notes announce Easter Sunday services led by Minister Wm J Bestwater with choir numbers and the theme Behold I Live. Evening gatherings include M B Christian Fellowship at 6 30 and a 7 30 Easter cantata open to the public. Rev N N Hiebert from Salem Oregon to discuss Foreign Missions. Bible study sessions on Genesis offered in English.
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Wm. J. Bestwater
M. B. Christian Fellowship
N. N. Hiebert
Salem
Oregon
East
Sunday Visitors Callers and Local Guests Across Rio Bravo
Rio Bravo notes multiple households hosting Sunday visitors including Mrs Cooper J A Hylton from Fellows and A V Hylton of Los Angeles. Guests at various homes include the Sade family, Carl Haag, Walter White, Charles Stone, Paul Fillmore family, Eudora Baldwin, and several others from Old River Whittier Buena Vista and nearby areas.
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Cooper
J. A. Hylton
Fellows
A. V. Hylton
Los Angeles
W. B. Wilson
John Sade
Carl Haag
Walter White
Charles Stone
Whittier
Paul Fillmore
Buena Vista
Eudora Baldwin
Ruby Griffith
Reba Griffith
Walter Griffith
Curtis Haney
Clifford Zachary
Patsy
Harold Wood
Walter
Martha Wood
Old River
Clyde Zachary
E. G. Kruger
Pany
el Tejon Hotel
Audrey Ramsay
Wanda Hylton
Ana Lee Ferguson
Baby
Donald
al Nikkel
German Seventh Day Adventist Lenten and Easter Services
The Rev G Langkammerer to lead Good Friday services in German at Lerdo church with the theme Christ s Suffering and Death to Our Salvation A German address will follow The Easter sermon in English Sunday March 28 at 10 30 at the same church Theme The Importance of the Resurrection of Our Savior A German language communion service will be held All Lutherans and friends invited to attend
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G. Langkammerer
First Mennonite Church Service Schedule
J W Bergen leads a German service at 9 30 a m followed by Sunday School at 10 a m and sermon at 11 00 a m A Young Peoples program at 7 00 p m On Good Friday services are at 7 30 p m All are welcome to worship with us.
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First Mennonite Church
J. W. Bergen
Young Peoples
Union Congregational Easter Services Schedule
Good Friday evening service at 8:00 p m Sacrament of the Holy Communion all are welcome Sunrise Easter Services at flower Fields meet at the church with cars at 5 20 a m Those without cars will be arranged Easter Day Services Church School 9 50 a m Church Services 11 00 a m Sermon The Man on The Road To Calvary Alfred T Chandler Minister Endeavor 6 30 p m Starrh leader
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Union Congregational Church
Flower Fields
Calvary
Alfred T. Schandler
Endeavor
Starrh
Serious Epidemic Infections Emphasized in Disease and Destiny
The work lists the most serious infections known to man including smallpox diphtheria leprosy typhus yellow fever syphilis plague and tuberculosis highlighting their global impact and historical severity.
Rio Bravo Youth Picnic And Local Landmark Demolished
Junior Sunday school classes from Rio Bravo enjoyed a picnic near the poppy fields east of the Rio Bravo schoolhouse with many families listed as attendees. A historic barn once owned by pioneer Kratzmer near the H J Brandt dairy is being demolished to make way for a modern building, replacing lumber hauled from the Greenhorn mill nearly fifty years ago.
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Rio Bravo
Clyde Zachary
Donald
Philip Zachary
Effie
Ruth Glover
Dolly
Eriven Hueitz
Bobby
Marianne Devlin
Jean
Haag
Ruth
Kathryn
Gene
Eloise Merrill
Mary Lorraine
Columbus
Lewi Rice
Betty
Lucille
Geneva
Junior Mathis
Russell
Marjorie Calder
Roland Lewis
Patsy
Zachary
Billie Irene Sade
Walter Wood
Lukie Holsenbake
Nadene Kruger
Cecilia Haag
Irene Wilson
C. Morril
J.B. Lewis
J. M. Mathis
Clifford Zachary
Harold Wood
C.H. White
Los Angeles
H. J. Brandt Dairy
Kratzmerg
Kern County
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