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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1949
Page
7
Officers of the Shafter Art Association announce the resumption of painting classes. The weekly meeting is Tuesday at Richland Grammar School, starting at 7 30 p m, with strong interest shown in the activity by group leaders.
A Kern County Young Farmers' Association event plans a field day in the Arvin area on Sunday March 27. Activities include planting more than three miles of Tamarisk wind-break cuttings, a 2 pm pot-luck dinner, and a 10 am start at Jack Busby’s Buena Vista Road home. Families and veterans on the institutional on-farm training program are invited.
Elmer Nightingale and Harlan Cramer visited Glendale at Nightingale’s brother’s home. Elmer attends Bakersfield College Company. The Kern County Union High School District through Bakersfield Evening High School hosts the Young Farmers field day this Sunday. Community members are invited to join and bring a dish for the 2 PM potluck.
Ezra J. Walton died March 21 in Keene California at age 54. The body was sent to Broken Arrow Oklahoma for services to be held later. He was born April 26, 1895 in Carter Arkansas and had lived with daughter Loreta Cannon in Cawelo for about six months before entering the Keene Sanitarium. He leaves a mother Jane Walton of Monette Missouri and several children including Harwood Walton Wayne Walton Lorraine Lakin Marie Rudell and a daughter in Cawelo.
The notice invites interested persons to obtain further information by calling Shafter 713. Classes will resume under Ellis Howen of Bakersfield, a recognizable talent in dance instruction.
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