Wednesday Afternoon Club Hosts Book Section Meeting
The Social Realm Book Section met Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Phil Channeson's home. Mrs. Thomas Wedge reviewed several new books as Mesdames Wedge Guenther E P Jones J C Channeson The Peters Miss Viola Voth Mrs E C Eckman Wasco and Mrs Walter Emrick Bakersfield attended. Next meeting is May 17 at 2 30 at the club house with Mr Brock of Richland school to read a play. The Shafter high school camp fire girls plan to attend Kern county rally at Jefferson Park Bakersfield on May 15 where medals are awarded. they are choosing an Indian name for the local group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wednnesday Afternoon Club
Phil Channeson
Thomas Wedge
Guenther
E. P. Jones
J. C. Channeson
the Peters
J. J. Peters
Viola
Voth
E. C. Eckman
Wasco
Walter Emrick
Bakersfield
Brock
Richland Grammar School
Camp Fire Girls
Shafter High School
Kern County
Jefferson Park
Becker and Richert to Wed at Mennonite Church
Miss Lula Becker of Bakersfield plans to marry Melvin Richert of Bakersfield. The ceremony will take place Sunday, May 22, at the Mennonite Brethren church announced by Rev. Wm. J. Bestwater. Miss Becker is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J J Becker, Shafter contractor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lula Becker
Melvin Richert
Bakersfield
Wm. J. Bestwater
Mennonite Brethren Church
Miss Becker
J. J. Becker
Shafter
Luncheon For P T A Officers At Olson Home
At Olson home in Richland a luncheon was served Tuesday for the P T A officers of Richland school. Mrs. H C Neufeld and Mrs. J L Hill assisted. Plans discussed for work during the coming year with Mesdames Frizzel Baughman Fuller Henderson and others. Miss Albert Lantz among guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. T. Olson
P.T. A
Richland School
H. C. Neufeld
J. L. Hill
J. W. Frizzel
Lawrence Baughman
J. H. Fuller
Walter Beckman
Ed Warren
J. B. Henderson
Alice In
Albert Lantz
Wednes day Afternoon club reports funds and plans
At this week’s meeting new members led the program under Mrs. M. Thomas. The cook food sale netted over 28 dollars and the last dance brought more than 40 dollars. Card party funds funded a nursery school freezer. Alfred Smith and the elementary orchestra performed three numbers. T. V. Little displayed minerals and spoke on the collection. The hall featured garden flowers and refreshments were served. A Politician Dance is planned for Saturday night May 21 at the club house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Thomas
Alfred Smith
T. V. Little
Birthday party honors Mrs. Baxter in Wasco
Mrs. Frank Annis hosted relatives Friday for the birthday of her sister in law Mrs. J W Baxter. Straw berry short cake and coffee were served. Attendees included Mrs. Hugh Archer and Marguerite of Wasco. Mrs. Albert Annis and baby Charles. Mrs. Wm Wuruh. Mrs. Mary Beitz. and Mrs. Way Tucker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Annis
J. W. Baxter
Hugh Archer
Marguerite
Wasco
Albert Annis
Charles
Wm. Wuruh
Mary Beitz
Way Tucker
Richland P. T. A. Officers To Be Installed
The last meeting of the year for Richland P T A will be held at Richland school on Tuesday afternoon May 10 at 2 30. Kindergarten and first grade children present Maypole songs on the front lawn followed by vocal music by Donald Suydam. Mrs T V Little Shafter head of Kern County library school department will speak. New officers will be installed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
Donald Suydam
T. V. Little
Shafter
Kern County Library
Shafter Ex-Board Hosts Social With Neighboring Groups
A meeting of the Shafter high school ex-board planned a social for Saturday May 14 at Kern River Park. They invited ex-boards from Mc Farland Delano and Tehachapi to join in a mixed business and pleasure event with swimming games and a hearty lunch.
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Shafter High School
Kern River Park
McFarland, Delano
Tehachapi
Ladies Aid Meets for Pot Luck and Sewing Plan
The Congregational church ladies group met at Mrs. Nels Pedersons home for a pot luck dinner with desserts from Mrs. Elmer Chinberg Mrs. Elizabeth Ingram and Mrs. G Lindquist. E C Eckman led the devotional. Afterward the group sewed for an upcoming rummage sale. They were invited to join the Wasco group at the next regular gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Nels Pederson
Elmer Chinberg
Elizabeth Ingram
G. Lindquist
E. C. Eckman
Wasco
Shafter Girl Scouts Plan Wasco Visit For Scouting Talks
A Shafter Troop 1 group with mothers and leaders will travel to Wasco on Saturday to meet Wasco and Panama troops. Miss Kooyman of Utah will discuss camp plans during a special morning session for the girls and an afternoon meeting for the leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Troop 1
Wasco
Panama
Miss Kooyman
Utah
Auxiliary Nominates For Forthcoming Election
The Shorter American Legion Auxiliary met at the Legion hall with Mrs. Frank Annis presiding. Nominees for the ensuing year were announced including Mrs. Taylor Tabb for president and Mrs. J P Hanson for first vice president. Delegates named to the National Convention in Los Angeles and to the district council, and 550 poppies stickers prepared for sale on May 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Frank Annis
Taylor Tabb
J. P. Hanson
Jack Janzen
Glen Nay
H. G. Comfort
J. B. Henderson
George Enns
Clyde Bell
Julius Zimmerman
Los Angeles
Nay
Henderson
Annis
Lois Berry
Bell
Shafter Highway
Elizabeth Ingram
Home Economics Club Installs Officers At Shafter High
The annual banquet and candle light ceremony of the Home Economics club at Shafter High was held Tuesday with about 45 students attending. New officers installed were Mary Helen Connell president Rhona Mettler vice president and Mary Virginia Edwards secretary and treasurer. Retiring officers were Vivian Bartel president Mary Helen Connell vice president and Rhoda Kirschenmann secretary and treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Economics Club
Shafter High School
Home Economics
Eleanor Schaap
Mary Helen Connell
Rhona Mettler
Mary Virginia Edwards
Vivian Bartel
Rhoda Kirschenmann
Mennonite Brethren Church Announces May 8 Services
The Mennonite Brethren church led by Minister Wm. J. Bestwater lists May 8 schedules including 9:15 Sunday school 10:15 morning service 6:30 Young People's fellowship and 7:30 evening service with Rev Bestwater in charge J N Willems fills pulpit in minister's absence A FCA Inland Mission secretary reports activities and mission views Wednesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. J. Bestwater
J. N. Willems
Young Peoples’ Fellowship
Rev. Bestwater
Afca-Inland Mission
Union Congregational Church Service Schedule
The church features 9:50 a.m. church school 11 a.m. services with a sermon Tyranny and Power in Believing by Alfred T. Chandler. Music by Marie of Music and James Livers. 6:30 p.m. Christian Youth with Livers leading discussion. Guests from Wasco attend 7:20 p.m. Youth Evening Hour with Rev Donald Clarey. Tea hosted by Mrs Eckman and Mrs Dick Eckman at 8 p.m. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred ‘T. Chandler
Marie
James Livers
Marie Cakin
Argonauts
First Congregational Church
Wasco
Shafter
Church of Youth
Donald Clarey
Walter Eckman
Dick Eckman
First Baptist Church Bulletin May Services
Edgar H. McAllister pastor leads Sunday activities at 289 East Lerdo Highway with Sunday school at 10 morning service at 11 and evening sermon "The Greatest Missionary Book" at 8. Prayer League and Young People's Societies meet at 7. Wednesday May 11 features prayer praise and Bible study at 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Church
East Lerdo Highway
Edgar H. McAllister
Prayer League
Young People’s Societies
Arid Bible Study
Christian Science Society in Wasco Announces Sunday Services
The Christian Science Society, a branch of The Mother Church, in Wasco Massachusetts invites attendance at 11 a.m. Sunday service and 10 a.m. Sunday school. The Lesson Sermon titled Adam and Fallen Man is slated for Sunday, with Scriptural selections including Paul’s Epistles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Science Society
First
Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Massachusetts
Sixth
E Streets
Wasco
Adam
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Paul
Christ
Fragmentary Philosophical Verse Fragment
A fragment discusses converting sense into spirit and exchanging human concepts for divine consciousness. It suggests that through this transformation the mind will recognize a God given dominion and being. The passage reads as a meditation on awakening to a higher reality beyond ordinary perception.
Noted Artists To Appear In Bakersfield
Bakersfield to host a fall Kern County Musical Association season spotlighting Lily Pens of the Metropolitan Grand Opera, with Miss Pons, Joseph Hofmann, Igor Gorin, and Albert Spalding contracted to perform at the Fox Theatre under association auspices. A fifth concert is planned, promising a premier valley season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lily Pens
Metropolitan Grand Opera
Kern County Musical Association
Clarence Cullimore
Miss Pons
Joseph Hofmann
Igor Gorin
Albert Spalding
Fox Theatre
Bakersfield
Kern County Musical ‘Association
Cullimore
San Joaquin Valley
Monroe Doctrine Emerges as U S Policy Origin and Impact
The Monroe Doctrine first declared by President James Monroe in a 1823 message to Congress warned European powers against interfering in the Western Hemisphere. It distinguished American republicanism from European monarchies and shaped later U S policy, gaining bipartisan support after the 1896 Venezuela incident and Latin American backing.
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Monroe
Congress
Europe
America
Venezuela
Kachina Dolls of Hopi Indians of Arizona
Strange dolls in Hopi homes called Kachina dolls represent the spirits of ancestors. The carved wooden miniatures wear masks and colorful clay paint, with feathers above, hung in homes to ward off evil spirits. Every year impersonators dress in gay clothes, visit the town gate, and dance, entertaining residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Odd Old Laws Highlighted by The American Magazine
The American Magazine surveys outdated statutes in several states. Georgia bans slapping a man on the back while Illinois once jailed an animal with a monkey serving time for shoplifting. Arizona fixes a permanent closed season on bullfrogs. A separate note mentions a fare of twenty five cents a mile.
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Oda
American Magazine
Georgia
Arizona
Notable Tennessee Shrine Hermitage of Andrew Jackson
The Hermitage, Tennessee home to President Andrew Jackson, is the third mansion built on the site. Construction dates trace to 1835 as the era of Old Hickory’s residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Hermitage
Andrew Jackson
Jack
Pitcher plant a striking and deadly garden specimen
The pitcher plant ranks among the era's notable grotesques in the plant world. Dr. Sarracen of Quebec coined its botanical name while the common term pitcher plant groups several varieties found in U.S. marshes. The leaves form a pitcher with downward hairs and honey glands to trap insects, and some species can even hold small birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarracen
Quebec
Louise Aldrich Meissner
New York World-Telegram
United States
Tay Bridge Disaster and Rebuilding Timeline
The first Tay bridge near Dundee opened September 25, 1877 as the world’s longest railroad bridge at two miles. It had 85 spans and central clearance of 88 feet. A 1879 gale caused a catastrophic collapse with no survivors among about ninety aboard. A second bridge, built 1883 to 1888, stood twenty yards west with 73 piers and a double line 92 feet above high water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dundee
Scotland
Thomas Bouch
Detroit News
A. J. Cronin
Hatter’s Castle
Hotels Bristol Span Cities Across Europe
The article notes numerous Bristol hotels in cities from Paris to Monte Carlo with locations in Oslo Milan Rome Genoa Lisbon Brussels Vienna Dresden Berlin and Benelux countries. It oddly observes no Bristol hotel in Bristol England despite extensive European presence.
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Paris
Bristol
Scandinavia
Oslo
Norway
Italy
Milan
Genoa
Rome
Rapallo
Lisbon
Gibraltar
Austria
Vienna
Salzburg
Holland
Arnhem
Belgium
Brussels
Switzerland
Berne
Geneva
Lugano
Romania
Hungary
Germany
Berlin
Dresden
France
Rheims
Monte Carlo
England
Oldest extras predate dailies in early America
Alfred M. Lee notes that extras appeared in America before dailies with a 1783 Charleston weekly extra dated April 20 1783. After dailies began in 1783 extras carried overseas ship news and later sensational murder trial reports, a trend rising in the late 1830s in New York and other large cities like Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred M. Lee
Daily
America
South Carolina
Mongolian and Chinese Pheasants Compared
Mongolian pheasants have broad throat collars and a black tie on the breast and are strong heavy birds. Chinese pheasants are pure bred and healthy, but differ by showing more yellow while Mongolian varieties are red.
Possum Prowl Threat to Ground Bird Nests
A newspaper note describes the possum as a slow night prowler causing damage to ground bird nests by destroying eggs and young, though its impact is less than that of a mink or weasel. The text explains the possums focus on bird eggs rather than other food sources.
Sheriff Champness Praises Junk Detail Work
Sheriff Champness highlights the monthly achievements of the junk detail led by Deputy J. C. Farley. The unit recovers tires wheels oil equipment and furniture and checks licenses of junk buyers. Their efforts cut oil field theft and unlicensed selling while aiding private detectives and city police. Citizens are urged to report stolen property promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champness
J. C. Farley
Sheriff Champness
Farley
Christian Science Talk Broadcast Set for May 10
An interview with Dr. Walton Hubbard on Christian Science will be broadcast on a state wide California Radio System hookup on Tuesday May 10 at 10 15 p m The program can be heard in Southern California on KFWB Hollywood KFOX Long Beach and KERN Bakersfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walton Hubbard
California Radio System
California
KFWB
Hollywood
KFOX
Long Beach
Kern
Bakersfield
Canal Zone geography and key towns outline
The Canal Zone spans five miles on both sides of the Panama canal axis excluding Panama City and Colon. Cristobal hosts the Caribbean port, Balboa the Pacific port, and Ancon to the east houses the governor's residence.
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Canal Zone
Panama Canal
Panama
Colon
Caribbean Entrance
Cristobal
Pacific Entrance
Balboa
Ancon
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Olson
Richland P.T. A
Church News
Union Congregational Church
Christian Science
Tay Bridge
Sheriff's Junk Detail
Stone Addition
Inquire Robinson Barber Shop
B. F. Davis
Jersey
Guernsey
William J. Suckitt
Santa Fe Way
T. Moore
Malabar Street
Calif
Gus Meyer
Pentecostal Mission
Yale Key
Bakersfield Desk and Safe Co
North Chester Ave
Oildale
Nill’s Drug Store
F.H.A
Bank of America
National Trust and Savings Association
McClure
Johnson
Shafter Furniture Core
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