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Shafter News Highlights Include Legion Win and Local Weddings
Ghost stories entertained Shafter residents as the Legion post 213 won first prize for the most original auto entry in Taft Armistice day celebrations. A bucking buckskin Ford mock ride drew cheers, while weddings and community events filled the week with a Mennonite Brethren Church ceremony for Ruby Janzen and George Nikkel and Mothers Day plans led by the Kings Daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. McKinley
W. E. Rose
H. C. McBratney
F. W. Herbert
W. B. Camp
Earl Crandall
Lawrence Padula
Cecile Clark
Edna Prieve
A. J. Zimmerman
Shafter Legion Post
Taft
Hugh Skaggs
Carl Fluhrer
Walter Zimmerman
Leslie L. Robinson
Jack Zimmerman
Paris
Shafter
Zimmerman
Pete Isaac
Emil Meyer
Bill Meyer
William Neuman
William Lachenmaier
Neuman
Lachenmaier
K. G. Neufeld
Mennonite Brethren Church
Kings Daughters
Lulu Kliewer
Ruby Nikkel
Mary Neufeld
Fern .Gaede
Margaret Balzer
Marie Kliewer
Ruth Wiebe
Agnes Koehn
Irene Janzen
Ann Stoller
First Mennonite Church
J. W. Bergen
H. J. D. Janzen
Janzen
Bergen
Schmidt
Bud
Myron Janzen
George Gaede
John Reimer
J. Neufeld
Vernon ‘Pierce
Baby
Mercy Hospital
Mr. Pierce
Pierce
Lois Berry