New Books Just Arrived at the Peery
The Peery bookstore lists a long new titles influx including Iron Trail Blue Draw Berg Rocking Arrow Brace Happy Jack Brand Bending Sicklie Bullett Silver Hat Coolidge Prayer For Tomorrow Downing Crooked Furlow Farnol Murder Runs in the Family Footner Salute to Yes Fowler Preface to Life Seca Toinette Harding Free Grass Haycox World s End Johnson Omar Khayyam Lamb Fatherland Farewell Larson The Four Marys Lea Hop Cassidy and the Eagle s Mulford Commander of Mists Murray Black Tolts Raine On the Dodge Raine Slo 3 House Sandoz Flambeau Spearman Whispering ith Spearman Young Felix Lost River Wood Saga of Billy the Kid Danger is My Business Craig.
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Tly
the Peery
Rocking Arrow
Brace
Happy Jack
Brand
Bending Sicklie
Bullett
Coolidge
Downing
Farnol
Footner
Yesare Fowler
Seca
The
Four Marys
Lea
Hop- Cassidy
Eagle’s
Mulford
Murray
Raine
Sandoz
Flambeau Spearman
Spearman
Young Felix
Lost River
Wal
White
Young
Billy the Kid
Craig
Cool Weather Break Ends Heat Wave Across Valley
Shafter and other valley points cooled after a brief hot spell. Temperatures reached 98 to 100 degrees last week, normal for this time of year is 74 to 82. The Weather Bureau notes the heat rivaled typical July levels as a cooldown moved in.
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Old Man
Shafter
United States Weather Bureau
Registration Under Way In Shafter As Voters Prepare
Voters in Shafter begin registration for the August primary and November general election with Julia A. Potter, registrar for 18 years, handling signups. RegistrationDeadline is July 21 and requires one year in the state 90 days in the county and 40 days in the precinct.
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Shafter
Julia A. Potter
F. E. Smith
Valuable German Library Bought by University of California
The Konrad Burdach Library of Leipzig, a premier collection of nineteenth century German authors, has been purchased by the University of California. It houses about 28 000 volumes accumulated over four decades and was assembled by Prof Konrad Burdach, a noted Renaissance scholar who recently died.
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Konrad Burdach
University of Leipzig
University of California
Cross Word Puzzle Clue Jumble Scribbles
Puzzle shows fragmented clues likely from a Danish style crossword with numbers and garbled phrases. Several entries hint at definitions for sounds 4 Down and animal related to monkeys, plus words for neat appropriate wrathful meadow and related actions.
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Meadow
Ove
Ordinance Amends City Penalty Labor Provisions
City of Shafter adopts Ordinance No 16 amending No 6 to allow the City Judge and Police Chief to order labor on streets or jail grounds for violators of city ordinances. It imposes one day in jail per two dollars of fine and declares emergency status for immediate effect. Passed May 9, 1938 with unanimous council support.
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Alt
City of
Shafter
City of Shafter
Jude
Celabene
Tole
Tole A True and Correct Cop of Onlineass No. 16 of Said City Which Was Aoenete
Sed Sete
Channeson
Midgley
Fair
Strom
Election for Richland Elementary Trustee June 3
Notice to Richland Elementary School District electors announces annual trustee election for a three year term. Polls open 6 a m to 7 p m at the Richland Schoolhouse. Officials appointed to conduct the election are Inspector Gladys Crandall and judges F R arade pe and Anna K Pedersen.
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Richland
Kern County
California
Gladys Crandall
F. R. A Rade Pe
Anna K. Pedersen
Old Home Week extends for Shafter library books
An additional Old Home Week in Shafter runs May 21 to 28 as librarian Mrs. Thomas Wedge announces. Fines on overdue books will be suspended to encourage patrons to return items, with effort focused on locating overdue or lost volumes. Cooperation from all library users is urged.
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Shafter
Thomas Wedge
Wedge
City of Shafter Ordinance Sets Clerk and Treasurer Pay
Ordinance No. 15 fixes City Clerk salary at 50 per month with bond. Assistant Chief of Police and License Collector at 50 per month. City Treasurer at 25 per month with bond of 2500. Adopted May 9, 1938, by vote Strom Midgley Fair ay Nay.
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City Shafter
ITY
Cite Shafter
Shafter
Philon
Strom
Midgley and Fairay
Ter
High School Entertainment At Beale Park
Shafter high school entertained the executive boards of Mc Farland Tehachapi and Delano at Beale Park Bakersfield last Saturday. Norma Neufeld played several accordion selections including the Snake Charmer Dinah Please Be Kind and Shine On Harvest Moon. Lunch was served at 1 o clock and the party spent the rest of the afternoon in the plunge.
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Shafter School
Execu
McFarland, Tehachapi
Delano
Beale Park
Bakersfield
Norma Neufeld
Dinah
Kind
Plunge
Increase Noted In Health Clinic
Dr. Joe Smith, Kern county health officer, reports attendance at the weekly syphilis clinic at Kern General Hospital has risen from 30 patients per week in 1934 to a present high of 230. Factors include public education improved reporting methods and keeping the clinic held in the same time and place as the general clinic to avoid embarrassment.
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Joe Smith
Kern County
Kern General Hospital
Kern General
German Appointed To California School
Dr. Bert John Vos emeritus German professor from Indiana University was named research assistant in the German department at the University of California Los Angeles campus. His career began at the University of Chicago in 1893 and he has taught at John Hopkins and Indiana University.
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Los Angeles
Berkeley
G. O. Arit
California
Weinhold
Hluge
Bert John Vos
Indiana University
University of California
Vos
University of Chicago
John Hopkins
United States
Post Office Door Discussed at Meeting
Business Men's association members vow to investigate enlarging the Shafter post office door amid crowded conditions during potato season. Further action will be taken at this week’s meeting, announced President L H McGrane.
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Shafter
Business Men’s Association
L. H.mcgrane
Eclipse Of Moon Observed By Shafter Residents
Local residents in Shafter witnessed a lunar eclipse Friday night between 9 55 p m and 3 43 a m a total eclipse lasting 51 minutes Earth shadow covered the moon completely at 12 18 a m and began to slide off at 1 09 a m The event was visible across the United States and western South America scientists note a sun eclipse will occur May 29 and will be visible only in subpolar regions of the south Atlantic
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Shafter
United States
South America
South Atlantic
Nelson Succeeds Spindt as Kern County High School Head
Dr Thomas Nelson superintendent of Yuba City Union High School was chosen as successor to Herman A Spindt as superintendent of the Kern County Union High School district at a Bakersfield school board meeting Friday night. Nelson, a UC classmate of the former leader, brings an outstanding record to Bakersfield says board chairman T N Harvey.
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Thomas Nelson
Yuba City Union
Herman A. Spindt
Kern County Union
Bakersfield
Nelson
Spindt
University of California
T. N. Harvey
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Nan
F. G. Shaw
High School
Thomas Nelsons Place
H. A. Spindt
T. V. Little
Shafter, California
Frank Struempf
Griffith Ave
Wasco
Helen
James St
Aday
Terigibales
Wasco Hardware
Bakersfield Hardware
Ini
Herbert L. Comfort
Western Auto Supply Co
Central Ave
Shafter. Calif
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