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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1936
Page
8
Enrollment at Richland grammar school climbs daily and tops 900. In recent weeks more than 100000 lambs were shipped to the eastern market in box cars at Willows, reflecting rising demand and activity.
Movements include Mr and Mrs Emil Stoller in Los Angeles and Mr and Mrs Walter Emerick enjoying Morro Bay. Miss Marion Littlefield leaves teaching to become a court reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle. Vice Principal Paul Vander Eike visits Shafter High School with family. A W Eckman tours Portuguese Meadows for Y M C A camp repairs. H A Rightmire named to county agricultural conservation committee. Elizabeth Wall returns from Glen dale visit with relatives. F F A Shafter high school sweet potato plots expand to three and a half acres. Wednesday Afternoon Club closes its year with a pot luck luncheon. Winnie Sutton to visit sister E A Beard in Shafter. New adobe home under construction for Channseon family. R C Simpson returns from Glendale as a potato buyer. J J Siemens and Wesley Nickel trip to Keene visit Mrs George J Strauss. Dave A Strauss announces baby Robert Nathan. E B Stringham and family return from Los Angeles. Rev and Mrs William Bestwater report minor automobile accident on northbound trip.
Assistant vice president of the Anglo California National Bank traveled from Bakersfield to mingle with local patrons and friends, spending Tuesday at the institution and meeting community members.
Jack Singer, principal of the Maple school, has been elected to lead the Kern County Principals' Association, succeeding prior leadership and signaling a new chapter for the organization.
H A Blodget, a pioneer of Kern county who settled in 1874, died in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon at age 81. He was a prominent figure in Kern county's commercial and political life for many years.
The Shafter and Wasco Congregational churches plan their annual union picnic at Kern River Park on Sunday May 24. Bible school at 9:00 a.m. followed by a 10:00 a.m. departure from the church. a song service by Mrs J W Porterfield and a picnic dinner. Meet at the church by 9:30 a.m. and arrange rides with Mr A W Eckman if needed. 7:00 p.m. Christian Endeavor meets for all young people.
The Rev. J L Martinez leads regular Sunday services at the Mexican Christian church. Sunday school runs from 9 to 10 a.m. The 10 to 11:80 a.m. period features a standard adult service with a sermon.
The Church of Christ in the East End of the old grammar school invites worshipers. Leroy W. Thompson, minister, leads Bible school at 10:00 a.m., preaching at 11:00 a.m., communion at noon, and evening service at 7:48 p.m. Midweek Bible study is Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. A Friday 7:45 p.m. song service closes the week.
The Christian Science Society a branch of The Mother Church in Boston announces Sunday services at 11 A.M. and Sunday school at 10 A.M. Wednesday evening meetings are the first Wednesday of each month at 8 o clock. The Lesson Sermon titled Soul and Body is studied with a Golden Text from I Peter and readings from Paul and Mary Baker Eddy.
The article traces travel routes from Los Angeles to Mission San Fernando, via Broadway San Fernando Road Glen dale and Burbank to San Fernando, then west through Moorpark and Saticoy to the Coast Highway south of Ventura. It also notes northern routes via the San Joaquin Valley to Bakersfield Taft and Marid via the new Vena sanaricopa Highway to Ventura. Next Mission Santa Barbara.
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