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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1957
Page
6
Gypsophila, also called Green Thumb, adapts to dry alkaline soil in full sun and offers many variants. Bristol Fairy doubles white blooms while reaching three feet. G Elegans is an annual with large sprays. G Repens is six inches, creeping. Mouse Ear is four metres high with white flowers. G Muralis is an annual rose colored one foot tall. Seeds and root divisions offered.
Bakersfield real estate and insurance firm listing. J Brandt and J C Penner Real Estate, Notary Public, with offices on 14th and 18th Streets and 248 Central Ave. Loans of all types offered with financing options and free parking noted.
Shelby Jean Cole daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Cole is now stationed with the Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio Texas She resided in Shafter for years and finished Shafter High in 1955 where she led the Library club and served in Future Homemakers She aimed to study photography in the Air Force prior to enlisting while previously working in Compton.
Ten eighths and tenth grade youths consecrated their lives to God at the Consecration Exercises held at the Seventh-day Adventist church. The program featured a processional by Clarabelle Fenderson and a saxophone solo by Gary Gottfried. Elder W. J. Pennick of Bakersfield spoke after the consecration prayer led by Sharon Nightingale.
Jo Ann Schreiner daughter of Mrs. Fred J. Schreiner is engaged to William Higbee. The couple plans an August wedding in Modesto under Methodist rites with study and teaching careers noted for the bride and engineering student status for the groom.
The outgoing Junior Women club of Shafter held a Come As You Are Breakfast hosted by Mrs James Del Rio. Retiring officers and several Juniors attended a morning meal of orange juice bacon scrambled eggs and coffee at Del Rio home with advisor Mrs John Peters and many attendees listed.
Sam Mettler Adolf Kirshenman and Reverend Robert Stuebbe returned home after visiting Hosmer South Dakota. They weathered a variety of conditions during the trip and enjoyed the visit at Reverend Klaudt’s Sutton Nebraska home. Reverend Klaudt is a former minister of the Ebenezer Reformed Church here.
The Junior Women's club of Shafter held its last meeting at Veterans Memorial Hall with 8:00 p.m. start. Mrs. James Del Rio chaired the program featuring the Jones Girls with Dennis Gaede and a reading by Mrs. Bill Griffin. A rummage sale is planned for June 8 beside Food Town, donations via Mrs. Ivan Meyer.
Nature Club members saw yellow headed blackbirds near cat tails at a reservoir, with male bright yellow orange heads and black bodies, plus duller brown females. They nested on cat tails, laid gray or greenish eggs, and fed on animal and plant matter, not harming crops. Red wings were nearby.
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