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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
4
The Exeter Sun recalls childhood fears contrasting a Columbia survey showing modern youths fear failing tests, mothers working or ill, poor grades, and kidnapping. It notes older worries about gang ambushes and romance as happier, simpler concerns. Subscribe for The Press.
A dialog heavy scene unfolds with Buron and Mortimer planning a stage vengeance while a dinner party turns to murder. Local notices include a Masonic church schedule and a Shafter California city hearing for sidewalk and gutter assessments with June 17 1940 hearing details.
Church notices list services for First Baptist Church at 289 East Lerdo Highway with Bible school at 10, morning service at 11, evening service at 8 and midweek prayer. and Mennonite Brethren Church at 400 Kern with Sunday school at 9:30, German and American sermons, a 7:45 p.m. baccalaureate for Shafter high, and midweek prayer. Tabor College Men's chorus scheduled June 4 at 8 p.m.
Sunday rally at 2:30 p.m. organized by Child Evangelism Fellowship at the Mennonite Brethren church. Miss Mary Fast chairs. program includes singing, object lessons, Bible story reviews and demonstrations with refreshments at the end. Fellowship aims to interest elementary school children in Bible study. about 200 pupils in 14 local classes. Southern California reps live in Los Angeles. local denominations assist. Public invited.
Mrs P M Janzen and her children Shirley Ann Larry and Marilyn Mae of Hilo Hawaii will travel east next week to Michigan after visiting relatives in Shafter and Fresno in recent days
Alfred T. Chandler minister leads the Union Congregational Church with Sunday school at 9 50 a m and service at 11 a m featuring the sermon Christ of the Upward Way James Livers is organist Christian Youth will attend the baccalaureate at the Mennonite Brethren church at 8 p m officiated by Rev J P Glanzer H D Wiebe R Klaudt and Chandler. Public welcome.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Janzen plan a three week eastern trip starting Tuesday They will rent a car in Michigan and an ambulance in Bellefontaine Ohio before driving back to Shafter An unusual travel plan links a car rental with an ambulance pickup for the return trip.
A fragmented note discusses writers Stevenson and Twain working in bed, highlighting an unusual writing setting and its perceived effect on their output. The text suggests a lively, informal view of authorship habits without authoritative detail.
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