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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1935
Page
5
Shafterites plan weekend trips to Taft for a silver anniversary celebration marking Taft’s incorporation. Local followers will observe Armistice Day with several businesses closing all day. A Girl Scout food sale at Hitchcock store netted a neat sum, selling out by noon.
Classified listings show items for sale including Jersey cows and land near Fresno with irrigation details and terms. Also notes on Buttonwillow lots, with real estate agents Pioneer Realty Company and Shafter contact, plus bantams wanted at The Shafter Press office.
Certificate of person transacting business under fictitious name. Albert Nikkel states sole ownership of NIKKEL IRON WORKS in Shafter Kern California. Acknowledgement dated October 9 1935 before Notary E K Grant with notary seal.
A survey of Placer Plumas and Riverside counties traces origins of names to mining terms and local landmarks. Placer derives from placer mining and Spanish phrases, Plumas from the Feather River valleys, and Riverside from the Riverside area. The piece notes history, geography, and economic highlights including population, area, agriculture, and tourism.
Coaches Wilson and White led first practices for class A and B teams. Wilson’s B group shows large turnout with over three full teams. White’s group is small and inexperienced, focusing on fundamentals for several weeks. Student body may provide warm up suits for the season.
Five Shafter members attended the tenth district convention in Taft with fifteen district high schools including Delano Dinuba Exeter Kern County Union Lindsay Maricopa Orosi Porterville Shafter Strathmore Taft Tulare Visalia and Woodlake The program featured registration music by an orchestral quartet a district 10 welcome Judge T N Harvey a student discussion led by Lee Graham Taft officers were elected and next convention set Luncheon followed in the cafeteria Rosie Unruh of Shafter gave a humorous reading Shafter team members Amelia Finck adviser Gladys Breckenridge Lenora Kirschenmann Ernest Siemens Rosie Unruh and Arthur Wittenberg attended Shafter had the highest attendance percentage exceeding 65 percent
The Shafter High School Deutsche Verein held its second regular meeting on Tuesday noon November 5. The group planned a banquet before Thanksgiving vacation with a potential speaker who recently visited Germany. The program includes musical numbers and a group singing of German songs. Grace Weyand, vice president and social chairman, leads arrangements. The club targets students currently or previously enrolled in German.
In Buttonwillow a surprise birthday gathering for J. W. Overton occurred on October 29. Relatives and neighbors attended, keeping him at work late to arrive home unsuspecting. He reacted with laughter at the reveal, receiving gifts to start a small venture. Darrell Tracy spent the weekend at Huntington Lake closing cabins and preparing for Monday. Coo oversaw Buttonwillow post office duties last weekend.
The U S Bureau of the Census reports 53 339 running bales ginned in California and 33 283 in Arizona by Oct 18. 1935 totals trailed 1934 with 147 867 bales in California and 41 686 in Arizona. County figures include Fresno 9249 Imperial 1569 Kern 17182 Kings 5738 Madera 3973 Riverside 2662 and This 181.
The Warwick Vase, a colossal white marble piece found at Hadrian's villa near Tivoli by Sir William Hamilton, is kept in Warwick Castle's conservatory. The circular vase holds 136 gallons and features grapevine handles, a panther wrap, satyr heads, and Bacchic symbols atop a vine-leaf pedestal with a Latin inscription detailing its discovery and gift.
The Pathfinder Magazine notes confusion over postal dunning. Section 471 bans indecent or threatening card content, including threats of legal action for unpaid debts. Notices from fraternal groups about dues are excluded, as are due dates and polite settlement requests, but payments must not be labeled past due.
Dr. Hardy L. Shirley of the Lake States Forest Experiment Station reports forests in the United States capture and store far more solar energy than coal mined. Estimated 670 million acres of forest yield energy equivalent to about 1.403 billion tons of coal, roughly two and a half times U S coal output in 1930, with only about one third of one percent of solar energy during the growing season stored as wood.
Walled lakes are named for shore walls of boulders formed by expanding ice around shallow lakes. Local tradition links walls to defensive Indian construction, but geologists identify them as ice ramparts. Boulders are often removed for building uses.
Ancient clocks designed to mislead viewers feature a bearded man’s rotating eyes on a 1738 German clock in Stettin and a Swiss timepiece that sticks out its tongue at onlookers. The contraptions showcase playful, eerie horological art from centuries past.
A historic note explains how shapes signal captains. Conical buoys mark starboard channels and spherical buoys mark banks or shallow water. The article illustrates these sea weekday markings as taught in Pearson's Weekly.
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