Shafter Community Notes Include Visits and Travel
Local residents and visitors fill weekends with trips to Los Angeles Dinuba Reedley and San Diego. Mr and Mrs Fox Friesen Stoller Neuman Schultz Davis Neufeld Frink Payne Wilson and others share visits weddings hunting trips hospital stays and holiday plans across California communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
John G. Fox
Shafter
A. C. Friesen
Montana
Lester D. Frink
Miss Marion
W. H. Hitchcock
Frinks
California
Shafter News Briefs Highlight Marriages Births and Visits
Clyde M. Gray and Vernie Carter wed in Shafter with Justice H. A. Rightmire officiating. Jim Taylor and wife welcomed a daughter Gladys weighing seven pounds three ounces. Local and visiting guests include Monrovia pair Henry Vorse and Lon Moser hosts. Postmaster Lois Berry and others attended Kern County postmasters meeting in Bakersfield. Lewis and Esther Edwards returned from a Southern California honeymoon via Santa Barbara and Pismo Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde M. Gray
Shafter
Vernie Carter
Bakersfield
Justice of the Peace
H. A. Rightmire
Jim Taylors
Jim Taylor
Thursday
Gladys
Taylor
California Avenue
Lois L. Berry
Kern County Postmasters’ Association
Koleeta Osborn
Alma Skaggs
Lewis Edwards
California
Santa Barbara
Pismo Beach
Edwards
Esther Hein
Shafter residents gather for Kern County council talks
Shafter residents attended a Monday dinner at the El Tejon hotel Bakersfield to discuss the Kern County Home Farm and Business Owners Economic council. attendees included Ford Hudson H J Harder W H Hitchcock and Mrs Fred Vandenberg.
Lack Of Early Rain Favors Beet Growers
Dr. H. H. Severin of the University of California notes that scant autumn rain reduces curly-top virus spread in sugar beets. Leaf hoppers disperse after harvest to uncultivated plains and foothills, feeding on host plants that harbor the virus and seed new infections when rains later promote new growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
H. H. Severin
University of California College of Agriculture
Hilgardia
The
Agricultural Experiment Station
Severin
Looking Forward by Franklyn Waltman
The piece argues the public, not swayed by a distant European war, rejected the New Deal and reasserted Republican gains in recent elections. It cites LaGuardia, Drewry, and shifting state results to claim a Republican path to the next presidency and a return to prewar political moorings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
New Deal
Roosevelt
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Jim Farley
Tammany Hall
New York City
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Fiorello LaGuardia
LaGuardia
New York
Philadelphia
New Jersey
New York State
Holland
Lincoln
Notice to Contractors Rio Bravo School District bids open
Sealed bids for additions to the Rio Bravo School Building and demolition of an existing structure in Kern County California will be received by the Board of Trustees until 7 30 P M December 18 1939 and opened publicly thereafter. Plans may be obtained at the office of John Paxton at Rine and Associates for twenty five dollars deposit. Bidders must furnish bid bonds and adhere to wage rates established by statute with sub bids and contractor bonds required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of
Rio Bravo
Kern County
California
John Paxton
Rine & Associates
W. Patterson Building
Geneba
P Perrine Trustees
J. Schierlmann
Rio Brevo
Board of Trustees
Also Mentioned on This Page
Manuel Tract
Business Credit Service Bureau
Jack Stollers
Jack Stoller
Visalia
Emil Stoller
Stockton
Bob Neuman
Bonnie Rueb
Ed Warren
Turlock
North
Rubena
Lena Schultz
Dinuba and
Reedley
Art Schettler
John Bezug
Harold Chance
Roy Martin
Dinuba
George B. Neill
Emil Kirschenmann
Pond
Harry Davis
Bobby
R. G. Sanderson
Dan Loewen
Anna B. Gaede
Geneva Payne
T. C. Payne
Shafter Bhis Week
Miss Payne
University Offornia
Berkeley
Sue Wilson
Arvin
M. S. Neufeld
A. B. Neufeld
Helen Neufeld
H. Schirmer
Bishop
Tip Henderson
Sol
Dolly Hall
E. D. Hall
Fire Department
Elwin Fink
Foster White
Porterville
Shafter Volunteer Fire Department
Jack Bennett
Wasco
Harry van Horn
Taft
Roy Hodge
San Diego
Loren Kopper
Eleanor Reimer
Bill Reimer
Reimer
Woodlake
Sacramento River
Phil Channeson
Ben Sill
Jim Camp
Bill Lachenmaier
Dwight Reynolds
W. C. Thomas
Glen Simpson
Harvey Thomas
Redlands
Norval Fair
South
Phil Seeley
D. R. Gwin
W. R. Caldwell
Lillian Smith
the Open Door
Barbara Caldwell
Bible Institute
John Mack Brown
Bob Hope
Paulette Goddard
Cat and the Canary
Tyrone Power
Linda Darnell
Shafter Theatre
Dead
Virginia Weidler
Angel
Los
Eugene Ford
Monrovia
Henry Vorse
R. W. Partridge
A. R. Murnick
Lon Moser
Helen
Lebec
Messrs. and
Mesdames
Laurence Baughman
J. W. Frizzell
W. E. Johnson
Jake Siemens
Norbert Baumgarten
Bill White
June Schirmer
Audry
Northrup
Kiwanis
Harry Lane
San Gabriel
James Howard
Looking
By Franklyn Waltman
Farley Halls
Peter Drewry
Democratic National Congressional Committee
Mississippi
Kentucky
Maine
Vermont
Drewry
Pennsylvania
Orland Brown
McKittrick
Calif
Pacific Ave
Ritle
Central Ave
Lerdo Road
J. F. Penner
Montgomery Ward Co
Shafter Press
Pacific Avenue
Lerdo
W. M. Barnes
Tulare Avenue
Santa Maria
Cali
Minnesota
Ston
Eee
Sain
Sam
KPMC
Standard Oil Company of California
Wasco, California
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Pacific Street
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