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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1935
Page
8
Special church activities begin today at 10 30 a m with services at the Mennonite Brethren church. A luncheon is served at noon followed by the Mission festival starting at 2 p m.
Reform Church led by Pastor A Funck holds a Thanksgiving Day service at 7 p.m. with a sermon on Luke 12 16 21 about neglecting neighbors. Sunday December 1 services include 9 30 a m Sunday School 10 30 a m sermon worship and 7 p.m. evening service. Catechism instruction is offered Saturdays 9 to 11 30 a.m.
Church notices list Mennonite Brethren and Baptist services for December 1. He explains minister William J Bestwater and various worship times, Sunday school, congregational singing, sermons, Bible lectures, and youth programs. Includes German and English services at FIRST CHURCH Schmidt and Shafter location updates.
Thanksgiving services will be held by Christian Science churches and branches of The Mother Church including First Church of Christ Scientist In Massachusetts. Wasco Christian Science Society will meet at 11 o clock. The Lesson Sermon topic is Thanksgiving with Psalms as Golden Text and Job citations highlight God’s might, wisdom, and deliverance of the afflicted.
The Lesson Sermon quotes from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, warning against limiting the Holy One of Israel by questioning whether God can provide a table in the wilderness. It asks what God cannot do and reflects on divine provision.
A Christmas morning scene in a small home shows seven family members preparing a holiday feast with turkey in the oven and cranberries popping. Lucia Bell, a new neighbor, is invited to join the dinner and to help cut pies, then imagines a vision of her future siblings as Christmas fairies, grateful for the warmth of family.
FOR SALE Double barrel 16 gauge shotgun practically new 12.50 Santa Fe Depot Shafter. FOR SALE Ford panel delivery wall tent 8x10 New Perfection stove cot mattress pillow canned fruit. FOUND Lady s black kid glove owner may claim at The Shafter Press office.
Mr and Mrs Vernon Pierce returned from a 450 mile auto trip visiting Sawtelle Los Angeles Culver City and Cambria. Mrs H P Midgley was in Bakersfield on business. Rev N N Hiebert is conducting evangelistic services at Rosendale and plans to return for holidays.
The Grant family schedules a 1 pm Thanksgiving dinner and reunion at the Wasco Methodist church basement. Hosts include Mrs. Mary Grant and many relatives such as Ralph Whitney, Earl Edson, Fay, Loran Grant and family, O S Grant from McFarland, E K Grant with three children, and others from Wasco Bakersfield Shafter and nearby areas. autumn decor will mark the event.
Clyde Grant and daughter La Verne plus Miss Nellie Grant of Los Angeles join DeWitt Demming of Davis Agricultural College and Mrs Cave of Nebraska in a regional gathering. Col O S Grant, long on the chautauqua circuit, assisted by Ray McCord, will entertain with impersonations during the festivities.
A Santa Monica manufacturing concern plans a large plane designed to carry 40 passengers with a crew of five at about 200 miles per hour. The item appears in The Press.
To Los Angeles Miss Lena Hein of the Shaf ter Mercantile Co. was a visitor to Los Angeles, Tuesday.
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