Shafter Community Notes Highlight Weddings and Club Activities
A bustling Shafter afternoon features a parent tea at Shafter primary with student displays, a wedding in Loma Linda for Miss Arta Bietz to James Baker, and Gertrude Kroeker’s marriage to Richard Wood in McFarland. Local clubs convene at Pentecostal Church of God and First Baptist, appoint officers, plan events, and host gatherings with games, recitals, and Red Cross drive updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Primary
A. E. Baker
Loma Lindon
H. M. Walker
Golden Wedding Anniversary for D. J. and D. J. Epp Observed
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Epp celebrated their golden wedding anniversary Tuesday evening at Kern Academy cafeteria with over 100 friends. The program featured a processional, solos, poems, and a variety of tributes by relatives and friends. Born in southern Russia, the couple lived in Shafter 20 years and moved to Canada before settling in California 31 years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. J. Epp
Kern Academy
Marjorie Voth
Lurlyne Howell
Abram Toews
Epp
Russia
Henry Schultz
Oklahoma
George Ebel
Wasco
P. E. ‘Nightingale
A. Friesen
Cone Cove
John Epp
Caruthers
Dick Epp
Raymond
Old River
Lloyd Howell
Bakersfield
Peter Marten
Arven Epp
Horch
Prof. Trubey
Book Section To Meet At Latta Studio Monday
The Wednesday Afternoon club book section meets Monday at the F. F. Latta studio 520 Acacia street. F A Wimmer county reference librarian will review Hildegarde Hawthorne Romantic Cities of California including Bakersfield as a place Miss Hawthorne visited last summer to gather material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. F. Latta
Acacia Street
F. A. Wimmer
County Reference Librarian Review
California
Hildegarde Hawthorne
Bakersfield
Skating Par Is Planned By Campfire Girls
The Shafter Campfire Girls meet at the Legion hall and plan a Bakersfield skating party for Saturday morning and a Hallowe'en party. Members include Donna Neufeld, Marjorie Olson, Martha Baker, Phyllis Mettler, Jo Ann Jones, and many others with Miss Edythe Magee as guardian. The Tricot club installed Nedra Latta as president at a Bakersfield dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Legion Hall
Bakersfield
Hallowe’en
Donna Neufeld
Marjorie Olson
Martha Baker
Phyllis Mettler
Jo Ann Jones
Coma Fentor
Francela Hansen
Mary Lou Gwin
Virginia Crafton
Margie McCoy
Lavena Clemens
Louella Heinrichs
Patricia Myrick
Loretta Jacobs
Juanita Lingo
Elsine Spohn
Elizabeth Daniels
Joy Lee Neuman
Doris Jean Nicks
Wanda
Holmes
Edythe Magee
Nedra Latta
Tricot Club
Kathleen Janzen
Patty Stringham
Virginia Nay
Lily Hein
Doris Stone
Jessie Nelms
Ruth Merkle
Mesdames
Carl Gunnarson
Cecil Golding
McGrane to Review Buckboard Days at Kern Library
During Know Your Library week in Kern county Dr. L H McGrane will review Buckboard Days by Sophie Rowe at 7 30 PM tomorrow at the Shafter library. Librarian Mrs Thomas Wedge has led groups through the library and T V Little spoke on Kern county mineral displays. A stamp collection belonging to Gregory Channon is on display for several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
L. H. McGrane
Sophie Rowe
Shafter Library
Thomas Wedge
T. V. Little
Gregory Channeson
No Activity at Wilshire Site Halts Drilling Plans
No activity this week at the Wilshire Oil Company's Campen No 1 location south of the Shafter Oil Field. A derrick has stood idle for weeks and no announcement has been made about when drilling will resume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilshire Oil Company
Campen No. 1
Shafter Oil Field
Engine Fire Strikes Car On Santa Fe Way
Firefighters extinguished an engine fire in a car owned by Mrs. Connie Unruh Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Santa Fe Way and Central Avenue. Cause listed as a short in the ignition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connie Unruh
Santa Fe Way
Central Avenue
Visitors 4 Microphone-Loudspeaker Attachment
In New York City a new visitor identification device using a microphone loudspeaker attachment has been perfected. It lets a visitor identify himself before admission, a feature aimed at assisting housewives with security and entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
German Travel Described In Second Installment Of Diary
The diary recounts Miss Marie Cakin and a group of American students cycling through Germany after England and Holland. They bike about 700 miles with English bikes, face cobblestones, and stay in Jugendherberge hostels from Nuremberg to Leipzig while noting German customs, costs, and discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Cakin
Shafter
Student International Travel Association
Europe
Germany
England
Nuremberg
Wittenberg
Martin Luther
Leipzig
Local Social News Roundup From Martinez and Treasure Island
Rio Bravo J. E. Hagg spends days in Martinez and attends the Treasure Island fair. Mrs. W. B. Wilson of Bakersfield visits local friends. Mrs. R. W. Curtis returns home after weeks with family in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Martin host a family dinner with W. W. Martin family Fay Alvin Brooks Larry and others. Victor Ransford and son Douglas return from a trip to South Dakota visiting friends and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Hagg
Martinez
Treasure Island
W. B. Wilson
Bakersfield
R. W. Curtis
Ilinois
C. L. Martin
W. ‘W. Martin
Fay
Al‘vin Brooks
Larry
Whiting
Martin
Zorada
Marion Martha
Lincoln Goddard
Victor Ransford
Douglas
South Dakota
Stevenson and Twain Wrote Much in Bed Says History
Biographers note that Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain produced large portions of their works while resting in bed. Their unconventional habit reflected a personal approach to creativity and writing discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevenson
Mark Twain
Also Mentioned on This Page
Arta Bietz
James Baker
Home Department
Rio
Rio Bravo
Gertrude Kroeker
Richard Wood
Hunt Home
Merwin Hunt
Hunt
Berean
First Baptist Church
William Guenther
Frances Kattenhorn
Estiline Reynolds
Pansy Jones
Leonard Dorn
Letha Larson
Thelma Fisher
Sam Janzen
Paul Wiebe
Edgar H. McAllister
Harvey Gaede
M.A.S
Walter Bergen
Gaede
Lawrence Annis
Ernest Schnidt
Maxine Moore
Darrell Janzen
Albert Peters
Paul Wilson
Dorothy McIntyre
the Thestess
Frances Wilson
N. P. Thompson
Automobile Club of Southern California
al. Eckmann
Red Cross
J. C. Channeson
County Hygiene
Herb Midgley
Bob McClain
C. H. Burns
Murray Arnold
Pete Bender
Lois Berry
Esther Nohden
American Legion Auxiliary
Ethel Lewis
Fellows
Brink of
Taft
Curtis
Taft Auxiliary
Glenn O. Nay
Lewis
Legion Arid Auxiliary
Chicago
J. P. Hanson
Jack Janzen
H. A. Rightmire
George Enns
Frank Annis
Albert Annis
F. Raney
W. W. Tannahill
P. C. Guenther
H. G. Comfort
Pete
Earle Roscamp
Ed. Schnidt
Otto Handel
Christine Kirschenmann
Véra Moore
Latta Studio
Shafter Wli
Gene Autrey
Mexicali Rose
Jackie Cooper
John Garfield
Priscilla Lane
Bonita Granville
Nancy Drew
Campfire Girls
Tricot
Clubhouse
Shafter High School
Etola Crafton
Ray Rexius
Glenn Bender
Eddie Hall
Marilyn Guenther
Eldon Myrick
Roy McDonald
Elsie Dahl
Helyn McCormick
Kathrine Goode
Lloyd Pack
Library Tomorrow
Wilshire
Main Street
Lachenmaier’s
Lerdo Highway
Tehachapi
Ed Schnidt & Son
J. H. Maurer
Temple
E. K. Grant
California Avenue
Myrtle Cornelius
Marengo
Geo. Kahn
c/o
Baldwin Piano Distributors
San Bernardino
Calif
Plenty Water
Los Angeles Avenue
Fee
Arabia
Parra
Aate
Shafter Spry
Mollie Herman
Wasco, Calif
Sunset Ave
Joan
Wedgewood
Raat Et Eee
Wedgewood CP
Shafter Mercantile Co
Federated Stores
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