B and P W Club Plans Initiation and Rummage Sale
The Shafter Business and Professional Women's Club scheduled a formal initiation for November 19 at Motel Cawelo and set November 16 as the RSVP deadline. A rummage sale was planned for November 14. Hostesses were Lois Rosenstiel Floyd Cooper Lorraine Gaede and Lena Schultz. Amanda Reab auctioned a gift with Beulah Bartlett the high bidder. Bartlett will bring a gift for the next auction.
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Shafter Business and Professional Women’s ‘Club
Motel Cawelo
Floyd Cooper
Mesdames
Lois Rosenstiel
Lorraine Gaede
Lena Schultz
Amanda Reab
Beulah Bartlett
Miss Bartlett
Auxiliary Voters Engage in Drive for Keys
Members of Leslie L. Robinson Post American Legion Auxiliary met Tuesday evening to join a key drive supporting the war effort. Mrs Bert Hebel and Mrs Taylor Tabb were named as cooperative members. hostesses Mrs Clyde Bell and Mrs Jack Jonzen led the social hour. No meeting November 3. post day planned November 17 due to polling usage of the Legion hall.
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Leslie L. Robinson
Operbeck 10 Beat Reactionary Politician
Ivan Spearbeck, member of the State Board of Equalization, is praised as fit for a key state office. The piece condemns back door political bosses and warns voters against tricks that undermine primaries and earned rights. The rhetoric stresses law and constitutional protections.
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Ivan Spearbeck
State Board of Equalization
University of California
Ping Magi
Hiramohnson
Shower honors Mrs. M. L. Thomas with list of guests
Mrs. P. L. Arnold hosted a charming shower at her home for Mrs. M. L. Thomas the bride to be. The guest list featured many local ladies including Mrs. Fred Ruhlman and Mrs. J. B. Thomas among others who brought gifts for the honoree. Nearby, Mrs. George Isaac of Shafter attended a surprise birthday party for her mother at Ed Isaacs’ Bakersfield home with family present and a full course dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. L. Arnold
M. L. ‘Thomas
Fred Ruhlman
J. B. Thomas
J.c.ohanneson
William Bender
Ed. Warren
William Lachenmaier
Pete Bender
A. J
George Isaac
Shafter
Bakersfield
Isaac
John Isaac
Ed, Isaac
Ronald
Alice
Bessie G. Thomas
M. L. Thomas
Bank of America
Oakland
Order of the Eastern Star
Thomas
Wasco
Order
Pete Goertzen To Claim Bride November 1st
Announcement of the forthcoming marriage of Pete Goertzen to Miss Jane Klingenberg, Bakersfield, set for Sunday evening November 1st at the Mennonite Brethren church. Rev. Herbert to officiate with flower girls LaVerne and LaVelle Stoller, nieces of the groom, present. about five hundred invitations issued.
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Pete Goertzen
Elizabeth Goertzen
Jane Klingenberg
Bakersfield
Mennonite Brethren Church
Herbert
Little LaVerne
la Velle Stoller
Emil Stoller
Shafter
Goertzen
Mrs Guenther Hosts Dessert-Bridge Party and Wedding Invites
Mrs. P C Guenther hosted a 1 pm dessert-bridge party with guests including Mrs J A Roscamp and Mrs Taylor Tabb. Traveling prize went to Mrs Elizabeth Ingram. Invitations were issued by Mr and Mrs Peter Johnson for daughter Louella Carolyn Johnson to marry Private A W Northam at Mennonite Brethren Church on Sunday at 4 pm with a reception to follow.
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P. C. Guenther
J. A. Roscamp
Taylor Tabb
Elizabeth Ingram
Mesdames G. L. Sanderson
C. G. Lindquist
Fred Vandenberg
Peter Johnson
Louella Carolyn Johnson
A. W. Northam
Minter Field
H. D. Wiebe
Mennonite Brethren Church
Celebrations and social notes from local residents
Friends gathered at the Emory Johnson home on Lerdo road last Friday for a birthday party with bridge and refreshments. Wednes day Afternoon bridge club attendees included several members. a Bakersfield theater party followed. Other items note Las Vegas visits, a grocery business closing, military and medical news, and new listening post developments.
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Emory Johnson
Lerdo Road
Mr. Johnson
Glen Colbert
Bakersfield
Baldwin Handel
Fern Gaede
Norma Stillman
Five Bombers To Play At Dance Here
The Mator Jive Bombers will furnish the music for a dance for service men at the Shafter Army Recreation Center this Thursday evening. Dancing will begin at 8 30. The Shafter Rotary Club sponsors the event.
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Mator Jive
Shafter Army Recreation Center
Shafter
The Couplers Meet at Mrs Craig Home
Sunday evening gathering at Mrs Arthur Craig home for supper and the weekly meeting. Mrs Craig served stuffed rolls salad hors d oeuvres tea and coffee. Mrs Margaret Burford led devotions and Rev chapter of Leslie Weatherhead s book This Is the Victory.
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Arthur Craig
Local Teacher Becomes Bride at LaCanada Ceremony
Florine Teerink married Tedford Andrews during a two week absence. She returns to Shafter High School as Mrs. Tedford Andrews while he serves in the armed forces. Ceremony held in La Canada.
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Tedford Andrews
Florine Teerink
Shafter High School
Armed Forces
LaCanada
Stream-lined job noted with plan and pilot query
Fragmentary text references a streamlined job, a plan involving a woman, and a pilot question about evens, with ambiguous numbers 410 and 41565. No clear event or outcome. Further readable facts are needed to form a concrete record.
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Howevens
Crystal gazer foretells doomed romance at Forbes bazaar
A society bazaar hosted by the Forbes family draws Boyd Mercer into a private tent where a jade clad crystal gazer reveals a bleak future. He confronts the fortune teller, questioning her identity as they exchange gaze and bold challenge in a tense moment.
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Forbes
Boyd Mercer
Boyd
Gazer
No Agreement on Patents Reignites U S Patent Office View
The chief clerk of the United States patent office says no agreement makes foreign patents effective here. Protection for an invention in the United States requires a US patent from a regularly filed application and payment of the legal fees. The grant of a foreign patent is addressed elsewhere.
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United States
United States Patent Office
Plan for Recovery Bonds to Shift from War to Peace
The text argues after World War I the U S must prevent a worse postwar mood by ensuring agriculture, business and labor prosper together. A plan proposes recovery bonds funded by 20 percent of war profits, buying time to convert wartime industries to peacetime production and maintain full employment with cash available to transition.
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America
Europe
United States Senate
United States
Mennanetian
Richland School Intramural Football Concludes
Richland school intramural football season ends after seven weeks of daily games. Eagles win first place followed by Cubs Bears and Giants. Winning squad includes Lucia Lopez Billy Hakill Billy Scott Calvi Goehring Herbert Spitzer Herbert Howard Marvin Dirksen Elmer Hopken Ray Schaeffer Barney Brown Raymond Henderson.
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Eagles
Cubs
Bears
Giants
Lucia Lopez
Billy Hakill
Billy Scott
Calvi Goehring
Herbert Spitzer
Herbert Howard
Marvin Dirksen
Elmer Hopken
Ray Schaeffer
Barney Brown
Raymond Henderson
Atkins
White
Gribble
Cleve Skaggs Poised for Screen Work After Hollywood Tests
Cleve Skaggs returned Sunday from Hollywood where he underwent his third or fourth movie test and may be summoned for active screen work at any time. Locally he has acted in amateur roles and long served as Santa Claus at children's Christmas parties.
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Cleve Skaggs
Hollywood
Cleve
Santa Claus
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