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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
5
The snippet lists church activities with 9 45 am Sunday School led by Walter E B Haag and an 11 am Morning Service. Junior Church at 10 35 precedes regular Worship. It urges public attendance and stresses parental attitude toward church as key to a child’s faith growth.
Res 1018 Broadway Wasco lists a summer mass schedule with services at 6 30 a m at St John s Wasco 8 a m at Women s Club Shafter and 9 30 a m at St John s Wasco Confessions occur Saturday evenings and before Sunday masses.
A church beside the road invites as a home for worship, offering comfort to those with wounded hearts. The message centers on God taking equity in the tear-stained, tender pathos of resignation and brokenness.
OCR snippet mentions an event scheduled for the first Wednesday at 8 o'clock. No other clear details or named entities are readable this fragment.
Mennonite Brethren church at 400 Kern Street schedules Sunday School at 9 30 with two departments. 11 o clock preaching by Rev John Kliewer. 6 30 p m Prayer Circle. 6 45 p m Christian Fellowship. 8 o clock Jugendverein. 8 p m Wednesday prayer meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Shields and their Compton family spent the weekend in Shafter with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Neuman. Also visiting was Miss Lorena Edgar of Atascadero, guest of Miss Vera Neuman.
City of Shafter warns dog owners that any dog found without a Shafter license or Kern County vaccination tag will be taken to the City Pound and kept only a short time. Frank G. Shaw, City Clerk.
A damaged OCR fragment shows a notary public certificate for Frank White in Kern County with witness and seal references. It notes commission details and an expiration of January 18, 1947, with publication dates in September 1944.
East Lobdon N M Anderson pastors First Baptist Church inviting families to 11:00 a.m. worship and 8:00 p.m. evangelistic service with sermons Be hold the Man and The Perfect Salvation. Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer. Mr and Mrs W C Grose returned from a northwest trip with Mr and Mrs L McNeely of Bakersfield through Klamath Falls Seattle and Vancouver. They toured Redwoods and faced heavy rain between San Francisco and Paso Robles. The flea glass remark notes the microscope’s early name in Europe.
Mrs. 0. L. Pearce reports a letter from her son Max Pearce a U S Navy seaman stationed in the South Pacific for five months. He served on the escort crew that accompanied President Roosevelt in the Pacific and saw the President fishing and heard his speech broadcast to the mainland. Max attends Shafter grammar and high school and enjoys receiving the Shafter Press. His brother Bill a Coast Guard seaman first class was home on liberty from Long Beach after duty. Mrs C Handel returned from San Francisco where she had stayed a month in Standard Lane Hospital and accompanying Mrs Emil Bender and Hi to bring her home.
Mrs. Dick Eckman hosted a surprise party for her husband’s birthday anniversary August 30 at Shafter Maternity Home on September 2. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Todd Edward Gillespie Holgar Hanson Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Dawe. Raymond Leonard born August 29 at Shafter Maternity Home to Mr. and Mrs. I V Blankenship. Mrs. Henderson’s sister here first E W Herman of Fresno Labor Weekend. Mrs. D M Wood visited Huntington Park during the holiday weekend.
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