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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1938
Page
5
Notice states the Stone business in Shafter California has been sold and the new owners will not be liable for any bills contracted after July 1. Signed by Mrs. C N Stone and Richard A Davison.
Graduation and open house scheduled for seven fifteen this evening at Snafter Nursery School announced by head teacher Mrs. P. J. Gaede. Ten children will advance to kindergarten for next year as more than 30 boys and girls aged 22 months to four and a half years are enrolled. Staff includes Mrs. Gaede Mrs. William Conner and Mrs. Frances Nelms.
A fourth grade frieze from Rio Bravo school took first place in the rural school division at the State Fair in Sacramento. J C Ohanneson and Katherine Parish bought the Parish home this week. A fire destroyed the Channeson ranch house recently.
Cotton progress is satisfactory despite cool nights and late plantings. Industry men predict a good per acre yield, though total harvest may be below last year due to reduced acreage. If fall is long, yields could be strong. ginning likely begins around October 1.
Forty new hymnals arrived at the Union Congregational church of Shafter for Sunday school and church services. The sixteenth printing includes hymns worship material poems responsive readings and instrumental music arrangements.
Superior Oil company last week moved its office staff into the company constructed building in the Shafter field. The modern space accommodates the bookkeeping force and officials in charge of field operations.
Dr Langley Porter of the University of California Medical School reports Hawaiian sugar workers lead the world in the search for utopia after wrapping up a lengthy visit. He suggests their pursuit reflects broader social aims.
Revival services continue at the Pentecostal Gospel mission on the old Rio Bravo highway with Evangelist H B Gilbert and his wife, both preaching the Gospel. Gilbert, a former businessman and tap dancer, travels coast to coast spreading faith. Rev E T Edwards invites all to attend and join in song and prayer.
The board of supervisors set a tax rate of $1.17 per $100 of assessed valuation with district road rates ranging from 10 to 3 cents under a new state law. The budget totals $12,245,505 covering schools and special districts, with outside district three at seven cents and outside tax rate $1.25 in district one, two cents higher than last year. A general county fund of $5,232,566 remains under direct supervisor control.
Regina Saskatchewan reports Dinty Moore a famed local dog is dead. The dog learned to obey by phone after his owner spoke to him from afar. A garage dispute ended with the dog taking the call and rushing home on the owner's command.
A. L. Nidy and his white dog Pooch lure rats from holes using a fishing pole and baited hook. Once a bite is felt, Nidy hauls the rat out and Pooch seizes it by the neck, shaking it until it surrenders. The method has sparked neighborhood interest and even attracted neighbor boys to try rat fishing.
A Japanese gang dubbed the Leper Gang terrorized robbery victims by threatening to spread disease. Forty three members were convicted on robbery charges after a February raid on Leper avenue. Police wore germicide drenched gear and were sprayed with disinfectants at a private trial.
An Augusta report notes a Vinalhaven fisherman removed horn-rimmed glasses from the belly of a large cod. Earlier tales claim a surgeon found a jack-knife, starfish, and glass marbles inside a 25-pound cod, illustrating how cods seemingly grab anything in Atlantic waters.
In Augusta Maine Eastport paper reports that Chippy the marshal and Mrs Morrison’s pet woodchuck has returned to the woods in Cannon Hill after being taken into the woods and followed to the road on a second attempt. The Morrisons then acquire a younger woodchuck.
In Deland Florida Miss Mercer caught an eight-pound black bass by using her foot as a fishing pole. She attached a short line and artificial plug minnow to her foot while dangling it in St Johns River and flipped the fish to the barge where she sat.
Richland grammar school opens Monday September 12 with kindergarten entry for five year olds. O T Olson district superintendent lists teachers for each grade and notes Mexican colony students will ride to Shafter for instruction with new staff including Miss Sarah Lindsey and Miss Edna Wisely in the colony building. Mayme Brother of Palo Alto joins as supervisor and curriculum director.
Miss Brother holds credentials from San Jose State and Stanford with study at Columbia Teachers College. Superintendent Olson schedules a teachers’ meeting Saturday at 10. Miss Gladys Fast remains office secretary. The Lerdo highway site houses kindergarten and three first grade classes in the new Shafter building with teachers Cakin Willis Lantz and Echante assigned. Parents urged to bring children on opening day to help enrollment.
Maple district will start classes Monday at Maple School. Principal Jack Singer says bus routes remain the same as last year until enrollments and population centers are reviewed. All four teachers return. new auditorium will take weeks to be ready as exterior stucco gets a final paint.
T R Nickel former Maple and Earlimart school principals won Tulare county superintendent in the primary by about 2000 votes defeating Roy L Driggers who held the office for one term Nickel is a Kern County educator active in the Mennonite Brethren church and a native of Tulare County He is married with three children and has roots near Reedley and Dinuba
Frank M. Wilkson thanks Kern County voters for the vote that returned him as county treasurer. He pledges to run the office efficiently and continue prompt courteous service to the people.
Miss Gladys Roderigues of Honolulu Hawaii arrives early to be first in line for the West World Fair opening February 18 in San Francisco.
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