Social Realm Updates and Club Activities This Fall
Opening the fall season, members of the Wednesday Afternoon club meet next Wednesday at 12:20 for luncheon at the clubhouse with talks on summer activities. Mrs. Lewis of Delano presents dancing class numbers. Business session outlines plans for the year and season activities. Officers include Mrs. Howland president and several vice presidents secretaries and treasurers. Hostesses include Mrs. Hill and others. Rev. Al Chandler honored at birthday party by Union Con youths. Phyllis Prieve joins Sub Deb club. Cinderella name adopted. Martha Wedin hosts bridge evening with high scores to Daisy Blaettler and Holger Hansen. M B Sewing Circle meets at Mrs Goede’s home. refreshments served. details of attendants listed.
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Lewis of
Delano
Chage
J. P. Howland
Laurence Baughman
P. C. Guenther
Ralph Jacobson
George Norrnatarian
William Lachenmaier
Phil Channeson
E. C. Eckmann
B. J. Thomas
M. J. Stockton
Mesdemes
J. L. Hill
J. O. Nelson
L. A. Anderson
A. E. Annis
Clyde Bell
A. E. Beller
J. W. Frizell
Phyllis Prieve
Eloy Bergen
Misses Prieve
Dean Lockard
Mary Catherine Lockard
Tommie Lockard
Eleanor Fox
Norma Neufeld
Eleanor Reimer
Martha Wedin
O. C. Meadows
Daisy Blaettler
Holger Hansen
Messers
Miss Pulcifer
Mrs. Laugesen
M. B. Sewing Circle
Nara Goede
Goede
Ristess
Abe Karbe
Balzer
H. J. Harder
Earl Becker
Louie Barker
Don Klingenberg
Harold Unruh
John Suderman
Rosie Unruh
Juanita Neufeld
Auxiliary Meeting At Legion Hall Tuesday Evening
Taal Rien Auxiliary will meet Tuesday at 8 o clock in the Legion hall. Taylor Tabb, president, says the session will appoint committees to serve through the coming year.
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Legion Hall Fuseday
Emicee Taal Rien
Legion Hall
Taylor Tabb
Old Settlers Supper Planned at Rio Bravo School
Plans are complete for the Old Settlers Supper at the Rio Bravo school building tomorrow evening at 6 30. Mrs C A Merrill Mrs V Wilson and Mrs Paul Wilson lead decorations and table arrangements with fruits and autumn leaves. Vercl Wilson directs a program of music short talks and recitations as all residents and former residents are invited. The menu includes chicken pie salad scalloped potatoes or baked beans and a pie.
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Old Settlers
Rio Bravo
C. A. Merrill
V. Wilson
Paul Wilson
Vercl Wilson
Panero Couple Feted After Shafter Ceremony
Mr and Mrs Ernest Panero honored at a charivari after their Shafter wedding. The couple were paraded on a car front fenders with canned gift labels removed. The event closed with refreshments at the Comfort home. Maple P T A discusses hot lunches for children with Mrs John Peters as chair.
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Ernest Panero
Shafter
Nmber
Panero
Katie Hein
Herbert L. Comfort
Mrs Pedersen Honored At Birthday Party
Mrs Niels Pedersen was honored Saturday afternoon on her birthday at a gathering hosted by Mrs Margaret Nikkel. A large birthday cake was presented, with guests including Mesdames S. M. Bobst Oscar Wiedman M. S. Ingram George Vanatta C. G. Lindquist Elmer Chindberg C. V. Hitchcock and Frank Nottingham.
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Pedersen
Niels Pedersen
Margaret Nikkel
Mesdames S. M. Bobst
Oscar Wiedman
M. S. Ingram
George Vanatta
C. G. Lindquist
Elmer Chindberg
C. V. Hitchcock
Frank Nottingham
Local Faculty Members Attend County Outing
Four Kern county union high school district staff members joined the twelfth annual faculty men's outing at the YMCA camp in Portuguese Meadow over the weekend. New staffers Lloyd Pack and John Walters were initiated, with J. W. Wilson and Robert Gates attending. Gates won the ping pong championship among members. About 95 teachers attended, including 18 new district faculty members.
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Kern County Union High School
Portugese Meadow
Lloyd Pack
John Walters
J. W. Wilson
Robert Gates
Gates
Albert Davis Service Held Here
Services were held Saturday at the Janzen Funeral Home for Albert Davis 71 who died Thursday at his home a mile west of Shafter. The Rev Thelma Edwards officiated and interment was in Shafter cemetery. Davis had resided in Shafter for four years and is survived by his wife Ida and one son.
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Janzen
Albert Davis
Shafter
Thelma Edwards
Shafter Cemetery
Davis
Ida
French Colonists Cut Crops to Peg Prices in 1639
New York report notes tobacco plants were pulled up in Saint Christopher in 1639 to curb price declines. Dr. Charles Woolsey Cole and George D. Olds discuss Colbert and a Century of French Mercantilism, highlighting attempts to limit tobacco output and diversify crops to stabilize island prosperity.
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New York
Saint Christopher
Leeward Islands
Charles Woolsey Cole
George D. Olds
Amherst College
Cole
Colbert
Columbia University Press
Company of
French West Indies
Louis XIV
Mystery of La Salle’s Griffon May Be Solved Soon
Ottawa historian Roy F Fleming urged the Dominion government to raise the Griffon wreck lying at Mississagi straits Lake Huron. Timber samples were sent to the University of Chicago to confirm if the ship built in 1678 near Niagara peninsula. A bolt and nut were tested in Paris labs for French origin before the 18th century.
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Roy F. Fleming
Ottawa
LaSalle
Dominion
Mississagi Straits
Lake Huron
Manitoulin Island
Anthropology Department
University of Chicago
Niagara Peninsula
National Laboratories
Department of Arts and Trades
Paris
France
Sieur de la Salle
Hall
Mississippi River
Green Bay
Niagara
Straits
Mackinac
Italy expands artificial wool from cow milk in paradoxical rise
Italy's Snia Viscola works reports daily use of 500000 quarts of milk to produce artificial wool from cow milk. Butter output rises while imports fall 80 percent. cow meat up 46 percent and whey byproduct now sustains most pig feed. India’s sacred cow gains rival fame from Italian dairy venture.
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Italy
Snia-Viscoca
India
U S Sentry at Guantanamo Protects Panama Canal Route
The Guantanamo naval base in Cuba serves as a key U S defense link for the Panama Canal. Located on the south shore at Cuba’s eastern end, it began in the early twentieth century after a U S lease from Cuba. The base, under Navy control, offers one of the West Indies best harbors and a vital Caribbean crossroad presence with a modest rental.
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U. S
Caribbean
Guantanamo
Cuba
Uncle Sam
Panama Canal
Guantanamo Naval Base
United States
United States Navy Department
West Indies
Firemen Name Additional Dance Committee
A publicity committee for the Shafter Volunteer Fire department dance at the Wednesday Afternoon clubhouse on November 18 was appointed at a meeting at the American Legion hall. Included on the committee were Walt Leavell and Bill Stoller. A firehouse drill followed the meeting. The next department meeting is planned for next Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. at the Legion hall.
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Shafter Volunteer Fire Department
American Legion Hall
Walt Leavell
Bill Stoller
The
Legion Hall
Sidewalk Work on California Street in Shafter
City crews continued sidewalk construction on California Street in Shafter this week. Grading was done along both sides north from the intersection to Shafter highway with plans to pour sidewalks in the lower city districts.
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Shafter City
California Street
Shafter Highway
Church notices listed for three congregations in town
Union Congregational Church announces Sunday School at 9 50 a m and a service at 11 with sermon The City on a Hill and a 6 30 pm youth program followed by a devotional liturgy at 7 30 pm weekly lectures on character development Wednesdays and choir practice Fridays Mennonite Brethren Church shares Sunday school at 9 30 am preaching by Rev D F Bergthold with communion at 2 pm and an evening India photos. Prayer Circle Bible readings and midweek prayer Friday First Baptist Church at 289 East Lerdo Highway offers Bible school at 10 am morning service at 11 with sermon The Love of God communion Young People Societies Prayer League 6 30 pm evening service at 7 30 with sermon An Introduction to the Epistle to the Hebrews. midweek prayer Wednesday 7 30 pm
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Union Congregational Church
Alfred T. Chandler
Ministry of
Marie Cakin
James Livers
Mennonite Brethren Church
H. B. Wiebe
D. F. Bergthold
Bergthold
India
Christian Fellowship
First Baptist Church
East Lerdo Highway
Edgar H. McAllister
Bible
A. Schmidt
Young P *S Societies Prayer League
Wasco church notices list Masses and meetings
St John s Catholic Church on 9th and Broadway Wasco offers Sunday masses at 8 am and 10 am Confessions Saturday at 7 am and weekday masses at 7 am Science Society linked to The Mother Church The First Church of Christ Scientist Wasco Corner Sixth and E streets services Sunday at 11 am Sunday school at 10 am Wednesday meeting first Wednesday each month at 6 pm Bible lesson subject on Sunday is Un reality.
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St. John’s Catholic Church
9Th and Broadway Streets
Wasco
Calif
Owen McMullan
Potato Products plant near Walker Street may close until March
John Rust, manager, announced the Potato Products dehydrator on Walker Street may stay closed until March due to wet weather delaying building work. Officials say expansion will wait on Utility District and city council decisions.
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Walker Street
John Rust
Utility District Board
Rust
Kern County
Shafter
Wasco
Edison
Ginseng Producing States Lead in National Output
New York Wisconsin Missouri and Ohio emerge as the leading states in ginseng production with strong harvest activity across the region. The report highlights these four states as dominant suppliers.
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New York
Wisconsin
Missouri
Ohio
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Reet
al Chandler
Young People’s Group
Union Con
Jean Burns
Gaede
Agricultural College
Cousins Tractor Company
John Deere
Hanford
Whitley Ave
19Th St
Charivari
Maple P.T. A
John Peters
Robert Cavelier de la Salle
Griffon
Straits of Mackinac
Ontario
Firemen
California
Church News
Pop
Peter Pan Cleaners
Nego Lost
Department
Herman E. Unruh
Myrick’s Corner
Fresno Street
Edison District
Bakersfield
R. W. Partridge
Los Angeles Street
North Shafter
B. D.wiebe
Tulare Avenue
Merced Ave
Myrick’s
Fresno Avenue
T. R. Klatt
Coleman
Charles Knecht
Munzer Street
Eene
E. M. Hendricks
Kern Body Works
Issac
Russell
Frank Russell
Ston
H. J. Ew
Central Ave
W. D. Dickinson
F. E. Manuel
J. E. Klassen
Santa Fe Way
P. O
Shafter Mercantile Co
Federated Stores
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