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Newspaper
Caribou County Sun
Location
Soda Springs, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1971
Page
11
Community notes from Thatcher and Cleveland include visits to Aberdeen Kraft Cheese plant by Sheldon Kendall and family, hospital calls in American Falls, Farm Bureau meetings in Ketchum, and broader local visits. Local bonds show temple trips, baptisms, and school events amid family gatherings and illness.
Sherry Ann Peterson and Gordon Ray Yost united in marriage July 7 at the Logan LDS Temple officiated by President E. W. Heaton. The ceremony linked Soda Springs and Bancroft families with a Logan luncheon and a Soda Springs reception, detailing gowns, bouquets, attendants, and post wedding plans in Bancroft.
Kendall guests attend a July steak cook out at the Sheldon home. The Williamses depart Logan by bus for 17 days to visit the Hill Cumorah Pageant and other sites. Hoopes and others travel to Twin Falls for a relative’s funeral. Luella Hoopes visits Pocatello with Howard Curtis. Neighbors visit Panter in Noonan Valley. Skinner visits Pocatello and sees Morris Howells family. Panter and Grace Harris join a Star Valley trip for a Millward reunion. Bennetts visit Carolyn Bowers in Pocatello. Mendenhalls from Logan stay with Dwayne Caress as Clyde Caress family heads to Montana for a brother’s funeral.
The Class of 1955 at Soda Springs High School held a 16 year reunion on July 23 at the Cedar View Supper Club. Attendees included numerous couples and individuals with several special guests and organizers noted for this year. Joelene Crouse Sherry Mendenhall and Joan Davis led planning with Nanta Owens slated to chair the 20 year reunion in 1975.
The Soda Springs Sno-Drifters Club held its annual weekend camp at the Diamond Creek youth camp. About 75 adults and many children attended with dogs. a bicycle accident injured Jay Lish when a rider fell. George Hawker led ice cream making with lively guitar and dancing scenes. Next club meeting set for Aug. 8 at Trail Cafe.
August 13 wedding planned for Paulene Ruth Moore of Soda Springs and John S. Nelson of Grate. Paulene, a Soda Springs High School alumna active in band chorus and Thespians, works at Chadwick's Department Store. John Nelson, Grace High School graduate, played sports and finished at Idaho State University Vocational and Technical School in 1968.
Miss Beggar Joy owned Merlin Wilde Soda Springs and trained Carl Cronquist won the Intermountain Quarter Horse Maturity at Jerome last Saturday. Camptown Sue and Bread Stick placed second and third. Miss Beggar Joy ran 400 yards in 20.44 seconds to break the meet record.
Carl Caress died at his home in Butte Montana on July 23 after a heart attack. He was born March 12, 1912 in Florence Oklahoma and lived in Colorado before moving to Idaho and then Butte. He worked for Anaconda Copper Mining Co Conda from 1940 to 1956, then in Butte until his death. He was married to Mae Parkhouse and survived by his wife two daughters Margaret Link of Denver Evelyn Mayers of Salinas five grandchildren and seven siblings. Funeral services were arranged by Wayrynen Richards Funeral Home and burial was in Mt View Cemetery Butte.
Soda Springs brief item details a local note from Caribou County Sun dated July 29 1971. Readers are reminded of events and notices pertinent to the Soda Springs community.
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