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Newspaper
Gem Valley Chronicle
Location
Grace, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1947
Page
1
Ida Turner attended events in Ogden Utah while families and friends gathered for birthdays and weekend visits. Officials plan a Gem Valley Black & White fair reorganizing meeting at the high school on Wednesday August 27 at 8 pm. Local folks report births, travels, and weekend hospitality across Pocatello Moscow Bancroft Preston and Logan areas.
Dr. Merrill’s relatives and neighbors recount visits from Leo Beckstead Jr in Seattle to Moray. Clyde Thompson recently out of Caribou hospital is improving. Glen Palmer party traveled through Pocatello to Blackfoot to see Mrs Parier’s sister. Mrs. Ray of Pocatube and daughter Altice Lassen from Auburn Cate visit Gail Ray’s home. Jim Swensen from Caribou hospital returns home. Utah families from Ogden visit Grae. L Sumner Pond cared for at home. Mrs. Annie Walker visits sister. Lily Miles and others return to Newport Washington Wednesday. Fifty acres wheat owned by J A Egan of Pocatello and six acres burned near Port unknown origin.
A marriage ceremony at the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints united Helen Roper and Junius Allen on Friday August 15. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Simpson Roper of Thatcher and the groom is the son of Mr and Mrs Mark Allen of Grace. The couple left for a ten day honeymoon in California and other points. Attending were the bride’s parents the groom’s relatives and Grace high school graduates who saw service in the recent war. The bride will reside south of Grace where the groom farms with his father.
The Coleman heater ad touts a better heated home with lower fuel costs. It features forced warm air to reach distant rooms, automatic fuel and draft controls, a radio dial heat control, and an optional power blower for extra warm air without overheating the rest of the house. Phone 2.
The eighth annual Gem Valley Black and White fair closed with a free street dance and ice cream cones. A record crowd attended two days of exhibits with high quality displays and keen competition. Jay Dalton won a purebred heifer calf prize while four fat beef from FFA members sold at auction for 27 to 32 cents per pound. Milton Hartvigsen led the event as chairman, guiding growth from a few hundred dollars to nearly $3,000 in prize money this year.
Members of the Lions club and partners enjoyed an outing at Lava Hot Springs Monday evening with a roast beef dinner prepared by a large committee. The list includes Mr. and Mrs. John Wiswall and many other volunteers.
Salt Lake City and New York observers note the shift from primitive signals to electric systems. By 1919 New York installed a traffic tower on Fifth Avenue at Forty second Street with floodlights, marking a milestone in managing the era’s crowding and automobile growth.
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