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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1942
Page
8
Paris Idaho and nearby communities report visitors and celebrations. A long list details neighbors and relatives from Ovid Ogden Rexburg Preston and Logan hosting gatherings, baby arrivals, travel homecomings, medical visits and military enlistments. Also listed are sales offers and job ads for tomato peelers and requests for survey crews.
Lost and found columns around Tokio newspapers reflect crowded pages as residents are urged to buy war bonds. The message promotes a 10 percent yield every payday and frames bond purchases as a way to drain enemy morale.
Mr Vernon Robinson and family returned to their Sal Lake City home after a week here with relatives. Funeral services for the Webb infant were held at Laketown cemetery. Lydia Weston returned from Pocatello for a relative's funeral. Mrs Witford Marley and Mrs Hazen Cooley visited. Margene Eller returned to Ogden to enroll at Weber College. Willis Kearsom and family visited Salt Lake City. Colleen Newcombe and daughter Colleen stayed with Mrs Ben Orvin.
A report notes that sixteen bulbs can power an average household for two years. A battleship plying the Pacific carries 21,000 bulbs in sockets with two spares per bulb in use, totaling 21,000 bulbs.
A vintage appeal urges all readers to invest in War Bonds, highlighting accessible options for turning spare dollars into financial support for the war effort and urging citizens to buy bonds now.
Mr and Mrs Wright Innes and son of Ogden visited here last week. Numerous relatives and friends from Provo Grace Oakley Montpelier Pocatello Preston Salt Lake Randolph Garden City Bountiful Boston and more circulated in Paris. A job ad seeks a girl or woman for general house work with good wages.
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