24 Aug 1939
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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1939
Page
1
Alumni gather for a Homecoming pageant honoring Fielding's history from Bear Lake Stake Academy to Fielding High School. Ezra J. Poulsen authored the production with 160 Fielding fans aiding, featuring descendants of early school figures and notable principals like Jacob Hessel and Reed Smoot attending the rededication.
Fielding community rescues a tradition with an Alumni Grand Ball during Homecoming. Dancers from Le Crest School of Dancing perform character numbers while Mrs. Ben Hulme directs the chorus. Fielding High School band by William Billeter provides music. Relics from Fielding’s past will be displayed on the old Academy grounds now used by Victor Rosen for the event.
Donnell Jensen told a Sunday morning crowd about a big Rainbow trout he caught Saturday evening near Earls. He said the fish, weighing about a certain pounds, followed Fish and Game rules and regulations, and the secret lure remains undisclosed.
Funeral services were held in the Second Ward Chapel Tuesday afternoon for R Wallace Wallentine who died Saturday after a two week pneumonia illness. He was born October 18 1894 in Paris son of R W Vallentine and attended Paris schools. He married Lucile Grover June 12 1935 and lived in Paris most of the time. Survived by widow parents four sisters and three brothers. Pallbearers listed. grave dedicated by Cyril Budge.
Ogden and Denver market notes show hogs topping around 6 285 with sows near 4 50 to 4 85. Cattle in Ogden quote mediums to good night helpers 6 50 to 7 75, cows 5 50, bulls 5 50 to 5 75, vealers 8 25 to 9 00. sheep in Ogden good blackface feeding lambs 7 65, trucked-in springers 7 00 to 8 00. Trucked-in springers and yearlings listed in Denver with ranges and notes. feeding jambas listed through Boyd Barter, County Agent credit.
Fielding High School FFA earned second in livestock judging with 1736.7 points, close to Preston’s 1758.2. Dudley Cook led all judging entrants as high point man, while Fielding also took third in the Farm Mechanics contest with team members Dudley Cook Farner Findrowall Chase Pond and instructor Chase Pond.
Mrs Frank Athey returned home from a ten day visit with relatives. Mrs Wilford Price left for Salt Lake City for business and pleasure. County Treasurer June Daniels expects to mail about 300 tax deed notices. Stucki family hosted visitors. Rexburg superintendent Mr Stucki noted. Various locals traveled to Paris Logan and Montpelier for errands and a funeral. Several out of town guests attended Wallace Vallentine's funeral in Paris. Helen Herschi joined Mutual Creamery in Pocotello after a visit to the east. County Assessor Transtrum attended Boise meeting. Mrs Athol Stone and children returned from Sterling Idaho after visiting relatives.
Miss LeNea Jensen daughter of Mr and Mrs Wm Jensen was selected Queen of the Bear Lake County Fair at a Montpelier contest dance last Saturday evening. A large field of contestants competed and judges chose her though they were not county residents. The queen and her attendants will ride on a float in the parade opening day of the fair.
Frank Nye reports ordering 125 baby chicks from a Kansas hatchery last spring but received 128. He claims 198 chicks remained healthy at his farm with 125 three and one month old birds thriving and no deaths or sickness among the lot. Verification by visitors is possible on site.
Walter Hoge son of Mr and Mrs W J Hoge of Blackfoot left for Moscow to serve as instructor in bacteriology at the University of Idaho and assistant bacteriologist of the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station. He recently returned from Honolulu where he was a graduate assistant in bacteriology and earned a master's degree in June. He visited Paris with the Hoge family.
Mr and Mrs George Hoge enjoyed a visit from son Harold Hoge an employee of Mutual Creamery Co in Pocatello. Russell Ennis, longtime Paris Post worker, leaves for Heber City Utah to join John Wallis in running a new Paris Post office. Paris Drug Co receives a fresh blue paint coat brightening its storefront.
Miss Jennie Michaelson of St Charles leaves Thursday for Ogden to join Mrs Freda Cluff and attend school in Long Beach California. She is guest of honor at a bonfire party hosted by the J F F Club girls with June Bunderson Ruta Bunderson Oral Leah Melba Pugmire Ardith Arnell Velos Arnell Estella Peterson Erma Peterson Mary Stewart Laurs Stewart in attendance.
County Superintendent of Schools Jack Wright and his stenographer Miss Pugmire prepared the elementary school exhibit for the fair. The children made the material last spring and kept it under Mr Wright's supervision through the summer. Duesen and Dougan arrived in Paris on Saturday to handle business and visit friends.
All Fielding High School current and alumni band members are invited to a rehearsal Tuesday night August 29 at 7 30 p m on the old Academy hill If weather is bad the rehearsal moves to the High School The band joins in the September 2 homecoming events Instrument checkout at the High School by 7 pm Bring music stands Williambillet
Due to extreme dryness on the Cache National Forest a special fire patrolman has been employed to patrol the Paris district. Jay B Hann local Ranger announces. G B Crawford has been employed and will be on constant lookout for fires. The patrolman will be retained until the danger lessens.
Testimony was taken Tuesday before Sam V. Tunks, Clerk, in United States versus Jessie T. Kunz. The case concerns a homestead entry in Caribou county. Government counsel W. Lawther, Kunz’s attorney Parnell Black, with Earl H. Weaver reporting. Final hearing set before the Register of the General Land Office in Blackfoot on September 21.
Justice Av Beeright performed the ceremony in Montpelier on Saturday August 19 for Miss Bertha M. Moldenhauer of Montpelier and George W. Younger of Pocatello. The Moldenhauer parents attended the wedding.
Nells Fugal, the Georgetown contractor, started digging trenches early this week to lay water mains. The new system will serve about 80 residents with city water and is planned to expand later.
The Fielding High School Board of Education bought a fifty passenger bus from Stock Chevrolet Co of Montpelier. It will be delivered once 1910 models are on the market.
Mrs Norman Weston of Laketon becomes mother to a baby boy born last Friday. She formerly Athelle Wilkes operated a beauty shop at the hotel before her marriage.
Mrs Parallee Kendall spends the week in Grace visiting the home of Mr and Mrs Melvin White.
Mrs Klea Perking and her infant son returned to Chesterfield Idaho on Sunday after spending a week with her sister Mrs Virla Hardy who runs the De Luxe Beauty Salon in town.
Registration day for Fielding High School is September 11. Principal Wilford Price urges all high school age boys and girls to enroll, highlighting the value of a strong education for future jobs and responsible citizenship. The Fielding faculty list includes Price, Rich, Bideter, Black, Budge, Ekins, Fife, Jensen, Johnson, Poole, Pond, Richards, and Spencer.
A House release reports representative Henry C Dworshak achieved a perfect attendance record at the recently concluded congressional session. Republicans had nine members on the list and Democrats five.
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