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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1942
Page
5
The Fish Haven News column reports numerous social visits across Ogden Paris Montpelier and St Charles. Families such as the Jensens Stocks and Bakers are noted with birthdays quilting parties and a chicken pox outbreak.
Obituaries and greetings fill a St Charles page as families attend services and welcome visitors. Messages note Mrs Pugmire’s funeral in Ward chapel and kin from Utah. soldiers Deardorff Jones and Arnell units travel for examinations and leave. Various residents visit relatives, join government training, and handle health and travel updates.
Mrs. Clarisa Ward returned from Pocatello to Bloomington after visiting daughter Zula Chase. Ardell Peterson at Ogden hospital for tonsil operation and weak heart improves. DeWain Thornock married Mary Peterson of Mink Creek at Preston. Bishop Patterson injured on ice. Philip Thornock to attend government school before Navy. Casper Hill's house fire promptly stopped. LaVere Thornock of Salt Lake visits before entering service. Santa Claus seen as townspeople shop in Montpelier. Walter Ward visits with Thomas Ward. Ray Nelsons bring granddaughter for grandparents Bert Nelson. Rolla Orr family from Ogden visits Vin Hansen.
A. Leslie Webb returned from Soda Springs Idaho after three weeks following a double operation. Gifford Weston of Ogden visited relatives. Mrs Hyrum Nebeker visited family in Salt Lake City. Everett Barker moved his family into Mary J Kearl home and went herding sheep for Willis Brothers. Primary officers met to plan a Christmas party. Belva Muir visited Randolph and Woodruff. Ellsworth Johnson and Earl Satterthwaite visited Logan. Ella Mae Willis visited St Charles Idaho with the Irwin girls then to Montpelier. Turkeys shipped to Tremont for processing by Ben T Orwin Jos Barley Robert Thomson Ellsworth and Farrell Johnson. A scrap drive in Mineral Wells Texas yielded three million pounds in three hours.
SHARON NEWS updates show residents moving to Montpelier for work and assistance with snow equipment on the county cat to aid release of snowbound areas. Local families pass messages about relatives overseas, attend shopping events, and visit kin in Georgetown.
Local residents swap calls and visits including Mr and Mrs Clifford Skinner and family from Dingle Mr and Mrs Cyril Dayton and sons from Dinglé Mrs LeGrande Eckenbach and son from Provo Miss Verla Nye from Paris visits Miss Verne Odell Bill Beck from Ovid calls on Darrell Eborn and others attend funeral services for Hyrum Poulsen in Paris and Mrs Warren Passey shows improvement after surgery
The Garden City Ward Sunday School conference drew a large crowd in the ward chapel. After the program the Relief Society honored War Mothers and wives of soldiers. A long list documents local service members with units and addresses, including Pfe Frank Whiting, J L Gibbons, Paul K Spencer, Mark Hodges, Paul Hodges, A C Rich, Russell Hansen, Ivan Hildt, David D Cook, Harold Fuller, Thiel Wamsley, Arne Dustin, Blair Dustin, Arnell Dustin, Donald H Dustin and others.
Bern notes list business visitors including Earl Tibbitts and Trueman Rigby from Georgetown and Wardboro. Also in town were Cyril Budge of Paris Mrs J H Jensen and son Dewey from Fish Haven Alvin Davis Mia Garner of Davisville and Paul Tipton Jr of Soda Springs. Elk meat supper hosted by the Ladies Organization followed by dancing. Multiple family visits, baptisms, and mission reports accompany weekly church and city life updates.
U S Army reports that helmets made of non magnetic steel do not interfere with compass readings carried by troops, reassuring navigators and field personnel during operations.
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