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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1947
Page
8
Montpelier residents and relatives visited Paris during New Year holidays and week, with multiple trips to Logan Nampa Boise Pocatello and Salt Lake City. Community members including the Smedleys Richs Arnells Jaussis and Hoges shared visits and studied arrangements for exams and deployments.
The Savannah, departed Savannah in May 1919, is claimed as the first to cross the Atlantic though she sailed for most of the voyage. She did not cross under steam and later had her engines and paddlewheels removed to become a sailing vessel.
Want ads offer plumbing installation and repair services by Morris B Athay contact number 2476 for estimates and urgent work.
The Paris First Ward Relief Society holds its annual banquet on Friday January 17 at 7 o'clock in the Emerson gym. A program and dancing follow at the pavilion. All married ward residents are invited to the banquet and stake married couples invited to the program and dance.
Funeral services were held December 28 at the ward chapel for Mrs Priscilla Kearl Reed who died after a lingering heart ailment. Bishop Amos B Robinson led ceremonies with choir and speakers including De Witt Johnson and George H Robinson.Interment followed at Laketown cemetery with a mixed quartet, and pallbearers listed. She was born September 2 1875 in Round Valley, a Laketown resident and LDS member survived by three children, six sisters and five brothers, with one grandson.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers hosted a festive pre Christmas gathering at the Relief Society house on December 20 with a decorated tree and pot luck luncheon. Gifts were exchanged and prizes awarded. Relief Society events continued December 22 with a fireside chat at Mrs DeWitt Johnson’s town house. Several Laketown families received piano gifts and community visits continued through late December including trips to Salt Lake, Garden City, and Logan.
Bloomington residents record social visits and family news from Salt Lake Clearfield Montpelier and Conda. Among items are illnesses hospital stays births new arrivals and a three act MIA play directed by Elma Krogue with a large turnout.
Mr and Mrs Hugh Shepherd and family of Paria and Mr Udell Roberts of Liberty visited Lanark on New Years Day with Mr and Mrs Harlan Oborn and family. A Christmas dance sponsored by the MIA was held in the Lanark ward chapel Jan 1 with Delwin Orr orchestra. Worthy Beck of Ogden visited during the holidays with his parents. Several locals attended a dance in Liberty Friday. Earle Findlay's baby was named at a Sacrament meeting.
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