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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1943
Page
8
Montpelier records a flurry of visits and family news. Local residents host relatives from Ogden Boise and Salt Lake while service members on furlough stop home. A theater of bridges, clubs, and social gatherings highlights community life this week.
The Paris chapter of the American Red Cross shipped 85 filled kit bags to the San Francisco warehouse on January 16 under production chairwoman Mrs. W. Smith Hoge. Each bag held a wash cloth soap matches playing cards and other small items. relief societies supplied sewing kits and needles while funds financed the rest. The effort supports men bound for foreign service and aims to fill 50 more bags.
A purebred gilt sale will be held February 10 at the Eastern Idaho State Fair grounds in Blackfoot. Bred gilts from popular breeds will be offered, with a swine type school on site to compare carcass and live animal data. Organizers expect Bear Lake county farmers to attend for foundation stock.
Mrs Ezra Gertsch and baby and Master Max Brimhall were weekend guests at the Smith Gertsch home. A farewell gathering honored Mrs Innes at Katherine Innes’ home with gifts and plans for her move to Openan. The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers meet January 28 at Amy Athay’s home at 2 30 pm.
Mrs Beulah Hess entertained her sewing club on Wednesday evening with members including Mrs Blanche Parker Mrs Lucile Rogers Mrs Hazel Haddock Mrs Blanche Eborn Mrs Leona Gertsch Mrs Jennie Stocker Mrs Vesta Eborn Mrs Della Hulme Mrs Vergna Stephens Mrs Martha Lewis and others. Miss Ann Crawford of Wardboro visited over the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Crawford.
Instructions from the Local Selective Service Board require all young men turning 18 to register on or after their birthday. Registration centers are set up countywide with registrars at St. Charles Montpelier Geneva Georgetown post offices and the Paris board office.
Ninety two trucks are rationed to essential users in six mountain states. Allocations officers report 19 in Colorado 25 in Wyoming 10 in New Mexico 5 in Idaho 9 in Utah and 24 in Montana.
American Indians have sent more than 11,000 men to war from a community totaling about 400,000, creating a manpower shortage on reservations.
Idaho officials report that ten special hunts in 1942 yielded 6805 deer 906 elk and 990 antelope. J O Beck director of the state fish and game department notes these hunts formed a major share of big game killed that year.
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