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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1961
Page
1
The column lists visitors and events across families in the region including the Cox Stucki racehorses Hardbrood and Read the Mail, the Hich and Stucki groups, visits to Emigration Canyon, and gatherings in Ogden Salmon. The piece catalogs dinners, reunions, travels to Denver, Salt Lake City, and Tooele, and notes the Law reunion at Lakota resort with a 4-H Camp and various extended family travels.
Recent visitors include Mrs. Carrie Briscoe with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Price and families from Bloomington and Preston. Sam Draney broke his hip and is bed fast. Other guests arrive from Afton Wyoming and Salt Lake City as residents travel to Brigham City and Logan for temple station and church events.
The wedding reception for Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Young was held July 15 1961 in Bt Charles Hall. The bride Dixie Lee Pugmire is daughter of Mrs Curtina Pugmire and the groom is son of Mr and Mrs Lloyd B Young of Gladcwster Texas. The couple wed at the Little Chapel in Las Vegas Nevada and will reside in Brigham City Utah after a honeymoon in Nevada and southern Utah.
Granp Bateman travels to Utah to visit relatives and is joined by family members Mra Grant Bateman and others. The group is noted moving through Brigham City and nearby areas with reports of Bateman being confined to a bed in Minnesota while the rest continue travel.
Army Pfc Charles F Nicholls of Montpelier Idaho awarded Soldier of the Month at U S Army Hospital Fort Lawton Washington. A medical laboratory technician Nicholls chosen for appearance knowledge and duties. He entered service August 1960, basic training Fort Ord California. Son of Charles C Nicholls Keel Street Montpelier formerly of Ovid and a 1960 Fielding High School Paris graduate.
Two crashes near Fish Haven involve a Montpelier couple and Mrs. Lewis with Leslie Kimball of Fish Haven. Mrs. Trussell is seriously injured and hospitalized while Mrs. Lewis is treated and released. In a second incident a Ogden couple on a motorcycle forces a car off the road, injuring the cyclist with a cut hand and light vehicle damage.
Margean Grandy of Salt Lake City, formerly Paris, won a Music Contes tant scholarship at the Utah Music Academy of Accordionists. She stood among 350 players as a high point contestant and earns an all expense paid trip to Como Springs for a week of instruction with Accordion Artists of America. The award includes boating golfing bowling crafts and activities with other state winners. Grandy is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Weldon Grandy, former community residents.
Laketown announces the engagement of LaRue Earley daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Earley to Robert Merril Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Dallan Johnson of Randolph. They plan to wed at Logan Temple on August 11. LaRue attends North Rich High School while Robert graduates South Rich High and has a scholarship to Snow Junior College.
Bids will be opened August 16 for seal coating 10.605 miles of 0.8 Highway 80N from Georgetown to Montpelier. Work located in Bear Lake County. Completion required within thirty working days.
Seventy five Rich County 4 H Club members and leaders and one hundred fifty Morgan County 4 H members joined a three day Monte Cristo encampment July 12 13 and 14. Officers included Paul Reed mayor Sharon Waldron mayorette Jacklyn Steed Randy Spencer and others with Wes Maughan Ray Thatcher and Margaret Hall guiding the program.
Mrs. Smith Wallentine and daughter visited relatives in Ogden and Brigham City over Sunday returning Wednesday with Frank Wallentine on leave. He had been stationed in Texas and will report back to a base in North Dakota.
A Sunday afternoon blaze in Bloomington Canyon burned with heavy smoke from an unknown origin. County workers and local residents fought the fire and extinguished it after causing only small damage to terrain and fences.
Public notice announces a Chuckwagon breakfast to be served on the St Charles public square starting at 6 00 a m on July 24.
Union Pacific Railroad announced the purchase of 45 new mail and baggage cars at a cost of $6.5 million. The order includes 10 baggage cars and 95 postal storage cars, 85 feet long, built for high speed passenger service. Delivery is slated for the second and third quarters of 1989, with construction by the St. Louis Car Company.
Joseph E. Evans reports the wool incentive rate at 47.65 percent of net proceeds after deductions. Bear Lake Wool Producers receive 59,740.81 in checks for 250,978 pounds sold, net $130,829.15 at $0.5215 per pound, above the U.S. average of 0.420. Including incentive, Bear Lake County producers average 0.7597 per hundredweight, with 0.61 nationally. a 7 cent per pound deduction funds advertising and research. An additional 80 cents per hundredweight incentive for unshorn lambs will be paid soon.
Dennis Crossley returns from a week in Calgary and Cardston visiting a missionary companion and LDS temple. Local visits include Doreen Booth Nola Haddock Virginia Bolton and others with hospitalizations and a windstorm causing damage.
During the past week Mark's Chevron Service has added a coat of paint inside and outside the station. Business continues as usual though the labs and wash room were inconvenienced for the first days. The interior features blue and white hues, while outside painting proceeds by company painters.
Peter Grandy age 72, a retired Paris blacksmith, dies after weeks of illness at Bear Lake Memorial Hospital. Funeral services scheduled Thursday at 1:00 pm in Paris Chapel. Born May 24, 1889 in Amy Wyoming, he lived in Paris over 40 years and survived by wife Amelia, a son in Los Angeles, daughters in St Charles and Paris, and several brothers and a sister. Funeral arrangements with Matthews Mortuary and burial in Paris Cemetery.
The July 1 USDA Idaho general crop report shows larger crops than a year ago with 1961 harvest acreage up for sugar beets and fall potatoes and higher yields for several major crops. Aggregate production is up from 1960, though spring wheat oats and dry beans acreage dip. Milk output for Jan–June reaches 866 million pounds, up 13 million from last year, while egg production declines by 8 million from a year ago.
Commissioner E R Hopper appointed a three member committee to coordinate county sheriff and organizational activities on boat safety. George Denney, Rob ert B McCall, and Capt Clark Hand head the panel. Hopper cited rising motor boat accidents and urged new regulations and enforcement to prevent further tragedies.
The John and Nora Micheolzoi family gather in Canyon for a family reunion. The event marks a return or continuation of kinship amid emigration, with relatives expected from multiple locations to attend.
A reception in Nampa Idaho honored Mrs. Bieaa Pugmire and advisers for their work. Attendees, including Route Boaders, gathered to recognize community efforts and present gifts.
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