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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1944
Page
5
A large Bloomington crowd enjoyed a closing social Tuesday night with dancing and refreshments. Residents and visitors shared visits as families traveled to Logan and Provo for hospital and family events.
Friday Homer Tuescher of Geneva visited Bern. Saturday James Hymas and daughter Eva of Liberty called in Bern. Ernest and Grant Barkdull of Montpelier were in Bern Sunday. Bp. and Mrs. Albert Miller of Sharon in Bern Monday. Mrs. Milford Barkdull of Georgetown was a Bern visitor Tuesday.
Cyril S and Budge of Paris called in Bern Tuesday. Mr and Mrs David G Parker of Lanark were in town Wednesday. John Kunz Jr and son Dan F Kunz and wife of Pocatello visited the Kunz home on Wednesday. August Schmid of Hammett Ida employed by the railroad company was in Bern Wednesday. Jos Olson of Ovid was in Bern.
Mr. David King and his son William visited Montpelier and his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Smith. Debuting events include a school party hosted by Mrs. Laree Parker, a Sharon orchestra dance in Noonan, and several local visits to Paris and Lava Hot Springs. Many residents attend the Stake Mutual dance in Ovid and Lowdon report on crops finally being planted after a cold wet spring.
Pvt Clinton Hill returns to service in Ogden with parents. Theodocia Hymas improves after appendicitis surgery. Local residents visit soldiers overseas and transfer news. School year ends with Tom Sawyer play and tap dance encore. Families travel between Laketown Montpelier Logan and Paris for visits and updates.
Mrs Mary Hartney left by stage for Pocatello Salt Lake and Ogden to visit friends and relatives Junior Kearl of Logan visited his grandfather C C Shirley over the weekend Mrs Clarg Stock broke her arm in Logan and is reported improving District school closed in Fish Haven on April 28 The first four grades attended a show at Montpelier on April 27 with teachers Dredge Stock and Rose Smith Principal W Alfred Howell left for Salt Lake City for a weeks vacation Several residents reported visits and travel including Ray Stock Nina Dustin Don Smith and others from Soda Springs Randolph Pocatello Cokeville Ogden and Montpelier
Clarence Wright leads the Bennington 4-H with Geraldine Hunter as reporter. Topics included Growing Straight and Tall and posture. Raymond Health for Victory club reporter Gayle Linford notes Health lesson Defend Itself Against Disease, roll call, invitations, bonfire, refreshments, and games.
Lanark residents share visits with Paris and Montpelier friends. Dean Roberts leaves for Salt Lake to join the Army. Elder Delbert Parker speaks at Liberty. Ernest Egley has been ill.
Senator D Worth Clark, pioneer of the Federal noxious weed control program, files a 50 million dollar appropriation to back plant pest suppression. The bill allocates 75 percent federal funding and 25 percent shared by state, county, and farmers, with Idaho noting over four thousand acres freed from perennial weeds between 1936 and 1940.
A domestic squabble over a parrot and a pipe ends with Will Dudley throwing the bird out and the couple laughing together. The comic scene shifts when the parrot returns with a corn cob and whistling, prompting the couple to reconcile over a friendly beer.
Clark stated the program benefited 18 000 Idaho farms, with four years costing about 4 500 000 in chemicals labor and equipment. He warned delaying resumption would cause losses far exceeding the proposed appropriation amid war food needs. He cited infestations of wild morning glory white top Russian Knapp Weed.
The article lists leafy spurge Canada thistle perennial sow thistle quackgrass Johnson grass Bermuda grass nutgrass and almilar plant pests. It notes control and eradication rely largely on chemicals applied by special mechanical devices requiring a minimum of manpower.
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