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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1955
Page
1
Fragmentary reminiscence reports a tense clash over Utah territory during a Civil War era campaign. Governors, generals, and Elders discuss troop dispatches, burnings, and storehouse looting as forces threaten Salt Lake City and nearby passes.
Dr. Herb Rolph, vice president since the 18th, guest speaker at a Montpelier event in Bear Lake county last week. A Montana native who ran a wheat farm, Rolph has long been a Farmers Union member and previously served as a state house speaker.
Aaron Trotter Clayton aged 79 died Sunday evening at a Salt Lake City home. Born April 6, 1888 in Paris Idaho, he was son of Thong A. and Susannah Helm Clayton. He married May 20, 1918 in Salt Lake, and leaves a wife, daughters and sons including Mrs. Peartie Weathers of Ogden and Ben, Charles, Glenn, Willard, and Phillip in Salt Lake, plus 38 grandchildren and three sisters.
The Annual MIA Extemporaneous Speaking Contest will be held in Bear Lake Stake wards on November 22 with stake competition on November 27. Eligible youths ages 17 to 33 for men and 16 to 25 for women may participate speaking five minutes on Romans 10 12 15 using brief notes.
Leaketown Mrs Herman Wood hosted a 2 to 5 pm Sept 29 reception for Mrs Asel Mattson formerly Miss Mario Ames of Logan. Guests included Mrs Ross Cheney and Mrs Paul Kearl in charge of refreshments. Mrs Mattson received gifts. light refreshments served. Mrs Douglas Rose cousin to Mattsons traveled from Weston for the occasion. The couple resides at the Wendell Johnson cottage in Meadowville.
Fragmented text reports birthdays and family announcements in Logan and nearby towns. Mentions include a boy born October 17, hospital stays in Logan, and visits by Parker, Grimmett, and other residents. Details are garbled with multiple names and places.
Fragmentary notes mention Ray Barfuss of Colse and Wothees of TaKet Man and Barfuss of Rey with unclear relation to a heat or cup tie. Names appear garbled and OCR-like. No coherent event or date can be confirmed from the readable text.
Idaho Fish and Game announced the pheasant season starts at noon Saturday Oct 22 in most southern Idaho counties for pheasant quail and partial ridge hunting with a bag limit of 3 pheasant cocks and 6 Hungarian Partridge. Bear Lake county is closed to upland birds.
University of Idaho extension dairy specialist G. Anderson touts silage as a superior cattle and sheep feed. He notes higher nutrient intake, better health, and lower costs, with corn, alfalfa, grasses, oats, and peas among common silage crops. The Barfuss couple enjoyed a Utah vacation from Sept 29 to Oct 15.
Mr and Mrs Smith Gortsch and Bernard Wilks with children traveled to Blackfoot on Sunday for a birthday dinner honoring Mrs Gortsch.
James W. Collings aged 78 died Tuesday morning at his home in American Falls Idaho from cancer. He was born in Paris and lived many years in American Falls. Funeral Friday at 11 a.m. in American Falls with burial in Paris. Survived by widow two sons two daughters three brothers and five sisters.
The American Legion sponsors a concert by The Harmonaires at Fielding High School Auditorium on Monday October 4 at 8 p.m. Featured are Barbara Pearson and Lawrence Smith, nationally known stars of concert radio stage and television.
Twenty five Montpelier High School Vocational Agriculture students and instructor Robert Abbott joined Jack Kennard of the Soil Conservation Service for a half day field study at Jesse Orchard farm Bear Lake Valley. They learned plant identification and range management practices including deferred grazing and the fifty fifty rule to protect forage and sustain growth.
Construction work at the Potash Company of America mine in Paris Canyon proceeds this week under engineer in charge J. P. Healer. Crews are installing water lines from Paris Creek to serve the office and change rooms while portal timbering electrical wiring and conveyor ore bins work advances.
A Fort Worth Texas origin air mail letter bound for Lloyd A. Hansen in Paris Idaho survived a United Airlines Flight 409 crash 40 miles west of Laramie Wyoming on October 6 1955. The partially burned envelope bears weathering from snow and high winds. A Postal Inspector explanation accompanied the letter noting mail was scattered and damaged but recovered at the crash site and regretted the damage.
Paris Local Farm Bureau heads to the Paris 1st Ward Chapel on Monday Oct. 24 at 6 p.m. for officer elections and regulations discussion. Also notes a Doctrine and Covenant Study group gathering at Clifford Price home and visits by Ogden residents to the Grimmett and Price households.
The Camp Elizabeth Passey DUP will meet at Gertrude Price's home on Thursday October 27 at 2 pm. Merlin Helton was pictured in an honor pin for 15 years of service with Kraft Foods. Nelson is manager of the Paris plant. A visiting relative and Chase family members spent several days in town.
On Oct 11 Lorin W Lewis and wife from Salt Lake visited Mr and Mrs Walter Lewis for Lorin’s mother’s birthday. Calls included Mrs Cyrel Sorenson of Ovid and several Paris residents with their daughters.
Central Farmers Fertilizer Company announces construction of a 7.5 million dollar phosphate mine and processing plant near Georgetown Idaho. Joseph J. Lanter, president, says the project includes an electric furnace and grinding and calcining facilities to produce rock phosphate and concentrated fertilizer material for shipment to Midwest CEEC plants.
Fielding High School Band joined sixteen bands from Utah Idaho and Wyoming in the USAC Homecoming parade and pre game activities in Logan. They attended the USAC Montana football game as guests of the college. Director Merlin W Whatcott accompanied the band.
Harvey Randolph of Salt Lake City and Linnea Johnson of Murray Utah were married Saturday evening at the groom’s parents home. The couple honeymooned locally for three days before Harvey, an Airman First Class in the 509th Bomb Wing Intelligence Division, returned to Roswell New Mexico. Linnea plans to stay with her parents in Murrey during the engagement. the pair will honeymoon to San Francisco after his enlistment ends. Congratulations.
Bob Kerns urged farmers in this area to attend the University of Idaho short course in Moscow from November 7 to 10. D IL Fourt chairs the dairy department. The program covers feeding breeding livestock disease control and practical take-home guidance from university staff and experienced dairymen. The course targets herdsmen veterans and new farmers with free admission and no registration fee.
Mayor and Mrs. Don W. Stevens family visitors from El Paso and local officials attended a Preston meeting. The Paris 2nd Ward Relief Society held an opening social on Oct 11 with Hattie Valentine Velma Hangen in charge, featuring songs solos and piano numbers. 43 refreshments served. closing hymn was We Are Sowing.
Fielding High marks Homecoming with pep rally on Thursday at 7 pm and a full Friday schedule. Queen candidates from each class will be presented at the morning assembly followed by a football game between Oscaron’s Spartans and Grace Red Devils at 1 30 pm. Evening dances, floor show, and music by Sob Summers Orchestra wrap up the festivities.
A dated hospital register lists patients admitted in October with their towns and medical details including minor and major surgeries, plus several births at Bear Lake Memorial Hospital. Names include Susan Wahlatrom, Laura Poulter, Don Kunz, and others from Montpelier, Paris, Logan, and surrounding towns.
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