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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1957
Page
3
Advert From Sowedbrug Store Paris touts a new trim gadget Diatron that claims to curb appetite without exercise. It promises a money back guarantee and touts easy meals while offering mail order purchases for $3 with a 10 day trial.
The Stake Old Folks party and Garden City Relief Society served a hot dinner. Estelle Whitney visited from Ogden while Patricia Benson left the Ward for school and Helen Cook became counsellor. Several sacrament and relief society events, visits, and family greetings are reported.
At Boise on October 24 1957 the Idaho Game and Fish Commission adopted an order amending the 1957 Big Game Regulations to permit elk archery hunting in Area D-23 described for General Deer Archery Hunt No. 9 in Bear Lake Bingham Caribou and Franklin Counties. The notice was published October 31 1957 and signed by Director Ross Leonard.
In Bear Lake County Idaho this notice informs creditors and claimants to exhibit claims against Orval B Dodge deceased within four months of first publication. Executor Leonard Mosteller lists their residence at 185 South 8th Street Montpelier Idaho for filing vouchers and claims. Publication dates are October 3, 10, 17, and 24, 1957.
Local hospital listings show multiple admissions and discharges from Bear Lake Memorial Hospital between Oct 21 and Oct 28. Patients include Mrs Dean Pugmire, Mrs E C Lund, Miss Bonnie Shirley, Leland J Muir Jr, Mrs Charles Nate, Mrs Edward Smedley, Dorothy Swenson, W Glenn Michaelson, Fred K Nate, Terry Lynn Wright, Mrs B H Samuels, Gene Wells, Susan Talbot, Kathryn Portela, Carl Cantrell, Randy Transtrum, Alvin Beck, Lorraine Jacobsen, Keith Lawlor, and G M Russell. Births include a boy to Richard Petersen Cokeville, a boy to Charles Faulkner Bloomington, and a boy to Eugene Stucki Paris.
Visitors to Lothair Peterson's home included Kenneth Myers of Salt Lake City and Rex Rogers of Salt Lake, with Alfred Rogers of Paris aiding Peterson on a new home project. Stake Old Folks party attendees and church activities are listed, noting hospital efforts for Peter Nielson and a National Guard return.
Social and family notices from Bloomington and nearby areas list visits from Mrs. Edwin Rogers LeAnn and Leah Dunford of Ogden and others, births at Bear Lake Memorial Montpelier, Daughters of Utah Pioneers meeting led by Captain Lula Reese, and visits by Harold Reese Violet Nelson Maud Bateman Findlay Thornock and several Salt Lake and Tremonton residents over a weekend.
Want ads invite readers to buy mixed tulips and hyacinths at low prices, plus narcissus and lily offerings. Also lists oil stove for sale, used trombone, coal and gravel contact, Prestone products, a 1954 pickup for sale, Holstein heifers for sale in Cache Valley, plumbing services and a hardware store contact, all with local Paris references.
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