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Newspaper
Pleasant Grove Review
Location
Pleasant Grove, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1950
Page
2
The excerpt notes United States per capita cotton towel use at about one pound annually, while global clothing and other uses average six pounds. It adds a simple Easy Fish Sauce with green onion relish, horseradish, and ripening advice, plus a quip about early sofa beds from the Civil War era describing them as awkward and rusted.
Miss Elaine Weeks and Loren W. Anderson wed Friday evening in Pleasant Grove First Ward amusement hall with immediate family present. Bride wore a satin gown with lace and carried a bouquet of American Beauty roses. matron of honor and attendants wore dark dresses with blue accents. After a northwest honeymoon the couple will live in Pleasant Grove.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Olpin Funeral Home for Mrs. Ruby Christensen who died Friday morning in a Twin Falls hospital from burns from a gasoline stove explosion. Lindon ward bishopric led the service with Counselor Leon Walker conducting. Burial was in Pleasant Grove cemetery. Survivors include husband Melvin Christensen and children Pauline Parsons, Marie Hinton, Howard, Betty, Cecile, Glenda, and Lorey Bame, with two brothers and a grandchild.
A double birthday party honored Lavell Boren and Ann Boren Adams at the Archie Boren home. Hosts Mrs Verona B Kirk and Mrs A Foren art hosted a dinner and reception with roses and a cake as the family gathered for reminiscences and greetings.
Members of the Alpine school district board met last week and adopted a 1950 51 budget of 1 413 064 06 for the year, up 126 084 20 over the prior year. Capital outlay gains exceed 200 000 with new buildings and sites planned, including Forbes school in American Fork Page school in Edgemont and Central School in Pleasant Grove, while instruction and maintenance items also rise.
Mrs. Grant Anderson and son Paul returned home Thursday from a vacation in New York and other eastern points. They stayed with daughter and sister and her husband Sam Sorenson, visiting Boston Philadelphia West Point Hyde Park New Jersey and other places. In Philadelphia at the new T D S Chapel they met many L D S missionaries awaiting foreign assignments. Patricia Anderson stayed in New York for the summer. Paul shared tales of the Yankees v Indians game he witnessed with his brother in law.
Lt. W. M. Pierson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Pierson of Pleasant Grove Utah, is among ten Utah officers at the Air Tactical School at Tyndall Air Force Base Panama City Florida. The school, commanded by Brig. Gen. J. K. Lacey, is the basic school of the Air University where officers study core fundamentals of the Air Force.
Miss Margaret Cox of Los Angeles visiting her sister and brother in law Mrs Gleh Matthews this week. She traveled via Portland Oregon where she visited Miss Mary Lou Matthews at the B D S Church Mission offices. Mary is said to be doing outstanding work in Utah.
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Mrs H S Walker hosted a get acquainted party for Graveyard Gleaners and will lead the Gleaner group this year. Morley family reunion drew several Keetch family members to Pairmount Park Salt Lake City. Paddis family headed to Albuquerque after weekswith grandparents Gray. Nellie Holdaway visiting from California shared reminiscences with Margaret Harris. Dr Scott Benson and family from St Joseph visited with Dan W Petersons. Wendell Keetch and son Max visited Milford, attending Keetch family event at Vivian Park. Pearl Wadley returned home with Wendell and Max after visiting Milford. Thomas Simper returned from two weeks in Southern Utah and a trip through Arizona Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam with heat reaching 117 in shade.
Mrs Nettie Mecham of American Park entertained her sisters on Thursday afternoon for her birthday. A luncheon and pleasant chat followed. Attending were Mrs Emily Aston, Mrs Eva K Thorne, Mrs Jonnie Keetch of Lindon, Mrs Lu lis K Gullimore of Provo and Mrs May K Walker of Pleasant Grove.
Pleasant Grove high school band will participate in a Provo July 4 parade. They will leave at 8:30 and the parade starts at 9:30, according to band director Trwin Jensen.
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