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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1946
Page
6
The Preston chamber outlines an 11 point plan urging scrutiny and public support for sewage expansion water distribution street piling curb and gutter curb widening paving and a new fire department to lower insurance costs. Citizens and council must learn objectives responsibilities and funding to enable civic campaign success.
An editorial urges immediate focus on housing shortages and deplorable road conditions in the county. It cites delayed materials, potential new building seasons, and calls for civic pressure and practical legislation to ease unemployment and reform administration.
May 3 1922 Local notices list a farewell party planned for May 12 at the Opera House for Misses Gretta Ralbison and Della Karlow bound for missions. Attorney Jesse P Rich named county attorney of Cache County replacing Art Melvin C Harris as District Jun. Preston City to assume four years of high school work as Oneida Academy closes. Wellsville Canyon remains closed to traffic after inspection. Snow 3 feet deep in many areas. Earl J McClurg elected district American Legion vice commander at Soda Springs. Toe Weaver Trio with Gene Prather performed at AC for school minds. Whitney staff to stay, with Driggs and Wallace teaching high school, Davies, Nash, Keller grade teachers. Mrs Ella Nelson of Riverdale celebrates 92nd birthday. Marl Hansen Hansen Hansen? marriage of Marl Hansen Hansen to Walter Worner of Salt Lake City on April 25 in Salt Lake City.
The American Cancer Society asks residents to donate by buying tags at 25 each to reach a county quota of 1022. Volunteers will call door to door this week or next to support the campaign against cancer.
Wide range of typewriter ribbons carbon paper adding machine paper and scotch tape in all sizes offered by The Citizen.
Folio of light humor and wartime quips features a Kentucky mountaineer named Old Joe who stops firing after claiming four targets. Jokes range from marriage mishaps to restaurant flirtations and a Mississippi steamboat tale told during fog.
A humorous clipping shows a girl seeking a fiancé and three months of prep for the wedding. An error in a linotype ad turns “Harvard man or equivalent” into a riddle as a Yale man and Dartmouth men respond about employment scope.
Temperatures and precipitation ran above normal in March causing the farming season to start earlier than usual. Soils remained too wet to work in most areas, with Southwestern Idaho the exception where early crops were seeded. by April 1 little spring field work had been completed.
Agricultural earnings show April 1 wage levels up versus a year earlier as daily rates climb faster than monthly ones. With board, monthly rates rose from 130 to 131 dollars, while monthly rates without board stayed at 170. Daily with board grew from 5.50 to 6.00 dollars and daily without board from 6.60 to 7.10 dollars. April 1 rates also edged higher than January 1 levels.
Weaver has joined Norme Steele at the N and M barbershop on South State while Bal leaves his chair at the North State location after Preston Implement expanded space in the same building. Norme and Bal are renovating the South State shop.
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