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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1953
Page
13
G Sgt Stanley Brostrom is listed as staying with his parents Mr and Mrs Carl Brostrom in New Castle County near Wilmington Delaware during a two week visit. He has been seen at the local airport.
Preston Lions Club met last Wednesday with H B Young presiding. Mayor Rulon Dunn lauded the club for installing playground equipment in the new city park and thanked Lion Floyd Diderickson for donating cement. State Sen. Tom Heath urged greater public attention to state city and county government.
A Mink Creek talent show organized by the Farm Bureau Saturday night featured master of ceremonies Delmar Olsen and judges Mrs. Matilda Gilbert Mrs. Ellen Roberts and Mrs. Grace Meek. First place went to Mary Jean Baird Reed Moosman and Mardell Nielson. Second place to Johnathan Jepsen Michael Jepsen Kathie Carver Kathryn Wilde and Ramona Crane. Third place to Imogene Ericksen and Marcia Keller. Refreshments were served after the event.
The annual 4-H club style dress review showcases a member’s year long clothing work under Mrs. Ray Bright. Miss Bonnie Dee Drury, Idaho’s 1952 style review winner, assists. Parents and friends are invited to attend Friday August 28 at 8 pm in the Oneida stakehouse auditorium.
Two fires this week kept local firemen busy. Verl Auger’s Glendale farm suffered a three hour brush fire that threatened a grain field. At Glen Nelson’s Fairview farm a combine sparked a fire damaging a grain field as the operator tried to remove the equipment.
Terry Kofoed eight year old son of Mr and Mrs Howard Kofoed Weston narrowly escaped serious injury Tuesday afternoon when his horse bolted in front of a grain truck driven by Lyman Merrill near the Lee Schwane veldt home. The boy was thrown to the ground and his knee went through the head flight of the truck. He was treated for shock cuts and bruises.
The final baseball game of the season will be played here Saturday evening when Dayton faces the local Utah Idaho league team at 8 30 p m. Fire department and neighbors helped control a lightning started brush fire that endangered a wheat field, and the neighbors saved the crop.
Mr and Mrs Eliot W Smith hosted 12 junior Gleaners and junior M Men from the fourth ward at their home Tuesday evening. They played lawn games and enjoyed a picnic lunch.
Mr and Mrs D C Hadfield Preston welcomed a girl born August 15 Mrs Glyen Briscal Banida welcomed a girl born August 12 Mr Paul Romero Preston welcomed a boy born August 18 Mr Stanley Abbott Weston welcomed a boy born August 18
V R Fisher of Oxford with 35 years in Duroc hog showing will oversee the swine show at next week’s county fair, bringing veteran expertise to county, state, and national level judging.
Mrs Beverly Olsen of Banida appeared on KSL TV program Surprise Package singing and dancing. She was accompanied by Mrs Zoe Christensen and the show aired to many county homes with numerous viewers watching her performance.
Mrs Lew Olsen was honored at a Saturday birthday party with a pot luck luncheon for attendees including Mr and Mrs Pas Martinez of Dayton Mr and Mrs Ben Hansen Mr and Mrs Henry Miller and others. Gifts were presented to the guest of honor and her husband.
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