Vaudeville replaces horse pull at Franklin County fair
Franklin County fair adds a vaudeville show as Saturday night’s climax in the high school auditorium. Professional acts from Clarence Smith Theatrical Booking include The Two Campbells, Johnny and Mack, Francis Dainty Co., and the Medor Brothers, promising a capacity crowd with a new main event.
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Franklin County
Daniel Roberts
County Fair Board
Weston
Clarence Smith
Johnny and Mack
Francis Dainty & Co
Medor Brothers
New York
Rhe Agency
Prompert
Fall Term of High School Starts Tuesday
Preston High opens fall term with a renovated building. Registration at 9 am followed by class signups. buses run 11:30 am to 1 pm. Freshmen and sophomores register with juniors and seniors. Student fees remain $12 covering texts lockers and activities. The year begins Labor Day with the football game against North Cache at 2 pm.
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Preston High School
Supt. W. H. Simmons
North Cache
New Ferguson 30 Tractor Debuts at County Fair Showing
Willis R Burton and Robert C Geddes of Peterson Tractor service just returned from Salt Lake City after attending a Ferguson step up meeting for intermountain farm equipment dealers. The event marked the first announce ment of the Ferguson 30 tractor with new features. Geddes described the Ferguson 39 as incorporating many developments.
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Willis R. Burton
Robert C. Geddes
Peterson Tractor Service
Salt Lake City
Ferguson
Intermountain
Harry Ferguson, Inc
Detroit
Burton
Peterson “Tractor Service
All-Star Softball Tilt vs Colored Ghosts Set for Thursday
All-star players from Oneida and Franklin join forces for a charity softball game against the Colored Ghosts from Town. Sponsored by the Preston Lions Club the event aims to raise funds. The game begins at 8 p.m. Thursday evening.
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Oneida
Franklin
Preston ‘Lions Club
Variety Store Magnate Milton King Dies After Illness
Milton Herman King, 176 pro neer Burley businessman and founder of the M H King Co. chain of variety stores, died Sunday morning at his home after an extended illness. Born September 3, 1874 in Highland Park Illinois, he moved west in 1904 and built a regional chain with outlets in Rupert Montpelier Jerome Rexburg Gooding Buhl Twin Falls Dillon Blackfoot Preston Caldwell Tremonton and more.
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Milton Herman King
Rupert
Montpelier
Jerome
Rexburg
Gooding, Buhl
Twin Falls
Dillon, Mont
Blackfoot
Preston, Caldwell and
Tremonton
Jefferson registration opens Tuesday at 9 A M
Registration at Jefferson school begins at 9 am Tuesday. New Preston pupils must report to the principal and be assigned to a section, bringing last year’s report card or ID. A fee funds activities and is 1.50 for grades four through six, with 0.45 for the weekly reader. junior high fee is 1.75.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson School
Princ Elmo Keller
Preston
Jefferson Building
Estella Charles
David Sutton
Esther Smith
LaReen Lowe
Wayne Brown
Anna Phippen
Alice Steers
Angus Condie
Leo Boden
Angus Con
Farty Day Resident Prescilla Beckstead Dies at 78
Mrs. Prescilla Martin Beckstead died Aug. 24 at her Preston home after an extended illness. She was born January 12, 1878 in Liberty Bear Lake County and married Roger Beckstead July 14 1897 in the Logan temple. Funeral services were held Monday in Preston. Interment followed in Preston Cemetery. She leaves two daughters Elmer Beckstead and Maude Stowell, one son, Grace Smith, nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren, with four brothers and sisters among survivors.
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First Ward
Ernest Eberhard, Jr
Prescilla Martin Beckstead
Liberty
Bear Lake County
John
Kate Burton
Martin
Preston
Roger Adelbert Beckstead
Logan Temple
Beckstead
LDS Church
Relief Society
Grace Smith
Potatello
Elmer G. Beckstead
Maude Stowell
Bert
Ezra Martin
Eli Petterberg
Maude Mecham
Wendell’. OO
Webb Mortuary
Quilt stolen from Cache County fair exhibit
Mrs. Marilyn Olsen Taylor of Franklin reports a valuable early American red and white quilt vanished Saturday evening while exhibits were being checked at the Cache County fair in Logan. The theft occurred during the act of inspecting the displays.
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Marilyn Olsen Taylor
Franklin
Cache
Logan
National Director of Rural Youth Visits Idaho Event
Carlyle de la Croix national director of the rural youth organization of the Farm Bureau spoke to state and county leaders and farm youths at the county courthouse. Franklin county rural youth president Carl Bingham led the program and Earl McEntire directed a panel with Garth Eames as moderator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin County Farm Buréau Rural Youth Organization
KPST
Farm Bureau
Earl McEntire
Garth Eames
Jeanine Beckstead
Reed McEntire
Betty Ruth Westerberg
Carl Bingham
Carlyle de la Croix
The
Franklin County Rural Youth
de la Croix
Karl Ballif
Idaho
Carol McEntire
Margene Hansen
Bob Birdsall
Pocatello
Idaho Farm Bureau
Hot Wire Cut by Car Escapes Serious Injury
Kay Wanner and Joyce Atkinson narrowly escaped harm when a 1951 model driven by Kay Wanner left the road and struck a utility pole. The impact broke the pole and dropped hot wires near the car. Don Pinson and Patrolman Tony Contino directed traffic while power was shut off and repairs were made. The occupants received minor medical treatment.
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Kay Wanner
Willard Wanner
Preston
Joyce Atkinson
von .Atkinson
Treasureton
Wanner
Atkinson
Don Pinson
Utah Power & Light .Co
Tony Contino
Forest Fire Threat Persists in Cache Forest Warns Ranger
Thomas H. Levy, forest ranger, warns in Preston district that recent rains do not end the threat of fire in Cache National Forest. He urges all residents to fully extinguish campfires and smoking materials to protect water, wood, streams, and wildlife that rely on the forest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cache Forest
Preston
Caghe National Forest
Thomas H. Levy
Fembera
Forest Service
Cache ‘National ‘Forest
Refrigerators Explode On Rail Car Injuring Three Men
Deputy Sheriff Ike Marshall Thomas Valdez section foreman and Isaac Lobato railroad worker were badly burned and overcome by ammonia fumes when a flat car loaded with refrigerators exploded near Swan Lake. All three were rushed to Marsh Valley hospital in Downey in serious but not critical condition. The 2 40 am blast followed a hot box on a northbound freight train and the car was cut loose to move north beyond the stockyards on the Ja nville line.
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Ike Marshall
Thomas Valdez
Isaac Lobato
Swan Lake
Marsh Valley Hospital
Downey
Jain Vll Oy
High Waters Hit Swan Lake Topsoil Loss Report
Swan Lake correspondent Belva Hadley notes heavy rains and thunderstorms cause flash floods washing soil into the lake last week. Crops were largely harvested with some damage but much soil ended up in the water near the railroad and along the shoreline.
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Belva
Hadley
Swan Lake
Tue
Preston
Phasieniway
Mel's Drug Store Marks Sixth Anniversary Sale
Melvin Burrup, proprietor of Mel's Drug Store in Preston, announces a six year anniversary sale running Friday through Monday, August 31 to September 3. The promotion includes hundreds of special sale values and a nylon gauge item with purchases of $102 or more.
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Mel
Preston
Melvin ‘Burrup
Senate
Oldest Idaho born white child dies in Idaho
Mrs. Margaret Ann Frew Moore, 88, died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Martin at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. Born at Franklin on September 7, 1862, she was believed to be Idaho’s oldest, living white child born. She married Peter J. Moore on October 21, 1876 in Ogden. they later homesteaded at Linrose and retired to Preston. A mother of 14, she survived by seven children, 35 grandchildren, 68 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild. Funeral services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at Oneida Stake House.
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Margaret Ann Frew Moore
D. A. Martin
Idaho
Franklin
John
Jane Clotworthy Frew
Peter J. Moore
Ogden
Linrose
Preston
Moore
LDS Church
Relief Society
Rachel Porter
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Horatio Moore
Pocatello
Hazel, Jenks
Pomona
Calif
Abigail Schneider
Long ‘Beach
Oneidaystake House
Earl Hollingsworth
Third Ward
Webb Mortuary
Knife and Fork Club Plans Sept 28 Meeting
The Preston Knife and Fork club begins its 1951 fall season with a Friday Sept 28 gathering. John Morley, a news correspondent, is the opening speaker. Former members who have not renewed should send their checks to any director or to Secretary Eldon Johnson promptly.
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Preston * Knife ‘and
Eldon Johnson
John Morley
Board of Directors
Johnson
Franklin county fair opens with three day schedule
Franklin county's 1951 fair begins with judging at 10 a.m. Four H clothing nutrition forestry and electrification projects are to be judged at the opera house. Afternoon events include FFA and 4 H junior exhibits at the fair grounds and a 4 H style dress revue at Preston High.
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Franklin County
Opera House
Preston High School
Bonneville Gladiolus Society
Junior Rodeo Set for Franklin County Fair
Local junior rodeo and pet parade organized by Myron Day kick off Friday evening at 8 o clock with a 7 PM parade. Rodeo queen selection occurs at 2 PM Friday at the fair grounds drawing young cowgirls to compete.
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Franklin County
Myron
Tractor contest offers 50 dollars in prizes at county fair
Franklin County Farm Bureau sponsors a tractor driving contest at the county fair with 50 dollars in prize money. First prize 15 dollars, second prize 10 dollars in two divisions for ages 14 to 17 and 18 to 17. Gaylord Larson leads the event with equipment supplied locally. County Agent Daniel Roberts notes it as a first for the intermountain west and a model later adopted by Blackfoot fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin County
Franklin County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
On -West
Balcanet Tractor
County Farm ‘Bureau
Gaylord Larson
Intermountain West
Daniel Roberts
Idaho
Blackfoot
Fall on Round Handle Re Breaks Man's Leg
Ellis Gambles of Swan Lake was recovering from a broken leg when he stepped on a round handle on the ground Friday and fell, breaking the same leg again. He also endured severe shock as bystanders could not prevent the fall in time.
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Ellis Gambles
Swan Lake
Mr. Gambles
Former Resident Here Dies Monday Downey
Leo A. Cottle age 62 and former resident of Franklin and Cache counties died Monday evening at Downey hospital after an illness. Born October 10, 1888 in Franklin he moved to McCammon fifteen years ago. He married Elda Wilkins May 6 1936 at Soda Springs. Survivors include wife Pauline a McCammon resident two daughters from a former marriage Erma Tribolet Bakersfield California and Jean Romero Salt Lake City two stepdaughters Jean Randall Idaho Falls and Betty Zahm Pocatello 11 grandchildren one brother and five sisters Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at McCammon by Bishop Joseph Morris burial in Piepbits cemetery at Webb mortuary.
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Leo A. Cottle
Franklin
Cache County
Downey Hospital
William
Sarah Allen Cottle
McCammon
Elda Wilkins
Soda Springs
Pauline
Erma Tribolet
Bakersfield
Calif
Jean Romero
Salt Lake City
Jean Randall
Idaho Falls
Betty ‘Zahm
Pocatello
William Cottle
Lenora
Wittner
Preston
Mamie
Olsen
LaVern
Hicken
Jessie Templeton
Ruth Brown
Twin Falls
Joseph Morris
Feapbits
Webb Morary
Riverdale Man and Sons Escape Falling Tree
High wind Tuesday evening near Riverdale toppled a large poplar toward Sherman Woolf and his sons Den and Floyd. The tree dented a truck cab and damaged the fender and light, narrowly sparing serious injury.
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Sherman Woolf
Denis Sand Floyd
Riverdale
East and West Side Districts Vote Tuesday
Both East and West Side school districts hold annual meetings and elections next Tuesday with polls 1 to 6 pm and 2 to 8 pm at Dayton high school. Voters may nominate and vote by trustee district. Weston district elects one year term to fill Ben Buttar’s vacancy and Clifton district elects a trustee, while harvest vacation in West Side is on the ballot. East Side polls are at Mink Creek schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East
West Side
Dayton
Reed G. Anderson
Weston
Ben Buttars
Clifton
Arthur, Sant
Supt
Anderson
East Side
Mink Creek
Lt Kenneth Merrill Completes Air Force Gunnery Course
First Lt. DavidgiK Merrill son of Mr and Mrs Paul Merrill of Preston completes the F 51 fighter interceptor technical course at Luke AFB Phoenix Ariz The eight week course covers aerial gunnery strafing rocketry and dive bombing Merrill a Utah State Agricultural College Logan graduate and Sigma Alpha Epsilon member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davidgik. Merrill
Paul Merrill
Preston
Luke Air Force Base
Phoenix
Ariz
Merrill
Utah State Agricultural College
Logan
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
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Burley
Jefferson
Belya Hadley Swan Lake
Preston Citizen
City Ball Park
Kenneth Merrill
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