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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1949
Page
1
Public invited to annual memorial service for deceased members at the Elks lodge hall next Sunday evening. H Edgley will deliver an address. Service begins at 7 30 pm with musical numbers by the Preston Melodians.
Weston ward plans a new chapel and recreational hall with an estimated cost of 140000. Bishop Maurice Tingey notes 14 classrooms plus a chapel, recreation hall, Aaronic priesthood room, Relief society room and a large modern kitchen on the site of the old chapel torn down after a fire.
Preston high school FHA girls plan a Saturday Hobo Day to canvass town for work to raise funds for the FHA treasury. They offer household tasks from attic to cellar to help busy housewives prepare for Santa time and earn homemaking credits. Call 133-W at the school cafeteria to hire them.
Mrs Rosemond Warrith aged 92 died this morning at her home. The arrangements will be announced later by Mrs G R Condie.
The Cache Valley Council of Boy Scouts announced the reelection of Phenoi H. Edgley of Preston as president for 1950 at their annual dinner and meeting held in the Smithfield stake house. The slate included Calder Hall as treasurer and Dr W Ezra Cragan and several vice presidents. National and executive board representatives were named, with Hurren and others listed among officers and members.
West Side high school senior pirates announce only returning senior Harry Hank Lemmon heads the squad. Lemmon earned honorable mention on last year’s fifth district all star team and is expected to lead in setting up plays and building team spirit as they prepare for a December 7 game at Grace against the Grace Red Devils.
Preparations are nearing completion for Preston High School’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Mrs. Ruth H. Darrington announces the show, set in the Brewster home with two eccentric aunts and their nephew Teddy. The play opens Friday at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium with a large cast.
Clifford B Davis 41 son of Emma B Davis Preston treasurer and longtime Preston resident died Saturday afternoon of a heart attack at his home in Oakland California Funeral services held at Preston fourth ward chapel with Bishop Asael Bell presiding Burial in Clifton cemetery Survivors include his mother wife Goldie Davis Oakland son Larry Parma Idaho sisters Hilda Steele Preston and Wanda Schmershall American Falls brother Cornell Davis Idaho Falls Davis served as a civilian flight instructor for the navy and later worked in crop dusting and at Lincoln Engineering Company
Rotarians at noon listened as Horace Baugh announced he leaves Monday for a six month LDS mission in Mexico from Salt Lake City. He sang two solos and duets with Mrs. Elda Carlson, then gave a farewell talk about his prior mission service. Mrs. Carlson and Mr. Baugh were accompanied by Mrs. George Paull at the piano. The report notes University of Idaho air force ROTC enrollees Oliver Hanson Vernon Hinckley Preston and William Nash Weston.
The Preston auto scene features McCune Motor Co displaying the 1950 Mercury and Jensen Implement Co scheduling Friday displays of new International trucks. G W McCune reports hundreds visited to see the latest Mercury while International trucks will be shown on South State today inviting farmers and truckers to view the new models.
Geneal Bosworth of Preston was selected as one of eight national winners in the 4-H club home improvement project. She will receive an all expense trip to the National 4-H Club congress in Chicago and an education grant.
Preston Implement Co owners Arnold Bergquist and Sant Bergquist host annual John Deere Day at their North State building with lunch and an afternoon program. A luncheon at 1:00 p m will feature guests and motion pictures at Isis theatre showing farm equipment and modern farming practices.
The 43rd annual Christmas seal sale runs Nov 21 through Dec 25 to fund tuberculosis control. Officials report daily mail receipts and urge prompt remittance, noting 95 percent stays for state work and five percent to the National Tuberculosis Association. Since 1904 TB deaths declined greatly but the disease still claims about 1,000 lives weekly.
Francis Wendell Neilsen 49 died Saturday in Riverside California after an extended illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 1 PM in Preston Fourth Ward Chapel by Bishop A E Bell. He was born January 12 1900 in Logan a son of E R and Mary Parry Neilsen. He lived mostly in Preston where he worked in the abstract business and spent time in Arizona and California for health reasons. Survived by his widow Mary Ferguson Neilsen Riverside a son Francis Wendell and two sisters. Funeral at the Logs cemetery was to be observed.
The Preston Christmas season opened officially with Mayor Eberhard turning on the lights at State and Oneida. The celebration featured a high school choir, local merchants promoting holiday shopping, and free electricity for displays provided by Utah Power and Light Co. Santa arrives by plane for two Christmas parties and visits the opera house and park, with Lyle Shipley as festivities chair.
Franklin County Poultrymen's Assn will hold a convention Saturday evening December 17 at 8 o'clock in the vegarthouse Melvin Westerberg manager announced the program is being planned and refreshments will be served He added the association will redeem preferred stock certificates issued from 1941 to 1943 and asks members to turn them in promptly.
Leland Auger of Glendale was named to lead the Franklin county PMA committee for 1950. William Keith Clark of Thatcher and Abel W Stevenson of Linrose were named as vice president and member, with alternates Floyd Bennett and Wilford Stokes. Delegates elected by county farmers chose the new slate at a convention covering six agricultural communities. Production and marketing rules include allotments, marketing quotas, price supports, and sugar programs.
The Sempe Indian Five opens its 1949-50 basketball schedule tonight at home against North Cache under coach Ey Sorenson. Junior varsity plays at 7, varsity around 8 30. Sorenson notes several new players from last season and hopes a few unknown juniors push for varsity spots as the home schedule continues.
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