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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1943
Page
3
A flurry of Thanksgiving weekend visits fills Glencoe homes as Rasmussen, Conlin, Larsen, Bergquist and other families host relatives from Preston Thatcher Ogden and Hy rum. Several dinners and quilting bees are noted with numerous cousins and in laws gathering across Riverdale Preston and Thatcher.
A series of visits and meals highlight last week with Bert Williams and Dora Williams staying with Mrs. Elizabeth Ward and Mrs. Wanda Hess. Wayne Ward families shared Thanksgiving at Weston and a farewell dinner honored the Workman and Newbold guests.
Mr and Mrs Lee Redington hosted a large Thanksgiving dinner with numerous relatives visiting from Salt Lake City Pocatello Cambridge Swan Lake and Burley including Annie Redington Jack Fisher and families Irene Olsen and many others. Mrs Fisher plans to stay in town until her husband returns from the Army Air Force. Additional visits featured the Hatch and Olson households hosting meals and extended kin from Idaho and Utah.
Baptismal services for the Oneida stake will be held in the Fourth ward chapel Saturday December 4 at 3 30 p m. Bishop L E McDermott of the Clifton ward will be the speaker. Signed R J Davis.
Citizens rally for holiday season support as the War Bonds drive continues to back national defense. Officials urge purchases through local banks and post offices, highlighting the urgency of funding military effort this Christmas period.
Local residents hosted relatives from Nampa Logan Ogden and Salt Lake City over Thanksgiving weekend. Army and air service members including Don Johnson Doyle Murray and Kenneth Conlin prepared for duty while family members visited in Clifton and nearby towns.
War Food Administration officials announce the 1944 farm machinery program will meet manufacturing quotas on time. After talks with manufacturers an average output of 80 percent of 1942 production is planned with no quota limits on repair parts. Some shortages like bearings and magnetos remain, but overall quotas should be met.
Howard Goodwin of Salt Lake visited his parents Mr and Mrs John Goodwin. Bert Redington and son Dell of the US Navy visited their grandmother Mrs Annie M Redington with Kay Joyal Redington and Glenda Lee Bricker of Pocatello. Mrs Fred Coburn cared for her daughter Lucille Gyllenskog and grandson Jerry ill with scarlet fever in Pocatello. Mr and Mrs Karl Kendall entertained guests including Mr and Mrs George Fisher Garold and Barbara Fisher Mrs Donald Fisher and son Lewis Wayne. Dance attendees from here at Swan Lake included Martha Hatch Julia Anderson Vera Hatch Lorin Olson Washington Hatch Orin Hatch Stanley Fisher Alfred Olson and Glen Baker. Oxford school staged Polly's Troubles with Boyd Redington Beverly Hatch Wanda Olson Delores Kendall Marvin Jensen Martha Jensen Connie Kendall Earl Hatch Douglas Fisher Athea Cox and Carma Kendall. Miss Lenore Hatch spent Thanksgiving with her parents the Dqa Hatch. Miss Hatch worked at USAC in Logan for months.
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