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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1964
Page
11
A Preston First ward report notes LaMar Sleight and wife Sharma Hawkins Sleight welcomed Lesa Lynne in the same day as multiple other family blessings. Five great grandchildren are named in the fragment.
A brief notice identifies the granddaughter of Mr Kent, J Ray Kent, as Mrs Orson Hawkins of Lewiston Utah. The short item notes familial ties without additional details.
Mrs Thomas Preston of Boise spent Thanksgiving with Mr and Mrs Orville Christensen and Mr and Mrs Keith Christensen. Mr and Mrs Dean Sears welcomed a six pound daughter born at Preston hospital last week. They have four sons: Kenneth, Boyd, Linden and Ronald. Mr and Mrs W Paul Merrill and son Gary spent the weekend in Rexburg visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs Cleo Geddes and daughter Pennie visited Mrs Virgil Geddes and other relatives.
The schedule lists meals for December 3 7 9 with items like Barbeque on buttered bun hash browns dill pickles fruit milk and onions. home made vegetable soup crackers peaches cottage cheese lettuce oat meal cookies bread butter milk. December 7 features Goloush buttered corn cheese apple hot rolls beef and brown gravy mashed potatoes spinach chocolate ice cream sundae bread butter milk. December 9 menus include meat loaf with catsup cream corn fruit salad lettuce bread butter milk hot dogs buttered buns ketchup dill pickles tomato soup apple pie milk.
The report lists numerous Salt Lake City visitors and extended family gathering for Thanksgiving from Brigham City Rexburg Provo Ogden and other areas. Hosts include the Taylors Gambles Blomquist Taylor Woodward Burton Condie Palmer and others with varied out of town guests and family reunions noted through the weekend.
Fairview residents shared holidays with relatives in California Idaho and Utah. Families including Rawlings Bodily Kerr Gilbert and Abbott joined dinners and visits from Sacramento Clarkston Franklin Ogden Logan Soda Springs Preston and Rigby during Thanksgiving week.
Poet G C Chatterton offers a brief verse about flowers in winter and beauty as snow falls. The piece reads like a genteel, contemplative note aimed at lifting spirits during a quiet night.
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