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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1955
Page
5
A fragmentary report notes a paymaster discovered an overpayment of one dollar and deducted it, provoking mockery. The text also sketches native drums used to drive away evil spirits and contrasts them with American motorists horns. A father recalls his own school wall habit while addressing a child.
A collection of light vignettes and humor frames blends with lifestyle notes on decorating. Alicia Joyce promotes Early American style furniture with warm patina wood finishes and functional drawers ideal for holiday living. The piece mixes jokes about daily life and small office quirks with tips on arranging living spaces for entertaining.
A playful exchange as a teacher asks a little girl for her father’s name. The girl replies simply that her father is “Daddy” and that her mother likes to call him “him,” turning the moment into light humor.
Idaho farms produced an estimated 108 million pounds of milk in October, down almost 4 percent from a year earlier but 14 percent above the 1949-53 October average. November weather was colder with storms reducing per cow output, while concentrate feeding kept overall production high. Creamery butter output declined from 2,690,000 pounds in September to 2,600,000 pounds in October.
October output for American cheese rose 49,000 pounds from the previous October and stood 846,000 pounds above the 1949-58 October average. For 1955, total production through October reached 27,415,000 pounds, 1 percent higher than the first ten months of 1954, with October production at 1,670,000 pounds, 10 percent above October 1954 and 20 percent above the 1949-53 October average. Through October 1955 total at 18,120,000 pounds is 1,466,000 below 1954’s pace but 2,004,000 above the dipentente average for the period.
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