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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1945
Page
21
Article extols Preston county merchants for stocking Christmas merchandise rivaling distant stores. It highlights home shopping, nylon hosiery, and fair wholesale practices that benefit local families. Also includes a wartime poem reflecting faith and resolve amid El Agheila fighting.
Treasureton residents visit old friends in Shelby while news of local gatherings and family travel appears through Preston and surrounding areas. Between meetings, discharges and church events, residents reconnect with neighbors and share updates on illness and well being.
Citizens are invited to inquire at the office for ready made inventory pads. The forms come neatly tabulated and prepared for immediate use in the annual stock and merchandise survey.
The article calls Christmas a time to give of ourselves not just gifts. It honors local servicemen and families who sacrificed for country, notes stars on service flags turning to gold, and urges acts of good will, kindness, and support for veterans and a peaceful future.
A lighthearted collection of jokes and vignettes features a labor saving device display where a man exhibits his wife, a hotel room mix up with twin beds causing marital giggles, and a chatty crowd recalling silent gags. It also notes a pointy range of punch lines about work, marriage, and everyday mishaps.
Grace High Student Body presents For Pete s Sake with Evelyn Rasmussen as dramatic manager and Mrs Nona Rae Hunter as faculty advisor. The tour visited Soda High Thatcher High Bancroft and Grace High Auditorium drawing large audiences and earning thanks to the cast and staff.
Pfc. Ferrin Sharp, home for the first time in nearly three years after an Army discharge, visits his parents Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sharp. A ward hall dance honored Pfc. LaVer Holden and Pfc. Sharp with a large crowd attending as Theron Kid and family visit Preston relatives.
Mr and Mrs Otto Gregory and family announce a Christmas play titled She Doesn't Believe in the ward hall Friday December 21 directed by Mrs Veda Sharp and Mrs Ida Wright. Everyone is invited.
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