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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1954
Page
14
Mr and Mrs Ted Larsen hosted a Thursday evening Christmas party at their home. The table and decorations followed a Christmas theme. Guests included Mr and Mrs EL Cox and Mr and Mrs Robert Hull of Mentiney. Games were played.
Preston and Mrs William Enland and Mrs Earl Marshall of Logan host a Wednesday event with several ladies entering their husbands and guests. Gifts were exchanged amid a cordial social atmosphere.
The Preston Citizen reports a local event with brief details. Acknowledges reader guidance and the paper’s name and address in a terse notice.
Syringa Camp holds a Christmas party at Loretta’s home featuring Carrie Knudsen and Mrs. Emily F. Smith reading The Keeper of the Stables. Diane Stanger entertains on piano as 18 members share a two course luncheon. Flora Winn helps hostess with service, with Lucille Stanger also assisting.
Mrs Hattie Greaves, Mrs Edna Eames, and Mrs Jennie Weaver cohosted a Christmas party at the Greaves residence on Wednesday. A three course luncheon was served to Allie Packer Selma Johnson Ruth Parkinson Lucy Hendricks Flossie Merril Lettie Paull Etta Gibson Merle Bright and the cohosts. Bridge was played with three prizes awarded to Mrs Packer Mrs Johnson and Mrs Parkinson.
The report covers a ward conference held Saturday evening with speakers Leona Kirby George Kinby Stake President Shirley Palmer and High Councilman Roy Andreasen. Sunday school talks by Kathy Shumway and Richard Perry plus a sacra ment gem led by Bonnie Paskins.
The text contrasts views on Christmas commerce with a plea to preserve belief in Santa Claus for children like Virginia O’Hanlon. It then shifts to official minutes from December 1954 in Preston Idaho, detailing a Franklin County Board of Commissioners meeting and equalization of the subsequent property roll.
Sunday visitors in Clarkston included Mr and Mrs Swend Anderson and Mr and Mrs Burke Godfrey. A primary preparation meeting was held at Mrs Edith Olsen's home with popcorn balls on the agenda for a Tuesday party. Several local women were named as attendees and helpers. Weekend visitors included Mrs Norval White and Mrs Bertha Green's relatives. College students Blair Seamons George Jensen Warren Wilde and Mrs Douglas Gambles were home for holidays.
The text notes Marie Jensen and family spending Christmas in Preston with the Mac Gemittas and in Mink Creek with Mrs Mahalia Jensen. The Gambles have been in Denver six months and plan to move to Pocatello after vacation. Pauline Anderson was a weekend guest of Mr and Mrs Mads Anderson in Preston.
The Franklin County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on November 29 1954 with all members present. They consulted Warren Vickery CPA of Pocatello on transferring the county treasurer accounts to the treasurer elect LaDawn Doney Hendricks on January 11 1955 and hired him to audit the transfer. Cancellations were approved for Angus Condie and Spencer Condie for items outside Preston city limits and a discrepancy between Cache County warrant and Franklin County tax charges for livestock was addressed. An order was issued for the purchase of ď?
At a McCall gathering on December 10, 1954 the Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved an order opening Bear River in Franklin County from the water measuring cable below Oneida Power Plant to the Battle Creek bridge on U S Highway 91 to whitefish fishing from January 1 to February 28, 1955.
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