Franklin Idaho’s Oldest Community Christmas Recap
Franklin Lions hosted a festive evening with carols, duets by Thora Littledyke and Grace Robinson, and Thelma Doney and Harold Lowe winning high scores in progressive rock. A Christmas program featured readings and music by local students, with numerous families sharing meals, gifts, and memories.
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Franklin Lions
Cpl
Harold Lowe
Thora Littledyke
Grace Robinson
Thelma Deney
Santa Claus
Lions
Stella Biggs
Melba Parkinson
Thelma Doney
Low
Cleveland Relief Society party and school program noted
Cleveland ward reports a Relief Society party on Friday December 22 honoring husbands and married residents with games after a program and refreshments. Teachers Mrs Nielsen and Miss Sorenson led a December 21 grade school program in the ward recreation hall, drawing a large crowd. Mr and Mrs Panter returned Wednesday evening from an unspecified trip.
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Relief Society
Cleveland Ward
Cleveland
Bess Nielsen
Roma Sorenson
Christmas program features soloists and readings
Between the plays Shirley Stokes performed two violin solos with Thora Littledyke at the piano. A Christmas reading by LaDawn Doney and "First Christmas Story" by Ina Woodward followed, then "Ave Maria" by the high school sextette. Bert Wilkinson returned from a Logan hospital after treatment for a serious illness.
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Shirley Stokes
Thora Littledyke
LaDawn Doney
Ina Woodward
Bert Wilkinson
Logan
Grant Ward Merged With Downey Ward
McCAMMON Portneum LDS Stake President Leo O Hanson announced the dissolution of the Grant LDS ward and its merger into the Downey ward. The Grant meeting house will become property of the Downey ward and likely be sold. The combined bishopric will be organized soon. the stake now has nine wards: Arimo Cambridge Garden Creek Lava Hot Springs Marsh Center McCammon Swan Lake Virginia and Downey.
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McCammon
Portneum
LDS Stake
Leo O. Hanson
Grant Lds Ward
Downey Ward
LDS
Grant
W Hanson
Arimo
Cambridge
Garden Creek
Lava Hot Springs
Marsh Center
Swan Lake
Virginia
Downey
Christmas Activities and Military Moves in Cleveland Ward
The Cleveland ward held a Christmas program and children's dance at the recreational hall with strong attendance. Members from Bannockstoke High Council spoke at the sacrament meeting. A group left for Fort Douglas on Tuesday at 2 o'clock led by Wayne L. Smith and four others. Mr and Mrs J Adams and daughters visited Logan while John Adams rests with heart ailment. Gilbert H. Neilson and wife visit parents, planning to report for Nebraska duty. Mose Haney Jr arrives home for Christmas from an army base in Florida after travel from San Diego.
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Ruby Dunkley
Stanley Ralph
Homer Williams
Nora Durrant
J O Cook
Beverly
Salt Lake City
Helen Worsley
George Anderson
Margaret
Paul & Lowell
Brigham City
Anderson
Gerald Wright
Navy
San Deigo
California
Horace Hawkes
500 Club & Partners
Darvel Fuhriman
Floyd Robinson
Percy Gibson
Bill Rosser
Brigham
Rosser
I. Rotkinson
Grant Lewis
Verl Smith
Lewis
Weston
Frank Olson
Olsons
Olson
Darrel Fuhriman
Andrew Fuhriman
Joe Wickham
Lois Robins
Flain City
Joyce Whitehead
Effajean Wickham
Camille Robinson
OSL
Genevieve Shrives
Verda Neeley
Charlene of
Logan
Horace Doney
E W Doney
Verda Neeley & Daughter
Levor Doney
Grant Doney
G L Wright
Wayne Doney
Merchant Marines
Avalon
Wayne
Lester Corbridge
Preston
Dee Kingsford
Reed Jamison
Stewart Geddes
Banida
Ben Porter
Myron D Roskelly
Smithfield
Roskelley
Whitehead
Ruth Pakkinson
Ada Harding
Lois Blamires
Myrtle Woodward
Margene Larsen
Bernice Parkinson
Samuel J Handy
Mary Jane Handy
Wilford Hatch
Ivan Woodward
Wm Robinson
Boyd Woodward
Whitney
Woodward
James Bodily
Polly Parkinson
Marjorie
Robert Hyer
Lewiston
Robert Lowe
Harley
England
Dennis Lowe
Harold Lowe
Fort Lewis
Washington
Ether Biggs
Salt Lake
Bobby Gene Lowe
Meda Chatterton
Isabel Lowe
Melvin McKay
Wallace Chatterton
Douglas Corbridge
Willis Chatterton
Hoyt-Whitehead
Meda Sharp
Stanley Atkinson
Air Corps of California
Emmeline Atkinson
Grace
Fred Atkinson
Leonard Parkinson
de Wilton
Cpl Paul Parkinson
Palo Alta
M B Ferguson
Donald Hobbs
Bertha Aller & Daughter
Yunior Priece & Baby
Thaylon Hobbs
Holling Lowe
Spencer Parkinson
Wash
Franklin School Music
Santa Claus Land
Eva Goodman
Marcene Robinson
Farragut Naval
Idaho
Bannockstoke
Lincoln R. Burton
Mose Haney, Jr
Army Bastlée
Florida
San Diego
Douglas Hancy
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News of Franklin
Leland E. Panter J
Preston Lumber
O. K
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O. K. Tire Shop
Preston, Idaho
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BY Camille Cole Nuffer
Hart Music
Insu
Preston’ Lumber Co
Powerwere & O Prionate
Pew
A. Pemney Ose Ino
Nebraska
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