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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1953
Page
3
Long list of visits and family news from Downey Rexburg and surrounding areas. Weekend trips include Rexburg Salt Lake City Idaho Falls and Boise with relatives and hospital updates for fever eczema and polio cases. Local events include a speech festival bingo birthday dinners and a fifth ward ball plus Thatcher and Grace school reports.
Fifth Ward residents hosted and welcomed multiple guests over the weekend. The Oliverson and Johnson households hosted visitors from Midvale Provo Salt Lake City Ogden and Preston. Darvell Farnes returned to Ogden after a local visit and a birthday party honored Bob and Joyce Oliverson last Thursday.
Mapleton Mr and Mrs Herbert Elwood and daughter Della visited Monday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Alma Burbank and family. Harry Knapp spent the weekend in Salt Lake City to visit his mother who was operated on for cataract of her eyes. There was a quilting held.
The article lists quilting groups at Mrs. Lettie Burbank's home with attendees including Luella Sharp Elizabeth Gregory Violet Burbank Lillian Porter Delva Sorenson Venetta Burbank and C D Sorenson of Preston. It notes weekend visitors Owen Parkinson family and Harry Knapp household, talks by Francine Porter Don Burbank in Sunday school, and speakers Nevenswander and Bingham at sacrament meeting with high attendance. It mentions Lois Jean Porter Paul Butcher Francine Porter Willis Bryan Mark Porter and a Lewiston girl visiting Ray Porter in Whitney, and John Gregory Joyce traveling to Ogden with Lois Jean Porter for a few days. Wendell Long visiting Alvaro Burbank. Woodrow Porter welcome a baby girl, their third daughter.
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