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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1951
Page
12
Community members attend dinners dances and farewell events across Linrose Ogden Riverdale and Preston. Mentions include Antone Koller trip to Detroit and Evans mission, Caldwells and Shrives gatherings, and a missionary farewell for Farrell Nielsen with multiple local relatives attending.
Clifton and Vaughn Bailey spent Sunday and Monday in Ogden visiting relatives. Betty Sears and children moved into the Hawkes house. A Relief Society Family Night program featured talks by Liva Westover Ray Cros shaw Elsie Winward and Janet Davis with a chorus. Families attended weddings and travels spanned Ogden Logan Pocatello Emmett and Boise.
Miss Don Nince Crane, a USAC college student, will travel to Tooele Utah for five weeks of practice teaching. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs William E Crane. Mr and Mrs Owen Casperson and their son from Preston visited over the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Oscar Wilde. Mrs Jamina Crane received
The piece records visits and family travels including a Salt Lake wedding attendance by Miss Ada Gunderson s family and many relatives from Preston and nearby towns. It mentions sam Roger entering the Texas Louisiana mission and notes mission reports presented by Max Jensen and Kimber Christensen at the Oneida stake conference.
Mr Christensen served in the eastern states mission field and participated in Hill pageants. Norman Larsen attended Franklin County Farm Bureau meetings held recently in Preston and Von.
Fairview notes show a ward social for teachers and partners last Thursday. Visitors include Mrs. Bob Mikesell and family from Ogden and Mr. Oscar Rawlings. Temple excursion attendees listed among local families. PTA met Monday. various social visits to Weston and Grace areas.
Hall and Harriet Hall joined the farewell social for Norman Corbridge in Preston sixth ward last Friday evening. Ed Cale visited Riverdale Sunday with L A Neeley and Emma Wiser spent the past week in Salt Lake City with Clyde De Childs. Harriet Hall and Erma Rawlings attended a quilting social at Lula Bodily's home last Thursday. Bertha Whittle is visiting Logan with Bill Hanna hosting.
In the Idaho legislature Mendenhall criticizes required stamps raising prices by about 30 percent for consumers. He notes county approval and says he is assigned to committees on industry and labor education livestock and dairying and state institutions.
Clarence H Kofoed of Swan Lake and Los Angeles with relatives including Ella Fjelsted and James Kofoed among those listed. Funeral services were held today at 1 p.m. in the Preston fourth ward chapel conducted by Rulon Keller, bishop.
Burial at Weston cemetery was conducted with services directed by Richards and Son mortuary. The fragment notes the Seventh Ward area context but provides only limited details on the deceased or exact date.
Joseph S. WeCann continued with mentions of family members including Charles Albert and Lucius McCann of Smithfield and Mrs Sarah BE Phillips of Ogden along with Beatrice Reese Brigham City Mina Pond Island Park and a grandson William McCann Raymond of Pocatello. Burial occurred at Smithfield Cemetery by Richards and Son mortuary.
Contined notes urge attendance at stake meetings. General priesthood session begins 8 p.m. All ward and stake priesthood leaders should attend. Sessions open 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Sunday with an evening meeting at 8 p.m. under MIA direction.
A brick building hosts a feature on famous cartoonists and reporters. It notes Sullivan’s extensive clipping files and indexing practice guiding future historical volumes, with the Preston Citizen listing Dowling as a former columnist to follow.
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