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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1948
Page
14
Local church leaders and families attend meetings and events in Cleveland and nearby towns. Trips to Salt Lake City cover ward chapel work and Mutual Improvement. social gatherings include a Gold and Green ball at Lago and a party for Mutual adults.
Local residents from Riverdale and Preston share weekend visits and travel updates. Clyde Woolf reports a Honolulu trip with cousin Lando Mecham from California. A Gold and Green ball crowned Nadine Forsgren queen among community gatherings and temple excursions are noted alongside church and school events.
Clifton and Mrs Keith Tylor and son visited Sunday school and dined with her parents Mr and Mrs Enoch Nelson. B W Winward and Mrs Kathryn Jensen from Whitney visited with Bishop and Mrs Winward. Lester Sears traveled to Ogden, stayed with his parents, and Ray Croshaw and family attended the Oneida stake special dance. Rae Lene Croshaw left for Salt Lake City with plans to visit her grandparents Wesley Hawkes for two weeks. Otis Howell underwent surgery and is recovering at St Benedix hospital.
Sunday school and sacrament meeting at Mound Valley were attended by Dayton Mr. and Mrs. Arden Griffeth and family. The Griffeths hosted dinner for Keith and Mrs. Clark. Funeral services for Mrs. Charlott Atkin were held in Franklin with Thora Panter Martha Atkinson James Call Earl Kirkbride and Coburns listed among attendees. The MIA Gold and Greer ball featured gold and green décor Connie Checketts as queen Karen Kirkbride flower girl Nadean Larsen crown bearer and a junior and senior scout floor show. Attendees included Connie Wendell Checketts Alice Griffeth Boyde Smart Hazel Beutler William Men all Connie Phillips Phil Callister Pearl Gibson and Keith Page. Albert Moser family visited Boise on business and Lillian Bright hosted a visit with Mrs. Moser. Recent visits to Mrs. Ruth Mendenhall’s home included James Morrison Hammith Ida Margaret Boyde Shoshone Glenn Hansen Kenneth Salt Lake City. Ida Phillips and daughter Connie spent a Richmond weekend with Mrs. Phillips’s daughter Lamar Carlson and family. Sunday dinner guests of the Griffeths were Thurman Griffeth and Carl Palmer of Pocatello. Clifton school employees banquet saw LeRoy Archibald M L Phillips Martha Atkinson Ruth Mendenhall Beutler Balls Campbell Taylor Sharp and others. Howard Nelson returned from a two and a half week trip visiting relatives in Salt Lake City Los Angeles up the coast to Oregon and home via Boise. Mr. and Mrs. Orson Nelson attended a Randall’s Café banquet honoring Hans Nelson of Preston on his birthday.
Daughters of the Pioneers gathered at Mrs Ann Hansens residence on Wednesday. The program featured a Laura S Hansen life sketch and two vocal solos by Rebecca Nelson with Leone Balls giving the lesson. Lunch was served by Mrs Hansen with Barbara Merrill as a special guest.
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