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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1946
Page
7
Franklin report highlights Miss Lorraine Jamison’s birthday celebration with a tasty luncheon for Jennie Wickham and other locals. The column notes visits from H. C. Cowlishaw party, garden club hostesses, bridge and Five Hundred games, trousseau tea, furloughs, and service members returning from duty with further social gatherings and church class events.
Major George Biggs has been promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Army. He and his wife live in Beloit Illinois. His mother Mrs Bulah Biggs received the news by letter. Mrs Milton Biggs of Burley, formerly Franklin, fell from her car and has a broken pelvis. She has been hospitalized six weeks. The Ellen Wright Camp of D U P will meet Friday February 8 at the D U P home. All members please attend.
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission set the trout season from May 21 to November 15 with a bag limit of 20 fish not exceeding 10 pounds and one fish. The weight limit has changed from 15 pounds and one fish, and licenses for 1945 apply April 1. Special seasons include Silver Creek opening July 1. Baptismal services for the Oneida stake are scheduled February 2 at 3 30 p m in the Fourth Ward chapel with Bishop M J Gregerson speaking and Patriarch R J Davis signing.
Maj Bert Nash writing from Sendai Yamagata area in 1946 reports as commanding officer of the 472nd Glider Field Artillery Battalion within the 11th Airborne Division. He describes cooperative locals, cold weather, and mountainous terrain, and notes delayed letters while awaiting incoming mail.
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