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Preston Citizen

Location

Preston, Idaho, United States of America

Date

Jul 08, 1948

Page

2

Canning Center Helps Homemakers Save Time and Money

Lincol n A Orme explains the canning center operates at cost with a per can price of ten cents including the can and processing. Homemakers may use the center in groups by appointment through Mrs Larsen or the center directly at 212. The article notes community efforts and local carnival disappointment including a Plymouth prize won by a Trenton man.

Lincoln A. Orme Cannery Orme Canning Committee

Fireworks Display Caps Busy Park Day

Huge crowd fills the park for a 9 p.m. fireworks show with booths carnival attractions and a concluding dance. The festive display marks a busy day as attendees enjoy the nighttime event.

Merchants Aid In Idaho Fly Spraying Campaign

Eleven hundred gallons of DDT solution were used in a local anti fly spraying campaign conducted Sunday June 13 with cooperation from Preston business houses. The operation led by Gaylord Larson Raymond Beckstead and supervised by C P Maughan covered front and rear portions of buildings on State street. Officials note the effort mirrors statewide success reducing flies and aiding polio control.

Preston Business Houses Gaylord Larson Mr. Larson Raymond Beckstead C. P. Maughan State Sanitarian State Street Idaho Larson

Potlatch Idaho Starts as Company Town in 1906

In 1906 William Deary, Potlatch Lumber general manager, founded a timber cluster 20 miles north of Moscow with houses, a store, a new school, a Union church, a hotel, and Potlatch State Bank. Today Potlatch remains an industrial town owned by Potlatch Forests Inc with lumbering as its core industry. The name Potlatch derives from the Chinook word meaning giving.

Potlatch William Deary Potlatch Lumber Company Moscow Potlatch Forests, Inc Deary Potlatch State Bank United States

Rotary Meeting Names Dewey Backups and New Club Member

Ben Johnson spoke for Dewey and then Stassen as attorney declared. If Dewey failed to win on later ballots Idahoans would back Stassen. At the Rotary meeting Pres. Al Carlson handed the office to new president Jared Lewis. A quartet sang two numbers and Harold Swift introduced Owen Benzley as a new member.

Dewey Stassen Johnson Rotary Pres al Carlson Jared Lewis William Shumway Horace Baugh Owen Benzley Harold Swift Mr. Benzley

Obituary notices and classified ads pasted together

City Employe Saturday until time of funeral at Webb Hendricks mortuary interment in Logan cemetery three sisters and three brothers listed Kenneth and Niel Peterson Long Beach Mrs Alma Knopp Long Beach Clark Peterson Campbell Calif Selma P Goddard Cedar City Mrs Aston Campbell Preston Wife's parents Mr and Mrs Thomas A Boyle Preston FOR SALE six room modern home Apply at 469 South First East or call 355 W between 2 and 6 pm FOR SALE International harvester 24 R 4 ft cut power take off operated Phone P T Hansen 0281-11

Webb-Hendricks Logan Cemetery Kenneth and Niel Peterson Long Beach Alma Knopp Clark Peterson Campbell, Calif Selma P. Goddard Cedar City Aston Campbell Preston Thomas A. Boyle South First East International Harvester P. T. Hansen

Unsigned letters rejected for lack of signatures

The Citizen will not print unsigned letters or those with initials only. Signed letters on file may be published, with signatures withheld on request if hot or controversial. Personal attacks or criticisms of individuals will be ignored and open forum letters from signed authors will be printed.

Open Forum

Free Farmhand Loader Winner From Montana

Montana farmer Christ Melger of Circle won a free hydraulic Farmhand loader from Superior Separator Co. The prize, part of a farmers night by Jensen Implement Co, drew three names per dealer. Melger was selected among contestants nationwide.

Montana Christ- Melger Circle Mont Separator Co Dean Jensen Jensen Implement ‘Co Jensen Implement Co Jensen

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