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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1959
Page
14
The Franklin county Flower and Garden Club meets June 29 at 8 p m in the Utah Power and Light Co auditorium. Marlon Woodward oversees with Cache County Garden Club president as speaker on planning and landscaping for homes. Members invite all who seek beautification and note 1960 as the centennial year with county appearance efforts.
The family of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Carpenter held a reunion in the city park on June 14. Attendees included Reid Carpenter Odell Ransom Charles Carpenter Wayne Bingham Val Buttars and Howard Eldon and Boyd Carpenter. It was the first time in 17 years the whole family gathered socially. They shared lunches and enjoyed games and visiting.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Glenn Swann hosted a buffet supper with their daughter and son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. George A. Mortimer and Hal Glenn Mortimer of Lamarque Texas. Attendees included Mrs. George H. Mortimer of New Jersey and relatives from Utah Oregon Utah and Preston. The group viewed colored slides of trips to Texas and New York.
Multiple items offered including a 14 ft self propelled IH tractor good condition a 1951 IH 1 ton truck a Case VAC with 2 way plow a 1953 Ford V 4 pickup formerly Utah Power and Light utility truck and an Oliver 14 ft self propelled combine with grain loader plus an 18 ft trailer house model 1947 all metal. Contact details include phones and seller names.
An open house will honor Merlin Anderson Jr and Raquel Guosando at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wright in Franklin this Saturday evening from 7 to 10. Guosando, who will convert to the LDS church in Mexico, and Anderson, a former Franklin resident, are to be married Saturday morning in Salt Lake Temple.
Mrs Vida Beckstead entertained last Thursday night for her pinochle club at the home of Mrs Marilyn Kay Henderson. A salad luncheon was served to Katie Swainston LaVerna Warner Bonita Oliverson Ora Rasmussen Jean Moser and Ethel Mokli. Score card honors went to Mrs Rita Swainston high Mrs Warner low and Mrs Mokli the all cut.
Mrs Dean Sears of Whitehall Montana asks for six additional copies of the May 28 issue to share with family. She includes 55 cents for costs and postage and notes enjoyment of county news and the old county paper. Little Marcia Edgley is hospitalized in Salt Lake City for polio operations. Her family endures hardship with resilience.
A collection of humorous vignettes. A father gives his son five dollars for a first amusement park trip while his mother frets about spending. Other items follow including family visits, a stormy question about a TV, and a Navy reserve rookie’s joke about an LMD desk.
Mrs Emily Evans of Preston joins an 80 member Swiss Edelweiss chorus for a six week Europe tour by air. The group departs Salt Lake City Saturday for concerts in Switzerland and other nations with stops in Delaware Newfoundland and Shannon Ireland before arriving in Switzerland Sunday afternoon. Relatives in the chorus accompany her on the trip.
Richard W. Hull son of Mr and Mrs Roland L Hull route three Preston recently promoted to private first class in Heilbronn Germany with the 237th engineer battalion Hull a construction specialist in company B entered the Army last August trained at Fort Carson Colorado and arrived in Europe last February The 18 year old attended Freston High School
Clifton Henderson and family of Pocatello visited his mother Mrs. Marguerite Henderson. The group spent the afternoon at Twin Lakes. Clyde Call and family attended church in Logan to celebrate nephew Gordon Call's return from a two year central states mission and his role as main speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Povey hosted Friday guests including Mrs. Merle Peterson and grandchildren Michael and Bruce Peterson of Pocatello and Mrs. Marcie Westover.
President L B Martin of the Idaho Farm Bureau lauds Hamer Budge for efforts to curb spending in Congress and curb inflation. The May 9 board reaffirmed support for tobacco price policies, urging a new approach to the tobacco problem and opposition to old parity formulas while stressing the need to protect farmer independence.
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