Franklin Idaho's Oldest Community News Summary
Local item notes Mrs Belva K Rose recovering from a Tuesday operation at Cache Valley hospital Logan. A February 23 party for Alice Haworth marks her fourth birthday with table of young guests. Numerous social events, clubs, baptisms, and family visits around Franklin Preston and surrounding towns are listed with names and places, including dances at Gold & Green Hall, 500 club gatherings, and temple attendance in Logan and Salt Lake City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belva K Rose
Cache Valley Hospital
Logan
Ruby Haworth
Alice
Joan Woodward
Jimmie Haworth
Gloria Blamires
Brent Lowe
Janet Fuhriman
Nancy Robins
Leonard Hobbs
Gaiety Club
Hanna
Preston
Ruby Johnson
Blanch Cook
Myrtle Nash
Recreation Hall
Opal Parkinson
Mary Jane Handy
Ina Woodward
Wayne Shumway
Suzan Williams
Mia
Annie Flitton
Ogden
Mary L Robbins
Adele Young
Marvin Neeley
George W Phillips
Smithfield
Ted Collins
Ruby H. "Johnson
Jolly Neighbor Club
Estelle Wright
Bertha Cornish
Alice Woodward
Leonard Butterworth
Virginia Holton
Rexbury
Loraine’ ‘Lower & Little
Franklin area WW II service updates from many families
Mrs. Wilford Stokes received Sgt Mere Stokes’s Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Letters report Marines in combat on Iwo Jima and Guam, sailors returning home, and multiple family updates across Franklin including weddings, assignments, and safe, well statuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fox Hole
Pacific Islands
L R Atkinson
Sgt
Junior Atkinson
Marine 3Rd Division
Iwo Jima
Guam
Delmar Gibson
Delmar
Bud Gibson
Franklin
Willis
Bill) Corbridge
Thaylon Hobbs
Sun Valley
Ruby H. Johnson
Dewain Hobbs
Preston
Pocatello
Dewain
American Falls
Earl Lewis
Families Allow More Letters to Prisoners in Japan
Mr and Mrs Andrew Fuhrman learned their son Royce, a Japanese prisoner, moved from Formosa to Manchukuo China. Government letter allowances increased to multiple 24 word letters per month and may include snapshots, up from one 24 word letter monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Fuhrtman
Royce
Formosa Island
Manchukuo
China
Franklin Red Cross Workers Seek Goal
Franklin American Red Cross volunteers led by Chairman B. R. Parkinson include George Butterworth Grant Don ey Leonard Butterworth George Hill Ora Porter Ruby Johnson Luella Doney J. O. Cook Horace Hawkes Gerald Wright Douglas Oliverson Homer Williams and Arlene Hampton. They promote the drive funds to aid boys on the front lines under the slogan Over The Top With A Smile and ask residents to be ready when helpers call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Collins
Sherman Olson
Doris Olson
Alfonda Hawkes
Areta Doney
Wallace Olson, Jr
Sonny George
Nadine McFarland
Royal Lowe
Homer Williams
John Warren
Logan’ Temple
Thos Durrant
Levor Doney
Vaughn Packer
James Haworth
500 Club
Douglas Wright
Horace Haworth
Burton Blamires
Floyd Robinson
Stanton Hawkes
Dayton
Kay Wright
Salt Lake City
Relief Society
Aletha Handy
Fern Porter
Denise Hatch
Myrtle Woodward
Lois Blamires
Bishop Woodward
Margaret Adamson
Beth
Charlott Atkinson
Estelle Wright
Bernice Parkinson
Annie Shrives
Glenn Allen
Gwenna
Orlando Hampton
Beth Adamson
Robert Worsley
Linda Lee
Salt Lake
J O Cook
Evan S Evans
St Anthony
University
Andrew Fuhriman
Joe Wickham
Darrel Fuhriman
Janet
Merle Adamson
Ogden
Lloyd Robins
Nancy
Lions
Leonard Butterworth
Neff Boothe
Preston
Greece
Earl Nelson
Preston Lions
Roy Lauritzen
Franklin
American Red Cross War and
B. R. Parkinson
George Butterworth
Grant Doney
George Hill
Ora Porter
Ruby Johnson
Luella Doney
J. O. Cook
Horace Hawkes
Gerald Wright
Douglas Oliverson
Arlene Hampton
Son Charles Choules Sends Warm Christmas Box Home
Mr and Mrs Elmer Choules report a letter from their son Charles O Choules MOMM 3 c aboard a mine sweeper. He says the mine sweeper is moving farther from home each day yet he gratefully received a box of chocolates sent by his grandmother for Christmas. Charles has served three years with two years spent overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant Lewis
Kay
San Diego
California
Earl
Clearfield
Utah
Lance Adamson
Bainbridge
Howard Shrives
Texas
McCallone
Alabama
J. O. Cook
Gene Cook
Beverly
Kay Hampton
San Francisco
Calif
John Hampton
Ivan Geary
Devor
France
Belgium
Richard Lowe
Pacific Islands
Cecil Woodward
Paul Woodward
Holling Lowe
Anna Mae Hieberger
Dubuque
Iowa
Salt Lake
Holling
University of Salt Lake
Milo Holden
Enos Holden
Alta Wells
Lorna Richardson
Donna
Captain Holden
Set
Harley Lowe
Australia
Elmer Choules
Charles O. Choules
Choules
Charles
Farmers Can Obtain 1944 Conservation Payments
Only two hundred of the county's nine hundred fifty-three farmers have visited the Triple A office to sign 1944 soil conservation payment applications. Vaughn Greaves, clerk, said payments are available to farmers who followed conservation rules last year once the applications are mailed to Seattle with signatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Triple A
Vaughn Greaves
Seattle
Farragut School Graduate Receives Navy Honors and Assignment
Stewart Greaves, HA71 c, graduated with honors from the Hospital Corps school at Farragut. He is now assigned to an advanced course at Great Lakes Naval training center. Mrs. Dorothy Greaves will stay with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jed Palmer, for the time being.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart Greaves
Hospital Corps School
Farragut
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Dorothy Greaves
Greaves
Jed M. Palmer
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Preston Schools
P.T.A
News of Franklin
Idaho
Veil Smith
Vella Woodward
Cora’ Haworth
Veila Woodward
Grace Robinson
Darrel Fuhrtman
Percy Gibson
Bartlett
Mary Shumway
Sacramento
Jack Olson
Sumway
Ina ‘Thornley
Budge Hospital
Kozzseal Heat Mirror
Espaus
Our
Preston Lumber Co
Goodrich Tires
Globe
MA Oana Onan LY
U. &. Exchange
Japan
Franklin Red Cross
Farragut School
Mereda
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