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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1961
Page
8
A neighbor writes of a new local resident bragging of a rain-making trick using cement sacks, plus gossip about the community and a pair of science items. The writer mocks talkative locals and laments sensationalism while sharing reflections on a tongue exam study and a professor.
Junior Sunday School talks were led by Robert Geddes and Dale Casperson with Jerrilynn Sparks leading the gem. Senior Sunday School featured Demont Bell and Elliot Casperson while William Sparks led the gem. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Bill Flemmer and family from Salt Lake City visiting the W S Geddes family. Mrs W S Geddes has been confined to Preston Hospital for a week. Howard Young family and Carol joined Cecil Miles family for visits, with Reda Allen of Logan, Elwood Chambers and son Joel of Roy visiting the Miles home.
President Lincoln refuses to release dispatches from Maj. Anderson at Fort Sumter. Senate sought data as Charleston harbor crisis grows with supply fears and Beauregard forces nearby. Anderson, a Kentucky Regular Army officer, moved families and provisions to Sumter in December, bolstering the fort’s defense.
Social notes list Mr and Mrs Kent Hollingsworth of Salt Lake City and many families visiting relatives in Logan. Attendees at the Logan temple sessions include Golden Geddes Bishop Robert Geddes and numerous couples, with travel to Salt Lake City, Rexburg, Idaho Falls and Ogden for business and family visits.
Forty six Grace High School seniors and four chaperones will depart March 25 for a trip to California and other sights. The group, funded by diggings, selling confections, babysitting and painting, includes a Salt Lake City to Los Angeles bus route with an escort.
A week of church events and social visits across Logan and Preston includes a bread making demonstration led by Mrs Jennie Mendenhall, a Relief Society meeting led by Joyce Bennett, and sixteen women receiving a theology lesson by Bernice. Attendees traveled to Logan for medical care, and Alf Spackman died in California with funeral services held there. Local families and visitors, medical checkups, school declamation winners, and various visits are listed with multiple households noted.
A worried husband confesses to a doctor that after his wife’s infidelity he repeatedly goes to a corner drug store for “talks over coffee.” The doctor quips the man needs a lawyer, but the husband insists he only wants to know if he’s drinking too much coffee.
The man watches his watch at a street corner for about thirty minutes and asks a police officer to move him along after confessing his wife ran away with his best friend. Joe tells Jack he never met the rival and cannot describe him. The scene captures a tense exchange centered on trust and absence of details.
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