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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1944
Page
3
Parish and families report Halloween parties and school events at Weston and nearby towns. Neighbors join in Bee-Hive parties, harvest gatherings, and church activities while visitors from Pocatello and Washington, DC circulate through Preston and Fairview.
War Food Order 106 remains in effect to ensure turkeys reach American forces overseas and at home for Thanksgiving Christmas and New Year. Authorized Idaho processors include Twin Falls Boise Caldwell Nampa and Lewiston. Information is available from the War Food Administration Boise and Army Quartermaster Market Center Salt Lake City. The order lasts until military needs are fully met.
Memorial services for the four Bjorgstrom boys killed in action last summer were held in Garland Utah last Sunday October 29. The Egley family attended with Fred Egley and Lucille Egley.
Reads like a local social column detailing visits and greetings among residents of Modesto Preston Hyde Park Grace Lewiston Franklin Mink Creek Ogden Blackfoot and Glencoe. It notes ill health of Mrs Emma Rasmussen in Brigham City and several gatherings including dinners fireside chats book reviews and a Sunday high school program with Arnold Auger and Delores Hansen among those present.
A farewell was held for the retiring Bannock Stake Presidency at the Grace tabernacle on November 2. President M Ezra Sorensen and counselors Elmer W Smith and Donald W Clegg, along with Stake Clerk Ford C Christensen, presided for sixteen years. The program included songs, prayers, talks by Smith, Clegg, Christensen, Sorensen, and LeGrande Richards, plus performances by Grace high school glee club. gifts were presented to the retiring leaders and their wives.
Preston Chamber of Commerce Health Committee urges vigilance as November marks the start of cold and influenza season. They cite the 1918 to 1920 epidemic as a warning and note influenza costs workers more absence from work than any other disease, stressing virus spread via droplets.
A health official explains how sneezes and coughing droplets can transmit infections to others by entering the nose or mouth, stressing the easy sharing of pathogens. Mr. Kircher emphasizes precautions to limit spread and protect close contacts.
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