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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1944
Page
9
The Relief Society met to exchange ideas for Christmas. Halloween party hosted by PTA MIA Sunday School and Primary featured decorations and costumes. Local families hosted guests from Salt Lake City and Hamilton Field. Deer hunting season produced notable elk and deer catches. A Republican rally and dance drew a large crowd.
Thatcher Mrs Mel Brown and Mrs Shirley Brown of Soda Springs visited last Friday with Mrs Louis Bitton. A large crowd attended a party in honor of the Bannock Stake presidency at Grace Thursday. Lavera Bitton escaped minor injuries after her car tipped near Buttermilk school house while returning Wednesday. Several families from Ogden Preston Boise and Los Angeles visited Lago residents. A Hallo we'en party was hosted by Evelyn Rasmussen. John Webb led the Co op cheese factory staff illness noted.
An advertisement notes a broad selection of office items at Citizen including typewriter ribbons carbon paper adding machine paper ledgers journals blanks receipt books scale books remittance books purchase orders manila files expanding files mimeograph paper record books and bookkeeping sets.
Postmaster Hale Hart announced on Thursday that any soldier transferred overseas since the October 15 mailing deadline may receive a Christmas package without a written request.
Heather Kidwell confronts Sue Tale not about a ghost but a Halloween pumpkin lit in Sue's window. Sue insists the annual display stays, noting Dave is overseas and would want the local custom kept.
Cleveland hosts a farewell and testimonial for the retiring Bannock stake presidency at the Grace Tabernacle and high school on Thursday night November 2 with many locals in attendance. Visitors include Miss NaDene Wright and Miss Virginia Adams, plus families from Mound Valley and Ovid Utah. Lincoln Edward Burton named after a baby. Relief Society conference directed by Cleveland ward leaders Etheleen Andreasen Jessie Andreasen and Vera Nielsen held with Millie S Webb of the Bannock Stake Board in attendance.
Swan Lake cadet nurse Eloise Matkins spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs George Matkins of Swan Lake. She is training at Budge Hospital in Logan. Other visitors include Howard Nisson of Salt Lake City with his father Norman Nisson and Mrs Florence Batchler of Kansas City visiting Leo Beckstead Sr. Mrs Batchler’s husband is stationed in San Diego. Larry Peterson returned to school after a week away. Miss Maurine Beckstead of Salt Lake City visited her father and family the first of the week. Gene Henderson, son of Mr and Mrs Merle Henderson, telephone update from California where he serves with the Marines.
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