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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1944
Page
10
A large Whitney audience enjoyed an afternoon of poetry and prose on Sunday November 5 featuring Miss Beth Swainston and Miss Venna Dunkley in the ward chapel. Also heard were The Legend of the Lost Arrow Moonlight Sonata and two violin solos by Miss Tanner with Mrs Marian Ballif receiving a token book of drama.
Mr and Mrs Ezra Lewis mark their fiftieth wedding anniversary with an open house on Sunday November 19 at their South Preston home where they homesteaded forty six years ago The couple born in Utah and Virginia later married in Salt Lake City on November 19 1894 They have eight children fourteen grandchildren and seven teen service members among their grandchildren and great grandchildren.
The Second Ward Primary officers hosted a social at Mr and Mrs George Bodily’s home to honor Miss Louise Nuffer bride to be. LeRoy Roberts and the officers’ husbands attended as guests. Prizes for high scores were awarded and gifts given to the honor guest. A lunch for twenty five followed.
Officials of the local sugar company report about 225 000 dollars in beet payments for 1944 and note government price guarantees. With the war nearing end 1945 is expected to bring better conditions and labor markets. The Mexican labor camp west of Preston will be dismantled as workers are shipped out. Mechanization expands with three beet toppers and twelve beet loaders already in use increasing efficiency by replacing half the hand labor.
Mr and Mrs Ellis Wright were business visitors in Preston last Monday, advising on a potential local project and meeting with regional contacts to discuss collaboration.
The committee on Professional Advancement of Teachers led by L. H. Larsen offers a fourteen week extension course for city and county teachers through the USAC at Logan. Eleven USAC professors will lecture weekly on Thursdays on topics such as world trade, prewar European events, and labor's future. Credit is available to those completing the course and enrollment is open to others interested.
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