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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1947
Page
3
Preston residents may obtain bicycle registration cards at the city police office. Parents sign for children and return forms with a full bicycle description. Fees are 50 cents for a license number to operate wheels for the coming year. All city wheels must be registered per police chief Durwood Huis.
In the third ward chapel Wednesday Heber Winn led services for Mrs Ann Eliza Hollingsworth 72 who died after eleven weeks illness. Speakers praised her devotion to family and neighbors as Horace Baugh sang Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling and interment followed at Preston City Cemetery by Richard and Sons mortuary with Edgar Petterberg dedicating the grave.
Harold Mealy professor of music at Idaho State college in Pocatello has arranged a concert here on January 15. About 70 musicians will travel to Preston to perform a full evening program at the high school auditorium. Special guest Hattie Wallgren will join the program.
American Petroleum Institute releases a 32 page booklet on home oil heating savings. It lists over 50 conservation methods from insulation to modern burner parts and explains heat balance and tank losses to cut fuel bills. One million copies ordered for nationwide distribution amid postwar demand and API modernization programs worth over four billion dollars in 1947 48. Local notes mention residents Seegmiller and Hollingsworth visiting and studying in St George.
Mrs. Ada Nelson and her sister Mrs. Hazel Luthy of Freedom Wyoming recently completed a historic church organized tour across the United States. They boarded Historic Train No. 3 on Oct 13 in Salt Lake City visiting Kansas City Carroll Ray and Jackson counties Burlington Carthage Nauvoo Chicago Cleveland Kirkland Washington Philadelphia and Mont Vernon Arlington.
A Utah centennial travel feature recalls a rail and road tour from Salt Lake City to New York City and via Albany Vermont New Hampshire to Canada and back. Passengers visited the Queen Elizabeth ship Ford plant Edison Institute Palmira Niagra Falls Dearborn and Winter Quarters cemetery amid hotel stays dinners and radio features. The journeys mark historic commemorations of early pioneer movement into Utah one hundred years ago.
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