McCall Idaho Named for McCall Family and Lake Port
In 1899 a wagon caravan stayed at Payette lake as the McCall family remained. The townsite was platted in 1901 and a post office moved to Eugene then back to McCall in 1905. The name changed from Lakeport to McCall amid debates and Payette Lakes proposals. It is a resort and agricultural market area with mills mines and nearby skiing sites and a yearly boat regatta.
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McCall
Payette Lake
Thomas McCall
Eugene
Lake
Payette Lakes
State of
Idaho
Boise
Bayette Lake
Local residents enjoy visits and family events across towns
Clifton Pope and family from Arbon visited last Tuesday then went to Richmond to see Vance Pope's parents. Janet Davis hosted a birthday party for Jo Lynn with first and second graders, followed by lunch. Other residents traveled for funerals, family visits, and hunting trips, including the Winward and Olsen families.
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Vance Pope
Arbon
Lynn Davis
Richmond
Wm. Pope
Janet Davis
Jo Lynn
Flora Larson
Ogden
Salt Lake
Wesley Olsen
Vern Wright
Pocatello
Albert Lewis
Frank Ashley
Oregon
Urban Olsen
Ashley
Olsen
Ralph Deppe
Bryan Winward
Dora Call
Dayton
Mary A. Olsen
Preston
Laureen Harmer
Lot Widwey
Gene
Selway
Bishop
B. H. Winward, Jr
Mr. Winward
Polly Bishop
Thayne Winward
Mechanical beet piler aids Preston irrigation project
Time reports a beet piling machine set up at Franklin County Sugar dump in Preston capable of stacking beets 16 feet high and 100 feet wide without manual shoveling. Utah Mortgage and Loan of Logan financed the Preston Whitney irrigation bonds. Wayne Evans devient parents of a baby girl born last Saturday. Farewell parties honor Joseph Biggs for the Southern states mission and Ernest Biggs for the California mission next Friday.
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Franklin County Sugar Company
Preston
The
Utah Mortgage and Loan Corporation of
Logan
Preston-Whitney
Wayne Evans
Joseph Biggs
Southern States
Ernest Biggs
California
Banida Residents Share Weekend Visits and Local News
Banida and nearby towns report social calls and trips. Dean Geddes and H J Geddes hosts. Miles and Gregersons travel to Salt Lake City for LDS conference. Lowe and Daynes families attend a ward event and visit relatives. a large funeral for Bernice C. McDermott in Clifton.
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Harry Miles
Salt Lake City
Bishop
Fred L. Gregerson
Cecil Miles
LDS Church
Howard Young
Thatcher
Wilber Georgeson
Pocatello
Banida
Reuben Lowe
Banida Ward
Lowes
Raymond Daynes
Brigham City
Bernice C. McDermott
Clifton
Hugo Gustavesen
Logan
Harold A. Larson
Donald Baxter
John Nielson
Freedom
Wye
Leon Taylor
Boise
Sugar beets dumps close until Monday announce Franklin Co Co-op
Sugar beets test low so all dumps are closed until Monday per Tom Heath manager of the Franklin County Sugar Co. The delay aims to keep beets longer in the ground to improve sugar content.
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Tom Heath
Franklin County Sugar Co
Mrs Earl Lloyd Attends Father's Funeral
Mrs Earl Lloyd returns from Westwood California after her father James Wharton 77 died Oct 1 following a short illness Funeral services were held Saturday in the Westwood LDS chapel.
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Earl Lloyd
Westwood
Calif
James Wharton
Wharton Spends Holidays in Preston with Lloyds
Mr. Wharton has spent the past several years in Preston during the Christmas holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd.
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Mr. Wharton
Preston
Mrs. Lloyd
Preston youths leave for college study across region
Cumorah Kennington Claire Hansen Warren Allen Keith Sharp and Alma Swann are five young men and women who have left Preston to attend college.
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Cumorah Kennington
Claire Hansen
Warren Allen
Keith Sharp
Alma Swann
Preston
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Union Pacific
Lakeport
Burt Lancaster Home
Cronyn
Charles Bickford
Sam Levene
Yvonne Decarlo
and Blyth
Ella Raines
Anita Colby
Arctic Artisans
MGM News
Preston Electric & Furniture
North’ State
ISIS
Bure Lancaster
Ann Blyth
Universal-International
Brute Force
Dean Geddes of
H. J. Geddes
Preston Chamber of Commerce
Barton Building
Chase Kears
Henry Rawlings
Edith
Granville Barlow
Mink Creek
Ernest Yaussi
Preston Telephone Exchange
Orba Larsen
Lulu Nelson
Veda Sharp
Edna Kofoed
Rena Henderson
Teachers Institute
Garnell Larsen
Hyrum
Francis Maughan
Wellsville
A. J. Westover
Bl, Green
Last OF the Mohicans
Don Ameche
Catherine McLeod
Roscoe Earns
John Ridgely
Kitty Irish
Joe Frisco
Grim
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