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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1943
Page
4
Glendale community notes a Relief Society opening social Tuesday with a quilting session, short program, and luncheon for fourteen attendees. Various locals are listed as visitors and helpers including the Webster family and Blaine Webster who recently painted the new chapel roof.
Mrs. Willard Hadley hosts a reunion weekend with guests including President and Mrs. Joseph J. Daynes of Salt Lake City. Daynes formerly led the Western States LDS Mission as its president while Hadley served 1934 to 1936. Missionaries who served with Hadley began arriving Sunday for the gathering and attended Sacrament meeting bearing testimony.
A group including Mr and Mrs Daynes and Miss Ruth Lunt of Salt Lake City and several Brigham City and Preston residents attended a farewell dinner. Guests were welcomed by Mrs Pauline Thomas at her home, with Mrs Hadley hosting and receiving calls from absent missionaries. The mood was joyful though tinged with reluctance to depart for home.
Hendricks Mrs Woodrow Soren son attended a club meeting in Downey on Wednesday. Howard Hadley and family of Inkom visited Swan Lake Saturday afternoon to see his brothers Alma and James Hadley. C P Sorenson has been ill recently. George Matkin and family took Annie Stone to Pocatello where she will catch a bus to Victor. Mrs Stone visiting her parents. Ila Millard visiting St Anthony. Mrs W H Millard spent a few days in Downey helping her daughter Mrs Dan Barnes with a sick child. Mrs James Abbott, row So E.
The Citizen sells No Hunting or Trespassing signs for posted property. Signs come in quantities large or small, printed in black on white cards, five cents each.
Conservation notes explain that maintaining soil fertility is easier than replenishing it after depletion. Key points cover mineral nutrients, the large water and gas flux in crops, and nitrogen as the main deficiency. Legumes fix nitrogen. other crops rely on residues. Returning green manure or livestock manure improves fertility, while surface straw reduces yield loss. Mention of millinery at Mrs. Struve's Preston's Milliver.
Whitney Mutual units merged into one Fireside Leadership group with Clair Hull elected president and assistants Leon Winward and LaConna Foster. Local families, guests, and club events are noted along with visits to Logan and Dingle Idaho. Community Sing and missionary experiences shared at Whitney fireside programs.
Mrs Nell Hansen recently visited Ogden from Thursday to Sunday with daughter Delores and Mr and Mrs Harold Glade. She spent Saturday and Sunday in Salt Lake City with her son Paul and other relatives before returning to Ogden Sunday night and leaving Tuesday. Families visited include Vermion Wetterberg at T A Poole Preston home, a Claire Poole home leave dinner, and other Sunday visits by G E Olsen Orin Fellows Fres ton and Wilford Wallgren with Stanley Olsen to Pocatello.
Miss Donna Phillips returns home from Malad during beet vacation. Dayton Daughters of the Pioneers meet at Mrs. Godfrey Schwartz home with history of Peter S. Barson by Ann Hansen and a piano solo. Phenoi Edgley of Preston teaches woman suffrage. Visitors to Logan last Friday include Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Phillips and Mrs. Evelyn Griffiths. A Clifton ladies chorus spoke at Sacrament meeting led by Elder McKay returning from a Canadian mission. Carol Crookston of Salt Lake City visits Spencer Crookston and family. LeGrande Whipple of Fish Tale, Montana visits Mrs. Earl Atkinson.
Mr and Mrs S R Christensen and two children of Richmond visited sister Mrs Clarence Nelson. Rita Manning and children from Yale Oregon spent weekend with Mrs Katherine Jensen. LaVor Jensen drove her to American Falls to join friends. Joyce Gould spent two months in Delgo California with her Marines husband and is visiting Ernest and Mrs Gould in St Anthony. Spencer Crookston in Wisconsin telephoned his parents reporting good health. John Manning of Logan visited Eldon Manning and family. Katherine Archibald went to Clarkston after word of death of Alton Mark Archibald in Clarkston. Hazel Jones and sons Robert and Max with sister Elmer Leavett and Claudette Jones visited grandmother Nancy Jones from Salt Lake City and Ogden. Delmar Jones plans to stay in Dayton during beer vacation then move to Salt Lake City to live with his mother Hazel Jones.
Mrs. Leo Hobbs is bedridden with a fractured breastbone after an Friday morning crash on East Oneida when a beer truck from the alley between Prescription Drug store and the Library struck her as she crossed the main intersection toward Central school. Her daughter sustained a bruise above the eye while a Miller child in the Hobbs car escaped injury.
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