Preston Brief Notes MoMM Visits and Military Moves
A list of Preston residents visiting relatives and traveling coast to coast. Charles Goff visits from Alameda while Verl Goff prepares for military service. Emerson Kennington enlists as an army engineer. Lynn Fackrell joins SeaBees for Navy service. Community updates include visits to Salt Lake City Ogden Boise and San Francisco with numerous family ties and travel plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles’ Goff
Charles
Almeda
California
Verl
Charles Goff
Preston
Logan
Whitney
Anna Bergquist
San Francisco
Charles L. Bergquist
Bergquist
Val ‘J. Bateman
Lee Bateman
Ogden
Fifth District
Lynn Fackrell
SeaBees
Fackrell
Bushnell Hospital
Brigham City
Navy Service
Salt Lake City
Williamsburg
Virginia
Ricks College Reopens After Harvest Holiday
After a two week harvest break, Ricks College resumes classes on Monday October 18. Most students return though some stay home for remaining harvest tasks. Two professors have entered naval service, Ariel Chapman and Aldred Stephenson, leaving teach duties temporarily covered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ricks College
War Service
Ariel Chapman
To i
University of Idaho
Navy
El+ dred Stephenson
Dry Bean Crop Declines In September
Boise reporting that September weather favored harvesting dry beans yet thresher returns lagged. Yield averaged 1460 pounds per acre vs 1600 estimated earlier, with production now 2,190,000 bags, down 210,000 from the prior forecast. Detractors included poor planting soil, hail, labor shortages, irrigation and weed damage, and mid season heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho stockmen weigh feed shortage amid rising hay prices
Alfred GC Cordon, legal representative for Idaho Farm Bureau, responds to doubts about a winter feed shortage. He notes cattle and sheep sales trends, high hay prices, and regional yield differences, predicting buyers may appear if hay clears at up to 15 dollars a ton while promising new range growth from southeastern Idaho storms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred GC. Cordon
Idaho Farm Bureau Federation
Idaho
W. Samuel Smith
Grace
Cor‘don
Smith
Pocatello
Snake River Valley
Jefferson County
Ration Date Expires for Stamps and Coupons
October 30 marks expirations for Brown stamps C and D in ration book 3 and October 31 for Sugar stamp No 14 in book 1. Canning sugar stamps 15 and 16 in war ration book 1 and Shoe stamp No 18 in book 1 also expire though shoe stamp 18 was originally set to expire later. Blue stamps X Y and Z in ration book 2 expire November 20. Basic A mileage coupons series No 8 expire November 22. Each coupon good for three gallons of gasoline.
Preston Mayor Proclaims Navy Day Oct 27 1943
Mayor Edwin A. Crockett proclaims Navy Day for October 27 1943 praising the U S Navy and Marine Corps and urging citizens to observe with a salute to the armed forces including the Coast Guard Naval Aviation and Merchant Marine. proclamation dated October 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L Edwin A. Crockett
City of
Preston
United States Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Naval Aviation
Merchant Marine
Edwin A. Crockett
Franklin Woman's Daughter Is Honored
In Des Moines Fort Des Moines First WAC Training Center announces Florence B Ailstesy of Los Angeles is in basic training while her mother Beulah Biggs lives in Franklin. Ailstesy’s husband Leonard Hillstead served in WWI and is now ineligible for active service. Her daughters Ruth and Billie, with their father, work at Northrup Aircraft Hawthorne California. Calls for sales books follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Culbert Olson
California
Draft Board
CBS National
First
WAC
Fort Des Moines
Pyt
Florence B. Ailstesy
Dalton “Ave
Los Angeles
Calif
Pyt. Hillstead
Coveville
Utah
Idaho
Beulah Biggs
Franklin
Leonard W. Hillstead
Ruth
Billie
Stoo" Young
Northrup Aircraft
Hawthorne
District Court Foreclosure Notice in Franklin County Idaho
The State of Idaho via Franklin County Auditor C L Swenson announces a case against Noah Winger Jessie D Winger and multiple Winger relatives and entities including Overland Lumber Company and unknown heirs to foreclose a tax lien. Defendants must answer within twenty days of service or a judgment will be entered. Dated September 18 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Judicial District
State of
Idaho
Franklin
C. L. Swenson
Franklin County
State of Idaho
Noah Winger
Jessie D. Winger
WIFD
Lillid Winger
Asa L. Winger
Marela Winger
Overland Lumber ‘Company
Township 15
Boise Meridian
Notice to Creditors Estate of Sarah Woodward Deceased
Notice to creditors of Sarah Woodward deceased to present claims with vouchers to executrix at Franklin Idaho within four months after first publication. First publication October 14 1943. Executrix Lavaughn Lowe P M Candile Attorney Preston Idaho
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Woodward
Frankin
Franklin County
Idaho
Notice for Extension of Time for Completion of Works
Public hearing set for November 6 1943 at 11 00 a m by the State Reclamation Engineer at the Department of Reclamation Boise Ada County Idaho to hear protests testimony and evidence on an extension of time for completion of works under Permit to Appropriate Public Waters No 18983 held by John F Reeder Weston Idaho The claimed water amount is 1 26 second feet from an open drain in Section 30 Township 16 South Range 39 East B M The notice lists assessments of 75 cents per acre for maintenance and operations and 1 50 per acre for bond interest and principal due December 3 1943 The undersigned is James Spofford State Reclamation Engineer dated October 21 1943
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Reclamation Engineer
Hia
Department of Reclamation
Boise
Ada
State of Idaho
Idaho
John F. Reeder
Weston
Township 16 South
Range 39 East
B. M
Notice of Special Assessment Levy by Strongarm Reservoir
At the board of directors meeting on October 11 1948 the Strongarm Reservoir Irrigation District levied a special assessment of 60 cents per acre on lands within the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strongarm Resevoir Irrigation’ District
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. D. Winward
Dr. Winward
B. W. Winward
Leo Cutler
Salt Lake Ity
Clifton
Roan
John Carver
Norman Steele
Sharon
American Falls
Mrs. Steele
Mrs. P. L. Carver
Mrs. Carver
Jennie Barton
Myra Goff
Ira L. Kennington
Emerson
Naval Base
Norman
Oklahoma
Alexandria
Louisiana
P. W. Nielsen
Frances
Kingman
Arizona
Mr. Nielsen
G. A. Johnson
Pacific Coast
Darold Johnson
San Dergo
Darold
Tor
H. White
M. O
Meri
Mary C. Merrill
McHugh
Dora Henderson
Zennora Henderson
Bernell Kennington
Fra L. Kennington
Bernell
Farm Loan Association
Sandpoint
H. J. Maughan
Hale Hart
Preston Hospital
Marjory Forsgren
Wendell Olsen
H. P. Olsen
Herington
Kansas
Wendell
Air Corps
Corene Condie
Pearl Peterson
Fern. J. Condie
George C. Peterson
Miss Condie
Miss Peterson
I. H. Nash
United States
United States Marine Corps
Thade
West
Ben 8B. Johnson
Wap Greaves
Preston, Idahd
P. M. Candile
Executrix
Preston, Idaho
Weston “J. Smith
James Spofford
Reseroir Dam
Lamoreaux
McCune Motor CO
Kite
AO i Ebiee
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