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Swan Lake fair honors and a near tragedy at Marsh Valley
Marsh Valley fair began last Thursday and ran to Saturday with Dorene Henderson named attendant to the queen Shirley Hartman of Downey and Nola Meyers as another attendant. Perry Beckstead won the Betty Crocker chiffon cake prize along with many blue ribbons in sewing crocheting gardening and handiwork. A near tragedy occurred when Royce Royter narrowly escaped a fall into a cesspool as his pony disappeared into water prompting a rescue by volunteers.
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Swan Lake
Marsh Valley
Dorene Henderson
Shirley Hartman
Downey
Nola Meyers
Alimo
Perry Beckstead
Betty Crocker
Royce Royter
Pocatello
W. L. Carlson
Venna Gibbs
Nora
Diane Kay
Erma Abbott
Helen Gambles
Merl
Don Henderson
James Abbott
O. E. Hendricks
Grant
Wanda Carlson
Leo Beckstead
Dr . Rees
Idaho Falls
Jay and
Sidney
Rexburg
Dal Hanson
Berneice Beckstead
Donna
Jean Hadley
Delores Hawkes
Gene Jensen
Alice Tarbet
Gwen Hadley
Bob Hadley
Perry
Harry Beckstead
Challis
Sunbeam
Elwyn Olson
Bryan and
Gregory
Olympia
Wash
Virginia
Olson
Bonnie Beckstead
Cluff Petty
Donald and
Palmer Hyde
James A. Hadley
Cooper
Bertha Hadley
Milton Gambles
George Gambles
Ted Gambles
Ogden
Weldon Coffin
Jennie Royter
Grant Carlson
Salmon
O E Hendricks
Downey Fair
Kinsley Brown
Sons
Salt Lake City
Lord Westover
Bishop E. L Merril
Claudine Cooper
E. L Merrill
Reading
Merl Henderson
Laura Carlson
Woodrow Sorensen
Miss Cooper
Ruby Merrill
Doris Kay LaRue Allen
Merna
Jacky
Martel Thomas
Ann
Kathleen Kay
Willard Hadley
Imojean
Irene
Preston