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Newspaper
The Pocatello Post
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1948
Page
5
Candy sale underway at Turner Agency corner of Center Street and Arthur Avenue funds a new Summer Theater group. Mary Ellen O'Donnell serves as general chairperson with Dorothy Gardner heading publicity and a team including Rozella McQuillan and others. The club plans the three act comedy Our Hearts Were Young and Gay for Frazier Hall in September.
Painters Auxiliary 81 entertained their husbands at a pot luck picnic in Ross Park last week. Arrangements were led by Doris Willets Violet Trahan and Shirley Gibson. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Vyron Ward Mr and Mrs Melvin Clark Mr and Mrs Bob Getty Mr and Mrs Jack Rhondeau Mr and Mrs Arthur McIlveen Mr and Mrs Frank Hatch Mr and Mrs Ben Suttan Mrs Howarth Ostler Mr and Mrs Willard Ostler Mr and Mrs Daryl Willetts and Mr and Mrs Walter Peterslie.
Albany Conway a New York interior decorator shares tricks to elevate rooms without costly art. He suggests inexpensive prints, matted and grouped, or creative plant arrangements in unusual containers. A half cut brass bowl as wall background and raised inner borders add depth. If frames are missing, marbleized borders with a fake swag frame the display.
Lava Hot Springs notes report Mr and Mrs Wayne Neilson and children visiting Ogden to see Wayne’s parents. D A Snow returns from Yellowstone. Darrell Potter at Veterans Hospital Utah. Families from Downey Downey and Logan visit Elsie Peterson. John Sloan, longtime Rock Springs mining engineer, dies. Several weekend guests and vacations across Lava region. Institute of Textile Technology Charlottesville notes as a postgrad, independent of a university. If there were a real secret none of us would know it.
Roxanne Price, 24, a rare female stone cutter in New England, studies 18th century cemetery inscriptions for design inspiration in Newport Rhode Island. She learned carving after advertising design, notes machine lettering lacks character, and recently became a business partner of John Howard Benson, famed stone cutter.
In Columbus Junction Iowa a 266 foot long four foot wide swinging bridge named Lover's Leap claims to be the world’s longest and narrowest of its kind. The bridge sits 100 feet above ground between two wooded hills and is supported by iron cables. Local youths use it as a substitute for a lovers lane.
Eastside Westside notes report MR and MRS A P Selover with children Marlene Key and Dennis leaving the Gate City for California destinations including San Diego and Los Angeles where Mr Selover works as manager of R and G Jewelers among other local family entries and social notices describe guests and visits across town including the Weltons Frank and Jones families and Malad visitors to Pocatello with fond references to a Scandinavian Summer festival and local relatives.
Miss Louise Wilson was honored Friday at a tenth birthday party. Guests included Sandra Lee Foster Pauline Bodell Susan Flandro Kathleen Moore Karen Videan Sunny Day and Jean Blocker. Miss Wilson is the daughter of Mr and Mrs S J Wilson of 784 Cypress Drive.
Chicago reports summer brides can buy veils at an average price of 25 dollars. Margaret Conlan, longtime veil authority at two Chicago State Street stores, notes that at the turn of the century veils sold for 50 to 150 dollars.
A travel tip advises vacationers to guard sleep by using lightweight sleep shades or a bandana to block room light. The guidance notes that curtains may fail and early dawn wakeups spoil rest. It emphasizes compact, portable options for better rest while away from home.
A cooked food sale is sponsored by the LDS Girls organization and will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in the J C Penney store on North Main Street. A separate note mentions a pioneer named Joe who jumped off a bank into a mountain stream near Jump Off Joe Creek in southern Oregon.
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