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PAG E FOUR
Fire Takes Barn
On Ditty Farm
SU NSET V A L L E Y , Sept ft—Eire
destroyed the barn of Mrs. Leota
Ditty's farm in Sunset valley early
Sunday morning. When Mrs. D it
ty awoke about 3:30 in the m orn
ing the building was completely a-
blaze T h e stock were able to get
away from the fire and were saved.
Neighbors battled the blaze, saving
much of the adjoining property Be
sides the building, 400 bushels of
wheat and outs, 10 tons o f hay. and
a new >100 milking machine be
longing to Mrs. D itty’s son. Rob
ert Ditty were destroyed. Cause of
the fire was unknown.
Last week-end was a busy one
for Mr and Mrs. John K effett. On
Thursday, Darrel Leamon o f Con
cord, California arrived to Visit.
On Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
K e ffe tt and Miss Zelda Weisman
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I of Mountain View, California ar
rived for the week-end. Harry R ef-
I fett is a brother o f John. On Sun
day Miss Zelda Weisman and D ar
rell Leamon. son o f Mrs Harry K e f
fett, were united in marriage The
vows were taken at 6 o'clock in the
evening at Caldwell Seventh Day
Adventist
parsonage, with Kev.
1 Garner officiating. Both the John
K effett and Robert K e ffe tt fam
ilies were present for the ceremony.
Mrs E. H. Tolm an and daughter,
Geraldine, of Boise arrived W ed
nesday for a visit at the home of
Miss Tolm an’s sister, Mrs. Grover
Cooper. Mr. Tolm an Joined them
Saturday for the Labor day week
end. T h e fam ily returned to Boise
I Tuesday.
Mido Okano left Sunday morn-
; ing to visit a week with friends in
Spokane.
She will then go to
Washington State college at Pull
man as a senior to continue her
j pharmaceutical course.
M r** Adah Snyder, who celebrat
ed her birthday Tuesday. August
j 30 experienced the thrill of talking
[ on the phone to her daughter. Mrs.
K M. (Dorothy» Preshaw, who is
living at Palmer, Alaska near Se
ward. where M r Preshaw is a civil
engineer working for the public
roads administration. Mrs. Snyder
i is the mother of Mrs. Orover Coop
er and Harold Snyder o f this val
ley.
Mr and Mrs. Hllm er Hintz re
turned Thursday
from Cataldo,
Idaho, where M r Hintz has been
working in the zlnk mines. How
ever, due to strikes In the mines,
Hintz plans on remaining in the
valley.
Oertrude Atkeson of Glendale,
California and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Ditty were guests at the home of
their cousin. Mrs. Leota Ditty,
Thursday. Week-end guests were
Mr and Mrs. Chester Newell of
Tacoma. Accompanying the New
ell family on their return to Wash
ington was Reverend Joe Dodson,
who planned on attending the na
tional convention o f the Assembly
of Ood church being held in Seattle.
Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Dodson
and fam ily returned to their home
near Beaver Creek, Oregon Satur
day.
Mr and Mrs. Jesse Gregg and
fam ily and Mr. and Mrs. William
Gregg and son, Phillip, were among
the many guests at a Sunday dinner
at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Wallace
Gregg. T h e dinner was given in
honor o f Rev. and Mrs. Victor
Ixiucks and daughter Janet of Scio.
Oregon, who arrived Saturday to
spend several days visiting Mrs
I Umcks's mother, Mrs. Annie Gregg,
and her brothers, Herschel, Wallace,
; Jesse and William. Mr. and Mrs.
Loucks visited the first of the week
| at the home of Jesse and William
! Gregg.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Wilson and
two so n » had dinner Sunday In
Roswell at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Wilson.
Mr and Mrs. Prank Briggs left
I Monday on a four-day trip. They
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TH U RSD AY. SEPTEM BER 8 , 1949
were assisting In moving Prank's Thomas Nishitani one afternoon.
brother. Charlie Briggs, from Cald Mrs. Shinoda. who has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Roy Hashitani for
well to Pocatello.
several weeks, left Tuesday for her
Anton Holland of Idaho Falls ar home in California
rived last week to visit at the home
Mr. and Airs O laf Fyllingness
of Andrew Titland
were Sunday dinner guests at the
M r and Mrs. W. Briton and fam Andrew Titland home. The occas
ily moved last week to the Dale ion was Mrs. Fyllingness’ birthday.
Garrison farm.
Briton had been
Mr and Mrs. Fred Arrai of Jam
living on the Ditty larm.
ieson were supper guests of Mr. and
Dinner guests at the Ira Price Mrs. C. T . Okano Sunday evening.
home Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
Mr and Mrs. Williams Orr were
Jim Baird and family Mr and Mrs. hosts Friday evening at a dinner
Ed Price and family and Charles party in their home. Guests in
Price.
cluded the Chester Bowns, Grant
Mrs. John WestfaU, sister of Patterson. Vern Oarner, and Devon
Homer Brewer, who has been vis
Larson families.
iting relatives, left Friday for her
Last Monday a birthday party
home in Burns.
honoring Mr. and Mrs. William Orr
Rev and Mrs A R. Herring of and Truman Cleaver was given at
Boise, former residents of this area,
the O rr home. Hosts for the oc
saw many o f their former friends casion were the two daughters, and
Sunday when they attended the re
three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Orr, who
vival meeting being held at the
are Ray, Nathan and La Marr Orr.
Owyhee junction.
Mrs. Vera Scott o f Payette, and
M r and Mrs. Delbert Garner and
Mrs. Lester Cleaver.
Val and Leona returned Saturday
Both Charlie and Don McCoy left
after visiting several days In Utah.
last week to work on a construction
Mr. and Mrs. Devon Larson and
job near Rigby, Idaho.
fam ily were dinner guests at the
Mr. and Mrs. Sid Burroughs and
Irvin Durfee home Sunday.
son were Friday overnight guests
Idaho Falls residents, Floyd C arl
visiting at the home o f Pete W il
son and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
son, Burrough’s uncle. The visit
Carlson, were overnight guests at
ors were en route from their home
the home of friends, Mr. and Mrs.
in Washington to Oklahoma.
O laf Fyllingness, Thursday evening.
Saturday visitors at the Pete W il
The guests were on a trip M M ad
son home was Mrs. Oeorge Raven
ras.
and friends, who had been visiting
Leaving Thursday on an extend
in Canada and were on their way
ed trip to Yellowstone park and on
into Canada for moose hunting, home to Colorado.
Supper guests o f M r and Mrs.
were Mr. and Mrs John R effett,
Claude Wilson Sunday evening were
Mrs. Blanche Hite and Mr. and Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perko. A pin
Loren Hite and family of Haines.
Mrs. Fred Mitchell stayed at the ochle session provided the diversion.
Mrs. Claude Wilson and Mrs.
Roland Maw home four days while
Mr. and Mrs. Maw took their Kenneth McDonald attended the P.
daughter, Linda, to Portland for a T. A. meeting Monday night at the
home of Mrs. Threlm a Elliot. Mrs.
medical check-up.
Rev. Edgar Martin of Los Angeles Wilson is the program chairman.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lorensen
and Mrs. Charles Rhoades and two
sons of Ashland visited four days left Friday, driving to the west
at the home o f their sister, Mrs. coast, accompanied by Miss Beth
Frank Land, and at the home of Chapin, and Diane and Junior
their niece, Mrs. Harold Popkins. Whitman. Miss Chapin stopped at
On Saturday evening supper guests Madras, where she assumes her dut
at the Land home included the vis ies as teacher o f the second grade
itors, Mr. and Mrs Harold Popkins, In the Madras school system. Mr.
and Rev. and Mrs Joe Dodson. The and Mrs. Lorensens were continu
guests left Sunday for their homes. ing on to Manchester, Washington,
The Sunset auxiliary met Thurs the home of their daughter, Mrs.
day afternoon at the home o f the Williard Whitman, mother of Diane
hostess, Mrs. Vern Garner. Th e a f and Junior, who have spent sever
ternoon was spent socially. Octob al weeks with their grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R effett and
er’s meeting will be held at the
daughter, Deanne, attended a Sun
home of Mrs. Lew McCoy.
Mrs. Roy Hashitanl and her day picnic at the home of Mrs. Roy
daughter, Susan, and Mrs. Oeorge Oraham, Mrs. R effett's aunt, in
Shinoda o f Richmond, California
were callers at the home of Mrs
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The occasion was a visit
with Mr and Mrs Clifford Phillip
of Richland, Washington.
Mrs.
R effett's and Mrs. Phillips are
cousins. They had not seen one
another for eight years.
Mr. and Mrs Lyman Pomeroy
returned Friday evening after a t
tending a two-day Pomeroy fam ily
reunion at Marcus Pomeroy's lodge
28 miles southeast of Twin Falls.
Overnight guests Saturday were Mr.
and Mrs. Lester Bock^tahler and
son. Alan, of Evanston. Illinois.
Mrs. Bockstahler is Mr. Pomeroy’s
sister.
Mr. Bocks tahler, assistant
professor o f physics at Northwest
ern university, does research work
testing the properties of substances
at temperatures 400 degrees below
freezing on the Fahrenheit ther
mometer scale.
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin W olfe and
fam ily were dinner guests at the
Robert Oraves home In W ilder Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse G regg attend
ed a party for young married coup
les Friday evening in Roswell. The
watermelon feed and weiner-roast
were enjoyed at the home o f Ruel
Far well.
Mrs. S. E. Flanagan and her
mother, Mrs. Piercy Shepphard,
motored to McCall Wednesday, re
turning through Donley. Mr. Flan-
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Sunday, Sept. II ■ 9 a. m.
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