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Show The Qentervillej NEWSETTE Vol. 2, No. 12 CENTERVILLE, DAVIS COUNTY, UTAH NOVEMBER, 1945 Bishop Leroy H. Duncan Chosen Head Of Stake Alan Beers, Claude Kirkland, Don Major, Don Folsom Called To Stake Positions October 14 to 21 was a week of suspense for ward members in Centerville, Farmington and Kaysville. The week was climaxed by a special stake conference at the Farmington ward chapel at which the new Davis stake was created and organized. Elders Albert E. Bowen and John A. Widtsoe were present repre- senting the General Authorities and presided over the organization. Our own Centerville First ward provided several of the new stake officers and we know that the stake is getting some good men. Bishop Leroy H. Duncan is the stake president, and as his counselors are Alan Blood of Kaysville and Orson Clark of Farmington. Allan Beers of Centerville will act as stake clerk. New high council members are Claude D. Kirkland, Samuel Morgan, John R. Walsh, George C. Ensign, Leroy V. Webster, Donald Folsom and Clyde Wilcox. Elder Donald H. Major was sustained as president of the stake high priests. Davis stake comprises the Kaysville First and Second wards, Farmington and North Farmington, and Centerville First and Second. It has a population of about 4000 members. President Wesley E. Tingey and his counselors, Elijah B. Gregory and James E. Burns, with H. H. Robinson as clerk, were released at the conference Welcome To Centerville . . . Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tingey; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bingham; Mr. and Mrs. George B. Barton; and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lewis. o Church News . . . Elder Budd Argyle, a prisoner of war in Germany for many months, related in Sacrament meeting Sept. 23, some of his very interesting experiences while in Austria and Germany. Elder Ray Smith spoke on the Restoration of the Gospel. In Sacrament meeting Oct. 21, the North Morgan ward furnished the program. Over 50 choir members took part in a fine musical program which they brought down on an exchange basis with our choir. Elder C. Calvin Geary was the speaker of the evening and delivered an excellent talk on the abundant life. of the South Davis Stake on Oct. 14. All members of the high council were also released. At this meeting the South Davis stake was reorganized with T. Amby Briggs as president, Ward C. Holbrook, first counselor; Horace Beesley, second counselor and Wilford H. Williams as stake clerk. Members of the new high council chosen so far are Frank D. Ashdown, Leander T. Thompson, Delbert Lamb, S. Lawrence Moss, Edward T. Davis, Walter H. Moss, Clifford Sessions and Joseph McDermott. Centerville Candidates Await Election Municipal elections are here and on the Centerville ballot we find the Citizens party with Herbert Haacke up for president of the Board, with Eugene C. Ford, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Q. Williams and Ellis R. Wilson as candidates for Board member positions. The Progressive party has Therice Duncan as candidate for Board president and Thomas F. Cook, Earl F. Hanson, Willis H. Layton and Douglas Walton running for Board members. Get out and vote so no one can say to you afterward Quit griping! You didnt even vote for the one you did want in office! o Arvel W. Porter Passes Away HI DADDY! says David Daddy, Franklin Walton. Will you be home for Christmas? Mother and I certainly are hoping so. And, oh, yes, Daddy, you and I are going to have some interesting talks when you come home. Grandmother says I use words bigger than I am. David is the 2 14 year-old son of Lt. Dwight F. and Margaret Junkin Walton. Hi, -- Newsing Around Centerville residents of the 1920s will remember Robert N. Pressler who spent several years of his boyhood in this community, and who died October 15 in San Francisco. A World War II veteran, Robert had been ill three months preceding his death. Two of Centervilles young acmen are in tivities at the University of Utah. Elgin Rigby appeared in the Uniextra-curricul- Arvel Wallace Porter, 70, died Monday, Oct. 15, at the home of his son, Willard Porter, of Ogden. Mr. Porter had been living in Centerville previous to his illness and had become an active n member of the ward and in the community. Funeral services were held on October 18 at the Tenth ward chapel in Ogden, and burial took place in the Aultorest Memorial Park. Survivors include his widow; six sons, Arvel W., Willard, James Earl, D. Edward, and Maurice C. Porter, all of Ogden, well-know- and Wendell C. Porter, Centerville; and five brothers and eleven sisters. ar versity theaters recent production Jacobowsky and the Colonel at Kingsbury Hall. He is also a member of the staff of the Utonian, campus yearbook; and Clint Barber is a reporter for the campus newspaper, the Chronicle. O Ward Statistics Blessings: Myrna Louise Randall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Kay Randall. Baptisms: Joan Sessions, Frank Hansen, Franklin Linge Pratt. Kar-ste- n Jr. and Ordinations: George E. Cardall and Phillip J. Sessions ordained Elders. |