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From the archives of the
Bonner County History Museum
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50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Sept. 13, 1966 — MEETING DRAWS CROWD
The Sandpoint city council meeting brought out a number of citizens protesting the proposed ordinance for garbage collection but the real action concerned the Pend Oreille Cheese Co. factory at Second and Lake.
After a letter of complaint from Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Coons, 113 S. Second, was read aloud alleging blocking of the alley by large milk trucks, diesel trucks running at all hours, employee language and blaring radios, both William Beyer, owner of the cheese factory, and Coons took to the floor and discussed the matter in an emotional fashion.
Coons alleged Beyer was operating a factory in a commercial zone and had turned down the old packing house in the northwest end of town so that he could operate in the crowded South Second neighborhood.Beyer told of fixing up the alley, making the old laundry building into a successful business which the neighbors object to. “They are objecting to progress and they want stagnation,” Beyer asserted.
The garbage ordinance drew the most vocal objections from Beldon Linscott, member of the Kootenai village board, and Kenneth Coulston, 546 Lavina. Coulston said, “This is another right we are having taken away from us.” Linscott declared that the council had overstepped its jurisdiction and the intrusion is resented.
Other remarks were made by about a half-dozen objectors and included: “Lots of people don’t live out of cans and would not have enough garbage to have it picked up twice a year!”
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
Sept. 13, 1916 — PACK RIVER NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Al Palmer were pleasantly surprised at their new home by their neighbors Saturday night. They brought a fine lunch and cards and conversation whiled away the evening. Everyone reports an exceptionally pleasant time.
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NEW OPERA HOUSE MANAGER
W.W. Smith, who has been at Thompson Falls several months, arrived in the city Monday, to assume management of the Rink Opera house, in place of Dad Archer, whose death Sunday left the playhouse with no one to look after it.
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TROOPS MAKE ADOBE HUTS
Combination adobe and dog tent huts now shelter a large proportion of American troops in Mexico, according to General Tasker H. Bliss, U.S. army assistant chief of staff, who returned recently from a trip to General Pershing’s headquarters. Gen. Bliss said that in finding they would stay in Mexico for some time thousands of soldiers constructed adobe walls about three feet high and U shaped. On top they pitched their dog tents, previously their only shelter, thus gaining a roomier and more comfortable lodging. Beds have been supplied by stuffing sacks with grass.
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