Area residents called to serve in military
(Photo courtesy PRIEST RIVER MUSEUM) Ken Woods, owner of the Priest River Times in 1948, stands in from of the Times’ office where they tout printing.
100 Years Ago — 1918
Called to serve
Those called to service in this section of the county are James Vernon Miller, Charles B. Murray, William J. Dyer, Robert M. Kittelson, Priest River; George Howell, George H. Graves, Earl P. Graves’ Laclede; Sam Davis, Keith G. Merrit, Edgemere; Orley H. Carter, Emil E. Erickson, Oscar Halderson, Newport; and John A. Adair, Sawyer.
90 Years Ago — 1928
Beardmore narrowly escapes death
C. W. Beardmore narrowly escaped drowning when he fell from the Pend Oreille river bridge. A recently sunk pile driver was being lifted. In watching the workmen below, Mr. Beardmore leaned against a loosened rail and was thrown into the river. The stream being very swift, he was carried about 250 feet before surfacing.
John Ferguson, working on the driver, set out in a rowboat to attempt rescue. When Beardmore was nearing the surface, a rope was thrown to him but missed by a few feet, and he was carried farther downstream and luckily came up within reach of a boom stick to which he clung until help reached him.
80 Years Ago — 1938
Fishing flap
A party made up of Homer Redmond, C. A. Kerr, Floyd Siter, and Maurice Lathrop returned Tuesday evening from a fishing trip in Canada. The climax of the trip came when Derr and Redmond, each fishing in separate boats, hooked at the same time what they thought to be the “granddaddy’” of all trout. After several minutes of reeling in, the boys were near the exhaustion point only to find they had hooked each other’s lines.
70 Years Ago — 1948
Boy Scouts trek to Chimney Rock
W. M. Hall and Boy Scouts returned from a week’s outing to Priest Lake. They camped on Granite Creek close to the lake and trekked to the lookout and stayed overnight. The next day they went to Chimney Rock by way of Horton Ridge and back to Indian Creek. Rough water on the lake forced them to remain at Indian Creek overnight.
60 Years Ago — 1958
Cisco Kid may appear
The Times was informed late Wednesday afternoon that it is very possible that Duncan Renaldo, the Cisco Kid of television fame, would make appearances at the Priest River Loggers Celebration this Sunday for the afternoon events.
50 Years Ago — 1968
Publisher dies
Paul Kent Woods, 42, editor and publisher of the Priest River Times, died at his home early Wednesday, July 17. Mr. Woods was born June 3, in Sheldon, Iowa, the son of Olive Woods and the late Kenneth Woods. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1944, serving in the South Pacific. Following his discharge in 1946, he came to Priest River and has been in partnership with his mother at the Times since his father’s death in 1954.
40 Years Ago — 1978
Leonard Paul Store sold
The new owners of the Leonard Paul Store at Coolin, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hudson, arrived from Arrow Head, Calif. Ken and Rosamund Brown have previously owned and operated what is probably the oldest continuous business establishment on Priest Lake.
30 Years ago — 1988
Lawnmower drag races on tap
The second annual Timber Day lawnmower street drags is set for July 17.
20 Years Ago — 1998
Sprucing up for car club visit
Sod was laid on the Keyser House lawn Saturday in anticipation of the National Model T Car Club visit to Priest River Monday.
10 Years Ago — 2008
Rex Theater donated
The Beardmore Company has donated the Rex Theater to a 501(3-C) nonprofit, the Rex Theater Foundation, for restoration.