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From the archives of the

Bonner County History Museum

611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, ID 83864

208-263-2344

50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Sept. 25, 1968 — CHUBB NAMED MVP

Smokey Chubb was recently voted the most valuable player of the eight-team slow-pitch softball league recently. He topped the undefeated City Club champions in almost every hitting category. Others receiving votes in the final balloting for the award were Gary Elliot, the leading hitter; J.P. Munson, and Sam Paris. Elliot and Munson both played for the third place Bargain Supply squad; Paris toiled for the 219.

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BEAR HUNTERS GET RESULTS

Ed Abromeit, proprietor of Pend Oreille Sports Shop, reports that bear hunters are having the greatest success in the Baldy mountain area and along Grouse creek. A short supply of huckleberries this year has forced bears into lower country in search of food. They are being found near farm garbage dumps, old orchards and public dumps. The law requires that hunters not shoot bear within 200 yards of a dump.

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SYLVIA ANN BERGSTROM ENGAGED

Mr. and Mrs. Swante Bergstrom, Route 1, Sandpoint, announce the engagement of their daughter, Sylvia, to Jack LeRoy Hawkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hawkins, Bonners Ferry.

Miss Bergstrom, is a 1966 graduate of SHS and of Kinman Business university, Spokane, and is employed by Northern Lights, Sandpoint. Hawkins, a 1965 Bonners Ferry High graduate, is employed by Bonners Ferry Co-op Gas & Supply.

100 Years Ago

Pend d’Oreille Review

Sept. 25, 1918 — AT THE GEM

Monday and Tuesday, the International Star and Survivor of the Lusitania, Rita Jolivet in “Lest We Forget.” A $250,000 production; a cast of 3000 immortalizing the Lusitania’s sinking and Chas. Frohman’s last words, “Why fear death? It is life’s most beautiful adventure!” Come early.

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GLENGARY MEN SERVING

When the names were drawn in Bonner county for the first selective draft, No. 1 fell to Leo Payne of Glengary. Payne was up and gone to service before the boys of whom he would have been the first, reported. In August, 1917, Payne enlisted in the navy and after training at Goat island was sent to a sub-chaser. He is now on sub-chaser No. 101 “somewhere in European waters.” His father, H.D. Payne, is a rancher at Glengary.

Carl H. Schroeder is also a Glengary boy. He enlisted four years ago and when his time expired enlisted for another four years. He is an uncle of Leo Payne and an uncle also of Colin O’Donnell, another Glengary boy in Uncle Sam’s navy.

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CITY BREVITIES

Edward Rosendorf has come here from the Montana state university at Missoula to await call in the 21-year-old class or to enlist before the call is made.

For more information, visit the museum online at bonnercountyhistory.org.