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From the archives of the
Bonner County History Museum
611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, ID 83864
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50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Jan. 22, 1969 — BURNED TO THE GROUND
The home occupied by Mrs. Thomas E. (Josephine) McGuire, Boyer and Great Northern Road, burned Friday night. Mrs. McGuire and her children, Ninamae, age 11 1/2, Charles, 10 1/2, Philip, 81/2, Patrick, 7 1/2 and Rodney, 6 1/2 months, lost everything upstairs, but saved many items on ground level. The family is now staying with her parents, the Kenneth Reeds, Sagle.
Mrs. McGuire, whose husband is on assignment at Tinker AFB, Okla., especially regrets the loss of her 4-H material for knitting and child care courses.
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CALL FOR BIDS ON EXCAVATION
Bonner County has called for bids for improvement of the south entrance of the Priest lake thoroughfare. Commissioners will open the bids at 11 a.m. on Jan. 31 in the courthouse.
The work planned will include excavation of the channel five feet below normal high water elevation, with 8,000 cubic feet of materials to be moved and deposited on the northerly bank of the stream, smoothed and dressed to blend with the surroundings.
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DUFORT SCHOOL NOTES
School resumed at Southside on Jan. 15 with 27 absentees who were mostly snowbound.
On Thursday the school district employees spent the day shoveling the roof off.
Principal Jim Stoicheff left on Jan. 8 for Boise to fulfill his Senate duties. Mrs. Nova Jo Kellogg, second grade teacher, is acting principal while Mr. Stoicheff is away.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
Jan. 22, 1919 — CITY BREVITIES
Health Officer Wendle likes the flu so well that he has taken it home with him and his whole household is down with the disease.
Dr. Jones has established a private hospital for the treatment of his flu patients. A family of three came from Dufort the first of the week and are being treated at the hospital by Dr. Jones.
A troop train containing 500 soldiers passed over the Northern Pacific Tuesday morning.
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BREAK UP INFLUENZA IN 3 DAYS!
Steam medicated baths and chiropractic adjustment give the surest, quickest relief. We now have rooms for the accommodation of patients in connection with our bath parlors.
Consult us as soon as you feel the approach of trouble. One treatment may be enough to send you back to work. Dr. Jones, Chiropractor, Room 7, Bonner County Bank Building. Phone 178-J
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NATION WIDE PROHIBITION
“Polly, put the kettle on and we’ll all take — tea.”
Nebraska’s vote yesterday put over the federal prohibition amendment, the necessary number of states having now ratified the amendment.
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