Priest River boys return home from the great war

10 Years Ago — 2009

Worker stable after mill fall

A salvage worker was upgraded to satisfactory condition at Deaconess Medical Center Thursday after an accident at the former JD Lumber Mill location in Priest River. Bob Finnell, an employee of J and B Salvage in Lewiston, fell approximately 20 feet Tuesday after taking apart a kiln. Several companies are currently on site dismantling and removing equipment purchased at a recent auction. The site is owned by Idaho Forest Group, which purchased the mill in October from JD Lumber.

20 Years Ago — 1999

High stream flow is scenic

The streams flowing off the Selkirk Mountains are raging with fury this spring. The above average snowfall and temperatures running into the nineties have created the annual cycle of erosion from the mountians that creates wonder in the power of flowing water. If you decide to take an inventory of the surroundings, take a drive up the Middle Fork of East River and see one of our local treasures.

30 Years Ago — 1989

Community effort helps

Organizers of the Don Rabe benefit auction, buffet and dance say the benefit raised a total of $5,949.05 to help defray Rabe’s medical expenses. Rabe was shot during a robbery of his Laclede store June 23 and is now home recovering, following over three weeks in the hospital.

40 Years Ago — 1979

Sewer problem unresolved

Last week it was reported at the city council meeting that a letter was received from the Panhandle Health District ordering Agnes Neil and Jack Chamberlain to close Old Timers Tavern on Railroad Avenue, and that the pair had been operating a tavern without a license. Neil and Chamberlain contend that they are not operating without a license and that their problems with Panhandle Health District stem from what they term the city’s refusal to hook them into the public sewage system, and their system is leaking sewage into the Pend Oreille River. Chamberlain threatens to file a lawsuit against the city. The city clerk’s office informed the Times that a sewer main runs within 200 feet of Neil and Chamberlain’s tavern property, and the pair are required by ordinance to to go to the main at their own expense, since it is within 200 feet.

50 Years Ago — 1969

Young women busy

Kathy Needs and Kathy Jones left on the first leg of a trip to visit Europe as 4-H Youth Ambassadors. They met their tour group at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, then flew to Washington, D. C., the next morning.

Jennifer Wah will man the South Baldy Lookout this summer.

60 Years Ago — 1959

Logging truck burns

A load of logs driven by Gus Ribail rolled over and burned when the road gave way in Bodie Canyon. Ribail was hauling for Bob Naccarato. He escaped injury, but the truck was a total loss.

Church has 10th anniversary

The Baptist church north of the city on the Priest Lake highway observed its 10th anniversary Sunday. The Rev. Melvin Smith is pastor.

70 Years Ago — 1949

Sados reunited

The passenger train from the east that arrived in Priest River on Friday brought together a family that had been separated for 29 years. Mrs. Ralph Sado, of Grimaldi, Italy, was united with her husband, Ralph, and daughter Teresa and son Joe. Mr. Sado came to the United States in 1920, and after spending a few months in Spokane settled in Priest River, where he organized and directed a band for several years.

80 Years ago — 1939

Another pioneer called

Pioneer Frank Nelson died June 26, 1939, and all business houses in Priest River were closed for his funeral in honor of of the services he had rendered the village over many years. He came to this section in 1894 from Michigan. He had served as village marshal and water commissioner and was a devoted and charter member of the Congregational church, but was a Seventh-day Adventist when he died.

90 Years Ago — 1929

Bodie Canyon News

A number of Bodie Canyon people took in the show at the Rex Theater. The performance was good and the medicine they sold was a sure cure for most anything but sickness.

100 Years Ago — 1919

Returned from war

Among the boys who who returned from the front were two who arrived Saturday. They are Vernon Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Smith, who formerly lived in this city, and Warren Jones, son of Mrs. M. P. Jones. The boys enlisted together in 1917. They fought in Chateau-Thiery, St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne.