Area women begin Farm bureau work
20 Years Ago — 2000
Spring storms hit area
Friday morning Bonner County residents awoke in the middle of a winter snowstorm. 2.3 inches of snow fell between midnight and 8 a.m.
The snow came on the heels of a heavy spring rainstorm, which dropped nearly 1 ¼ inches of rain in a 24-hour period.
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30 Years Ago — 1990
LP reveals I-beam project
The Priest River City Council heard some encouraging news as Frank Steenvoorden, operations manager for Louisiana Pacific presented the details of the company’s new I-beam project to the city council.
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40 Years Ago — 1980
Mill cuts back to railroad ties
Merritt Brothers mill will lay off about six men when it cuts back to producing only railroad ties at the end of this week.
About five company truck drivers will be hired back, according to Buck Merritt.
Merritt said future cutbacks will depend on lumber market conditions.
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50 Years Ago — 1970
Holman a busy man
Jim Holman took over duties as Priest River’s acting chief of police for the City of Prest River on April 11.
Also, he was recently elected president of the Spartan Booster Club for the term beginning Aug. 1.
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60 Years Ago — 1960
John Deere Day draws crowd
More than 500 attended the annual John Deere Day show at Kaniksu Tractor & Implement Co. last Tuesday. This marked the first time the entire event was held in Priest River.
Demonstrations of John Deere equipment were held before lunch at the business, and in the afternoon a color motion picture and other films were shown in the high school auditorium
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70 Years Ago — 1950
Dams make news in the county
The Senate Monday night finally passed the bill which includes authorization for Albeni Falls Dam.
It’s now up to a Senate-House conference committee to decide the exact total of a bill which will add millions to the federal government’s authorized program of flood control and rivers and harbors projects.
Work is expected to get under way soon on a temporary dam on Priest lake to hold the water level this season, and a permanent structure to be built this fall.
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80 Years Ago — 1940
Food stamp plan to be tried
Inauguration of the federal government’s Food Stamp plan for distribution of surplus agricultural products to public assistance households in the six northern counties, for the benefit of farmers, was assured when Secretary of Agriculture Harry A. Wallace announced the six counties as the first in Idaho for implementation.
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90 Years Ago — 1930
Worthy of first prize
F. C. Smith, superintendent of the Priest River schools, is in receipt of a letter announcing the selection of Miss Tena Lathrop as being worthy of first prize in the Idaho section of its topic.
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100 Years Ago — 1920
Women at work and play
Twenty-one women from Priest River and vicinity met April 16 at the I.O.O.F. hall to begin Farm bureau work.
The meeting was arranged by Mrs. George McCombs and Mrs. J.C. Finstad.
The basket supper given at the Huff schoolhouse on the Priest Lake road Saturday evening was very well attended and a very spirited bidding for the baskets resulted.
The women and girls, whose baskets were sold, peeked through holes cut in a large sheet of paper, and this was the only mark of identification permitted the bidders.