Bonner County History - June 23, 2020
From the archives of the
Bonner County History Museum
611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864
208-263-2344
50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
June 23, 1970 — VISIT THE IRIS GARDENS
Visitors are invited to tour Mrs. True Wilson’s Hilltop Iris Gardens which will be in bloom through the month of June. Mrs. Wilson has a great variety of iris and each lady visiting the gardens is given a gift iris. The gardens are located on the road which goes past Pinecrest Cemetery.
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NIEMAN JOINS GEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION
James M. Nieman, the son of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Nieman, Sandpoint, has left for the University of Oregon to join Dr. E. Allen Kaye, Professor of Geology, for a geological field expedition. From Eugene, they will travel to Ashland, where a small group of geologists will join them for the trek into southern Oregon and northern California. They will study the Cascade Mountains and several other geographic sites in Oregon. In the fall, Nieman will return to Whitworth College to continue his studies of geology, German and Russian history.
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KRAMER’S BEAR STORY IN MAGAZINE
The July issue of Sports magazine has a story of Sandpoint’s Jerry Kramer on a polar bear hunt undertaken earlier this year, according to his mother, Mrs. Charles Kramer. The bear, killed in the arctic icefields northwest of Fairbanks only a short distance from Russian territory, measured 10 feet six inches in length.
100 Years Ago
Northern Idaho News
June 23, 1920 — MORTON NEWS
Morton played Humbird Sunday on the Humbird grounds. The base ball game, said to have been a fine one, was witnessed by about 300 people. The score was seven to eight in Humbird’s favor.
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COUNCIL PONDERS PAVING
At Friday’s council meeting, the matter of graveling the streets instead of paving was again brought up but was not favorably received. Old history was gone into about the graveling of First street, which was not a successful experiment.
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LOCAL BRIEFS
Work is progressing on the substantial addition to the Presbyterian church, which will make it the largest church in the city.
Ground was broken Monday morning at Fourth and Cedar, the old tennis court, for Callen’s gas and auto service station. The location is ideal.
Flag Day was not generally observed here last Monday. Banks and mercantile establishments were not closed and not more than the usual number of citizens went fishing.
W.J. Davis and wife are in Spokane, where Mr. Davis had a successful operation. They expected to return home last week, but were both taken ill with smallpox and quarantined there.
The county’s lost ferryboat was found by Capt. Markham on the east side of the lake and was returned to the county commissioners.
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