Bonner County History - Sept. 29, 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

Sept. 29, 1970 – 50TH ANNIVERSARY

Pack River Thimble Club will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a potluck dinner Sunday from 1 to 4, in the Northside School. All members and former members and their families are invited.

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MT. VIEW NEWS by Mrs. Dwight Crowell

We wish to welcome to Mt. View Mr. and Mrs. Eddie (Sonya) Nordgaarden, who recently moved to their new home on upper Pleasant Valley Rd. Their children attend Lincoln School, Teddy in the fifth grade; Angela, third; and Melissa, second.

We are glad to see Mrs. John (Edna) Poelstra home again. Their son, Ronnie, is home on leave for two weeks from the Army.

Birthday greetings to Mrs. Julia Turinsky who celebrated her 92nd birthday Sept. 19.

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CROUSE, HAMANN TO HUNT MOOSE

At the Bonner County Sportsmen’s Assn. annual moose dinner at Sandpoint Community hall, William E. Crouse was selected to make the annual trek to British Columbia to shoot a moose. He chose Dennis Hamann as his hunting partner. Their success will determine whether the club has moose meat for next year’s dinner and enough meat left over to feed club members moose meat and cheese sandwiches at the monthly meetings.

100 Years Ago

Pend d’Oreille Review

Sept. 29, 1920 – COW KEPT PRISONER

After weeks in an old cesspool without food or water, a Guernsey cow was rescued from her near sepulcher. The story goes that the cow got away from Doc Simpson’s place on Pine st. and began a personally conducted tour of the city. Wandering near the Weil pasture behind the L.G. Thomason residence, 421 S. First, the cow broke through the earth and rotted plank covering a dry cesspool, and for three weeks remained in the vault. Built years ago by F.E. Catlin, the cesspool was abandoned when the sewer line was built on First, and Thomason did not even know it existed. After the cow’s loss, Doc Simpson and family searched the city but were unable to find a trace of the missing animal and gave it up as lost.

Monday Mr. Thomason started across the property to look at some wood piled near the Weil pasture (Note: in 2020, the vicinity of Condo del Sol), when he passed within close proximity to the imprisoned cow. Hearing a soft-toned ‘moo-oo’ he looked around but saw nothing. Hearing it again, he found the hole with the cow’s head sticking up toward the opening. As the cow was somewhat emaciated, he first lowered a bucket of water and threw in a few armfuls of grass, then went uptown to inquire into the mystery, and learned that Doc Simpson had lost a cow. Simpson went to the scene, identified his cow and rescued her. According to Doc Simpson the cow was an excellent milker but went dry while imprisoned. She is not sick but is taking to food and water disinterestedly, apparently suffering from bovinus melancholia as a result of her doleful adventure.

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