Bonner County History - Oct. 19, 2020
From the archives of the
Bonner County History Museum
611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864
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50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Oct. 19, 1971 – LITTLE MAN, BIG FISH
Sean McGovern, age 5, weight 32 pounds, caught a 19 lbs. 6 oz. Kamloops Sunday morning while fishing with his father, Bernie McGovern.
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CORGATELLI – CRAWFORD ENGAGEMENT
Louis Corgatelli of Mackay, Idaho announces the engagement of his daughter, Beverly, to Harry Crawford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Crawford, Sandpoint. Miss Corgatelli will graduate from Idaho State University with a recreation degree in August. Crawford will graduate in May with a mathematics degree. The wedding will be Nov. 26 in Mackay.
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LOCAL WOMEN AT DEANERY SESSION
St. Joseph’s Altar Society was represented in Wallace at the fall meeting of the Northern Deanery of the Idaho Council of Catholic Women by Mrs. Gordon [Irene] Sundquist, president; Mrs. Art [Maxine] Quebral, secretary; Mrs. Fred [Donna] Williams, Jr., treasurer; Mrs. Burt [Beulah] Bowlden and Mrs. John [Lucille] Hudon, deanery chairman for the Community Affairs Commission. Fr. Dulberg, former Sandpoint pastor, is dean of the Deanery.
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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NEWS
Mr. Jerry Meyers, SHS Ski Club adviser, received information on a proposed ski trip to Whitefish, Mont. It would cost about $30 per student, including transportation, accommodations and lift tickets.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
Oct. 19, 1921 – STATE LAND SALES SLOW
The sale of advertised state lands yesterday at the courthouse resulted in slow and non-competitive bidding. There were 44 forties up for sale, all of logged-off land. Twenty-three of the forties were sold, the highest price of $20 an acre being paid for two of them, two forties bringing $17.50 an acre, two forties $12.50 an acre and the rest $10 an acre.
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CITY BREVITIES
Martin & Grant moved their grocery stock to their new location on the corner of Second and Main and on Monday opened up for business with a fresh and attractive arrangement of their commodities.
H.H. Taylor, past exalted ruler of the local Elks lodge and a district deputy for Idaho, left for Chicago for a nationwide meeting of Elks district deputies.
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LOSER PAYS WATCH FINDERS
The girls at the Lakeside laundry received a 5-pound box of chocolates from a Bayview man, along with a letter to Mrs. Myrtle Davis, proprietress, expressing appreciation for the return of a gold case Elgin watch left in the hip pocket of a pair of trousers he sent in for dry cleaning and which he thought he lost. The watch was found last week and mailed to its owner at once. “The return of my treasured keepsake has almost made me have faith again in my fellow beings,” he wrote. “Sincerely hoping you and the girls will enjoy the candy – with a kindly thought for lonely men in a lonely place – I am, Respectfully, Robert F. McIntyre.”
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