World War II impacts school transportation
A few of the community's third-graders pose for a photo in this 1942 photo shared by the Priest River Museum.
(Photo courtesy PRIEST RIVER MUSEUM)
100 Years Ago — 1922
Beardmore mill news
Mr. Waltz, the millwright, has secured a position to build a box factory for White Lumber Co. at Dover. Charles Scarborough, night millwright, has taken Mr. Waltz’s place, Vern Stewart has the night millwright job.
90 Years Ago — 1932
Hotel for Reeder Creek?
Ike Elkins of Newport is reported to have taken over the Winslow holdings on Reeder Creek. Mr. Ellkins contemplates building a large hotel there, as well as a number of cottages. He has men at work getting out the material for hotel and cabins, all to be built of logs.
80 Years Ago — 1942
America meets the war
One of the wartime changes in view for the nation’s schools when classes are resumed this autumn will be the conservation of school buses. It is expected that pupils who have less than two miles to walk or who live in areas with public carriers will not be provided transportation. In some sections, class hours might be staggered so that buses will be able to handle two or more schools on the same trip.
70 Years Ago — 1952
Ball game at parish picnic
A softball game between the Priest River VFW team and Spokane’s G-A-Y's Tavern will be one of the highlights of the Parish Annual Picnic at the Settlement grounds Sunday, Aug. 10. Also on the program will be races, pony rides, Bingo, tug-of-war, dart games, fish pond, etc.
60 Years Ago — 1962
“Teensville” dances announced
Dances at Teensville, located at the old school house at Nordman, will be held Friday and Saturday night of this week. Music will be by Byran Neal and the Wanderers.
50 Years Ago — 1972
Marauding Cougar ravages flock
A killer cougar has taken an appalling toll of lambs and ewes from the flock of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Savage at Blue Lake. Too crafty to be lured into any trap, its tracks gave evidence of prowling surveillance of the sheep pasture, and identify it as the slayer of more than 40 lambs and at least nine ewes. It has hurt or killed more than 60 altogether.
40 Years Ago — 1982
Ditches must be filled
The State Land Board has unanimously voted to order a Sandpoint company to fill trenches and close roads it built at its Priest Lake hydroelectric project, which has drawn strong protests from north Idaho residents.
30 Years Ago — 1992
July brings rain
July brought a lot more rain and cooler temperatures than usual to the Priest River Valley. Rainfall, recorded at 2.27 inches, more than double the average of .99 inches. Average high temperature dipped to 78.4 degrees from an 82.8-degree average. Hottest day was 93.
20 Years Ago — 2002
Malloy earns kudos
The Priest River Malloy veneer plant has been named by the state and Sandpoint Job Service office as their business of the month for August.