Bonner County History - Dec. 18, 2022
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50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Dec. 18, 1972 – GIFT THAT LASTS ALL YEAR
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JR. CLUB WELCOMED NEW MEMBERS
Sandpoint Junior Club met for its Christmas social and gift exchange in the home of Mrs. Don Sauer. The club welcomed three new members, Mrs. Sherri Anderson, Mrs. Kathy Holste and Mrs. Charlie Welch. Guests were Mrs. Tina Fischer and Mrs. Joanne Wellard. Mrs. Jack Murray from the Co-op Gas & Supply Co. presented a demonstration on candlemaking. Sandpoint Junior Club is now taking orders for homemade hot buttered rum mix.
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COLBURN AREA LANDFILL OFFER
County Commissioners were offered a sanitary landfill operation in connection with a proposed solid-waste disposal site. Use of an 80-acre site in the Colburn area was offered to the board, with a proposal to operate and maintain it to environmental standards at a total annual cost to the county of $25,000. The offer was made by Ron May, an advertising salesman and member of the Sandpoint City Council. May does not own the land but has an agreement to acquire its use. That agreement will soon expire and May urged commissioners to give his offer immediate consideration.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
Dec. 18, 1922 – TRACTOR GETS THROUGH
Ray Jaggers and Al McGee brought the county caterpillar up from Wrencoe Wednesday. It had been in use in moving the White houses at Laclede to the river bank for transportation to Dover, but with the blizzard, the moving of the houses was discontinued for the winter. The caterpillar was brought as far as Wrencoe Tuesday and McGee brought it in the next day, leaving Wrencoe about 10 o’clock and arriving in the city at 8 o’clock that night. Drifts were encountered all the way, and for a quarter mile just below Dover the drifts were over the fences, and the drivers could not tell whether they were in the road or in the fields.
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NEWS FROM THE PENINSULA
The heaviest snowfall ever known in this vicinity fell last week, there being between three and a half to four feet of snow on the level.
Arthur Miller, who was in Sandpoint last week, undertook to walk home on Bottle bay. Starting from Sandpoint at 11 a.m. Saturday, he arrived at home at 10 a.m. Sunday after 23 hours of digging his way through snowdrifts with his hand. He is exhausted and has been confined to bed the last three days.
Everybody was glad to hear the mail boat whistle into Glengary Friday, after being frozen in at Sandpoint for three days.
Theodore Sutton’s barn roof was caved in on account of the heavy snow.
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