Bonner County History - Feb. 8, 2022
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
Feb. 8, 1972 – FOOD SALE SCHEDULED
The Bonner General Hospital Auxiliary will hold a baked food sale on Friday, starting at 9:30 a.m., in the home of Mrs. Don Diehl, 504 S. Second. Fresh cinnamon rolls and coffee will be available and both men and women office workers are invited to attend.
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CEMETERY IS PIKE MOON’S MONUMENT
The death last week of Lawrence G. “Pike” Moon, II, marked the end of a long career. Few area residents other than close friends of the Moon family are aware that Mr. Moon developed Pinecrest Memorial Park when he purchased in 1923 a 10-acre tract, including the old Piedmont Cemetery, containing the graves of early residents. He and Owen Hagland, Pinecrest’s first caretaker, improved the old cemetery, renaming it Pinecrest Cemetery. About 20 years ago, Mr. Moon purchased 40 additional acres adjacent to the original site. Pinecrest Memorial Park is today a monument to the man who developed it – Lawrence. G. Moon II.
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DEBRA PHILLIPS ENGAGEMENT TOLD
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Phillips of Hope announce the engagement of their daughter, Debra Waltine, to William Michael Conn, son of Mrs. Jane A. Rodriguez of Whittier, Calif., and William H. Conn of Clark Fork.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
Feb. 8, 1922 – CITY BREVITIES
While fishing near the Humbird dock, Sam Turner caught a Lake Erie whitefish, the first reported caught since being planted in the lake a year ago last fall. “It was about as long as your thumb and fought like a two-pound trout,” said the veteran fisherman.
Deputy Sheriff Kuchenbecker returned Tuesday from a four days’ trip to Nordman, snowshoeing much of the way. He was serving papers in civil cases.
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WHO OWNS A GLACIER?
When the retreat of a glacier leaves a piece of ground uncovered, whose is it? The state’s, say laws of France and of Italy. The canton’s, says Scotland’s general law. But in the Grisons (a Swiss canton), the commune owns both the glacier and the ground it covers, so that a body like a parish council often possesses millions of tons of good, blue ice.
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CIVIC CLUB KEEPS REST ROOM
The 14 points, 21 demands, article 10 and the mandate of Yap all went by the board Tuesday when a city council committee and a Civic club committee came to an amicable adjustment of the difficulties which have ever and anon-recently–jarred the jamb on the rest room door into the fire station. “Yes, sir, it’s settled,” smiled one of the ladies. “We have been given absolute jurisdiction.” “Hmph,” a councilman said, if a councilman can say hmph, “we let them have the room. They can do anything they want with it – except for permanent alterations. Otherwise, it’s theirs, to have, to hold, to lock, bar, bolt, police, regulate or any blooming thing they please.” Which proves that where there’s a will, there’s a woman, and the ladies absolutely can’t be resisted.
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