Bonner County History - Jan. 4, 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
Jan. 4, 1972 – ENGAGEMENT TOLD
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Peterson of Westmond announce the engagement of their daughter, Cheryl Christine, to Harold E. Carter, son of Lt. Col. (USA-Ret.) and Mrs. Daniel M. Carter of Garfield Bay. They are both graduates of Sandpoint Senior High School. Miss Peterson is employed by the Sandpoint News-Bulletin and Carter is associated with Allstate Insurance. No wedding date has been set.
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RECEIVED MEMBERSHIP PINS
Forty-year membership pins were presented to Mabel Welo, Augusta Ihme, Bernice Prater, Mabel Selberg and Ruby Rothenfluh at the Eagles Auxiliary meeting Dec. 21. Louise Crandell and Ruth Tollbom received their 30-year membership pins.
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LOCAL DAIRYMEN WON MERIT AWARDS
Northern Idaho dairymen receiving “blue ribbon merit awards” from the Spokane County Health District for 1971 were: Sixth year – Horace W. Wenger, Kootenai. Fourth year – Mr. and Mrs. Everett H. Johnstone, Naples; Douglas Yergens, Blanchard; Chester E. VanStone, Hope; H.K. Paisley, Spirit Lake. First year – James Saunders, Newport; Frank R. Wagner, Sagle; Irene and Ernest Neely, Sandpoint.
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS HOME FOR HOLIDAYS
Area U of I students home include Tom Parkins, Tim Cochran, Thomas Evans, Chris Contor, Mike Williams.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
Jan. 4, 1922 – CITY BREVITIES
Thomas Moran, his wife and five small daughters, arrived Saturday for an indefinite visit at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Moran, who live near town on the Dover road. (Note: the Moran residence was at the corner of Ontario and Ella). The three eldest girls are the widely famed Idaho war triplets, born at Mrs. Moran’s parents’ home in Boise while her husband was overseas with a machine gun unit. Since his return from the war, he has been at a sanitarium at Tucson, where Mrs. Moran and the girls have been living with him as he fought to regain his health. His condition has improved greatly, and he does not contemplate a return to Arizona.
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LAKESIDE SCHOOL CROWDED
The Lakeside school, across the wagon bridge, has 38 pupils and is so overcrowded that an addition will have to be built or the pupils taken to Sagle. If an addition is not built it is planned to have the teacher at the Kinney school take over one of the two rooms in the Sagle schoolhouse and send the Lakeside and Kinney school children there.
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NEWS FROM CABINET
The (Clark Fork) river has been almost impassable on account of so much ice. It is dangerous for either ferryboat or rowboats, and is frozen out about 25 feet from both banks. Many people are putting up ice.
The school board is now receiving bids for 10 cords of wood to be delivered to the new schoolhouse.
For more information, visit the museum online at bonnercountyhistory.org.