West county residents inducted into armed forces
A photo of the Priest River Depot in about 1919.
(Photo courtesy PRIEST RIVER MUSEUM)
70 Years Ago — 1952
To be inducted
Four of 12 Bonner County men to be inducted into the armed forces in February are Albert Lee Joseph Saccomanno, David James Naccarato, Alan Jacob Henderson, and William Robert Bauer. They leave Feb. 7 from the Northern Pacific Depot in Sandpoint.
Norman Hoepfer, son of Mr. And Mrs. Jake Hoepfer, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Hirst to be transferred
Marjory Hirst, who been serving as public health nurse in Bonner County in the Priest River area, will assume similar duties in Kootenai County Jan. 24.
Win one, lose one
The Priest River VFW town team was as hot as a four-dollar stove in taking Bonners Ferry, 56 to 38, in a rough-and-tumble basketball game Thursday night, and cold as a cucumber in January Friday night in losing their first home game to a well-organized Army Radar team, 33 to 31.
100 Years Ago —,1922
Light up the station
When a passenger gets off the Great Northern train at Priest River in the night, he is fortunate if he does not fall and hurt himself, as the platform is unlighted. If he has to wait at the station for a train, he has to wait in a dingy room lighted solely by oil lamps. Laclede and Newport have well-lighted station buildings, yet Priest River gives the GN more business than either, if not both of these stations. The Great Northern has made various promises to the town to build a new depot here; each time some peculiar condition that they could find prevented the building to a future time.
Coasting still good
The hills all over town are crowded with youngsters and their sleds at all except school time and from midnight to daylight, the school house to the G. N. tracks on Wisconsin being the favorite route. Not only are kiddies enjoying the coasting, but many grown folks are also growing young again in climbing the hills many times that require more effort than they usually care to expend to make the climb just once. They are being repaid by a thrill lasting almost a minute, and the outdoor exercise that is so valuable to the physical well-being of the human race.
Editor's note: Looking Back should be back in its usual formal next week.