Bonner County History - Oct. 6, 2022
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Bonner County Historical
Society and Museum
611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864
208-263-2344
50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Oct. 6, 1972 – FALL SALE
Spray Enamel, 13 oz. spray can, 66c; Aladdin Vacuum Bottle, pint size, $1.37; Dish drainers and trays, $1.67 ea.; Aladdinware Laundry Basket, 1½ bushel size, 77c; DuPont Household Sponges, 23c/pkg of 2. SPROUSE REITZ, 1st at Cedar.
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COLBURN SCHOOL CHILI FEED
Colburn School is sponsoring its annual chili feed from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Homemade pies, coffee and Kool Aid will round out the menu. This is the school’s major fund raising event of the year.
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CARRIE LEE ANDERSON IS BRIDE
First Christian Church was the setting for the Sept. 9 wedding of Miss Carrie Lee Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Anderson, Sandpoint, and Roy Jacobson, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Jacobson, Rte. 1, Sandpoint. Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson will reside in Mead, Wash., where he is a junior at Whitworth College and she is a secretary for Student Activities.
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MOOSE HUNTERS RETURN
Roland Lundblad and Leo Hadley will give the Bonner County Sportsmen’s Assn. something to talk about at their next meeting. The pair returned from the moose hunting area, 90 miles from Clinton, B.C., on Tuesday with two moose. Lundblad shot his 550 pound bull on the third day of a projected 10-day hunt, while Hadley nailed a 300 pound bull on the fifth day, dispelling all doubt about the supply of moose salami for sportsmen’s meetings next year.
100 Years Ago
Northern Idaho News
Oct. 6, 1922 – SIX MILES COMPLETED
That work is progressing on the Bottle Bay road is evidenced by the daily increasing boom from rock blasting, as the work nears the city. Of the entire distance of eight miles, from the head of Bottle bay to the N.P. track, all but two miles is fully done and workmen are traversing it daily by auto. Much work has been done on the last two-mile stretch which ends at the railroad track. The final touch to finish the project is the route from the railroad to the south end of the long wagon bridge, scarcely a half mile in distance. Commissioners are not very concerned whether weather conditions will permit completing this end of the job before spring, since they can, for the winter, easily detour around under the south end of the N.P. bridge and traverse the private road used by H.C. Hayes to reach the wagon bridge.
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BEAR DESTROYS BEES AND HONEY
“Bears are getting to be a nuisance, says L.R. Goolsbey. “Last week two got into my bees and destroyed nearly $200 worth of bees and honey. The hives were a mile west of Boyer avenue. When bears come that far from the mountains, they’re getting a little too tame. One of my neighbors found a deer in his barnyard the other morning that the bears had run down from the hills. Even the school children are beginning to be afraid to go to school. You see, the bears are getting to be quite a pest.”
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