Bonner County History - Dec. 29, 2024
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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
Dec. 29, 1974 – SEASON’S GREETINGS
May all our friends in the community enjoy the best…they deserve it, always! Rod’s Union 76, 520 North Fifth [in 2024, site of Horizon Credit Union].
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HEAVY WINDS SWEEP AREA
Gale winds that swept the area from Friday evening until early Sunday, gusting at times to nearly 60 miles per hour, caused widely scattered power and telephone outages throughout the service areas of Pacific Power & Light Co., Northern Lights, and General Telephone Co., but the utilities escaped major damage. Several power poles were knocked down or broken at the height of the heavy winds Friday, but crews rapidly restored services.
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DOCTOR OPENS LOCAL PRACTICE
Hugh Leedy, M.D., has opened a general medical practice at 321 N. Second Ave. A native of Ohio, Dr. Leedy attended Ohio State University Medical School and served his internship at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane. He spent the last three years with the U.S. Army in Germany. His wife is the former Teresa Klatt of Sandpoint.
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PEACE
Let us strive for lasting friendship with our fellow men, now and after Christmas. Cedar St. Used, Larry Jeffres
75 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Dec. 29, 1949 – ADVENTIST SCHOOL PARTY
Seventh Day Adventist school pupils presented a Christmas program Dec. 21. Located at the corner of Fir and Florence, the school was nicely decorated and Santa arrived in time to hand out treats to the 18 students from a brightly trimmed Christmas tree.
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RAIN AND MELTING SNOW SLOW TRAFFIC
A storm coming in from the coast brought rain and a chinook wind Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Water ran in all city streets, and traffic was tied up due to the fast melting snow which “dropped the bottom” out of the streets and roads. Sandpoint highway district equipment worked around the clock to plow out city streets, while county equipment was kept busy plowing out roads that had already been cleared before the early “January thaw” hit.
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SCOUTS WINTER FROLIC
About 75 Senior Boy Scouts, Senior Girl Scouts and Senior Campfire Girls of the Inland Empire will begin their Explorer Winter Snow Frolic at Hope today. The three-day program will include skiing, tobogganing, winter games, ice skating if the weather turns cold enough, dancing, campfire and other festivities. The boys and girls will be quartered in the Hope high school. There will be a campfire and program at the beach near Hurschell’s tonight after dinner and at midnight on New Year’s eve there will be a campfire at Samowen park. The frolic will end Sunday morning after a church service led by the Rev. Floyd Wells of Sandpoint.
For more information, visit the museum online at bonnercountyhistory.org.