Bonner County History - Feb. 27, 2025
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Bonner County Historical
Society and Museum
611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864
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50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Feb. 27, 1975 – WINNING CARNIVAL BADGE
Norma Pedler was the lucky recipient of the Winter Carnival $100 U.S. Savings Bond. Mrs. Pedler bought the winning carnival badge at the Middle Earth Tavern. The drawing for the bond was held Saturday evening at the War Memorial Field following the snowshoe baseball game.
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CARNIVAL WEEKEND A GRAND SUCCESS
For the second year in a row, Winter Carnival was blessed with beautiful weather and fresh snow, as the community turned out in large numbers to enjoy the weekend. The first event was the Carnival parade, and what a parade it was. Paced by Mayor Les Brown in a 1927 Essex, the marchers included members of the Actors and Playwright’s Theatre, SHS Ski Club, Jaycees, Schweitzer Basin, a kazoo band, a horse-drawn cart, three beautiful women in the Glass House truck, and the winning entry, the float from the Middle Earth Tavern. The downtown was packed with onlookers and merry makers, most agreeing the parade was quite a feat.
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TWENTY ON SHS HIGH HONOR ROLL
Listed on the high honor roll at Sandpoint Senior High School for the first semester were Pam Bradetich, Mike Cochran, Lisa Diehl, Brian Dockins, Jeff Gilmore, Rhonda Gleason, Roland Greene, Barb Greenleaf, Alison Grorud, Cindy Hanson, Debbie Huff, Lora Jasman, Robert Keene, Jane Lund, Carol Mahler, Brad Palmen, Linda Rogers, Lynn Wenig, Tom Woodland and Ken Ewing.
75 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
Feb. 27, 1950 – HALL GETS COVETED HONOR
A goal aspired by all photographers was achieved by Ross Hall last week when Life magazine featured his photo of two young whitetail bucks sparring like boxers over a pile of hay at the Shields place near Hope as Picture of the Week. Hall hid in the barn to get shots of the deer which had come down to feed just after dark. Spotting two of the nocturnal visitors rising up on their rear legs to slug it out, Hall swung his camera to cover the area and set off the flash.
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CLARK FORK NEWS by Mrs. Irene Daugherty
On the high school semester honor roll were Betty Payne, Margaret Clark, David Daugherty, William Payne, James Derr, Bernard Henderson, Maurice Webb, Doris Thompson, James Henderson and Louis Faskett.
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BEGIN T.B. PATCH TESTING
County health nurse Mrs. Clara Patterson began T.B. patch tests in the schools in her district last week, assisted by Dr. Helen Peterson, county health nurse Mrs. Wilma McKenney and Mrs. Mary Burnell, supervisor of the Panhandle health unit.
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GRADUATE U OF I AT MID-TERM
Sandpoint students graduating from the University of Idaho school of forestry at the end of the first semester are Gustav A. Verdal and Donald P. Campbell.
For more information, visit the museum online at bonnercountyhistory.org.