Bonner County History - July 8, 2021
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
July 8, 1971 – ONE-WOMAN ART SHOW
Mrs. Paul M. (Bessie) Loman, 518 N. Sixth Ave., will hold her own art showing July 9-10-11 at the old Ross Hall Studio building on First Ave. Mrs. Loman, who with her husband winters in Tucson, Ariz., primarily paints desert scenes, western and Indian subjects, though her works also include Schweitzer Basin and views from the Grand Tetons. One of her specialties is palette knife portraiture. A pupil of the Nathan Robinson school of art in Tucson, she has now been painting for three to four years.
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BN ORDERED TO HALT LENGTHY DELAYS
The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has ordered that Burlington Northern, Inc. not block Sandpoint area grade crossings for longer than 10 minutes. Noting that “Train operations have unreasonably inconvenienced motor vehicle traffic…at public grade crossings,” the IPUC ordered that when a BN train will be delayed at Sandpoint for over 10 minutes, “the crew must arrange to immediately cut all obstructed public crossings,” adding that “The commission recognizes this order will not alleviate all of the difficulties.”
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POLICE DON CROWD-CONTROL EQUIPMENT
Before going on duty at the annual Independence Day parade last weekend, Sandpoint’s finest donned crowd-control equipment recently acquired by the department for all officers. Seen sporting protective helmets and wielding crowd-control batons were Art Bourassa, Dale Sheffield, Seth Batt, Dale Munson, C.E. Holt, Asst. Chief Willard Piehl and Chief George Elliot.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
July 8, 1921 – ALLEN HOUSE
D.H. Allen, Proprietor, 511 Second Av. Home Cooked Meals; First-Class Table Board. Phone 472-J, Sandpoint, Ida.
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CELEBRATIONS DRAW MANY LOCAL PEOPLE
Throngs of Sandpointers attended celebrations at nearby communities on the Fourth. The most, by far, attended festivities at Bonners Ferry where a real, old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration was put over with characteristic Bonners Ferry hospitality and where the Humbird-Sandpoint Tigers were defeated by the Bonners Ferry team. The celebration at Samuels, staged in part because of the establishment of a rural route there, drew several thousand, but the Sandpoint delegation was somewhat smaller than that. All afternoon and into the night, there was free dancing. Many Sandpoint people went to Sagle for patriotic exercises and a baseball game in which the Sagle boys trimmed the Hope team. At Laclede a day of patriotic exercises and athletic events with a big pyrotechnic display and dancing drew a large crowd from Sandpoint, while about 50 other Sandpointers spent the day at Upper Twin Lakes. Other locals spent the day more quietly and either picnicked at nearby points or went on launch picnics and excursions up the lake.
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