Trio have a narrow escape
10 Years Ago — 2009
Benefitting Priest River
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the selection of $250 million in water and environmental projects that are being funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, including a $1.57 million grant and a $3.68 million low interest loan for the city of Priest River to upgrade its aging water system.
20 Years Ago — 1999
World record fish
A new world record Mackinaw Lake trout was landed on July 1 at Priest Lake by Tiffany White, an experienced 13-year-old angler from Mossy Rock, Wash. The calculated weight was 27.44 pounds.
30 Years Ago — 1989
Sentenced
in shooting
A repentant Garfield Bay man was sentenced in First District Court to spend 14 to 22 years in prison for his May 23 assault on a Laclede store owner.
Blaine “Woody” Wood, 28, said he remembered little of the events that led up to the shooting of Donald Rabe at the Laclede Store. Court records indicated Woods had been taking cocaine and heroin up to two months before the incident.
40 Years Ago — 1979
Bank has
grand opening
The Bank of North Idaho’s Priest River Branch, will celebrate its grand opening Friday at Timberline Shopping Center, led by Dan Gill, branch manager.
50 Years Ago — 1969
Merger completed
Completion of the Diamond International Company with the United States Playing Card Company was announced by William H. Walters, Diamond International chairman. The card company will act as a subsidiary of Diamond International.
60 Years Ago — 1959
Bad storm
Ike Elkins, owner of Elkins Resort, tells of a storm last week at Reeder Creek Bay, which according to lake old-timers was one of the worst Priest Lake has ever whipped up. He said waves seven feet high washed over the docks at his resort.
70 Years Ago — 1949
Injured in shingle mil
Leonard House, an employee of the shingle mill this side of the Luby Bay turnoff, lost two fingers while working in the mill.
80 Years Ago — 1939
Correction from Diamond Match
In the July 6, 1939, issue of your paper appeared a notice in the Newport, Idaho correspondence of the shutdown of the night shift at our Albeni Falls sawmill, which stated all men over 65 years of age had been permanently discharged. We wish to emphatically deny the truth of that statement. Our company’s policy has never been to discriminate against any employee because of age limits.
90 Years Ago — 1929
Truck crashes through bridge
The Thompson truck heavily loaded with cedar poles crashed through the wooden bridge over the Schaefer slough. The driver jumped escaping injury. The poles and truck landed some 10 feet below. The crash awakened the neighborhood for a couple of blocks
100 Years Ago — 1919
Narrow escape
Upon hearing that the fire in the Pack River country was very bad, Chas. Beardmore, with Charles Murray and G. N. Thompson, went there and succeeded in penetrating to the fire. The fire then hemmed them in. They only succeeded in saving their lives by crawling to the river and lying submerged in the icy water with only their noses above the surface. They covered the exposed surfaces with wet handkerchiefs to keep from being suffocated, remaining there for more than three hours.