Bonner County History - June 20, 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
June 20, 1971 – MARKS AWARDED MASTERS
Glen B. Marks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Marks, Sandpoint, has been awarded a master of science degree in public administration by Brigham Young University. While completing the degree, he served as assistant to the city manager of Scottsdale, Ariz.
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LUND COOKED FOR NORTHSIDE 18 YEARS
A kitchen needs a fairy godmother who wields a magic wand to give a kitchen life. For the last 18 years, Northside school’s fairy godmother has been Mrs. Dorothy Lund. Her only help was two girls to help serve. Mrs. Lund, who endeared herself to all, retired at the end of school this year.
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PROUDLY WE SALUTE…
Tim Heihn, army teletype technician, is spending a few days leave here before being assigned in Vietnam. He has 10 months left in military service, and has served in New Jersey, Alaska and Texas.
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REV. O’DONOVAN FOR ST. JOSEPH’S
Effective June 22, Father Albert V. Dulberg will be transferred from St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Sandpoint to become pastor of St. Ann’s parish at Bonners Ferry. Fr. M. John O’Donovan will become the new pastor for Sandpoint and Clark Fork. A native of Oakland, Calif., Fr. O’Donovan studied at seminaries in California and has been a priest since 1949. He has been pastor of St. George’s Church at Post Falls and its missions since October 1958.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
June 20, 1921 – RUNAWAY CAUSES STIR
A large crowd was drawn Friday to the Cedar street bridge by a collision between a runaway Pacific Transfer team and an Al’s Dray Line outfit. The runaway started at the N.P. freight depot, barely averting disaster rounding the turn at the passenger station. The dray line wagon which had been moving toward town was overtaken, and the runaways crashed into that team, tangling wagons, harnesses and horses. One horse of each team was injured and some freight was broken open on the bridge.
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ONE MYSTERY FOR ANOTHER
Len Arnett helped the city trade one mystery for another Tuesday when he undertook to find what was causing the sewer blockade on First avenue near the court house, which had caused no end of annoyance. After digging at five different places and cutting through the pipes, he found the blockade was caused by the sawed-off end of a piling, a wood chunk two feet long and 16 inches in diameter with one end narrowed. The wood had lodged in the 22-inch main when the pointed end got caught in a branch line elbow. It was so solidly stuck it was necessary to cut it in five pieces to get it out. The second mystery is how the wood got into the line in the first place. It is thought by officials that someone with a community grudge must have dropped it into a manhole. It had been there for some years.
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