Bonner County History - April 10, 2022
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
We are reminded that the Grange’s 40th anniversary dinner meeting will be Friday at 6:30 p.m. There will be pinochle and cake and ice cream later in the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Irish and daughters, Christine and Tracy, attended the Co-op Credit Union banquet and meeting at the North Shore Lodge in Coeur d’Alene on Saturday evening.
The Triangle United Club will meet with Mrs. Buster Bandy Tuesday.
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NURSING SCHOLARSHIP FUND CREATED
A scholarship fund has been organized by Mrs. Maryetta Brodkord Mayer of Los Angeles, in memory of Mrs. Betty L. Moon, late wife of Bud Moon of Sandpoint. The scholarship was created to fulfill a moral obligation felt by Mrs. Mayer. A young Kootenai girl, Maryetta Brodkord graduated from Sandpoint High School in 1938, with a great desire for a nursing career. Financing in the middle 1930s would not allow her to enter nurses training. A decision was made by the Tom Palmer family to help Maryetta achieve her desire. Through their aid and encouragement, in 1941 Maryetta graduated from St. Joseph’s School of Nursing at Lewiston. Because of their efforts in her life and her strong feeling to be of service to her fellow man, Mrs. Mayer decided to create the memorial fund for Betty Moon, who was the daughter of Tom and Hazel Palmer of Kootenai. The fund also will include the memory of Thomas Palmer, who died in 1950.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
Apr. 10, 1922 – WANT WAR COIN
A proposal that the government issue a coin or a bill of small denomination bearing a typical American soldier’s head has been made at the American legion of Massachusetts. The coin in honor of the soldiers of ’18 would be known as the “Doughboy dollar.”
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HOPKINS & KINCAID STORE BURGLARIZED
The Hopkins & Kincaid grocery store on Main and Boyer was burglarized during the night Wednesday and groceries worth more than $100 were stolen.
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HOPE NEWS
The girls of the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth grades have made up a baseball team and are having considerable fun on the baseball diamond in front of the new schoolhouse.
R.A. Lauderdale rowed over to Glengary and will be gone for a few days on business.
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“COMMODORE” DOWNS PASSES
The panhandle of Idaho lost one of its most picturesque pioneers last week with the passing of “Commodore” Robert Downs, who carried mail to Cabinet from 1867-1872, and had freighted and done prospecting around Lake Pend d’Oreille. He lived alone on Pack river for years. Some weeks ago, Downs told Review readers what became of the “Mary Moody” and the “Cabinet,” early steamers on the lake. He said they were dismantled and freighted from Lakeview overland to the Snake river prior to 1880.
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