Bonner County History - May 5, 2022
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50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
May 5, 1972 – RED HAT DANCE
Red Hat Dance and Kamloops & Kokanee Day Fish Awards Presentation, Saturday Night. See the fish on display – Sandpoint Eagles Lodge (208 N. First).
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UNEXPECTED OPENING DAY DRAWDOWN
The unexpected one-foot drawdown of Lake Pend Oreille last weekend was caused by a closure of gates at Washington Water Power’s Noxon Rapids dam. No advance notice was given by WWP of the drawdown, which began Saturday with the opening of fishing season and K & K week. At the mouth of Sand Creek, where Sandpoint Marina is located, boats were nearly grounded, with only enough water for shallow draft boats to make it to the lake proper, and numerous launching ramps around the lake became inoperable.
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JOHNSON-WOOD ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson of Sagle announce the engagement of their daughter, Teresa, to Dan Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wood, Samuels. Miss Johnson is a Sandpoint High School senior and Wood is a freshman at North Idaho College. The wedding is planned for August 19 in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church.
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DAFFODIL SHOWING SUNDAY
Mrs. True Wilson invites the public to visit her Hilltop Iris Gardens west of Sandpoint above Pinecrest Cemetery on May 7, where 120 named daffodils are in bloom. Hundreds visit her gardens each June to view the iris in bloom, but this is her first daffodil showing.
100 Years Ago
Northern Idaho News
May 5, 1922 – ARMSTEAD QUITS TALACHE MINE
Major H.H. Armstead has disposed of his entire interest in the Armstead mines at Talache to a New York syndicate. Beginning next month, operations at Talache will be conducted by a corporation known at the Talache mines, of which A.H. Burroughs is president and general manager; A.H. Burroughs, Jr., vice president; H.S. Brown, secretary-treasurer; C.C. Dula, J. Peterson, Karl Jungbluth and H.D. Kingsbury, directors, nearly all from New York. The name Armstead Mines will be retained by Major Armstead for his other present and future mining operations.
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BEES STARVED IN SIGHT OF HONEY
J.F. Carter, county bee inspector said that 30 to 40 percent of the county’s bees were lost last winter by reason of the protracted cold weather. According to Mr. Carter, the bees, which on the approach of the cold weather, clustered near the portal of the hive, had, as the winter progressed, eaten their way to the top of one section, and there had become so chilled, they were unable to move to another section to feed. They therefore starved to death with plenty of honey in the hives. Carter has followed the bee business in Bonner county for 18 years and never before in that period has the winter loss exceeded 10 percent.
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BUNGALOW-PACK RIVER VALLEY NEWS
The weather man had a lapse of memory Saturday and sent us four inches of snow instead of rain.
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