Blue Lake logging prospects looking good

100 Years Ago — 1922

Prospects look good

Prospects are pretty good for logging in the Blue Lake country this winter. The Diamond Match Company is building a logging road from the Halfway House to the forks of Big Creek, about four miles, where they will put in a camp and a portable sawmill to saw lumber to build a flume. Also, Diamond Match Camp One, formerly known as Beardmore Camp Six, is running and they expect to employ 80 or 90 men.

90 Years Ago — 1932

Fire razes two businesses

Fire starting Saturday morning in the Bonner Hardware Store completely destroyed that building, as well as the Phil Naccarato building occupied by Frank Mayeda, who has been operating the Priest River Laundry. The blaze possibly started from an electric wire leading to an electric range in Wm. Hamburg’s Bonner Hardware having become shorted by water leaking through the roof.

80 Years Ago — 1942

Registration receipt or no gas

Idaho motorists must have a current motor vehicle receipt of registration before they can secure gas ration books, which become effective Nov. 22.

70 Years Ago — 1952

Proceeds for resuscitator

Proceeds from the Priest River Volunteer Fire Department’s Benefit Ball on Nov. 15 will go toward the purchase of a resuscitator, a much-needed piece of equipment for the use of the entire community.

60 Years Ago — 1962

Church to hold smorgasbord

A wide variety of appetizers will be found on the snack table when the Congregational Church choir serves its annual smorgasbord on Nov. 3. The main course will include traditional Scandinavian foods such as potatiskorv (Swedish potato sausage), Norwegian meat balls, red cabbage salad, lefse, and Norwegian flat bread.

50 Years Ago — 1972

Spartans win final game

The Priest River Spartans wanted to make their last game of the season a good one, and they did, defeating the Post Falls Trojans 28-8.

40 Years Ago — 1982

Chamber raising gripes

Concerns over lack of improvements to Highway 2 and delays on the Oldtown Bridge project were expressed when Neil Barras of the Idaho Highways Department was guest speaker of the Priest River Chamber of Commerce meeting.

30 Years Ago — 1992

Bus driver retires

Friends honored Ann Huling Friday for 26 years of driving a school bus in Bonner County. Huling, a Priest River resident, is retiring after years on the Laclede bus route. She carried on a tradition, after her dad, Rudy Hoop, drove bus for 13 years.

20 Years Ago — 2002

Preventing a cataclysm

Set in the middle of a popular wilderness area, the community of Priest Lake is also surrounded by thick overgrown forests that could result in a cataclysmic forest fire. The Priest River Development Corporation, through the Lakeface-Lamb Stewardship contract, has been charged with remedial action to avoid this catastrophe.