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SANDERS COUNTY C.C.C. by Fredi Pargeter and Glenn T. Garrison Note: The Civilian Conservation Corps was developed as a relief agency during the Great Depression years. President Roosevelt convinced Congress to create the C.C.C. which provided...

SANDERS COUNTY C.C.C. by Fredi Pargeter and Glenn T. Garrison Note: The Civilian Conservation Corps was developed as a relief agency during the Great Depression years. President Roosevelt convinced Congress to create the C.C.C. which provided conserv...

90 YEARS AGO • NOVEMBER 8, 1933 THOMPSON TO HAVE AN AIRPLANE LANDING FIELD Nick Mamer of the North West Airways was in Thompson Falls two days this week, establishing a temporary emergency landing field for high speed planes. The present Thompson F...

TOWARDS BRIDGES AND ROADS From "Behind These Mountains" by Mona Leeson Vanek For many years John Fulks had operated the ferry at Noxon until one spring when high water tore it loose and it was gone, probably to be smashed to bits going through the...

90 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 25, 1933 SCHOOL NEWS There are 32 students in the dormitory this year: 16 girls and 16 boys. Of these students only six have not been there before. There are 13 freshmen, 29 sophomores, 17 juniors, 22 seniors and four...

90 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 11, 1933 PLAINS HAS FEVER There have been a number of typhoid fever cases during the last month in Plains, which apparently developed in the neighborhood where the Montana Logging Company conducted its operations this...

40 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 6, 1983 JOE GARRISON Obituary Graveside services were conducted at the Thompson Falls City Cemetery for Joe Garrison, 96, pioneer resident of Belknap. Mr. Garrison was born September 15, 1887, in Enfield, Illinois. He moved t...

30 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 7, 1993 CHARLES R. DUFFIELD OBITUARY Charles R. “Chuck” Duffield, 79, of Thompson Falls died of natural causes September 28, 1993. Chuck was born June 23, 1914 at Broadview, Montana to Warren and Martha Duffield. In the...

90 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 4, 1933 LOCAL SHINGLE MILL BEGUN AT TROUT CREEK Henry Kraus before settling at Trout Creek had operated a shingle mill in Wisconsin for years. He brought his mill along with him, dismantled, and it has only been in the last...

76 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 1, 1947 BIG PAY Thompson Falls Lumber Co. that operates east of town, better known as Brown’s Mill, is a good place to work. Talk to any of the boys who work out there and they will tell you the pay is good, average around...

90 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 20, 1933 ROADS IN MARVELOUS SHAPE Do you remember the way the roads were a couple of years back? Rough, rocky, bumpy, crooked and narrow. If you traveled over Montana roads much then you can hardly conceive as you glide along...

90 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 9, 1933 COMMITTEE FINDS SITE OF SALISH HOUSE Members of the David Thompson Memorial committee have discovered what is believed to be the site of the Salish House, the first building erected within the present boundaries of...

90 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER, 1933 THOMPSON FALLS WILL CELEBRATE Monument to David Thompson, Explorer, Will Be unveiled Today. Taken from the September 4, 1933 issue of the Spokesman Review: The monument to David Thompson, early explorer in western...

70 YEARS AGO • JULY 29, 1953 NEW FLOOR POURED The concrete was poured Saturday for the floor of the new 4-H Club building at the Sanders County Fair grounds at Plains. The building is 24 feet by 54 feet. 4-H Club members will serve complete meals...

30 YEARS AGO • JULY 14, 1993 SOPHIE MOLES ARRIVES IN AREA AS A GIRL, 17 Continued from last week… Sophie and Bert raised seven children on the homestead: Leo, Lester, Clarence, Wilfred, Tuffy, Altha and Louie. Today Altha and Louie live in...

30 YEARS AGO • JULY 14, 1993 SOPHIE MOLES ARRIVES IN AREA AS A GIRL, 17 Land for Sale: $12 per acre; some pieces available for $3 per acre. Firewood: Cut, split and delivered, $3 per cord. Where? Thompson Falls, Montana - 1914. Certainly prices...

40 YEARS AGO • JULY 14, 1993 FALLS FIRM OFFERING CONCRETE STRUCTURES Concrete Services, Inc. of Thompson Falls is now providing precast concrete structures, according to co-owners Gary Campbell and Terry Traver. The new firm has been named...

105 YEARS AGO • JULY 25, 1918 BELKNAP CROPS RUINED BY HAIL Many Ranchers Lost Everything in Severe Storm Roofs Broken Down and Young Chickens and Turkeys Killed A hail storm that for violence and damage inflicted was the worst in the history of...

70 YEARS AGO • JULY 1953 RECORD BREAKING 109 RECORDED HERE People of Thompson Falls and the Clark Fork Valley had a perfect right to complain about the heat last Sunday, July 12. The official temperature according to U.S. Forest Service instruments...

105 YEARS AGO • JULY 11, 1918 NEWS OF LOCAL INTEREST Fishing has been unusually good in the streams of this vicinity during the past week and has attracted a large number who have been daring enough to brave the mosquitoes. One local Isaak Walton...

70 YEARS AGO • JUNE 1953 INMATES BEAUTIFY COMMUNITY There’s no doubt about it, Sheriff Wally Britton has the welfare and betterment of his community at heart. We all appreciate the “clean look” and fine appearance given to the parking near...

30 YEARS AGO • JUNE 17, 1993 LOGGING NOT HORSE PLAY ON WEST END In the fresh mountain sunshine of an early summer day, a draft horse waits patiently for his owner to finish preparations so another log can be skidded down the mountain. Doug Albano h...

40 YEARS AGO • JUNE 23, 1983 TC GETTING NEW MARKET, CAFE Two new additions are being made to the Trout Creek business community. The Trout Creek Market will be owned and operated by Robert Studwell, presently of Vancouver, Wash., and Sam Ross of...