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80 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 24, 1943 FRED BROWN RECOUNTS EXPERIENCES The Cabinet Forest was placed under administration April 1, 1907 with headquarters at Thompson Falls, Montana. The first supervisor was Ferdinand A. Silcox, who later became Chief of the...
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105 YEARS AGO • MARCH 7, 1918 LOGS COME AS ICE GOES Supply of Ice for Local Users Was Stored Just in Time The weatherman gave the ice users just the necessary time to store their supply for the...
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MARCH MADNESS Thanks to John Hamilton for ghost writing my column this week. He’s a much better sports writer than I am. What do Thompson Falls High School, Gonzaga University basketball and the jersey No. 8 have in common? And what does all of...
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d105 YEARS AGO • FEBRUARY 28, 1918 WILL CUT MATCH TIMBER Start Erection of Mill at Whitepine to handle 5,000,000 Feet of Wood Work has been commenced by the Idaho Match Works on a saw mill about seven miles up Whitepine Creek to handle the cutting...
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55 YEARS AGO • FEBRUARY 15, 1968 FIRE LEVELS LARSON STORE Fire completely destroyed Thompson Falls’ oldest and largest retail establishment, Larsons & Greens, Inc. early Wednesday morning. The fire was first noted when a transformer on an...
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EXCERPT FROM BOOK “WILD HORSE PLAINS” BY JOHN RHONE 1969 As I sit here this hot August afternoon and watch Jim Baker and his nephew, Leon Perris, put up a large tonnage of hay, I feel I should write something about those adventurous,...
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EXCERPT FROM BOOK “WILD HORSE PLAINS” BY JOHN RHONE 1969 Introduction - Yes, I know I’m late – about thirty years. This job of writing a history of this section of Montana should have been done about that time, while many of the old timers...
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105 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 3, 1918 SMALL STREAMS GO ON RAMPAGE Creeks Overflow Banks and Take Out Many Bridges RAILROAD SERVICE PARALIZED Power Company’s Transmission Line Also Suffers Damage From High Water The unprecedented rains which fell...
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80 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 27, 1943 THE BIG SNOW This section of Montana from all reports has experienced the heaviest snows in a decade for the past ten days. Old timers recount back to days long ago when the snow around here was three feet deep on...
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80 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 20, 1943 THE BIG FREEZE The town water system was among the casualties of the blizzard that struck with the breath of the Arctic through the Hell-Gate upon fair Missoula nestling on the west slope of the Rockies and then...
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OVER 120 YEARS AGO JOTTINGS ABOUT TOWN Excerpt from the Belknap Sun, first newspaper in this area printed in the late 1880s Saddle horses from here to the mines have been reduced to $10. The Windsor House sets a fine table. Mr. Mott is an excellent...
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40 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 16, 1982 MORE COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS SET ON ‘STRIP’ The year 1983 could be a major commercial building year for Thompson Falls on the Strip eat of town, based on plans recently announced. Fresh on the heels of the...
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40 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 30, 1982 THANKS TO MANY This was an editorial written by Doc Eggensperger during the holidays. Among the attributes of small-town living are the many acts of kindness, help and concern that friends and neighbors perform to...
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30 YEARS AGO DECEMBER 10, 1992 OVER THE YEARS THE HEATERS TRANSPORTED LOTS OF KIDS Continued from last week… The last 15 years, Doris did her share of driving. “I wasn’t so happy when Rich talked me into driving,” she says. “I was scared...
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30 YEARS AGO • DECEMBER 10, 1992 OVER THE YEARS THE HEATERS TRANSPORTED LOTS OF KIDS All school buses are yellow, aren’t they? Fifty-seven years ago, it wasn’t necessarily so. Thompson Falls’ first school bus was red. In 1935 when Thompson...
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105 YEARS AGO • DECEMBER 6, 1917 CLOSE CALL FOR SNIDER Careless Hunter Sends Bullet Through Coattail and then Beats It for Cover Dave Snider was the unintentional target for some careless hunter up in the Thompson River country last Friday and had...
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90 YEARS AGO • NOVEMBER 23, 1932 NEW KITCHEN AID Homemakers by the thousands are enjoying a new helper in their kitchens – towels for kitchen use are proving a boon because they are so convenient and, at the same time, economical to use. Introduc...
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PLAINS AREA’S ONE ROOM SCHOOLS The earliest of the schoolhouses erected in the Plains area seems to be one on Swamp Creek and another that was situated on Clark Creek up Baldy way. Both dated back to the early 1890s and logs furnished the principal...
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OVER 100 YEARS AGO Not finding anything of interest in old newspaper files this week, I dug up some old history of the Thompson Falls area in the pioneer days. PETE McCLINCHY June 9, 1882 – Weeksville Items – Fred Smith and Pete McClinchy, Thomps...
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40 YEARS AGO • NOVEMBER 4, 1982 DECISION DUE ON TIE PLANT FUTURE A decision regarding the future of the Burlington Northern’s tie plant, destroyed by fire last week, is expected to be made by the end of this week, Bill Joplin, manager of BN...
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90 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER, 1932 LARSON’S CASH STORE Advertisement All brands Cigarettes – 15¢, 2 packages 25¢ - CAMELS, LUCKIES, CHESTERFIELD, OLD GOLD Lard, 8 pounds – 77¢ Blue Ribbon Flour, 49 pounds – 83¢ Golden Glo Butter, in cartons...
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30 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 22, 1992 THOMPSON FALLS BUSIINESSES EYE UPGRADES, RELOCATIONS Main Street in downtown Thompson Falls is changing face these days. Several changes have already happened, some are currently underway, and more are in the...
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81 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 20, 1937 SALMON COMING UP Every year the salmon come up the river. As soon as the fall rains commence and the water rises, they start up out of the Columbia, Priest Lake and Pend d’Oreille and strike for the headwaters. Usu...
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90 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 28, 1932 TELEPHONE COMPANY INSTALLS CIRCUIT An initial copper telephone circuit has been constructed and is now in operation between Thompson Falls, Montana, and Clarks Fork, Idaho, a distance of approximately 56 miles,...
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105 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 1917 ANNOUNCE FINE FAIR PROGRAM Attractions Arranged for This Year are Better Than Ever Aeroplane Flights a Feature Prizes for Races and Contests Arrangements for the seventh annual Sanders County Fair are progressing rapidly...
