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AN ILL FATED TOWN Another fire visited Belknap last week, and destroyed a number of buildings and much cut cordwood. Among the houses burned were J.J. Verkler’s door and sash factory; the saloon of the Sprague Brewery and the blacksmith shop in t...
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4 YEARS AGO APRIL 21, 1983 PLAINS AUTO AGENCY CHANGES HANDS Vacura Motors of Plains, a Ford dealer since 1924 and the only remaining new car dealer in Sanders County, changed management last week as John Szafryk, a Dillon native and former Anaconda...
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5 YEARS AGO • MAY 3, 1973 NEW OWNER Ron Turk, who for the past year and a half has been employed by L&O Motors of Plains, a Chevrolet dealer (presently the Plains Public Library) as service manager, Monday reopened the Husky Service Station here u...
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8 YEARS AGO • APRIL 22, 1943 BRIDGES WASHED OUT High water reports are coming in all the time now. A bridge washed out here, there and someplace else. The second Prospect Creek bridge was washed out and Commissioner Sutherland had a crew last w...
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4 YEARS AGO • APRIL 7, 1983 FALLS BANK MOVING This is moving weekend for officers and employees of the First State Bank of Montana and Monday the Thompson Falls financial institution will open for business in its new home across from the City H...
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8 YEARS AGO • MARCH 31, 1943 ROCK SLIDE A big rock slide blocked the Clark Fork highway east of Thompson Falls near Weeksville Saturday evening. The slide was about a block long. Approximately 50,000 yards of rock impeded highway traffic. The h...
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3 YEARS AGO • APRIL 15, 1993 VALLEY BANK OPENS HOT SPRINGS DOORS The new Valley Bank of Hot Springs opened its doors for business Monday morning, April 5, with a bit of paving and landscaping still needed to complete the exterior view. Allen B...
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7 YEARS AGO • MARCH, 1953 CLARK FORK FERRY IS DISCUSSED M.C. Sutherland, chairman of the Sanders County Board of Commissioners and Al Libra, County Attorney met with the Mineral County Board of Commissioners in Superior to discuss financing and cons...
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8 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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6 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 s...
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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 t...
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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 of...
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10 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 ele...
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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, hap...
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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 who wer...
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6 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 alm...
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8 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 t...
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8 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 s...
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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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4 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 ann...
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4 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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3 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 the day I...
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3 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 Falls F...
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6 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 a...
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9 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. Introduced a...
