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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...
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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 b...
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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, Thompson F...
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4 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 pub...
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9 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 – 25¢ Cups &...
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3 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 o...
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9 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. Usually...
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9 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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6 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...
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9 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 1032 Thompson Falls Businesses Following is a list of businesses in Thompson Falls during the Great Depression: Black Bear Tavern, Neat Rooms, Moderate Prices, Night Service. Ray Shannon, Proprietor, Peek Block. (The Peek Blo...
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4 YEARS AGO AUGUST 30, 1917 BURGLARS LOOT STORE AT CAMAS Safe Blown and Small Amount of Cash and Jewelry Taken MAKE GOOD THEIR ESCAPE May Be Same Gang That Has Committed Several Similar Robberies Recently The store of Peeso & Davis at Camas was...
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9 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 31, 1932 ROAD IS COMPLETED The highway between Clarks Fork, Idaho and Noxon on the north side of the river after a year or so of intensive construction, bridge building, etc. is now open for automobile traffic. This road is h...
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4 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 2, 1982 FAIR OPENS TODAY In the days of Caesar all roads lead to Rome; this weekend all Sanders County roads lead to Plains as the annual Sanders County Fair opens Thursday and continues through Sunday night’s Demolition D...
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6 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 16, 1917 FOREST FIRES STILL MENACE From Belknap to Trout Creek Conditions Are Very Bad Numerous brush fires all the way from Belknap to Trout Creek are causing much uneasiness in the Forest Service and to the ranch owners a...
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7 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 13, 1952 NEW ROAD BEING BUILT A railroad grade and trucking road, planned for future use by ACM Co. operations up Thompson River, is in its initial stages of construction. About three miles of clearing has already been done o...
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4 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 5, 1982 LONG-TIME OFFICIAL ORIN KENDALL PASSES Orin P. Kendall, 78, who had served Sanders County 50 years as an educator and elected official, died Sunday. He was born April 30, 1904, in Williams, Iowa, the son of Oliver and N...
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6 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 2, 1917 BIG HAUL OF CHAR Fishing For Market, Spokane Man and Sons Seine 300 Pounds of Big Trout A Spokane man and his sons are seining for char at the mouth of Prospect Creek. A sein seventy-five feet long and eight feet d...
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4 YEARS AGO • JUNE 24, 1982 CHANGES BRING DECLINE TO HERON By Jan Fraser Continued from last week… Barbara Fillerup Smith and Georgia Dettwiler Montague both remembered crossing the river on the ferries or highline platform. Georgia recalled tha...
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4 YEARS AGO • JUNE 24, 1982 CHANGES BRING DECLINE TO HERON By Jan Fraser Continued from last week… Georgia Knott MacSpadden related how her family arrived in 1889 from Hope. Her father was a section foreman on the railroad. She recalled Heron’s firs...
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5 YEARS AGO • JUNE 22, 1972 NEW LOG HAUL RECORD A new worlds record for log hauling was claimed this week by LHC, Inc. after a truck driven by Floyd Veach of Heron pulled seven trailers loaded with l...
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6 YEARS AGO • JUNE 28, 1917 BIG CROWDS THE FOURTH All Events of Celebration Passed Off in Pleasant Manner The celebration was a success. A big and happy crowd attended and from every indication a...
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6 YEARS AGO • JUNE 28, 1917 ALL LUMBER CAMPS STRIKE General Walkout in County Part of Nation-Wide Movement I.W.W. LEADERS IN CHARGE Sanders County lumber camps have shut down as a result of a genera...
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9 YEARS AGO • JUNE 1, 1932 INAUGURATION SATURDAY, JUNE 4 OF FARMER’S MARKET AT THE MERCANTILE A committee from the Woman’s Club were instructed to endeavor to promote a Farmer’s Market or Curb Market and this they have succeeded in doing. A number...
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8 YEARS AGO JUNE 10, 1942 SUGAR CANNING REGULATIONS Announcement of the new canning regulations was made this week by the local rationing board. A portion of the bulletin received by them is quoted below. “Consumers who have registered may obtain s...
