From the archives of the

Bonner County History Museum

611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, ID 83864

208-263-2344

50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Oct. 8, 1967 — CITY IN BRIEF

P.E.O. rummage sale, Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Rosalie’s Shop on North First Ave.

Mayor and Mrs. Floyd Gray flew to Boise last weekend to attend a meeting of the Association of Idaho Cities in which Mayor Gray holds office. He also took in the University of Idaho-Idaho State University football game Saturday. The Grays had the opportunity to ride the same plane to Boise that carried the U of I team and had the opportunity to chat with the local members of the team, John Knowles and Smokey Chubb.

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TRAIN EXCURSION VISITS CITY

The “Pend Oreille Hoo Ray” express came to Sandpoint at 5:15 Sunday, ushering in a new kind of excursion that could be an asset to the city.

Approximately 200 persons stepped off the Northern Pacific special from Spokane for a stay of three hours in Sandpoint. The outing to Sandpoint resulted from arrangements between Mayor Floyd Gray and Keith Boyington of Spokane. The group’s outing had been slated for Palouse, Wash., so they could call it the “Palouse Caboose,” but Mayor Gray persuaded them to come to Sandpoint for a picnic on city beach. Tickets for the excursion bore the inscription, “Pend Oreille Hoo Ray” and the Northern Pacific was the “Sufferin’ Specific.”

100 Years Ago

Pend d’Oreille Review

Oct. 8, 1917 — CAMPS ARE STARTING

Humbird camp No. 2 is now going at full blast with a full crew. A second camp will be opened on the upper waters of Pack river. The Humbird company will open two or three camps in the Priest River country to get out logs for the Fidelity mill at Newport recently taken over.

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BOOZERS HAVE RIGHT OF WAY

Hope auto owners are obliged to abandon use of the highway from 5 o’clock p.m. each Sunday until the following morning, as a matter of safety. Sunday is the big day with those whose thirst can only be quenched with alcoholic beverages, and many auto parties journey to Heron, Mont. that day. They begin to return in the late afternoon and until late into the night and even the early morning following, there is a string of returning autos passing over the route leading through Clarksfork and Hope. The winding road with its sharp curves along precipitous mountain sides are none too safe under normal conditions, but when the retuning Heron visitors, filled with Montana joy and dare-devilry, hit the trail, it is time for those who value their lives to take to the woods and give the boys the full right of way.

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BAKERY CHANGES HANDS

Seb Flodrus, baker from Spokane, purchased the City bakery formerly run by Mr. Rubschlager on First. Flodrun is a first-class baker and expects to maintain the high standard of his profession.

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