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

April 3, 1968 – ELK OF THE YEAR

Bill Remmers was voted Elk of the Year Tuesday by fellow lodge members, receiving his certificate from Exalted Ruler Don Leaverton.

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LAKE’S LARGEST KAMLOOPS BACK HOME

The USS Kamloops was unloaded from a rail car at Athol Monday and trucked to Bayview after routine maintenance at Mare Island, San Francisco, where it had been since December. The half-million dollar test vehicle was launched in Lake Pend Oreille last May 29 at Bayview’s Naval Research & Development Test Center.

USS Kamloops, named for Lake Pend Oreille’s royal fish at the request of Sandpoint and Coeur d’Alene Kiwanis clubs, USS Kamloops is 70’ long, has no human passengers, and is used for tests and studies of flow, structural strength, vibration characteristics and underwater acoustics.

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SUPERIOR RATINGS AT MOSCOW

Band instrumentalists and chorus vocalists from Sandpoint Senior High who won superior ratings March 21 at Moscow are Pat Krum, Ruby Fitchett, Christi Cogswell, Janice Messmore, Ted Hadley, Antonea Venishnick, Bill Ruyle, Tim LaMarche, Emil Kulhanek, Beth Thompson, Arlan Healea and Janet Bennett. String winners with superior ratings were Carolyn Trunnell, Diane LaMoreaux, Hilary Trunnell, Kent Lyons and Becky Smith.

100 Years Ago

Pend d’Oreille Review

April 3, 1918 – SMALLPOX IN SCHOOL

Friday the Washington school building was closed at noon and the rooms fumigated due to four cases of smallpox among pupils. In one case, a woman sent her grandchild to school after the child had broken out and she pricked the pustules and treated them with peroxide.

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WAR GARDENS ALONG RAILROAD

The Great Northern has advised all station agents that the railroad’s right of way may be planted in war gardens.

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PLANS COMMUNITY GARDEN

J.R. Law will help the war garden movement by offering at half price to a gardeners group all 18 lots of block 5, Lake Park addition, bounded by St. Clair and Erie streets, Boyer and the Boulevard. The lots have city water and the plan includes building a tool house for community use.

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IN GERMAN PRISON A SECOND TIME

Appearing on a list of German prisoners is Heino Rein, son of Mrs. James Folden of this city. It is young Rein’s second time in a German prison, having been taken from the Georgic in December, 1916, later returned to this country through Switzerland. This time he was taken prisoner with a number of American engineers.

After his release last year Rein described the German prison as “three months in hell.”

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