From the archives of the

Bonner County History Museum

611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, ID 83864

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50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

April 12, 1968 – BRIDGE TOURNEY HELD

There were nine tables in play at the monthly master point meeting of the Sandpoint Bridge Club on Wednesday, March 28.

First place winners in the Mitchell movement were North-South, Mrs. G. Jones, Hayden Lake, and Mr. L. D. Wilkins, Coeur d’Alene, and east-west Mrs. G. D. Harral, Bonners Ferry, and Dick Yager, Sandpoint. Other winners North-south were Mrs. Millard Evenson and Mrs. Robert Forgey and Mrs. Robert McFarland and Mrs. Ella Cantrell.

Weekly meetings are held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Travelers Motel. All interested bridge players are welcome, according to Mrs. Evenson. For further information or a bridge partner, she asks that she be called.

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FRANCES CRANDELL HAD HIGH NET GAME

Frances Crandell won high net game with 234 in the Pin Queen Bowling League for the week of March 26. High gross series went to Jo Ann Chronic with 582.

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SPENDING MUST BE CUT

Americans will resent a tax boost unless convinced they have shared in an all-out effort to first reduce the federal deficit through spending cuts. (Leon Jones, president of J. R. Simplot Company’s food processing division)

100 Years Ago

Pend d’Oreille Review

April 12, 1918 – CITY BREVITIES

Some one suggests that the city is not very patriotic when the city hall has no flag unfurled from its flagstaff.

Archie Gollen’s house, across the long bridge, was destroyed by fire early Monday morning. It was insured for $600 and the contents for $400.

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ST. MARIES BUNCH IN BONNER

The Review is reliably informed that the I.W.W.’s (International Workers of the World) run out of Benewah county have migrated to Bonner county and have taken possession of several of the camps. When agents of the government’s Loyal Legion went to some of the camps they found that the men had been posted by I.W.W.’s not to join the organization as it meant they would be immediately available for war service.

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MOST OF COMPANY ARE NOW BACK

Leaving 16 Company B men at St. Maries, 13 Sandpoint men from Company B arrived home from their three weeks’ military duty on Northern Pacific train No. 4 Tuesday. A detail from Company B will remain an indefinite period in Benewah county.

At Sunday’s meeting of the Bonner County Defense league a resolution was passed asking Bonner county to call for a police patrol of the county by Company B along the same lines as have been accomplished in Benewah county.

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