Bonner County History - June 5, 2022

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611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864

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50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

June 5, 1972 – ARSON ALLEGED

A 22-year old Sandpoint man is in county jail in lieu of $15,000 bond on an arson charge in connection with a May 15 midnight fire that gutted the Kamloops Klub Lounge. The blaze resulted in damage estimated at $15,000 to the lounge at 302 N. 1st that is the home of “Pend Oreille Pete,” the carved wooden figure of a pudgy fisherman which stands on the sidewalk in front of the establishment. Pete was moved during the fire and has since remained in front of an adjacent store.

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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NEWS

Pep Club officers for the 1972-73 school year will be Diane Balch, president; Kathy Kotschevar, vice-president; Kathy Brown, secretary; and Roberta Welker and Sue Doak, social promoters.

Junior class officers for the 1972-73 school year are president, Dan Lyons; vice-president, Mark Lyons; secretary-treasurer, Sue Walson.

Class of ’73 officers are Jim Parsons, president; Jim Carlson, vice-president and Sue Doak, secretary.

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HATCHERY FUTURE IN DOUBT

Sandpoint Fish Hatchery is the subject of a state evaluation on closure. Bonner County Sportsmen’s Association is opposing thoughts of closure and cites that this facility provides more fishing pleasure for its size than any other in the state and that the hatchery is essential to the high mountain lakes planting.

100 Years Ago

Northern Idaho News

June 5, 1922 – TEN GRADUATE SAGLE SCHOOL

The central school of Sagle school district No. 7 on May 26 graduated a class of 10 eighth grade pupils. This was the first time in the district’s history that the whole class passed. Graduating were: Etta Anderson, Francis Marquardt, Thelma Lombard, Everett Skirda, Donald Osborn, Harley Turnbull, Wallace Foster, Guy Millard, Alvin Gehrke and Arthur Taylor. Six of the class will attend Sandpoint high school and one will attend the agricultural college at Moscow next year.

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LOCAL YOUNG FOLK HOME FOR VACATION

With the closing of the school year Sandpoint will soon find many of her younger set returning home for summer vacation. Thirteen students will return from Moscow: Malcolm McKinnon, Evelyn Kerr, Clarence Lindstrom, Jean Rowlands, Margrete Hoyt, Rosanna Lancaster, Lillian Groves, Cecelia Lemmer, Russell Molyneux, Helen Ramsey, Louis Helphrey, Donald Coons and Rollin Farmin. Coming from other schools are: Helen Campbell, Whitman college; Nelson Wilson and Glen Maughmer Washington State College; Pearl Kerr, Lewiston and Ruth Dover from Cheney. Dorothy Lynch will be home from Cheney normal in August.

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SOCIAL AFFAIRS

The high school’s commercial club plans to stay organized over the summer. They went on several hikes last month. Last Friday, 20 club members rented row boats and rowed to Sandy Point where they built a big bonfire, ate a lunch and spent the evening playing games and telling stories around the camp fire.

For more information, visit the museum online at bonnercountyhistory.org.