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5 YEARS AGO • DECEMBER 25, 1970 During the last months Mrs. Kathryn E. Fessler lived as she rode down Main St. with her daughter, Mrs. Ermel Hanson, she said, "Aren't my trees beautiful?" "Her trees" are the stately conifers gracing the north side of Main Street. When she came to Thompson Falls where her husband, Dr. Fessler, set up his practice, she decided to beautify her home and the then building of the Big Pine Tourist Camp (now Little Bear). Wherever she lived, she planted a tree, so s...
7 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 29, 1950 OUR PROBLEMS ARE MANY We heard a number of local citizens gripe because an N.P. freight blocked all three crossings in the town for at least half an hour Tuesday morning, just at the time when those employed should have been getting to work. We understand the sheriff was called and asked if he would have the engineer move the train on at least so that one crossing could be used. At times like this, especially in the wintertime, one realizes how handy an underpass...
4 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 13, 1980 CABLE TV PLANNED FOR FALLS, PLAINS Cable TV reception including 24-hour-a-day reception from four national superstations along with two local (Spokane and Missoula) stations and pay TV monies may be offered to viewers in Thompson Falls, Plains and Ronan in the near future by Lawrence J. McCarthy and Associates. McCarthy last week applied for a license from the Thompson Falls City Council to operate the cable system here. He said he has also applied for licenses in Plains and Ronan. Obtaining licenses in the three...
8 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 13, 1940 SPONSORS CONSTRUCTION OF SKATING RINK The city of Thompson Falls is sponsoring the construction of a skating rink on main street opposite Weber’s general store. This project is entirely a city activity. In past years, the rink was not successful because the water seeped away and left gaps in the ice. This year a large amount of sawdust has been spread over the ground to form an insular coat and prevent seepage. The dormitory boys and other high school students are cooperating by donating their labor. It is h...
8 YEARS AGO • NOVEMBER, 1940 FIRST THREE-TERMER This precedent shaking campaign has finally resulted in the WILL of the people speaking, and thus ROOSEVELT continues on as President of the United States of America. Let us stand UNITED as the name of our country implies, the United States of America, and determinedly with FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT at the helm face the perils of a war torn, desolate and disorganized world. Hail! Franklin Delano Roosevelt, first President of the United States ever to be elected for a third term. This is our p...
2 YEARS AGO • APRIL 9, 2009 TROUT CREEK RESIDENTS RALLY TO CORNER AND DETAIN ROBBER By Jay Simons Fast action by Trout Creek residents prevented an armed robber from making a getaway Sunday after forcing a clerk at Aitken’s Quik Stop to give him $1300 in cash from the till. At about 6 p.m., a white Pathfinder pulled into the parking lot. A man, August White Dirt, entered the store and headed for the restroom. Clerk, Lindsay Achatz was behind the counter. Before long she found herself in his grasp and threatened with a knife. After being for...
7 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 30, 1950 HUNTING NEWS Official returns from the two checking stations, maintained by the Montana Fish and Game Commission, located at Little Thompson River and on the Cherry Creek road, reveal the following number of big game animals killed to date. In the Thompson River doe area 146 does, 25 bucks and 3 bear were checked through the station up to and including Saturday, October 21, the last day that this area was open legally to the hunting of antlerless deer. In the Cherry Creek Game Preserve up to October 24 a total o...
HOWARD R. & SYLVIA M. (GRANT) SAINT From Pioneers and Early Settlers of Thompson Falls Howard Robert 'Bob' Saint was born February 16, 1914, the son of Ben & Laura Fern (Fulk) Saint. Sylvia was born March 3, 1914 in Missoula to Alexander William and Alta Marie Grant. She was graduated from Stevensville High School. After school she went to work as a telephone operator until her marriage to H. Robert Saint in 1939. Following the wedding, Bob and Sylvia lived in Fort Benton until the untimely...
8 YEARS AGO OCTOBER 9, 1940 ON DISPLAY R.D Stockton is quite proud of his potatoes this year. Potatoes all over the valley are unusually large and Mr. Stockton brought us in a couple of fine specimens weighing 2.5 pounds apiece, hard and solid, which are on display in The Ledger window. Sanders County is famous for its dry land seed potatoes. In the big potato producing sections where irrigation is used, seed potatoes are constantly shipped in from areas such as this to replenish the grades. We understand A.N. Brooks of Trout Creek has an unus...
HENRY ALEXANDER LARSON From Pioneers and Early Settlers of Thompson Falls Henry was born June 24, 1889, at Nome, North Dakota, to Anton Larson and Julia Olson, one of their eight children. Thompson Falls 1909 Polk directory lists him as clerk at the Thompson Falls Mercantile Co. The 1911 lists him as a drug clerk for the Thompson Falls Drug and Inv. Co. The 1913 lists him as clerk for E.D. Peek & Co. Henry Larson and Miss Maud Sullings were united in marriage June of 1912. In 1915, they moved...
3 YEARS AGO SEPTEMBER 20, 1990 PONY EXPRESS TO RIDE, RUN, AGAIN Plans for Saturday’s 1890s Days CELEBRATION, SPONSORED BY THE Thompson Falls Chamber of Commerce, are firming up, according to organizer Heather Saint. Activities planned include a parade, Calcutta Auction, Pony Express Relay Race, arts and crafts sold in the Montana Power Park and on Main St., culminating with a street dance. The day will begin with “breakfast sandwiches” served by Kathleen Pavlik and Sandy Doster in the park, where the Thompson Falls High School Band will be pr...
HISTORY OF SANDERS COUNTY BY J.H. BRAUER Johann Heinrich ‘John’ Brauer was born February 5, 1870, in Hanover, Prussia, Germany. He came with his parents to the United States in 1879. He came to Missoula in September 1899 and moved to Thompson Falls in 1905. J.H. Brauer and his wife Mary had 13 children. Their home, which is still standing, now houses the Sunflower Gallery. Mr. Brauer, with the exception of two terms, served as the county surveyor from 1909 to 1954, when he retired. Continued from last week. By the way, the picture you see han...
7 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 20, 1950 OLD-TIMERS HONORED AT COURTHOUSE DEDICATION Thompson Falls, the county seat, was crowded as visitors from every point in the county and outside guests came for Saturday's daylong celebration. The old-timers, the pioneers, were honored at a ceremony which dedicated the new $107,000 Sanders County courthouse. County Commissioner M.C. Sutherland opened the dedication program. Appearing on the speakers platform during the dedication were the following old-timers o...
7 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 6, 1950 COURTHOUSE TO BE DEDICATED Dedication ceremonies for the new Sanders County Courthouse will be held Saturday. A door prize, free football game between Thompson Falls and Hot Springs high schools, a big free dance, a parade with prizes for floats and costumes, as well as the dedication ceremony, will constitute the days program. Concessions such as bingo, chuck-o-luck, roulette, popcorn and others will help carry out the festive theme. The speaker, Reverend B.V. Edworthy from Plains, will talk about the early d...
3 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 6, 1990 T.F. CIVIC LEADER LOVHAUG DIES Thompson Falls lost a community leader last week when an unexpected heart attack claimed longtime resident Leonard Lovhaug. Lovhaug was pronounced dead at Clark Fork Valley Hospital in Plains after being taken there by ambulance after collapsing at the home of Chris and Ruby Stobie on the Eddy Flat. Chris Stobie said he was just returning home when Lovhaug pulled into his driveway ahead of him. Leonard expressed that he was feeling ill and asked if he could go inside to clean u...
8 YEARS AGO EXCERPTS FROM THE 1940 SANDERS COUNTY INDEPENDENT LEDGER KNICKERBOCKER THINKS U.S. SHOULD ENTER WAR The United States could probably shorten the present European war “by three to four years” if it entered the conflict now, in the opinion of H.R. Knickerbocker, European war correspondent. The great correspondent believes the balance of power is so evenly divided that the war may drag on for five or six years. If the Allies appear to be losing, the United States will go in just as it did in thee last war, he said. If this cou...
EARLY SETTLERS IN THE LOWER CLARK FORK RIVER VALLEY BY EVELYN M. DAVIS The 1860s marked the very earliest of settlements in this area by white persons who came intending to stay. It was a slow and dangerous development but each succeeding year made things a little easier for those who followed. The very first of these early settlers in the Clarks Fork valley came alone, not daring to bring families into such a primitive and unexplored region. One of the earliest pioneers in this valley was a man named Charlie Kimball who moved into the Horse...
THE HISTORY OF THOMPSON FALLS BY RUTH HARLOW WRITTEN FEBRUARY 4, 1954 Author’s Note: This information was received from Mr. W.A. Barto, a long-time resident of Thompson Falls. Thompson Falls was named after David Thompson, who explored the territory of western Montana and parts of Canada. The first wooden roofed house to be built in Montana was the Salish House, which was a fur trading post in 1809. It was located on the south side of the river, about directly opposite of David Thompson’s Monument, east of town. Thompson Falls was ori...
7 YEARS AGO AUGUST 9, 1950 HUCKLEBERRIES PLENTIFUL Berries are plentiful on most of the high ridges this season, is the report of those going out the past few days to gather the luscious fruit. Some hand pick the huckleberries which grow on low bushes, others beat them off onto tarps and still others use regular picking machines if they go into the business commercially. Having much more flavor than blueberries these mountain grown berries are truly in demand. NEW GRANGE HALL FOR WHITEPINE Work...
7 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 2, 1950 HISTORICAL REVIEW OF WESTERN SANDERS COUNTY Early French-Canadian trappers were quick to notice the peculiar boxlike recesses in the gorge of the Clark Fork River near the present Montana-Idaho state line. To those unique formations they applied the French equivalent for cabinet, or room, and this spectacular rock-walled gash has been known ever since as Cabinet Gorge. From it the Cabinet Mountains and the Cabinet National Forest derived their names. The name of David Thompson is indissolubly linked with this r...
7 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 2, 1950 HOME WASHING MACHINES Too many clothes and too little water make for a short life for many home washing machines says Mrs. Ruzicka, home demonstration agent, who urges homemakers to follow manufacturers directions in filling the washer. Usually, she said, after the clothes are in the washer, the water should just reach the water line. When too many clothes are put in the washer at one time the machine becomes overloaded and the clothes are not washed thoroughly, Mrs. Ruzicka pointed out. Letting the water stand i...
2 YEARS AGO • JULY 15, 1910 START MAKING BRICK Henry Florin and Edward Donlan have started to make brick on the land of the former just west of Thompson (now Solid Rock Estates), Mr. Florin being in charge of the enterprise. Some of the best brick and pottery clay in the state is found on Mr. Florin’s land, a large kiln of pottery now being ready to fire. The outlook for a heavy demand for brick in Thompson this fall and next spring is the prime factor in causing these gentlemen to start work and they hope to have several large kilns rea...
7 YEARS AGO • JUNE 26, 1950 MORKERT-BORGMANN On July 1, Rose Mary Morkert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Morkert of Thompson Falls and Walter Borgmann, son of Mrs. Marie A. Borgmann of Aitken, Minnesota, were united in marriage at the M.E. Church here. The brides brother and wife attended the bride and groom. Following the ceremony there was a wedding reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Morkert, another brother of the bride in Plains, where friends and relatives had gathered to wish the couple happiness. WALT & ROSE MARY (...
8 YEARS AGO • JUNE 26, 1940 ANTIMONY AREA IN SANDERS COUNTY MAY BE DEVELOPED About twenty-five miles up Prospect Creek out of Thompson Falls there is a rich antimony belt. How rich this belt is cannot at present be accurately determined, since development work has been very meagre, but some mining engineers who have surveyed the ground contend that it is one of the richest belts on the North American continent from visible indications. The antimony deposits in Sanders County have been known f...
3 YEARS AGO • JUNE 14, 1990 BUSINESSES SHUFFLE ON FALLS MAIN STREET by Jean Kato Like a deck of cards in the hands of a professional gambler, a shuffling of storefronts and ownership of downtown Thompson Falls businesses has recently taken place. Stopping in at 812 Main Street, you’ll find it’s no longer the home of Sue Manley Real Estate but is now “The Travel Corner.” The new business, owned by Diane Nelson, offers full travel services at no charge to the customer. Assisting Nelson with travel arrangements are Anita Kemper and Gayle Ser...
