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4 YEARS AGO • DECEMBER 13, 1979 RELAXING IS FULL-TIME JOB FOR EX-TEACHER Lillian Beamish is the only woman mayor that Plains has ever had. Retired from school teaching in 1971, Lillian lives in Thompson Falls, where she moved in 1958. She says her two-year stint at mayor in the mid-50s was largely uneventful, except that she nearly got thrown in jail for trying to save some property. The Clark Fork River was attempting to consume a residential area directly opposite the fairgrounds. The fairgrounds side had already been rip rapped by the c...
5 YEARS AGO • DECEMBER 4, 1969 SPRING BURSTING OUT ALL OVER The official arrival of winter is more than three weeks away, but the signs of spring are bursting out all over around Thompson Falls. Calvin Wilson displayed budding pussy willows and lilacs last week. Mrs. Edna Mooney has strawberry plants blossoming and also some green strawberries growing in her garden. And at the home of high school principal and Mrs. Gene Jones, the tulips are up and growing lustily. The evidence of spring bears out the claim of the local chamber that T...
4 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 22, 1979 CLIFF WEARE, NOXON PIONEER PASSES Graveside services were conducted at the Noxon Cemetery Saturday for Clifford R. Weare, 102, a pioneer of the Noxon area, who died November 14. Weare was born in North Loop, Nebraska, December 25, 1877. He came to Noxon in June 1903 when the town was comprised of only the Northern Pacific railroad buildings and a couple of shacks. Sanders County had not yet been formed. In 1904, he established the Post and Poles general merchandise store in Noxon and later had the post office in i...
7 YEARS AGO • NOVEMBER 13, 1958 PIONEER DAY AT HERON SCHOOL When Pioneer day was observed at the Heron school Wednesday there were several “old timers” present to reminisce on what was. In the 1880s Heron was known as Heron Siding and was named for a veterinarian by the name of Heron. At that time it was a division point for the N.P. railroad. Some of the remains of the foundation of the round house can still be seen. There was a 35-room hotel which restocked the dining cars as they traveled through the area. There were three stores and 18 sa...
4 YEARS AGO • NOVEMBER 15, 1979 THE WAY IT WAS by LORRAINE DUFRESNE By pretending almost total deafness, one of the early characters of Thompson Falls eked out a fairly comfortable existence. Tom Ramsey was a single man, who resided in Thompson Falls for many years during the early 1900s. He lived in a small frame house between Main Street and the river, near the section known in those days as Maiden Lane, or the red light district. He was known as "Deafy" as probably very few residents knew hi...
4 YEARS AGO • NOVEMBER 1, 1979 CINDERELLA HAWKS HEAD FOR ROUDUP The Cinderella football team of western Montana may still be looking at the clock, but it still hasn't struck midnight, their Bluebird coach hasn't turned into a pumpkin and the role of the big bad witch is handed to the Roundup Panthers this week as the Blue Hawks continue their waltz to the state class B championship. It was defense again Friday night that dominated play for Coach Doug Walsh's Blue Hawks in their first round p...
5 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 23, 1969 LAWYER NURSERY BUSY Harvest operations are in full swing at the David Lawyer Nursery, a comparatively new operation which specializes in providing wholesale understocks for nurseries all over the United States which sell directly to consumers. An added problem this fall at the Lawyer Nursery is the fact that Dave underwent cranial surgery Friday in the University of Colorado Medical Center at Denver and this shifts the burden to Mrs. Esther Lawyer. The business of supplying root stocks to other nurseries was s...
5 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 23, 1969 JOE GARRISONS NOTE 60th ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Joe Garrison of Belknap celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Sunday with all five of their living children present and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Joe Garrison and Clara Moen were married Oct. 20, 1909 in Coeur d’Alene City outside of Spokane. They lived in Spokane a few years and then bought in 1915 the land on which they now reside. They cleared and built the house, moving into it in 1917. They have resided there since and he has been...
5 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 9, 1969 CITY DADS EYE STREET, SEWER, WATER USAGE Water, sewer and street problems drew the attention of the city council at its October session. Jaycees Dave Simpson and Larry McKenzie asked the council for a use permit or lease on the ground where the Jaycee Center is located. They pointed out that although the council had voted several years ago to donate the land for the building, a legal document had never been provided. They agreed with Mayor Orin P. Kendall that a reversion clause was to be included in any d...
4 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 11, 1979 PRISONERS TO OCCUPY NEW QUARTERS SOON Unlike the concern voiced by Warden Roger Crist about moving the Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge, Sanders County Sheriff Harvey Schultz doesn’t anticipate any prisoner problem when he gets the signal in the next two or three weeks to move into the new Sanders County jail. The move to the new jail, which has been built to handle up to 29 prisoners, likely will involve only two or three county “boarders.” And they should be so pleased to get into their new quarters that th...
4 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 4, 1979 LIONS CLUB TO STAGE 35th ANNUAL SHOOT A lot of memories, most of them pleasant, spanning the past 35 years are being revived this week for M.C. “Melt” Sutherland, as the Thompson Falls Lions Club prepares to stage its 35th annual fall Turkey Shoot Sunday at the Lions Den grounds east of Thompson Falls. Although Melt’s role in the shoots has declined in recent years because of health, his interest in them has not. He was instrumental in conducting the first shoot 35 years ago – in the fall of 1945 shortly a...
4 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 27, 1979 LaRUES TO OBSERVE 50 YEARS IN BUSINESS By Lenora Brown An era is coming to an end. Fifty years ago Nobel and Mary Lou LaRue sold their store in Tuscor and moved their family of two sons, Harold and Donald, and Baby daughter, Helen, to Hot Springs. Here was a store being run by Fred Symes. LaRue purchased it and Saturday will celebrate a half century of ownership. The LaRues moved to Tuscor in March of 1921. There they operated a store and post office, N.G. L...
5 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 25, 1969 TRUSTEES OKAY BOND ELECTION FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING A resolution calling for a bond election to authorize sale of $790,000 in bonds to finance construction of a new Thompson Falls High School on the 30-acre site owned by District 2 in the old golf course area was adopted unanimously by trustees at a special meeting Monday night. The proposed new building would contain 37,000 square feet of floor space, including the basement under the gymnasium. The main b...
5 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 4, 1969 BOILER TO ELIMINATEE BURNER'S POLLUTION Fly ash will be a thing of the past and air pollution greatly reduced in the Thompson Falls area when the Atlas Boiler Co. of Spokane completes installation of a new boiler which will utilize over 95% of the sawdust, shavings and bark from the Thompson Falls Lumber co. and eliminate the teepee burner used in the past. The highly efficient boiler system will produce twice as much steam as the present system in use for m...
19 PUBLICATION OF WESTERN SANDERS COUNTY This publication was recently donated to the Old Jail Museum COMMUNICATION The Western Union has a number of local offices that provide worldwide telegraph service. The Mountain States Telephone Co., a part of the Bell System, furnishes a recently and completely modernized and expanded local and long distance service with seven digit dialing. F.M. Radio is used by a number of businesses and governmental agencies. In addition to A.M. radio, good TV reception is readily enjoyed in much of the region...
19 PUBLICATION OF WESTERN SANDERS COUNTY This publication was recently donated to the Old Jail Museum WATER This valley is traversed by the Clark’s Fork of the Columbia, a mountain river with headwaters in the Rocky Mountains near Butte, Montana joined by the Flathead River near Paradise, Montana. The headwaters of the Middle Fork of the Flathead River are formed near Glacier National Park. The North Fork is in Canada while the South Fork has its beginning 90 miles south of Glacier Park. Numerous small mountain rivers and streams flow into t...
4 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 9, 1979 HORSE LOGGING WORKS AT NOXON Comparing the price of oats with the cost of diesel fuel led to a new way of life for a Western Montana family five years ago. George W. Rigby, a rugged, 51 year-old logger from Noxon, Montana, has been operating a contract horse logging operation for Washington Water Power Company (WWP) on non-operating property of the utility near Noxon. The Rigby logging activity is a family enterprise. Wife Joan, on the job daily with the menfolk cooks for her husband and two sons, Robert, 26, a...
4 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 9, 1979 TIMES HAVE CHANGED FOR FLOY JOHNSTON By Lorraine Dufresne Eighty-three years ago, August 21, Floy and Flauddie, twin girls, were born to D.V. Herriott. Today Floy Herriott Johnston lives in the same house and sleeps in the bedroom where she was born. Dr. Peek and midwife, Mrs. Charles Lux's mother were in attendance. In 1890, D.V. Herriott came from Missouri to Deer Lodge with his wife, Ara. She remained in that town while he came on to Thompson Falls to become t...
4 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 9, 1979 HUCKLEBERRY FESTIVAL READY TO ‘EAT’ The final calendar for the HUCKLEBERRY FESTIVAL is now ready for distribution. On Saturday, August 11, the runners for the run-for-fun benefit will assemble at 7:15 a.m. at the junction of the old highway and Highway 200, west of the Ranger Station. Signs on the highway will direct the runners to the assembly point, where sponsor forms will be picked up. At the end of the run, transportation will be provided back to the starting point. Also, orange juice will be available at the...
5 YEARS AGO • JULY 24, 1969 TC RANCHER NOTES BIRTHDAY NUMBER 99 While the astronauts of Apollo 11 were walking on the moon Sunday, a red letter event occurring at the Pedersen ranch here was the 99th birthday of Matt Pedersen. Since the event came in the midst of the busy haying season, the milestone was not accorded the special recognition such a birthday would have been given in a less busy time. Matt resides on his 500-acre ranch here with his daughter, Marie. A son, Hans, and his family reside on an adjoining 400-acre ranch just south o...
5 YEARS AGO • JULY 24, 1969 JOHN MUSTER WEDS MISSOULA GIRL Sandra J. Scott became the bride of John Muster in a single ring ceremony in Missoula July 12. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Scott of Missoula. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Muster of Thompson Falls are the groom’s parents. Attending the bride were Mrs. David R. Cloninger, matron of honor; Miss Melissa McGrath and Miss Shari Livingston, bridesmaids. David R. Cloninger was best man. Mark Harbine, Gene Mogus, Mark Scott and Ronny Pearson were attendants. The bride is a 1962 gra...
9 YEARS AGO MERCANTILE COMPANY GOPHER CONTEST OVER Boys turn in about 2000 tails The gopher contest, sponsored by the Thompson Falls Mercantile Company closed this week and the boys in the contest turned in about 2000 tails. Ray Austin won the first prize, a fishing pole and reel valued at $8.50 with 922 gopher tails. Billy Eplin was second with 411. Fred Turk, third. Each of the boys, aside from the grand prize received about a dollars worth of fishing tackle for their efforts. They were all very much enthused over the hunt and hope that...
5 YEARS AGO • JULY 3, 1969 FIRE DAMAGED WALL INSPECTION ORDERED City Building Inspector Gerald Eldridge Monday night was instructed by the town council to deputize a contractor to inspect and determine the strength and safety of the remaining walls of the Larsons and Greens Building. The action came in connection with a letter from Postmaster N.J. LaFriniere – the second he had written to the council about the walls – which expressed concern for the safety of post office employees and vehic...
5 YEARS AGO • JULY 3, 1969 ROUNDUP ‘SUCCESSFUL’ The rain stopped and the crowd came out and the 6th annual roundup was a success, according to Bob Hill, president of the sponsoring Jaycees. A gross total of about $900 was taken in during the weekend, Hill said, “but few bills are paid and it will be a couple of months before we know how much will really go to the center.” Local riders came home with the prizes in the motorcycle races, held for the first time this year on the new Jaycee track next to the community center. Dennis Lyght won...
1 YEARS AGO • MARCH 26, 2009 POSTAL WORKER KEEPS DELIVERING Jack Hamilton isn’t planning on retiring any time soon Jack Hamilton is the senior member of the team at Thompson Falls Post Office, in more ways than one. Since 1991 Jack has worked in various capacities as an independent contractor for the mail delivery agency, making him the person who’s worked there the longest. He’s also the most senior member, as in being an older person. He’s among a growing number of Americans who continue to work past traditional retirement age, by choice or...
