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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...
HAPPENINGS IN THE EARLY CITY COUNCIL Excerpt from A Heritage Remembered by Lorraine Dufresne May 5, 1919 – Newly elected members of the council: Mayor S.A. Hurlburt; Aldermen, Andrew Peterson, Wilbur Coleman and W.A. Peterson; Town Attorney, A.S. Ainsworth; Town Marshall, J.H. Prouty; Town Clerk and Police Magistrate, W.A. Nippert. A special meeting was called before the June 2 meeting to consider placing of concrete sidewalks and installing a drinking fountain, which would cost between $150 and...
5 YEARS AGO • MAY 31, 1969 GRADUATES Members of the 1969 senior class of Thompson Falls High School receiving diplomas at commencement exercises Tuesday night were, Diana Dodson, treasurer, Orin Kendall, president, Jennifer Cuddy, secretary and salutatorian, Richard Brotherton, Donna Riffle Quitt, Steve Lime, Lynne Rosdahl, Susan Larson, Louie LaRock, Walter Borgmann, Irene Pirker, Andy Wilkinson, Lynda Vulles, Kacey Collins, Linda Huffman, Jay Wood, Judy Eaton, Jack Inman, Jeri Eldridge, Russ Grantham, Tom Eggensperger, valedictorian, V...
4 YEARS AGO • MAY 31, 1979 OIL CRISIS EFFECTS SLOW IN HITTING AREA The American society has always been a mobile one. But in these days of rising costs amid the tremors of a fuel crunch, American travel in the future may be restricted. The “oil shortage,” is considered by many to be a trick or rip off developed y the oil companies. Some say that there is no oil shortage. Opinions differ as to the cause and effect the current oil shortage will have on Sanders County businesses and residents. “The gas situation is going to get worse before...
5 YEARS AGO • MAY 22, 1969 VINSON RODEO TO LURE CHAMPION COWBOYS A matched bull riding competition between two famous Montana rodeo brothers – Benny and John Reynolds – will highlight the third annual Vinson Ranch Rodeo to be staged at the Dick Vinson Ranch here Sunday. Grand entry is set for 2 p.m. The Reynolds brothers will each ride three bulls and the winner will take a special $250 purse. Another bull riding event will be an exhibition ride by one of the few female bull riders – Miss De...
1 YEARS AGO • MAY 8, 1919 BIG PICNIC AT ALGER Will Entertain All Soldiers, Sailors and Marines from Sanders County Arrangements are being perfected for the picnic to be held at Alger (near Child’s Road) on June 26, 27 and 28 in honor of the soldiers, sailors and marines of this county. The Alger Marketing Association will entertain the service men during the three days free to all Sanders county soldiers, sailors and marines, but the boys are requested to bring their own blankets. Three camps will be established – one for the civil war veter...
1 YEARS AGO • MAY 8, 1919 IMPROVING LARGE RANCH The Clarksforks Land and Cattle Co., of which H.A. White is manager are preparing to do considerable development work on their large tract of land east of town on Woodlin flat. Mr. White has opened up a camp and has two tractor plowing outfits in operation at this time, a number of teams and expects to have another tractor working by the end of the week, and seed at least 1,000 acres to alfalfa during the summer. It is the intention of the company to stock their ranch, which comprises some 5,000...
5 YEARS AGO • MAY 1, 1969 SMITH-GARRISON VOWS EXCHANGED Miss Eileen Marie Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle J. Smith of Thompson Falls, was married Saturday evening to Charles Joseph (Chubb) Garrison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garrison, also of Thompson Falls in a single-ring ceremony performed in Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Missoula. The bride chose a street-length white brocade dress with a headpiece of white bridal net. Her bouquet was of white carnations and yellow roses. Mrs. Duane Vaught was matron of honor and wore a m...
5 YEARS AGO • APRIL 17, 1969 POST OFFICE OPTIONS SITE FOR NEW BUILDING The Post Office Dept. has accepted an assignable land option for the Macho Trailer Court here as the site for a new Thompson Falls Post Office, Postmaster N.J. LaFriniere has been advised. The property, located at the corner of Fulton Street and Maiden Lane across from the City Hall-Library, comprises approximately 29,400 square feet and presently is owned by Mrs. Verona Macho of Thompson Falls. The site option will be transferred to the successful bidder, who will p...
4 YEARS AGO • APRIL 12, 1979 LAOS FAMILY MAKING NEW LIFE IN FALLS One must review the history of the Hmong people before understanding their arrival and struggle in our country. First, who are the Hmong? According to Tou-FuVang, a member of the executive committee for the Assn. of Hmong, “During the conflict in Indochina, the Hmong provided the most ferocious defense of Laos against the communists. They also became the backbone of the loyal allies of the U.S., and made great sacrifices in furthering American military policies in Ind...
5 YEARS AGO • APRIL 10, 1969 COUNCIL MAKES FIELD PERMANENT CITY PARK A resolution perpetuating Ainsworth Field as a city park and recreation area was adopted formally by the city council at its April session in answer to requests from various local civic organizations which had encouraged the city dads to take the step. Under the resolution, the field now will be known as Ainsworth Park. Attorney James W. Cunningham informed the council that the resolution can be undone by some future council, but that a favorable vote of the people would b...
5 YEARS AGO • MARCH 27, 1969 PLAINS SCHOOL READY Students of grades seven through 12 will move into the new Plains junior-senior high school Friday to begin classes Monday in the new structure which replaces the old high school building erected in 1909. While most classes for the top six grades will be in the new structure, they will continue to spend part of their school day in the old plant. Music, shop and physical education classes will continue to be taught in the old structure, since the new building was erected without a new gym, m...
4 YEARS AGO • MARCH 6, 1969 ROCK SLIDE BLOCKS TRAVEL ON CUT-OFF Traffic over Highway 35, the Paradise-St. Regis cutoff was halted for almost two days Thursday and Friday by a huge rock slide four miles north of St. Regis. First word of the slide came after a Superior woman, Cheryl Doherty, crashed into the rocks about 5 a.m. After treatment for cuts and bruises in the Mineral County Hospital, she was released later Thursday. Employees of the Rehbein Contracting of Plains, who were working on Interstate 90 at St. Regis brought in a large f...
1 YEARS AGO FEBRUARY 13, 1919 NARROW ESCAPE Patrick Duffy who lives three miles west of Heron had the misfortune to lose his team of horses in the Clark’s Fork River last Sunday morning. He was taking them across the river on the ferry, which consists of a cage suspended from a cable by means of blocks and operated by a gas engine. The cable spans the river at a height of 150 feet. When about half way across the sheave of one of the blocks came off the cable and during the delay which ensued in trying to remedy the trouble, the horses b...
DANIEL RASOR – VETERAN PACKER Daniel M. Rasor was born Aug. 23, 1909 in Kendall, Montana (which is now a ghost town), to Martin Rasor and Adeline LaTry, a member of the Chippewa Tribe. They had 10 children of which, Daniel was the youngest. After their marriage, Martin remained in eastern Montana working on various ranches for at least 10 years or so until he finally packed his belongings and left the family. Adeline tried to provide for her children, a task that wore her down. In 1914 she died and all of the children were taken to the orphanag...
5 YEARS AGO • FEBRUARY 27, 1969 TWO VETERAN PACKERS END CAREERS FRIDAY Two of the real “old timers” among United States Forest Service personnel in western Montana – Earl Hendren of Thompson Falls and Dan Rasor of Trout Creek – will end their careers Friday with retirement. Hendren’s career started 51 years ago in the spring of 1918 and according to Irv Puphal, Thompson Falls district ranger, he is the only person now working for the Forest Service who can claim service that far back. Rasor began working for the Forest Service eight years...
5 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 30, 1969 SNOW SLIDES TRAP TRANSPORT BLOCK HIGHWAY FOUR HOURS Two large snow slides ensnared a large Northern Pacific Transport Co. truck-trailer on Highway 200 about seven miles east of Thompson Falls Tuesday, blocking traffic for several hours. The transport driver, Al Fechner of Missoula, and a Thompson Falls lumber mill operator, Swan Flodin, miraculously escaped injury when they were caught in the midst of the second slide as it pushed the truck-trailer off the highway and against the guard rail. Flodin, who was en r...
5 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 30, 1969 WINTER STORM LASHES COUNTY OVER WEEKEND Sanders County residents were continuing Wednesday to dig out from the worst storm of the winter which occurred Saturday night and Sunday morning when a heavy snowfall was accompanied by strong winds and temperatures which dropped to below zero. While traffic was almost at a standstill Sunday morning, conditions were never as bad as they were to the west in Idaho and eastern Washington where roads were completely closed. Schools are operating on schedule. Attendance here Mo...
4 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 11, 1979 TROUT CREEK PUPILS ENJOY NEW SCHOOL Several boxes of tile are still piled in a corner of the basement lunchroom, workmen’s tools are still located temporarily in one classroom, but while some work remains, students and faculty of the Trout Creek Elementary School moved into their new building last week and they’re happy to be there. Steve Hendrick, head teacher at Trout Creek, says even the inconveniences being experienced because the new building is not entirely finished, beat the conditions under which classes...
5 YEARS AGO • JANUARY 16, 1969 BRONCO LIZ, TF DANCE HALL QUEEN ALSO DROVE THOMPSON PASS FREIGHT WAGON The heavy snow and low temperatures being experienced in Sanders County this winter had a parallel 85 years ago, according to Will John. The account of that winter in 1883 appears under the title, “Frontier Cheer,” and it is reproduced below. Snow and the temptation of new gold diggings in the Coeur d’Alene mountains in Idaho combined to make a little town close by the falls in the Clark Fork River one of the brawlingest tent villages in the...
W.B. RUSSELL TIMBERMAN By Mike Scott contributor to The Plainsman An attempt will be made to portray a typical lumber camp as it was shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century, the personnel required to operate such an establishment and some of the customs. After selecting a site with an eye to the relative level topography and the proximity of a suitable water supply, construction of the buildings was started. Building material consisted almost exclusively of rough, green lumber...
W.B. RUSSELL TIMBERMAN By Mike Scott contributor to The Plainsman William Bruce Russell is best remembered as the Eddy Sawmill man. He learned the timber business as a youth in the New York area. At age sixteen, in 1880, he headed west to seek his fortune. By 1891 he had moved to Thompson Falls where he operated a mill. Late in that year he moved to what was known as Russell Spur on the NP line, a mile east of Eddy. This was an ideal location for a lumber mill for driving logs downriver to the...
11 YEARS AGO • FEBRUARY 14, 1980 LIGHTWEIGHTS LEAD HAWKS TO TITLE At the beginning of this year’s wrestling season the odds favored the Blue Hawks to repeat as state champions, but as the year progressed the Hawks stock rose and fell. The Blue Hawks did have a winning dual season and they did extremely well in the four tournaments they participated in but they could do no better than tie with Arlee behind Seeley-Swan at the division tournament. By that time quite a few people had written off the Blue Hawks’ chances for repeating at State...
5 YEARS AGO • DECEMBER 5, 1968 MUSEUM, AIRPORT GET TOP C. OF C. PRIORITIES State Sen. Eugene H. Mahoney was elected president of the Thompson Falls-Noxon Chamber of Commerce at the annual banquet Monday night at the Thompson River Ranch. In accepting the presidency, Mahoney said three projects which the chamber should work on in the future include construction of an airport at Noxon, a museum at Thompson Falls and improvements and additional deluxe facilities for Thompson Falls State Park. D.J. Brockway in relinquishing his post told c...
5 YEARS AGO NOVEMBER 28, 1968 THOMPSON RIVER ROAD STATUS EYED Directors of the Sanders County Chamber of Commerce meeting here were asked Thursday by Sanders County Commissioner Wesley W. Stearns to decide what kind of future road is desired up Thompson River to U.S. Highway 2 Commissioner Stearns explained that the Forest Service is studying the desirability of acquiring the Anaconda Co. main haul logging road. The 40-mile road could either be classed as a timber access road or as a forest highway, which could be used both by log haulers and...
