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WEBER'S STORE Charles & Bertha Weber Most people in the area know Weber's Store as the Laundromat. It was originally built as a general store and post office by Charles Weber to serve the citizens of Thompson Falls. He became the third post master of the town in 1903. Charles came to Thompson Falls in 1888 as recorded in the list of Early Settlers of Thompson Falls in 1933. In the 1900 federal census Thompson Falls, Missoula County, Montana he stated that he was a merchant in Thompson and that...
4 YEARS AGO • NOVEMBER 9, 1978 BIGHORN SHEEP PLANT PLANNED The south side of the Clark Fork River between Paradise and 14-Mile Creek is a site for a potential transplant of bighorn sheep from Wildhorse Island in Flathead Lake, according to Fish and Game Department (F&G), wildlife biologist Bob Henderson of Thompson Falls. The area above Cascade Campground on the Paradise-St. Regis cutoff is a traditional bighorn sheep range. “Oldtimers in the area tell me that sheep were in the area until the early 1900s,” Henderson reported. Hunting and l...
5 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 31, 1968 A FIRST Success of a Montana Fish and Game Dept. bighorn sheep planting program about eight years ago was demonstrated this week when two Sanders County hunters bagged rams in the first hunting season permitted since the transplanting. Melvin Hoy, one of Thompson Falls' top sportsmen bagged the first legally killed ram Saturday after stalking this specimen 2½ hours on Bad Rock Mountain between Thompson Falls and Eddy. Ram has almost a full curl. Allen K...
4 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 19, 1978 GREEN ONCE PLAYED WITH ROYALTY “When I was a little brat I played with King Edward VIII and Lord “Louie” Mountbatten,” reminisced local ornithologist, Jack Green. “We didn’t belong to royalty but my father owned a yacht and raced with them.” Jack recalls that King Edward was a sissy as a boy. These were the great races at the Isle of Wite in England. Every crown head of Europe came with his magnificent yacht. The Czar of Russia, King Alphonso of Spain and the Kaiser of Germany all came to the Cowles Regatta...
7 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 20, 1948 ADVERTISEMENT Hunting Season Is Almost HERE Check your needs now: Tin Pants and Coats Red Shirts Red Hats Rubber Boots Hip Boots Men’s Waist Overalls Wool Jackets Wool Sox Pocket Knives Rope Hunting License Gloves (all types) Cameras Film We have all these items & many more – Everything to make your hunting trip a success REMEMBER Duck Season opens the 8th of October. Big Game the 15th. Our Ammunition Supply is LIMITED so be sure to get all that you need EARLY! LARSON’S CASH STORE 50 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 2...
7 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 13, 1948 PIONEER MATRON PASSES Mrs. Nellie M. Haase Mrs. Nellie M. Haase passed away at St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula on Saturday, October 9, 1948. Mrs. Haase was born at Rush Lake, Wisconsin Nov. 7, 1870. Her early life was spent in Wisconsin and South Dakota. She was united in marriage to Ferdinand J. Haase on May 7, 1894 and to this union four children were born. They came to Montana in 1905 and made a home for themselves and their family on a ranch near Trout Creek. Mr. Haase passed away in 1930 and Mrs. Haase co...
4 YEARS AGO • OCTOBER 5, 1978 CABLE TV SYSTEM HAS LITTLE SUPPORT Members of the City Council displayed little enthusiasm Monday night to involve the town in a TV cable system which would require a monthly payment of approximately $7.50 from each subscriber. Mrs. Ermel Hanson asked the council to take some action to make more parking spaces available on Main St. She explained that some women provide transportation for elderly citizens so that the latter can shop and accomplish other business errands. Many of the senior citizens can not walk l...
5 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 26, 1968 TF QUITS DUMPING SEWAGE INTO RIVER The city of Thompson Falls has quit dumping raw sewage into the Clark’s Fork River. Thompson Falls’ new sewer collection system was placed in operation Friday and all sewer lines, which formerly dumped raw sewage into the river, have been connected into the new system. Sewage collected in the system now is pumped to the lagoon in the northwest part of town. Mayor Orin P. Kendall said some work at the lagoon remains. This includes installation of a high wire fence around the l...
4 YEARS AGO • SEPTEMBER 14, 1978 MA BELL COMES LONG WAY HERE SINCE 1912 From the woman called "central" and the magneto switchboard Ma Bell has come a long way in Thompson Falls. "Central," now called an operator, was the friendly voice on the other end of the telephone who manually made telephone connections for the exchange established here in 1912. When the caller lifted his receiver a switch in his telephone lighted a lamp in front of "central." She plugged a cord into the proper jack a...
EDWARD DONLAN Edward Donlan was a pioneer of Thompson Falls and Sanders County. He was a critical figure in the fight between Plains and Thompson Falls as to which town would be the seat of the newly formed county. He owned large amounts of real estate around Thompson Falls which became Donlan's 1st and 2nd additions to the town. Born to Irish parents in Quebec, Canada, Donlan left home at the age of twelve to work as a teamster in the lumber camps. In 1889 He came to Montana and worked laying...
Excerpt from Milepost Zero by Benita (McNeeley) Hanson World War II affected Paradise in many ways. Troop trains were commonly seen passing through town. Lena Minear, who kept a daily diary without fail, records the troop trains began to pass through town on March 1, 1941, months before Pearl Harbor. The Plainsman reported on February 26, 1942, that there were now 4 boys in the Armed Forces. They were Merle Steel, Army, and Richard Steele, in the Philippine Islands, sons of Mr. & Mrs. Howard Steele; Frances Hermes, Army, son of Mr. & Mrs. H.B....
7 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 11, 1948 A BIGGER & BETTER COUNTY FAIR Sanders County promises a bigger and better fair for this year. In fact, next week already, August 20, 21 and 22. With all the wonderful crops grown in the county, the exhibits should be much better. The rodeo will be bigger, a carnival has been added, etc. Improvements at the fairgrounds include a new agricultural building, a new building to be used as a combination dance pavilion and room for display of cars, and also a new poultry building. The old agricultural building has been r...
5 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 22, 1968 ANOTHER LAND MARK TORN DOWN AT HERON Another Heron landmark is gone with the razing of the former Dan DeLong building in town. Built in 1905 or 1906 by McGowan of Plains it housed a local paper “The Heron Examiner.” This was during the time a portion of Missoula County was being withdrawn to form Sanders County, and Thompson Falls and Plains were contenders for the county seat. When Thompson Falls was chosen the paper ceased to exist. McGowan started the Heron Examiner to extol his propaganda as to why Plain...
4 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 17, 1978 LEDGER LINES By K.A.E. We’ve never thought of the back of a print shop as being a desirable spot for a party, and we certainly weren’t in a party-expecting mood Thursday afternoon when Lorraine Dufresne, Eileen Garrison and Betty and Gary Gunderson walked into the shop bearing a cake and other goodies to launch a party observing the 25th anniversary of Gladys and me owning The Ledger. Trailing Lorraine and Eileen at brief intervals were numerous friends, including George and Verdie McCallum from Lonepine. The p...
4 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 3, 1978 LOGGERS DEVELOPED COLORFUL LANGUAGE By W.L. Olson, Kootenai Logging Specialist Continued from last week As the work day shortened and camps became more comfortable, men rode to work in a "crummy," the railroader's slang for the caboose. But the work was still arduous, and with a good "side rod" (boss of a logging crew, a term derived from the push rods on a steam locomotive which drove the wheels) an outfit could make a profit. Wages went to $3, $4 and even $6 a d...
4 YEARS AGO • AUGUST 3, 1978 LOGGERS DEVELOPED COLORFUL LANGUAGE By W.L. Olson, Kootenai Logging Specialist "The flapjacks were too round so I went countin' ties." A poor excuse to quit a job was often better than none at all, so the logger headed down the railroad tracks for town, countin' ties. In the old days of the logging camps there wasn't much to do on those long, cold winter nights after the horses were bedded down and socks were hung to dry around the pot-bellied stove. The loggers s...
4 YEARS AGO • JUNE 20, 1978 SINCE I LAST WROTE FOR THE LEDGER continued By Harry L. Billings (AKA Peanuts, TFHS Class of ’29) Eber and Barbara (Britton) Hoyt were very small. Their uncle and aunt, A.S. and Mabel Ainsworth, were awfully good to an undersized kid from the reservation. When I had chicken pox and later the mumps, Mrs. “A” insisted I stay with them while she nursed me through those childhood afflictions. Also many were the times I enjoyed wonderful Sunday dinners at the Ainsworth home. This house is located west of the Power P...
4 YEARS AGO • JUNE 20, 1978 SINCE I LAST WROTE FOR THE LEDGER By Harry L. Billings (AKA Peanuts, TFHS Class of ’29) Gretchen and I are pinch hitting for “Doc” and Gladys while they are on a flying trip to Connecticut to see their family. Except for an occasional letter to the editor, it’s been a spell since I did any writing for The Ledger…some 50 years plus to be more specific. Like so many Sanders County rural teenagers of another day, I spent my high school years living in the old “dorm.” At that time we didn’t have a four-year high school...
7 YEARS AGO • JULY 21, 1948 LOCAL PIONEER PASSES Seymour Asa Hurlburt was born at Lafayette, Oregon August 1868. Mr. Hurlburt’s parents were married in 1866. When Seymour was a young child, his father was killed by Indians at White Bird Canyon, Idaho, during the Nez Perce Indian War. His mother lived to be 94 years old. Seymour had to leave school at an early age to go to work to help support his younger half brothers and sisters. He worked at Boise, Dillon and Butte before going to Plains, Montana in 1881. For many years he worked in and aro...
HISTORY OF HOT SPRINGS The story of Hot Springs goes back long before the establishment of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Reservation, and the opening of the reservation to homesteaders in 1910. The Pend d'Oreille Indians knew of the healing waters even before trappers and settlers discovered them, and called them "Big Medicine." The Flathead, Kalispell, Pend d'Oreille and Kootenai Indians occupied the Little Bitterroot River Valley long before European-American trappers and traders moved...
17 YEARS AGO • JULY 3, 1929 FRED SYMES PURCHASES THE FRANK RICHARDS HOLDING AT HOT SPRINGS, MONTANA New $50,000 Hotel To Be Built – Also $10,000 Up-To-Date Bath House According to information received here today, Fred Symes of Hot Springs has completed a real estate deal in that city whereby he becomes the owner of the Frank Richards holdings which consists of about 200 lots and the famous Lemeraux Springs. According to our informant, immediate steps will be taken to build a new $50,000 modern resort hotel and $10,000 bath house and to dev...
4 YEARS AGO • JUNE 1, 1978 PLANS BEING DRAWN FOR NEW COUNTY JAIL Bids may be called this summer for construction of a new jail and offices for the Sanders County sheriff’s office. The project is expected to cost about $300,000. The building will be built of brick and concrete masonry blocks with a partial basement under the office portion of the structure. The cell blocks will be on the ground floor and will have a capacity of 26 prisoners – 16 adult males, four females and four juveniles, plus one isolated, solitary-type cell. The cell block...
5 YEARS AGO • JUNE 13, 1968 HEATERS OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Over 125 friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Heater attended an open house celebrating the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary. The couple was married September 4, 1918 at the Methodist Parsonage in Thompson Falls by the Rev. Dodd. They lived in Trout Creek for two years and then moved to Thompson Falls and purchased the Ford agency. In 1928 the business was moved into its present building and has been named the Heater and Heater garage. In the 1930s Heater’s father Perry retir...
5 YEARS AGO • JUNE 6, 1968 AWARD RANGER STATION LEASE Larsons and Greens, Inc. has been awarded a contract to provide 2,450 square feet of floor space for new Forest Service offices in two buildings it owns between Motors Garage, Inc. and the Saint Building. The new ranger station is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in early September. Kelly Green said the interior of both buildings will be bared to the walls and combined into one structure. In addition, two rooms and a covered three-car c...
5 YEARS AGO • MAY 16, 1968 McGOWAN’S LOT SITE FOR PLAINS POST OFFICE The Post Office Department has accepted an assignable land option for the site of a proposed new Post Office building at Plains. The property is owned by the McGowan Commercial Co. and is located between the McGowan building and the First National Bank on the north side of Railroad St. The proposed building will contain 2,538 square feet of interior floor space with a 216-square feet of parking and maneuvering area. The McGowan Commercial Co. is expected to bid on the bui...
