Butlers Honored After 31 Years In Local Grocery Trade
Guy and Helen Butler were feted at a surprise party last Thursday as they retire after operating Butler's Store in Hope and East Hope since 1945. The couple began from the E. M. Butler lineage, expanding the store over decades and selling it to Ron and Darell Bishaw. Their family includes five children and nine grandchildren with ties across Spokane Valley Bellevue and Othello.
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Guy
Helen Butler
Hope
East Hope
Butler’s
Butlers
E.M. Butlers
Ron Bishaw
Darell Bishaw
Spokane
Butler
Bellevue
Othello
Spokane Valley
E.M. Butler
Lillian
Hope Area
Priest Lake Winter Carnival Sparks Snowy Showdowns
The 8th Annual Priest Lake Winter Carnival brings snowshoe softball on Saturday with four Spokane teams plus Priest Lake and Tri Cities entries. Winners advance to Sunday’s noon championship. events include relay races broom hockey volleyball and a spectator friendly chariot race. Proceeds from a pancake feed fund travel for the two advancing teams to Winthrop.
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Priest Lake
Spokane
Tri- Cities
Winthrop
All
Pions
School Board Moves On Staff Reappointments and Resignation
The Sandpoint district board accepted Ervin Holm’s resignation from Sandpoint Junior High. They recommended reappointing Shirley Moore Jan Gross and David Parker for the second semester 1976 77 and appointed Martha Lundquist as a Priest River second grade teacher. Jon Hammarberg outlined due process rules for discipline hearings for staff and students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ervin Holm
Sandpoint Junior High School
Shirley Moore
Martha Lundquist
Priest River
Jon Hammarberg
K&K Committee Announces Changes To Lake Pend Oreille Derby
Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club shifts the K and K Derby from early May to June 4 11 1977 to boost participation. Don Mitchell says the later dates should be more convenient for guests and fishermen. First 1977 membership dinner set for February 1 at 6 30 p.m. at Trestle Creek Inn.
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Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho
K&k
Don Mitchell
K & K Committee
Lake Pend Oreille
Mitchell
Trestle Creek
Inn
Weather Sparks Several Minor Accidents in Sandpoint
Bad weather contributed to a series of minor crashes in Sandpoint yesterday. At 2 45 p m on Highway 2 west of Superior Street Wayne D Hook 54 Sandpoint and Terry M Newcomb 26 Spokane collided Newcomb’s truck skidded 96 feet into Hooks vehicle causing 300 damage to Hooks truck and 500 to Newcomb’s. A 3 25 p m rear end on Cedar Street near 2nd Ave involved Elizabeth J Poynter 31 and Douglas C Ellenbecker 18 both Sandpoint with 300 damage to Ellenbecker and none to Poynter. An accident at 5th and Pine involved Otis L Chipman 66 and Richard S Gunn 28 both Sandpoint with Gunn sustaining 300 damage and Chipman none.
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Sandpoint
Superior Street
Wayne D. Hook
Terry M. Newcomb
Spokane
Newcomb
Cedar St
2Nd Ave
Elizabeth J. Poynter
Douglas C. Ellenbecker
Winter Carnival Parade Grand Prize Opens Entries
Parade forms due by Saturday January 22 for the Fourth Annual Winter Carnival Parade. Grand prize is a trophy and 100 in cash. Open to businesses, organizations, or individuals with a Winter Fun theme. Entry forms available at The Middike Earth Selkirk Press Myklebusts Clothing Sandpoint Daily Bee. Mail to Rusty Kirkpatrick Box 146 Sagle Idaho 83860. Bands and music encouraged for flair.
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Parade
Rusty Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
Sandpoint
the Middike Earth
Selkirk Press
Myklebust's Clothing
Sandpoint Daily Bee
Box 146
Sagle
Idaho
Kirk
Legion Auxiliary Boise Mid Winter Conference Planned
Idaho American Legion and Auxiliary hold a three day planning meeting in Boise January 21 to 23 1977 at the Sheraton Downtowner. About 200 attendees include speakers National Vice Commander Robert B Grauberger and National President Mrs Paul Brown. events include a noon luncheon banquet initiation life saving program and service school with Dudley Smith.
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Boise
Idaho
Thedaho American Legion
Bose
Sheraton
Robert B. Grauberger
Haxtun
Colorado
American Legion
Paul Brown
Filer
American Legion Auxiliary
Grauberger
Mrs. Brown
Boise State
Boise State University
Department
Charles R .Aggen
Mountain
American Legion and Auxiliary
Legion
Dudley Smith
Legion For
Legionnaires
AARP Hears McNall At Sandpoint Chapter Meeting
The Sandpoint AARP Chapter 1333 met January 5 at Community Hall for a pot luck and business session. Guests Mr and Mrs James McNall shared an embedded film on Russia from his exchange student experience with Q&A afterward. Bernadine Kossman, Asst Director for the five northern counties, will attend an AARP workshop in February in Lake City Utah. next meeting planned.
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Sandpoint
American Association of ‘Retired
James McNall
Russia
Bernadine Kossman
AARP
Lake’ City
Utah
Telephone bill decrease announced by General Telephone Co
A General Telephone Co spokesman said telephone customers will see a slight bill decrease this month. A temporary wartime tax on telephone service has dropped from six percent to five percent under the Excise Estate and Gift Tax Adjustment Act of 1970. The tax, 10 percent previously, will fall one percent annually until fully erased in December 1982.
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General Telephone Co
Breaker Reduction Forms Mailed in Bonner County
The Bonner County Assessor announced January mailing of circuit breaker reduction forms for eligible taxpayers. Recipients include seniors 65 plus widows disabled veterans with 10 percent or more disability and fatherless children under 18. Income must be 6500 or less and owners must have three continuous years in Idaho.
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Bonner County
Dennis Benda
Benda
Idaho
Obituary: Oscar M. Welo 78 of Sandpoint Idaho
Oscar M Welo 78 died at Bonner General Hospital on Monday January 10 born September 9 1898 in Mason Wisconsin. He married Celestine Frank February 28 1928 in Sandpoint Idaho. He ran a Mobil service station at 4th and Cedar then retired in 1952. Survived by wife Celestine Sandpoint daughter Janet Benshoof San Leandro grandsons. Funeral Friday January 14 at 11 00 a m Moon Chapel officiated by Pastor Dennis Hansen. Interment Pinecrest Memorial Park.
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Oscar M. Welo
Bonner General Hospital
Jens
Agens Welo
Mason
Wisconsin
Celestine Frank
Sandpoint
Idaho
Oscar
Mobil
4Th & Cedar
Oakland
Web’s
First Luthera Church
Eagles Lodge
Celestine Welr
Janet Benshoof
San Leandro
California
Dennis Hansen
Pinecrest Memorial’ Park
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Guy Butler
Army
Hawaiian Islands
Helen Ponack
Korners Klub
Maxwell House
Stahl Optical
Spokane Valley All Stars
Brick Harris
Hammarberg
K&k Committee
AEC
American Legion Gem Boys State
Boyle
Department ‘of Health and Welfare
Cof
Idaho American Legion
McNall
Bologna Chunk
Turkey
Frye FS Frozen
Lipton
Texas
Geneva
Ibs
Heet
Anti Freeze
Billy the Kid
Montana
Kelloggs
Daz
Sandpoint Aero Club
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