Time Line
Flathead Indian Reservation
1940 - 1949
 

A tornado touched down in Polson at 10 p.m., lifting the roof off the Salish Hotel and damaging other buildings.

The bulk fuel tanks at Polson Service Company and Cline Motors caught fire about noon. As firemen responded, the tanks exploded in a huge fireball, injuring fourteen people. Fireman shot bullet holes in tanks across the street to prevent them from exploding. The following February, the town easily passed a fire bond issue to buy a new fire truck.

More than 1,100 farmers were milking cows, with about one fourth of them getting the majority of their income from dairies. Small beef herds were kept on nearly every farm. About 27,000 sheep (mostly the Columbian breed) were raised on about 150 farms.  Sundberg, "Supervisors of the Lake County Soil Conservation District", District Program for the Lake County Soil Conservation District, 1948, pp. 10-11.

Women from various clubs in St. Ignatius agree to build a public library. Among the groups involved in the meeting at Equity Hall were the Women's Club, the Foothills Club, the Garden Wall Club, the American Legion Auxiliary, and the Business and Professional Women's Club. In 1953, the School District donated a building to the Library, and by 1955, there were 3,000 books.

Polson adopted a simplified numbering system for street names.

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