Carl (Charles) Schmid, a tailor from Freienstein, Switzerland, opened a tailor shop in Montpelier in 1892 as Chas Schmid, The Tailor, making men's suits and coats and doing repairs, alterations, and dry cleaning. After Charles died in 1909, his wife Eliza inherited the business, and their children Freda and Charlie, ages 18 and 16, took over the shop and kept it going. The business later moved to a small building at the corner of 10th Street and Washington, and in the 1940's a modern white cinder-block building was built next door. John Schmid joined Charlie as a partner in the 1920's, and the business became Schmid Bros.; in 1956 they installed state-of-the-art dry cleaning equipment. After Charlie died in 1966, John continued to run the business until it closed on Oct. 14, 1980, the day John died, ending 88 years of continuous family operation. The building was later sold to John Crockett, used for several years as a NAPA Auto Parts Store, then sold to M.H. King and torn down to prepare for a new King's facility. Above The Fair Store on Washington Street in downtown Montpelier stood Bear Lake Hospital, the second hospital in Bear Lake, a 12 bed facility that opened in February 1937 under Dr. R.B. Lindsay and Dr Reed J. Rich, operated at the same time as the first hospital for 8 years, and closed on December 31, 1949 when the new Bear Lake Memorial Hospital opened in 1950. In the early 1900's, W.S. Pendrey opened Pendrey Plumbing and Heating and Sheet Metal, lived in the upstairs apartment, and used telephone number 95, while over the years the building also housed businesses including satellite sales, ceramics, and home improvement sales. In the early 1900's, one of the last great grizzlies, Old Ephraim, terrorized ranchers and shepherds in the Bear Lake and Cache valley forests; deformed in his front left paw and leg, reportedly from an early trap injury, he was killed by Frank Clark on August 22, 1923 and was then called the largest grizzly ever taken in the lower 48 states at 9 feet 11 inches tall, with his skull housed at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.