Old Timer's Column

From the Bonners Ferry Herald

April 25, 1913

Commencement week for Bonners Ferry public schools and high school will begin May 19, and judging from the program being arranged, it will be a busy week.

The first part of the week will be taken up with entertainment by students of the grammar grades and eighth grade. A farce comedy entitled “Six Sharps and One Flat” is to be given one night by students of the various grades and high school.

The 1913 senior class has seven members as follows: Jack Collins, Fern Collins, Georgia Loughney, Stella Stoos, Lester Plato, Vivian Hollinger and Thomas Lynch.

$10,000 Bond Issue

At the annual school election held Monday, School District No. 144 voted in favor of bonding the district in the sum of $10,000. This money will be used in the building of a new school house. Sixty-five votes were cast at the election on the bonding question with 57 votes for and eight votes against the bonding issue.

According to the reports given out by residents of the Northside, the election of Monday was characterized by factionalism, which hinges on the disapproval of some of the residents of the district of the progressive methods employed by one of the teachers of the Northside school who has started a sewing class among the pupils after school hours and at no additional expense to the district.

Briefs

Bonners Ferry Lumber Co. has some good farm horses for sale at very reasonable prices.

Mrs. Spencer Lewis of Eastport was a visitor in town last Saturday.

Claude Green, one of the old settlers of the upper Yakt River District, was a business visitor in town yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. James LaFountain of Moyie Springs were business visitors in town Monday.

For Sale — 160 acres with improvements, running water, bearing orchard, buildings.

A bargain at $2,800. N. B. Selover, Copeland.

The Eastport school will close Friday. The teacher will return to her home in Minneapolis.

A lumberjack giving his name as Jack Wilson was fined $10 and costs by Justice of Peace Kent on Monday for being drunk and disorderly.

If you want a good laugh, go the Amazon Theater. Some of the funniest comedies are this week.

Joe Meddock is building a substantial bungalow on a site he recently purchased on the Northside.