Twenty teachers attend first association meeting
From Bonners Ferry Herald,
Nov. 29, 1912
The first meeting of the Bonner County Teachers' Association to be held in Bonners Ferry was conducted in the high school building last Saturday and was a decided success.
Some 20 teachers from the northern end of the county were in attendance at the morning session and the afternoon session was attended by nearly 100 people, out-of-town teachers, towns-people and local teachers.
Among the topics taken up in general discussion at the morning session were that of “needed school legislation.”
The committee appointed to prepare resolutions covering the subject advised that steps be taken to secure the change of the present school laws so that the county superintendent of schools would be required to take office the first of June and enable the outgoing superintendent of schools to finish the school year and not require the new officer to take up the work during the last few months of the year.
It was urged that the compulsory education law be changed so as to compel attendance of children up to the age of 16 providing they had finished the eighth grade. State aid in the way of appropriations ranging from $1,000 to $2,000 for high schools carrying industrial courses was also urged.
Refuse Maintenance Bond
At the meeting of the village board of trustees held Tuesday evening, the members of the board decided that it would not be good business policy to accept the three-year maintenance bond offered by Donald & Wilson, the contractors who recently constructed the concrete sidewalks on Main Street.
The board also decided that it would not accept the walks until a a satisfactory maintenance bond guaranteeing the walks to give satisfaction for three years was produced.
The bond offered by Donald & Wilson named Henry Fields & C. S. Moody of Sandpoint as bondsmen. The village trustees decided that the bondsmen could sell their real estate holdings or transfer their property anytime during the next three years and so the city would have no security whatever should the walks not prove to be satisfactory.
The trustees will insist upon a security bond or will ask to retain the town's own bonds in surety.
Struck by a
Blasted Stump
While working in the woods last Friday nearby, a gang of men were blowing stumps out of a new road. Adolph Weisner, a sawyer in the employ of Bonners Ferry Lumber Co. at Camp 10 near Porthill, was struck in the head by a piece of the stump and sustained a fracture of the skull and lost his left eye.
He was brought to the Bonners Ferry hospital for medical treatment Saturday, but the local physicians have little hope of his recovery.
Weisner was working with his father-in-law, A. Olden, about 20 feet away from the place the stump was being blasted. Although a number of men were working on the road at the same time of the accident, no one seems able to give a explanation as to how Weisner received his injury.
Weisner has declined to talk of his accident and says that it hurts his head to talk.
Briefs
A. Krause, a school teacher at Copeland, was a visitor in town Tuesday.
G. W. Myers of Porthill made application last Saturday to the board of county commissioners for a saloon license to be used at Porthill.
If you are in the market for a piano, let us deliver one to your home for your careful inspection for one week, and if it does not suit, you are not out a penny. Brody's Pharmacy.
Some fine examples of ore from the Mammoth and Morning Star mines and Porthill were brought to town this week by R. R. Belcher. W. Duedahl, the owner of the properties, is now working on a four-foot vein of very fine copper and iron ore, and is confident he has property which will warrant extensive development.
The Order of Eastern Star will meet Wednesday at the K. P. Hall. All members are requested to attend.