Old Timer's Column The Bonners Ferry HeraldMay 15, 1914

Commencement Week Is Here

The opening number of the program for commencement week of the Bonners Ferry School will be given tonight at the Utopia theater in the presentation of the class play, “A box of Monkey’s,” by the members of the senior class. As its title suggests, this is laughable comedy and the audience is expected to indulge in no small degree in the last admonition found in the class motto, which is: Love, Labor, Laugh.”

Team Returns From Moscow

The Bonners Ferry High School track team, accompanied by Coach J.E. Carlson. returned Sunday night from Moscow where they competed in the Idaho Inter-scholastic Field Meet was not without good results.  The team brought back with them a silver metal won by Oliver Campbell who placed second ion the final 880 yard race, besides winning fourth place in the pole vault, the feature event of the day.  AS a result Bonners Ferry was awarded ninth place in the meet of all the Idaho schools.

Passenger train Help Up

Great Northern passenger train No. 1, was held up at 1:30 a.m. , two miles this side of Rexford, by two masked men and the baggage mail car rifled, but according to the reports very little of value was secured by the the robbers.  The passengers were not harmed.

The highwayman must have boarded the train at Rexfors and crawled over the coal car and help of the engineer and fireman, forcing them to stop the train. 

As conductor Price stepped from the train to investigate, he was covered with a gun and forced to uncouple the baggage and mail cars which were then run down the rack about three moles. In the meantime the express messenger and mail clerk had left the cars, and the robbers were obliged to blow open the door of the baggage car.  No express of the value was  found and it is believed the robbers fared no better with the mail, in the filing of which they forced the engineer and fireman to aid them.

Several shots were fired to intimidate the passengers and weight or ten shots were fired into the baggage car door.  The men wore bandana handkerchiefs as masks and were described as being especially tall.

Briefs

Louis Lundem, postmaster and merchant at McArthur was a visitor in town Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Baxter from a seven day visit ti their ranch a Addie.

R.A. Chapel, postmaster o and general merchant at Meadow Creek, was a business visitor n town last Friday.

Next Monday O.H. Campbell who has the contract for the repairing of the Bonners Ferry Deep Creek Road, will close the road to traffic until after all blasting and repairs are completed.

B.H. Walker returned Sunday from a three days trip to Copeland and Porthill in his gasoline launch. L.M. Parker and a Spokane real estate agent were passengers on the trip.  On his way back Mr. Parker gathered 12 gallons of mushrooms which the distributed among his friends.

Mil Johnson for several  months a clerk at Reed’s Department Store, has purchased a general merchandise stock and will open up in business for himself at the island about the first of next month. Johnson is a live merchant and has made many friends during his residence here.

A fire alarm yesterday afternoon was for a small blaze in a shed on the place in Park Addition occupied by Mr. White.  About $30 worth of various goods were stored in the building , all of which were destroyed.