History

 History for December 22, 2016

100 year W.B. Woodbury, a well known rancher of the Sinclair district, was in the city Thursday looking after business matters. Mr. Woodbury is one of the new readers of the Bonners Ferry Herald. Eastport – A misguided bunch of individuals took in the dance at Round Prairie Saturday night. They report a most enjoyable time, a delightful sleigh ride and a good feed as recompense for their shortcomings. C.H. Green, consulting engineer of Spokane, arrived here last Tuesday and on the following day a crew of men were put to work on his contract with the city to survey and make an estimate of the cost of installing a water system. Under Mr. Green’s agreement with the city he is to make a personal study of the possible sources of water supply. Elmer Des Voignes shipped a registered Hereford calf to Orofino, Idaho, last Wednesday. The calf was nine months old and weighed 750 pounds. Mr. Des Voignes has one of the finest herds of Herefords in Boundary county and his reputation as a stockman is spreading to all parts of the state. The Public Library committee has been busy for the past month investigating different systems of conducting public libraries, re-cataloging the city public library, and installing a new system. A MERRY XMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE READERS AND PATRONS OF THE HERALD The Herald this week consists of 20 pages of local news and Christmas stories and features. This is the largest single edition of a newspaper ever sent out by any newspaper of Bonners Ferry and the Herald is proud to be always the first to anticipate the best for its readers.

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Diane Zenier was crowned the first “Junior Miss” of Bonners Ferry during a presentation ceremony at the high school last Friday Evening. Miss Zenier will now enter the State Junior Miss competition in Moscow, Jan. 8 through 14. The Highland Flats farm home of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Marcy was totally destroyed early Wednesday morning in a fire that was ignited by gasoline near a trash burner and quickly spread through the two story house, leveling it in less than an hour. Mrs. Marcy and the three Marcy children were in the house when the fire broke out, and escaped without injury. The Bonners Ferry Badgers hosted the Post Falls Trojans last Friday in the first contest between the two teams with high ratings in the Intermountain league race, and it turned out to be a real “cliff hanger,” with Post Falls squeezing out a 65-64 win before a screaming full house in the local gym. Fishing Deep creek, Mr. Baker caught a two-foot long Rainbow last year, and Mrs. Baker showed last week that fishing skill runs in the family when she, too, took a big Rainbow from Deep creek. Her fish was 23 ½ inches long and weighed 5 ¼ pounds. It was announced this week that the Ed Gross Shop will soon move their business quarters to a new location north across the street from Bank of Idaho. He plans to take occupancy in the new location the first of the year and is presently remodeling and repainting the building that was formerly a service station.

15 Year Average prices at the self-service pumps in Idaho are down another 21 cents since the Thanksgiving holiday, but gasoline still costs more than in all but four other states. Even so, the American Automobile Association said that the $1.23 a gallon found in its daily survey is the lowest average price Idaho has seen in more than a year. Idaho Senator Shawn Keough came to Boundary County Junior High on Dec. 11 to discuss some of the responsibilities she has as a senator. She explained requirements for the job, such as age, paying a $50 fee, or getting 30 signatures on a petition. She said if you want to run for the Senate, take English courses, math, computer skills and business in college. Those classes will really help. A 16-year-old male was formally charged with second-degree murder Monday in Boundary County. Joseph Allen Manley (who turned 17 Dec. 18) was arrested and charged with the second-degree-murder of his 18-year-old brother, Christopher Abel Manley Friday night at the Moyie Springs home of their father. If you thought advanced high school biology was about dissecting frogs from jars of formaldehyde, hold onto your diagrams of the digestive tract and heart chamber and take a look at what’s going on inside Judy Wages class at Bonners Ferry High School. They’re experimenting with genetic engineering. Splitting DNA hands-on and inserting genes into other organisms right before their teenage eyes. Seen N’Heard…. Kudos to the Boundary County community – despite having the second highest unemployment rate in the state last month, folks here managed to donate $34,000 to the Mt. Hall School Auction and $36,000 to the Festival of Tree.