Steamer to tow logs from Copeland
100 Years Ago
D. P. Hershman plans to leave this week for High River, Alberta, where he will spend several weeks during the harvest season. Mr. Hershman has been picking huckleberries in the Snyder district where the berries are plentiful and where, he says, it is possible to earn as high as $7 per day.
The Steamer Crescent has been chartered by the Bonners Ferry Lumber company to tow logs here from Copeland.
The fans in the wrestling game, of this district, are promised a real treat tomorrow evening, Sept. 16, at Kent’s hall when a finish match, two falls out of three will be staged between George Brandau, champion middleweight wrestler of Wisconsin, and Chris Gesek, of Spokane, the champion middleweight wrestler of the Northwest.
Tony Brown, the well known fruit grower of Copeland, was a business visitor in the city Tuesday. Mr. Brown expects to sell about 1,000 boxes of apples this year, for which he believes he will realize $1 per box or better. He makes a specialty of growing the Delicious apples. Mr. Brown’s orchard was recently inspected by the state horticultural inspector, of Rathdrum, who paid Brown very high compliments upon the manner in which the orchard had been kept up.
On Wednesday of this week the county commissioners made a deal for the purchase of five lots in the rear of the court house and owned by W.A. Alexander. The purchase price was $750. It is proposed to fill in the lots and thus give the county court house and jail site more ground space.
50 Years Ago
A fire of undetermined origin Tuesday destroyed two new barns and 350 tons of hay stored in them at the Bruce Frazier ranch on the North Bench. The spectacular blaze also destroyed tools, saddles and other equipment in the structures and some quick work by volunteer fire fighters prevented another barn – also full of hay – from being lost in the fire. There will no livestock loss. The Frazier house and several other outbuildings ere threatened, but the firefighters were able to confine the blaze to the barn and hay shed.
Matching the success of other events in this year’s county fair, the fair parade held last Saturday was described by officials as one of the “biggest and best” parades ever held here. There were large number of outstanding entries, and the weather was excellent as a good crowd was on hand for the parade.
Sally Tucker, 4, daughter of Mrs. And Mrs. Wayne Tucker, is receiving treatment at Community hospital for extensive injuries she received last Friday when struck by a car as she was crossing U.S. Highway 2-95 near the Tucker home in the vicinity of Peterson hill, south of Bonners Ferry. According to the sheriff’s office report, the Tucker girl ran onto the highway in the path of oncoming traffic and was struck by a car. The report said the driver applied his brakes and made skid marks for nearly 80 feet as he swerved his southbound vehicle to the right side of his driving lane in an attempt to avoid hitting the child. No charge was filed in the incident. The Tucker girl received a broken arm and leg and two broken ribs but is report in satisfactory condition at Community hospital.
15 Years Ago
It took almost seven years to render a final decision, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finally published its final ruling last Thursday, designating 11.2 miles of the Kootenai River as critical habitat to the endangered white sturgeon.
No injuries were reported after a camper trailer pulled by a pickup jackknifed on U.S. 95 at milepost 503, just south of Mirror Lake Golf Course last Thursday. After the trailer suddenly whipped around, the driver of the pickup tried to compensate before it overturned, causing a minor traffic delay.
Some were touting Friday’s Lakeland-Bonners Ferry football game as the battle that would decide the winner of the Intermountain League. Lakeland exploded early on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball, and the Hawks went on to rout the Badgers 40-6 in front of about 1,400 fans at Corbit Field.