Traveling back in time: This day in Bonners Ferry History
100 Year
Upwards of $1000 in money and prizes will be distributed by the Bonners Ferry Herald during the next two months in a profit sharing circulation campaign that begins today. The grand prize will be a five-passenger Ford touring car, 1917 model. There will be numerous other prizes ranging in value from $10 to $100. In addition to these a commission of 20 percent on all money collected will be paid to contestants who do not win advertised prizes.
John Parker was given a hearing before Probate Judge Henderson Wednesday on an insanity charge. After the hearing Judge Henderson ordered Parker committed to the state asylum at Orofino.
In order to operate any motor vehicle in Idaho it now is necessary for the owners of such car to secure a license from the public utilities commission, application for same to be made to the assessor of any one of the counties through which the machine is driven.
Boundary county’s quota of the $100,000,000 Red Cross fund, $2000, has been oversubscribed and Chairman W.D. Baxter, of the Boundary county executive committee, stated today that he was sure that when the committee had received reports from all sections of the county it would be found that $3000 had been raised. Mr. Baxter urges that all subscriptions be turned in at once in order that a full report may be made to the national headquarters.
The work of driving the piling for the new Simonds brick building will start tomorrow. Contractor Bone will have charge of the work. The contract for the concrete work has been let to Ralph Clapp. A.D. Atkins and sons completed their contract of tearing down the old frame building which Mr. Simonds will build. This old building was a landmark of Bonners Ferry. It was built over 25 years ago by Tom Huston and occupied a site on the river bank until it was moved to the corner where it has stood for over 15 year.
50 Year
The athletic council of American legion Boundary Post 55 reported this week that the Junior Legion baseball program has been discontinued for the remainder of the year “due to the lack of player interest.” The council expressed regrets that the action was necessary, but practice turnouts have been unsatisfactory. It was stated that the program probably will be resumed next year.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kucera, Jr. have moved to Twin Falls, where he will have the position of vocational agriculture instructor during the coming school year.
It is expected that all Forest Service lookouts will be manned by July 4. Fires should be reported to the nearest ranger or guard station. Man-caused fires on the Kaniksu national forest have been on the increase. Fire records for the fire seasons of 1965 and 1966 show that
23 percent of the fires on the Kaniksu were man-caused Compared to the 1964 fire season, when the man-caused fires were six percent of the total, this increase indicates that fire prevention must be constantly practiced by forest users.
15 Year
This is the last week to use up those last few 34-cent postage stamps before the rate goes up to 37 cents Sunday, June 30. That’s for the first ounce of first-class mail. Each additional ounce is 23 cents, no increase from current rates.
A rabid bat has turned up in Sandpoint, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare said last Friday. Children playing in a Sandpoint yard found a dead bat and their parents notified authorities, according to Health and Welfare. Laboratory testing done in Boise confirmed the presence of rabies, which can cause a fatal viral illness in humans and animals.
It was already warming up when 137 runners gathered at the starting line for the start of the 2002 Kootenai River Run. Overall winners were Doc Ward of Priest River in the 5K male division with a time of 19:52; Bonners Ferry’s Forest Braden in the 10K mail division with a time of 34:31; Lori Clark of Veradale, Wash, in the women’s 10K division with a time of 42:34; and Allie Brosh of Sagle, who won the female 5K race in 20:10.