This Week In Bonners Ferry History
100 Years Ago
One man, Alfred Edwards, was killed on Sunday night when the car he was riding in plunged off the grade at the Great Northern Crossing in front of Dr. E.E. Fry’s home. Seven men had gone for a ride in Clarence Skaurud’s Overland when suddenly the lights went off and the car plunged over the grade landing upside down about 8 to 10 feet below. The others sustained only minor injuries.
The annual county club fair was held at Kent’s Hall. The greatest amount of interest was in the display of rabbits of all colors, sizes, and breeds. The canning demonstration was well attended and much interest was shown in the tin cans used.
A. Klockmann’s Colony Ranch near Porthill has been working hard to reclaim his 1,100 acre farm, building ditches and dikes to drain the property. The work is almost complete and they are putting up hay now. Four carloads have been shipped out and there are 100 tons baled and still more to come.
White and White Store has a butter substitute, Gem Nut Margarine, for 40 cents per pound. It is made of coconut oil, peanut oil, milk, and salt; it “looks like butter and tastes like butter.”
50 Years Ago
Harvesting in the county is nearly complete, despite all the rain.
Harold Sims and Mike Foust have filed for two city council positions.
The Farm Bureau will celebrate its 50th Anniversary with a dinner at the Knights of Pythias Lodge.
A count of 336 Chinese Ring Neck Pheasants were released in the county in Drainage Districts 1, 2, and 11 and along the dike between Districts 5 and 11. More are expected next week.
15 Years Ago
Sen. Shawn Keogh cut the ribbon at the grand opening of Boundary Regional Community Health Center’s new dental clinic last Saturday.
Boundary County Community Theatre is pleased to present a Halloween extravaganza combining dinner and dessert with a titillating murder mystery set in the 1920s – “Poetic Justice.”
In columns, groups, and gaggles, Valley View Elementary School students and their parents walked to school from the city parking lot to celebrate Walk to School Day.
— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum