This Week In History - Aug. 6, 2020

100 Years Ago

A deal was closed whereby W.C. Cundell sold his Shamrock Cigar Store to J.T. Jefferies and H.S. Swenson.

A majority of the heads of families of school Districts Nos. 8, 16, and 19 (all in the vicinity of Porthill), have petitioned the board of County Commissioners asking that all three be consolidated.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Durose of Minneapolis, Minn., accompanied by their two sons, Fred and Irving, arrived here Saturday and plan to make Bonners Ferry their future home.

50 Years Ago

County Extension Agent, Ben Studer, has invited the public on a valley crop tour tonight. Everyone is invited to come see what the farmers have been doing.

Carl Wommack has been elected to the National Board of Directors of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. He will represent Idaho electric co-operatives on the national board.

The sheriff’s office has been busy this week. An attempted jail break, a shooting spree in the Eastport area, an ambulance run to Spokane, and an automobile that burned have kept the crew “on their toes.”

15 Years Ago

A 21-year-old woman was lost in the woods just south of the Canadian border for more than 12 hours on Wednesday and Thursday mornings before she was rescued by a cooperative Boundary and Bonner County search and rescue effort.

Boundary Community Hospital will be celebrating 50 years in the new hospital September 17 from 10-1.

Construction on the tunnel under Highway 95 connecting the city parking lot to the Kootenai River Inn parking lot is scheduled to begin on September 6.

— Submitted by Boundary County Museum