This Week In History - Oct. 22, 2020

100 Years Ago

The logging camp of the Inland Empire Paper Company on Ruby Creek near Addie is being closed down for the winter.

The town council has made arrangements to secure several carloads of cinders from the Spokane International Railroad Company each week and these cinders are to be placed on the streets of the city that are in greatest need of improvement.

Foreman O.C. Gilmore of the Great Northern Railway bridge crew that has been locate here for more than a year – repairing and building new bridges on the rail line within a radius of thirty miles of Bonners Ferry – is having the viaduct bridge over the tracks rebuilt.

50 Years Ago

Fourteen candidates have filed for the Junior Miss contest to be held on Saturday, November 7. The pageant is sponsored by the Bonners Ferry Jaycees.

“This is one of the warmest welcomes I have ever received,” were the words of Governor Don Samuelson during his opening remarks at the banquet in his honor, attended by over 100 people last week. Many attendees said his talk was one of the most interesting and informative speeches heard in many years.

Chaplain Phil Nichols, former minister of the Assembly of God Church in Bonners Ferry, has died from an exploding mine in Vietnam.

15 Years Ago

BFHS gave the most total units of blood as a percentage of its population, in its size category, to the Inland Northwest Blood Center.

The Bonners Ferry Wrestling Club Tournament is on Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Boundary County Middle School.

A train smashed into the front part of a Cadillac stuck on the tracks in Naples Wed. Oct.19, blocking at least two crossings. Nobody was hurt.

Submitted by the Boundary County Museum