This week in history - August 12, 2021

100 Years Ago

The baseball game played last Friday afternoon at the fairgrounds between Ccunty officials and business men’s ball teams was won by the county officials by a score of 5 to 4. The game was witnessed by a large crowd and it was the unanimous opinion of all that it was the most interesting game of the season.

During the past week a number of people called at the Herald office to inquire if there were any Bonners Ferry people who would take in high school students to work for their board. These young people all come from good families and want to come here to get an education and are not afraid to work.

Mrs. R. E. Kuelin, a former resident of this city and for several years the proprietress of a restaurant here and at Eastport, was one of three women held up Tuesday night at the Parkwater Hotel near Spokane, by two unmasked men, who secured $40 from the cash register of the hotel dining room.

50 Years Ago

State highway electrical crews from Boise recently installed traffic signal lights on the Bonners Ferry Bridge. Once construction work begins on the south end of the bridge for the city bypass, these lights will be in operation, and traffic will be one-way.

The new Boundary County Ambulance has completed four emergency runs since its purchase two weeks ago, Lynn Hatfield, president of the Boundary County Ambulance Association, announced this week.

A chicken house and barn storing 500 bales of hay were destroyed Tuesday afternoon about 4 p.m. on the farm of Harold Dehlbom, on the Deep Creek Road near Moravia.

15 Years Ago

The layoffs at the Riley Creek mill will cost Boundary County more than $1 million if they last the expected 60 days, according to Idaho Commerce and Labor regional economist Kathryn Tacke.

Owners of dogs deemed vicious must carry at least $500,000 in liability insurance, display a large warning sign on their property and keep the dogs in a secure enclosure - or go to jail and have their pets destroyed.

The Kootenai Softball Association extended thanks to the sponsors, umpires and participants for making the first Duane Pennock Memorial Co-Ed Softball Tournament a success.

Submitted by the Boundary County Museum