This week in history - June 24, 2021

100 Years Ago

About 3 o’clock Saturday morning, the lumber yard of Schmidt Bros. on Deer Creek, near Eileen, was almost completely destroyed by fire. The mill was about a mile and half up the creek from the yard. Feeling suspicious that fire had been set, the men made an investigation and soon found tracks of a man.

Dr. E. E. Fry reports that during the first six months of 1921 there were 14 deaths and 59 births. There is a population of about 5000 in the county.

Lundeen Bros. store at Naples was broken into Thursday night by unknown parties and a small amount of goods were taken.

One of the fastest and best exhibitions of baseball ever played by the Bonners Ferry team on the local diamond was witnessed during the big Fourth of July celebration when the B. B. Aggregation took the far-famed Sandpoint Tigers into camp with a score of 6 to 2.

50 Years Ago

Mike Hedgecock and Dan Zieja of Bonners Ferry spent three days last week touring Disneyland as winning paper boys in Spokane Daily Chronicle’s annual junior dealer contest.

Construction of a new self-service gas station is near completion on the southside near A and W.

“Some of the youth in the community feel there is a definite need for a youth center here in Bonners Ferry,” begins the text of a letter sent out last week to nearly 100 area businesses, organizations, and individuals.

15 Years Ago

If the current forecast holds out, the water level in the Kootenai River is expected to fall back below flood stage today, Bonners Ferry Mayor Darrell Kerby said Wednesday.

The waters from the Kootenai River are beginning to recede, but the damage to levees, crops, and businesses is only beginning to be calculated.

Thanks to a $200,000 federal grant, the Boundary County Airport is getting ready to install a new fuel supply system and to thicken the ramp’s asphalt to support larger aircraft.

Submitted by the Boundary County Museum