This Week In History

This Week In History

100 Years Ago

The Great Northern Railway Company plans to proceed at once with the construction of new bridges and trestles on the Kootenai Valley Railway, a branch running from Bonners Ferry to Porthill, a distance of 38 miles.

A fire of unknown origin broke out in the rear of Brown’s Department Store last night about eight o’clock and destroyed property to the value of about $4,000.

Al Markham, who has a well improved farm in the Meadow Creek district, is preparing to engage in the fur producing business and will raise marten for their fur. He has constructed cages and arranged to care for 12 pairs of marten.

50 Years Ago

A 1962 Chevrolet sedan Monday evening reportedly failed to make the Southside corner on U.S. 95-2, near South Hill Texaco service station, and slammed into a telephone pole, shattering it and totaling the car. Driver of the vehicle, Byron DeBoer, 25, a former Bonners Ferry resident, was treated at the local hospital and released.

Gale Barfuss, 36, a former Bonners Ferry resident and now mayor of Kootenai, Idaho, is in Bonner General Hospital, Sandpoint, recovering from a chest bullet wound suffered in a hunting accident last Saturday.

The annual Kiwanis Talent Show was held Saturday at the BFHS Cafetorium and a good crowd watched the young performers entertain.

15 Years Ago

During a winter storm Sunday afternoon, a dead tree 35 miles east of Bonners Ferry in Montana, knocked out power to much of Boundary County. It fell on a main transmission line between Troy, Montana, and Bonners Ferry.

Many Boundary County residents who live on private roads have until 5 p.m. on Nov. 27 to submit names for those roads or the county will assign names to the roads itself, Gary Falcon, County GIS technician, said.

The Bonners Ferry Visitor Center and rest area project is moving forward despite the bad weather, Steve Boorman, city administrator, said Wednesday.

Submitted by the Boundary County Museum