This week in history - October 21, 2021

100 Years Ago

No paper was printed this week due to a power outage at the Myrtle Plant (Most likely due to an extended power outage caused by the relocation of power lines during the reclamation project in Drainage District No. 1).

50 Years Ago

A C-6 Terex bulldozer, weighing 30 tons, rolled about 100 feet down an embankment at Kent’s Gulch, two miles east of Bonners Ferry, Monday afternoon at about 3:30 p.m. and pinned operator Herman J. Larson, 46, of Pullman, Washington underneath it. He escaped with broken legs and a shoulder; and he was reported to be in satisfactory condition.

Don Morice, manager of Bonners Ferry Co-Op Gas and Supply Co. Inc. announced this week that construction of a new $100,000 filling station complex is scheduled to begin next spring.

Wes Redden, secretary-treasurer of the Motorcycle Kings, announced a meeting to organize snowmobile racing for this winter. It is scheduled to take place at Ron Marcy’s home at Naples, Friday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m.

15 Years Ago

A Boundary County official found Eurasion Watermilfoil, a very invasive and destructive aquatic plant, along nearly 100 miles of shoreline in the Kootenai River earlier this month, confirming that the noxious weed had spread into this county.

Bonners Ferry’s Junior Miss program is facing an uncertain future as Program Director Tess Rae announced her retirement from the successful scholarship program after 12 years of service.

There is a $1,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of, or the persons responsible for, stealing a Timber Grizz sawmill and a Miller Bobcat 225 Wilder generator on Oct. 15 from Road 72 in Moyie Springs.

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum