This week in history - September 16, 2021

100 Years Ago

The Forest Service is building a telephone line to Roman Nose Lookout via Samuels and Pack River. When completed, every lookout or fire station will have a telephone connection with the ranger station at Naples.

The sheep men gave a farewell dance at Naples. This indeed was a farewell dance as Smythe Bros. do not intend to come here again with their sheep for summer grazing. The inimical attitude of some people of Bonners Ferry and the destruction by bears of several hundred head of sheep on the range are the reasons stated.

The turbine and part of the equipment for the city’s new power plant to be installed on the Moyie River arrived yesterday over the Great Northern Railway. The machinery will be unloaded at Moyie Springs, where it will be housed until a dam and necessary buildings at the proposed new plant are constructed.

50 Years Ago

Robert Compton, principal of Bonners Ferry High School, announced last week the selection of the school’s students chosen as members of the Society of Outstanding American High School Students, the country’s leading high school honorary. The students are: Rex Beatty, Tim Harmon, Denise Smith, Susan Plumlee, Carla Newhouse, Bonita Buerge, Steve Tanner, Dave McLeish and Chris Schauble.

A used 1966 red Chevrolet Malibu was stolen from the Plum Chevrolet parking lot on Main Street last night at approximately 11:15 p.m.

15 Years Ago

Boundary County and the city of Bonners Ferry are joining forces to try to get the National Weather Service to drop the flood stage designation on both the Kootenai and Moyie rivers, a Boundary County official said Monday.

The city of Bonners Ferry awarded a contract Aug. 22 to Bonners Ferry Builders to build phase one of a water system improvement project for $1,472,123.

More than 500 people got together Saturday morning to say hello, catch up and enjoy a free breakfast compliments of the Better Boundary County Coalition, the Badger Booster Club, Boundary Trading Company, and others.

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum