This Week In Boundary County History - April 7, 2022

100 Years Ago

This week is proclaimed “Clean Up Week.” There should be a general cleaning of debris in order that “unclean, unhealthful and unsightly conditions may not prevail, generating and spreading disease and breeding pestilential insects.”

Sunday night an attempt was made to blow open the safe at Kootenai Valley Produce using nitro-glycerin but the charge only blew off the combination dial. Mr. J.R. Meeker had to be called in because of the damage.

County commissioners are calling for bids for two miles of road on the Kootenai Highway, better known as the Roosevelt Highway. The construction will involve considerable rock work where the present road crosses the Moyie River.

50 Years Ago

J.B. Wages, owner of J.B.'s Tire and Automotive Center located on the South Hill next to Cone’s, is holding a “Grand Opening” celebration all day Friday and Saturday.

Final agreement has been reached this week for the purchase of the Corner Drug Store by Harold “Monk” Faber. Effective date of the transaction was February 1.

Jim Lyons is having quite a time. Killed an elk out of season last Wednesday when it suddenly loomed ahead of his car near Stampede Lake. The elk died. And the prosecutor was driving on an expired driver’s license.

15 Years Ago

As the Rod Benders Car Club gears up for summer, the group will begin participating in the First Friday events, put on by local merchants in downtown Bonners Ferry.

Karen Schumacher is looking for dog owners who have loving, trustworthy dogs who enjoy the company of people and want to become part of “Pawsitive Works,” a therapy dog program serving Boundary and portions of Bonner County.

For the second year in a row, there are no seniors on the Badgers boys golf team. But coach Chad Deitz is confident the Badger boys will be represented at state.

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum