This Week In History for June 2, 2022

100 Years Ago

The Great Northern Railroad has an extra gang building dikes at Boulder Creek and near the Great Northern Bridge crossing the stream just west of Leonia.

The largest auction sale ever held in North Idaho will take place at the Kootenai Farms at McArthur on June 15.

A large crowd of baseball fans attended the ball game Sunday in which the Bonners Ferry Club defeated the Sandpoint Tigers by a score of 3 to 1.

Miss Agnes Carleton, County Nurse, left this week for Seattle, where she will have charge of Red Cross nurse work until October when she will return here.

50 Years Ago

A fire last night at approximately 10 p.m. gutted “The General Store,” a recently opened shop located on Main Street next to Doug’s Litehouse Café.

Steve Tanner may not be very big and may not have an athletic scholarship, but that won’t stop him from playing football for the Idaho Vandals next fall. Mr. Tanner is a sophomore-to-be kicking specialist from Bonners Ferry.

Harold Fairchild, an automotive technician at Lake Shore Motors, Inc. at Bonners Ferry, this week was named to membership in the select American Motors Society of Automotive Technician.

15 Years Ago

The Bonners Ferry Aerie No. 3522 held their Annual Mother’s Day Omelet Breakfast. With more than 80 omelets served, they raised $620 to donate for a kidney dialysis chair at the Libby, Montana Dialysis Center.

The Bonners Ferry Rotary hosted its first ever group friendship exchange this month. On May 22, local Rotarians presented their new friends from the Southwest and South Central Louisiana’s Rotary District lunch at the Kootenai Wildlife Refuge.

The City of Bonners Ferry is doing significant work on its water system under the $3 million water bond approved by the voters.

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum