This Week In History - May 5, 2022

100 Years Ago

Roy W. Hupe, a homesteader of the Addie district was killed on Tuesday by a premature explosion of picric acid stumping powder, which he was using to blow stumps on logged over land on his homestead.

The weather was cold and stormy for last Friday’s annual track meet, spelling, arithmetic and writing contests. Schools represented were Carlock, Addie, Round Prairie, Hooker, Copeland, Paradise Valley, Moravia, Barto, Naples, and Independent School District No. 14.

The contract for construction of the new high school building has been let to Peter J. Young, a contractor of Priest River for $57,072.50 The heating contract was $8,102 and the plumbing contract was $3,998.

50 Years Ago

Construction was begun recently on Boundary County’s first boarding school, The Academy of the Rockies, a school combining academics with outdoor survival and farm work. The school, located in the Cow Creek area, will house a maximum of 19 students.

Phil Tritt, custodian at Northside School, yesterday presented teachers there a dozen long-stemmed roses as a token of appreciation.

The third annual musical "Cabaret," sponsored by the Boundary County Band Boosters, under the direction of Don Behm, will get underway Friday, May 5, in the BFHS gymnasium. The booster organization is hoping to raise $1,600 at this year's event to pay the cost of new uniforms in full.

15 Years Ago

In the early evening hours of April 18, a team of dedicated volunteers sent their thoughts of good luck into the sky with Storm, a beautiful one-year-old female Snowy Owl. Released at the Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge after five-and-a-half months of rehabilitation, she immediately flew in a northerly direction toward her summer home range in the Arctic tundra.

With the announcement that Gov. Butch Otter had appointed him to the State Board of Health and Welfare, Bonners Ferry Mayor Darrell Kerby said, “I am excited to have this opportunity to learn and understand the challenges our citizens face while receiving or attempting to obtain services from Health and Welfare."

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum