This Week In History — Feb. 23, 2023

100 Years Ago

At the meeting of the town council held Tuesday night Ordinance No. 100 was passed which provides for the care of unsanitary conditions within the city limits.

The Board of County Commissioners have issued a call for bids for furnishing wood for the county and for the painting of the county wagon bridge at Bonners Ferry.

A total of $27,701.27 was paid out to the farmers of Boundary County for butterfat by the Boundary Creamery during the year 1922, according to a statement made yesterday by Manager Paul Taylor.

50 Years Ago

The Kootenai Tribe here has lost their chief, Eneas Louis Abraham, after he was struck by an automobile on the South Bench near Bonners Ferry last Saturday evening about dark. The chief was walking to the Abraham home located about one mile south of the downtown area when the accident occurred at 6:15 p.m.

Badger wrestlers, despite a better bracket this year, found the going extremely tough at the State Wrestling Meet last weekend at Rexburg. None of the eight grapplers that made the trip finished near the top.

Miss Shellye Lindsay, a junior at B.F.H.S., was recently notified that she is to be featured in the seventh annual edition of “Who’s Who Among American High School Students, 1972-73.” She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Lindsay.

15 Years Ago

A local taxidermist’s life-size mount of a bobcat received three major awards during the recent 2008 Montana State Competition in Missoula. John Thomas, owner of Thomas Taxidermy in Naples, scored the highest among 44 entries in the professional division.

Sitting at her dining room table in prayer at 5:30am Tuesday, Ecco Nims thought a flash of color in the sky was a sign from God. The flash was a meteor that streaked through the sky over the Pacific Northwest and apparently landed in Eastern Washington, according to the Associated Press.

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum