This Week in History - July 27, 2023
100 Years Ago
George Myers and Algot Strom, proprietors of the Club Cigar Store and the owners of 50-foot frontage on Main Street, have practically decided to construct a hotel building on the site now occupied by the Club Cigar Store building opposite the First National Bank building.
Actual work on the “clean-up” at the placer properties of the Idaho Gold and Ruby Mining Company, near Leonia, will start the latter part of next week.
The body of John J. Jones, mining engineer and former employee of the Cynide Gold Mining Co., was found in a log jam in the mill slough Monday at a point between the boom and the sawmill of the Bonners Ferry Lumber Company.
50 Years Ago
A fire broke out in a timbered area on Mission Hill, three miles west of Bonners Ferry Monday afternoon, and burned over 90 acres of Kootenai Tribal lands. Bill Maas, Fire Warden for the Department of Public Lands, said that the blaze was man-caused. Maas headed a crew of 30 state fire-fighters from Bonners Ferry and Sandpoint who successfully controlled the fire by late Monday evening. Crews were “mopping up” Tuesday, he said.
Mr. and Mrs. Way Davis this week announced they have purchased the Canyon Inn at Moyie Springs in a business transaction dated July 1. They bought the club from Mrs. Lola Blume but details of the transaction were not disclosed. The Davis couple have owned and operated Deep Creek Club and Motel south of Moravia for a number of years and more recently purchased the Valley Motel.
15 Years Ago
Moyie Springs teen Kassy Piatz-Avery is home and doing well after getting a new kidney on June 17. Christa Rice, who gave her 17-year-old cousin a new lease on life by donating one of her kidneys, struggles as she continues to recover. A 32-year-old mother of five, Rice ended Kassy’s three-year search for a kidney when she decided to donate hers.
An appeals court’s landmark decision to remove dead and dying timber from Panhandle National Forest is good news for Boundary County’s economy. Locally-based Everhart Logging and Regehr Logging will share in the select cutting of timber which will take more than six months to complete the timber sale.
Residents in Boundary County can expect a 63 percent increase in fees to support landfill operations. For those in the City of Bonners Ferry, the increase will appear on their upcoming property tax bills. Residents who paid $86 for the current fiscal year would pay $140. Residents throughout the county can expect to see their bill increase from $102 to $167.
— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum