This Week In History — June 22, 2023

100 Years Ago

A plan is now well underway for the graveling of Main Street of Eaton from the E.E. Fry residence to the top of the schoolhouse hill and it is possible that the graveling work will be extended to the streets in the flat of the east part of Bonners Ferry.

The trustees of School District No.15, at Moravia, have made plans for the construction of a four-room teacher cottage on the school grounds.

A. Klockmann, president and general manager of the Idaho-Continental Mining Company, and the owner of two large ranches in the Kootenai Valley, was in the city this week attending to business matters.

The many friends of John S. Plato and Miss Eulalia Ferrill will be pleased to learn of the marriage of the couple yesterday at Colville, Wash.

50 Years Ago

The City of Bonners Ferry has donated two lots to the Boundary County Free Library to serve as a site for a new building. Margaret LePoidevin and Jim Marx, Library Board members, met with the City Council Tuesday night to accept the gift on behalf of the library.

Travis (Brig) Yongue, Mayor of the City of Moyie Springs, announced this week improvements are being planned on the Moyie City Hall.

The Bonners Ferry Babe Ruth baseball team opened the season with a convincing victory over Troy there last evening.

15 Years Ago

Due to a May 13 earthquake in China, where fireworks are manufactured, Bonners Ferry will not have its annual Fourth of July firework show this year. “The fireworks are what we would call being pushed to the back of the priority list,” said Skip O’Fallon, who for 17 years has donated his time to put on the display.

Bonners Ferry Police Chief Dave Kramer will retire Aug. 1. Deputy Chief Rick Alonzo is interested in the position. A 30-year veteran of the police force, Kramer submitted his resignation to City Council on Tuesday night.

A broken waterline left portions of A.J.’s Lanes under 6 inches of water and closed up for up to three months. Assuming the lanes at the nearly 55-year-old Bonners Ferry bowling alley need to be replaced, it could cost $500,000 to $800,000, said John Nelson, who is leasing to buy the building.

Submitted by the Boundary County Museum