This Week In History - April 4, 2024

100 Years Ago

There is an all-but-forgotten law on the Idaho Statutes which may have an important bearing on the future development of the cutover lands of Boundary County. Patterned after the drainage district law, under which Drainage District No. 1 was formed, this measure provides for the creation of stumpage districts for clearing timber and cutover lands for agricultural purposes. It was sponsored by A.J. Kent, state representative from Boundary County in 1916-1917, and passed both houses with opposition.

Chas. Powers recently completed the basement for a new dwelling in Park addition which he built for his own use.  Mr. Powers sold his home about two years ago and, with his family, returned to his former home in Ohio. "I was ready to come back in two months," said Mr. Powers," and am now satisfied to remain in Bonners Ferry."

Previously owned timber in Idaho will not last more than 35 years, according to the opinion of the forestry bulletin issued by the School of Forestry of the University of Idaho.

50 Years Ago

Workers began last week excavating and remodeling the basement of Taft's for an expansion of that store's sales and storage space.

A tractor-trailer truck carrying 40,000 pounds of potatoes overturned last Thursday afternoon on Highway 95 about a mile north of Mr. Hall School, and a state highway department worker, Elroy J. Crum, narrowly avoided being hit by the careening vehicle.

A traditional Easter ham-bacon turkey shoot is lined up for this Saturday and Sunday at the Deep Creek trapshooting grounds five miles south of Bonners on old Highway 95-2.

15 Years Ago

The executive director for Second Chance Animal Adoption has entered her dog in a contest in hopes of winning $10,000 for the non-profit agency's new animal shelter in Bonners Ferry.

Boundary County's population increased by 116 people or 1.1 percent from 2007 to July 1, 2008, according to the Idaho Department of Labor. The new population is 10,962.

Kim McConnell and James Sanborn graduated on Saturday from the first-ever Pawsitive Works program, which pairs at-risk youth with homeless dogs needing training.

~Submitted by the Boundary County Museum