This Week In History - April 25, 2024

100 Years Ago

Sheriff W.F. Dunning, assisted by Wm. Welch and C.P. Hansen, special agent for the Spokane International Railway Company, captured a Dodge truck, loaded with booze at the Great Northern sub-grade crossing between Naples and Moravia, early Sunday morning and placed under arrest the two men who were driving the truck. The truck, a new Dodge, carried 29 cases of liquor, packed in sacks.

Last Friday noon Sheriff Dunning and Deputy Charles Knight were summoned to the S. E. Henry home on the Northside to investigate circumstances surrounding the placing of 40 sticks of dynamite in Mr. Henry's car.  The officers found the dynamite in a sack with about 20 feet of fuse attached, the fuse having been partly burned. Henry told them that he found the dynamite in his car when he went to the garage to get the car ready for a trip to Coeur d'Alene.

Jack Welch, Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop No. 7 has made arrangements with A.J. Kent for the use of a part of Mr. Kent's land on the Moyie River, seven miles north of Bonners Ferry, for a Boy Scout campgrounds. It is planned to build a log cabin on the camp site and the scouts will then arrange to spend weekends at their camp.

50 Years Ago

A large, enthusiastic group of Idaho Extension Homemakers from the northern ten counties and guests from Montana, Canada, and Idaho initiated the newly remodeled Exhibition Hall at the fairgrounds, April 23 for their annual district convention. 

There is certainly no apathy among local grade schoolers. The 1974 Children's Art Show, open to the county first through eighth graders drew 458 entries. The entry of Kris Collyer, a Southside second grader, was judged "best of show." 

The Boundary County Historical Society will hold its monthly meeting Thursday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the courthouse. All members and interested guests are urged to attend.

15 Years Ago

On Tuesday, 8,000 baby sturgeon were released into the Kootenai River.  The Kootenai Tribe in Bonners Ferry is working with Freshwater Fisheries Society of British Columbia to save the population of white sturgeon in the Kootenai River.

Before a sold-out crowd, BFHS junior, Erin Hiatt, was named 2009 Junior Miss on Saturday.

Etta Mae Schnuerle called to say how much she appreciated receiving cards and flowers from her friends in Bonners Ferry after she had an accident on a four-wheeler while spending the winter in Arizona.

~Submitted by the Boundary County Museum