This Week In History - Feb. 29, 2024

100 Years Ago

Jos. Lancaster, superintendent of the Idaho Continental Mining Co. of Klockmann, and G.E. Hammer, bookkeeper, arrived here Tuesday to spend a few days attending to business interests. Mr. Lancaster states that about 60 men are employed at the mine, and the crew of miners will be increased this spring.

The members of the Bonners Ferry Gun Club will hold their first shoot Sunday morning, according to a statement made by E.E. Saunders, president of the club. A number of men spent the greater part of last Sunday installing the trap and building a trap house on the shooting grounds near the county poor farm.

The Bonners Ferry Lumber Company operates a modern sawmill here nine months of the year, giving employment to about 350 men. The company also maintains several logging camps at all times of the year. The payroll from the sawmill averages about $30,000 per month, and the payroll from the logging camps averages $15,000 per month.

50 Years Ago

Approval for a new $121.5 million pipeline to carry Canadian natural gas through the North Idaho- Spokane area was sought Tuesday by a corporate partnership, Interstate Transmission Services of Los Angeles, according to Joel Ream, Spokesman-Review writer. 

Idaho passenger car and pickup license plates on the "staggered system" of renewal ending in one and displaying "74" year embossed license plates without any stickers expired at midnight, Feb. 28, and must be renewed with black and yellow "75" stickers. 

Postmaster Orval Fredericksen, today reminded U.S. Postal customers that new postage rates will go into effect, Saturday, March 2. First-class mail will be 10 cents per ounce, airmail will be 13 cents, and postcards 8 cents.

15 Years Ago

Boundary County Sheriff Greg Sprungl has received the highest honor possible for a management-level law enforcement officer in Idaho. Sprungl was presented the POST executive certificate on Tuesday.

Bonners Ferry United Methodist Church youth group "will starve for food." The youth group will join thousands across the nation who will go without food for 30 hours beginning Friday, Feb. 27, to raise money for children in poor countries.

A six-month analysis by the Idaho Department of Labor found that between 2007 and 2016, the state will need more than 7,400 nurses to fill chronic vacancies, meet the demands of growth, and replace retirees and others who leave the profession.

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum