This Week in History - Jan.. 11, 2024

100 Years Ago

The firm of White and Saunders, dealers in groceries and shoes, has taken a lease for five years on a storeroom in the First National Bank building between the bank quarters and the post office, and will take possession early this spring as soon as planned alterations are made.

Charles Spoor, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, has opened the annex to the hotel, consisting of 18 rooms on the second floor of the Simonds Drug Store building, adjoining the Commercial Hotel building. The Commercial Hotel is now one of the largest in North Idaho.

The Bonners Ferry High School basketball team returned home from a trip to Montana, where they beat both the Troy High School team and the Eureka High School team easily.

50 Years Ago

"Has anybody reported seeing Kahoutek Sunday night?" That was the question Mrs. Ellen Starks asked when calling the Herald this week, reporting she was sure she had seen it.  Mrs. Starks said she saw Haley's comet in 1910 or 1911 and it was much brighter and more visible than Kahoutek.

Luke Matthias Kothe is the first native of Boundary County in 1974. Luke was born at 8:27 last Wednesday night and weighed in at six pounds even. 

School was out Tuesday and Wednesday this week at Mt. Hall because of an oil furnace breakdown, but Principal Grayson Gerard reported things "back to normal" this morning.

15 Years Ago

Like many kids growing up in Naples, a younger Chad Kimball was a frequent visitor to Naples General Store. Now at 30 years old, Kimball and his wife, Laura, 28, are taking over ownership of the Boundary County landmark.

Some 80 full-time workers at Welco had an extended Christmas holiday after snow caved in a roof on one of the mill's buildings in Naples. No one was hurt, yet the cave-in is just one of the hardships created by the 51 inches of snow that fell in the Bonners Ferry area in December.

For this year's Bonners Ferry Warriors Lacrosse season, there's an attempt to start a middle school program for youth in sixth through eighth grades.

Submitted by the Boundary County Museum