This Week in History - Jan. 25, 2024

100 Years Ago

The new $5,000 Wurlitzer pipe organ for the Rex Theatre arrived here yesterday and will be installed within a few days according to W. L. Casey, proprietor of the theatre. The player piano now being used is to be shipped to Newport where it will be used in that Rex Theatre also owned by Mr. Casey.

Postmaster Fred Gleed states that the post office will be closed at six o'clock and will remain closed Sunday until the lock boxes and equipment of the office can be moved and permanently located. In the new quarters, the post office will have more room and the sorting department can be arranged so as to handle mail more rapidly.

Changes have been made in the offices of Drs. Fry and Bowell and Drs. Severns and King in the Enterprise block which provide a third office room for the use of Drs. Fry and Bowell. Drs. Severns and King will have two operating rooms and a laboratory.

50 Years Ago

Thirteen cars of a 66 car Spokane International freight train northbound for Eastport derailed last night about 7:30, 25 miles north of the Coeur d'Alene rail junction. 

The Bonners Ferry Boat Club will hold its annual installation of officers Saturday, Jan. 26, at the Lantern Cafe.

"Flood Damage Near $5 Million" — Unseasonable mid-January warm weather and rain sent nearly every river and stream in the area out of its banks late last week.

15 Years Ago

A woman believed to be Boundary County's oldest person has passed. Marjorie Anna Widener, 103, died Friday, Jan. 19, at Boundary County Nursing Home.

A record 1,100 people crammed into the Bonners Ferry High School gymnasium for the first ever Moose Madness Contest against Sandpoint High School.

A Jan. 4 fire at the Bonners Ferry Visitors Center is believed to be arson. Bonners Ferry Police Chief Rick Alonzo said they have a suspect, but no arrest has been made.

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum