This Week in History - June 13, 2024

This Week In History

100 Years Ago

Mr. and Mrs. John O'Keefe last week sold their property on Bonner Street, consisting of a 10-room house known as the OK Apartments to Mrs. Pernot, who formerly resided here but who has been living at Neihart, Mont., recently.

Sometime between midnight Saturday and daybreak Sunday burglars entered the ticket office of the Spokane International depot here and blew the safe open with powder taken from the Great Northern tool house.  They secured $56 in silver and currency, according to D.C. McDonald, station agent, and also two books of blank money orders, which are valueless unless they can forge them and find some gullible merchant to take them as payment.

Thirty-two bullfrogs were sent here Saturday from the Fish and Game Department and were released in Mirror Lake, in Drainage District No. 1 Saturday evening by Chas. Spoor, President of the Boundary County Fish and Game Association and J.D. Brody, who fathered the organization.

50 Years Ago

Two new faces in town are George and Janice Dawson. They are here to manage Boundary County Airport and to provide aviation services for the community.

Six covered hopper cars of a northbound Spokane International freight train derailed near the Meadow Creek crossing last Wednesday evening.

Senior citizens in Boundary County are working together to insure that each of them can continue, happy, productive and self-sufficient lives throughout their older years. The latest product of their cooperative spirit is the new Senior Center, located in the former janitor's house behind the courthouse.

15 Years Ago

The City of Bonners Ferry has received a $49,000 grant to create a river-walk and new parking area along the Kootenai River.

Bids are sought from contractors interested in building a new station for South Boundary Fire District in Naples.

Sixth grade teacher Dave Gause's retirement is the end of an era for Mt. Hall Elementary School. Boundary County School District's need to make cuts, which means Gause's position will not be filled, and Mt. Hall's sixth-graders will go to Boundary County Middle School next year.

~Submitted by the Boundary County Museum