This Week in History - June 27, 2024

100 Years Ago

Bonners Ferry citizens are all prepared to put on the biggest and best Fourth of July celebration ever had in Northern Idaho and it is believed that large crowds will attend from Sandpoint, Priest River, Newport, Libby, Troy and Creston, British Columbia, Canada. There will be street sports and a ball game between two of the best teams in North Idaho.

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Independent School District held Tuesday morning, Herman Pfrefer, of Selah, Wash., was elected Superintendent of Schools for the coming year at a salary of $3,000.

Retail gasoline dealers of Bonners Ferry announced a new price on gasoline of 27 cents per gallon Tuesday following a drop of two cents a gallon by the wholesale companies operating in this district.

50 Years Ago

The continuation of dry hot weather again made the forest fire danger in the surrounding areas high this week, according to Bill Maas, Forest Warden for the Department of Public Lands.

At the last meeting of the Boundary County Historical Society, James Lyons was elected president.

In a special Indian manpower assistance program, the Kootenai Tribe has been awarded $368 for the employment of youth.

15 Years Ago

Genny Hoyle and Kevin James took the first shifts at gently and patiently stirring eggs and milt with feathers, the culmination of an annual, labor-intensive effort to save the endangered Kootenai River white sturgeon.  Thousands of tadpole-like sturgeon will hatch within a week at the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho hatchery outside Bonners Ferry, becoming the next generation of fish to sustain a population that has been on a steep decline for decades.

Boundary County Commissioners on Monday unanimously agreed to let the voters decide whether or not property owners will pay taxes to support Curley Creek Fire Protection District.

~Submitted by the Boundary County Museum