This Week in History - Oct. 17, 2024

100 Years Ago 

Deputy Game Warden W.H. Heathershaw and Wm. Carlock made a trip to Sandpoint Monday with one of the county trucks and returned with 40,000 fingerling trout from the State Fish Hatchery. The trout were the Montana spotted dot variety, which originally came from Glacier National Park.  The trout were released in Perkins Lake. 

A number of Bonners Ferry hunters spent a few exciting hours last Friday afternoon in an endeavor to get a shot at a brown bear about a year old that was first seen on O'Callaghan's Island.  The bear was killed by Paul Taylor and J.A. Worley. 

A sawmill has been installed on the property of the Cynide Gold Mining Company in the Buckhorn district and is expected to be in operation this week.  The mill, which has a capacity of 15,000 feet daily, will take the place of the company's sawmill which burned early in the year.  Power will be furnished by the company's plant at Eileen. 

50 Years Ago 

Bonners Ferry welcomes another new business to town with the opening of a Coast to Coast Store on Thursday, Oct. 24, officials announced this week.  It will be owned and operated by Jim and Marc Chubb.   

Harold Sims, former president of Bonners Ferry City Council and owner of Sims Implement Co., has been appointed the new mayor of Bonners Ferry.  

The Bonners Ferry Kiwanis Club installed its officers for the coming year at a dinner this past week at Lion's Den. The new officers are Charles Malone, president; Jim Godwin, vice president; and Al Farnsworth, secretary. 

15 Years Ago 

Second Chance Animal Adoption has purchased the thrift store it rents along with an acre to build what will be Boundary County's first animal shelter.  

Boundary County's unemployment rate for September was the highest it's been in 27 years.  Nearly 14 percent of the county's workers, or 606 people were without jobs. 

State officials hope to determine what's best for the Kootenai River and the outfitters who work on it. 

~Submitted by the Boundary County Museum