This Week in History - May 22, 2025

100 Years Ago

The Hubble Voltage Control Company is this week moving its equipment to the Parks Highway garage building on railroad Avenue. Part of the building will be the Nash Garage, conducted by Angus McDonald. The electric arc welder built by the company was demonstrated in several eastern cities last winter. 

Assays made on the property of the Cynide Gold Mining Company on Buckhorn and Scout Mountains show a high percentage of gold, silver, and lead. President J.B. Ellis ordered that a car be filled to ship to Bunker Hill. 

Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Delton and G.B. Whitney of Greenacres, WA have purchased from S.D. Dorwin a 140 acre ranch near Sinclair and plan to start a muskrat farm. 

50 Years Ago

Seattle First National received the contract for $780,000 in new Restorium bonds. 

Jim Elms emerged the victor in one of the most hotly contested school board elections ever held in Boundary County. 

For the first time in the history of the school, Bonners Ferry High School has won an athletic championship in the state of Idaho, the A-2 track competition. 

The Selkirk Saddle Club will hold a horse show here June 7-8. 

15 Years Ago 

The Smithsonian "Journeys" exhibit will open with a Black Tie and Blue Jean event. 

The Border Patrol's Citizen's Academy graduated 20 Boundary County residents. 

Idaho State Police promote Bonners Ferry native, Brian Zimmerman to captain. 

Barry Wilson makes his first solo flight. 

Watt takes gold at 3A State Track. 

Submitted by the Boundary County Museum