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A bill for the creation of Boundary County, out of Bonner County, passed the Idaho legislature.
Daughters were born to the following families: Clarence Kyes, Newport; Ralph Sherwood, Usk; R.H. Weigand and John Van Pappelendam, Diamond Lake.
100 years ago 1925
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing a toll bridge across the Pend Oreille River at Newport.
The E.G. Graham at Tweedie and most of its contents, together with the old store building, were destroyed by fire.
Several autos made the trip to Ione, a newsworthy event in 1925.
90 years ago 1935
Leigh Portland Cement Co. began alterations on its Metaline Falls plant to cost approximately $65,000.
Heavy snowfall delayed trains on the Great Northern and Milwaukee. A fall of 15 inches in 24 hours was recorded in Ione.
Hay was being put up by the game commission deer yarded in the LeClerc district and grain for game birds in various parts of the county.
80 years ago 1945
The Pend Oreille County Welfare Administration, which had previously joined with Ferry and Stevens counties, appointed Pearl Wright county administrator.
Feb. 1, 1945, was the deadline for automobile licenses. Those cars without new licenses were ticketed and the owners arrested.
The Office of Price Administration was getting too many people who lost their wartime ration books. People were told to treat their ration books like they were money. Shoe rationing regulations were changed to include logger boots with calks as “safety shoes.”
70 years ago 1955
A special meeting of the Republican Precinct Committeemen at the county courthouse elected Roy Rednour, Usk, as county chairman to replace Fred Spencer of Diamond Lake.
Cusick American Legion Post 212 staged a basketball game between the legion town team and the high school and raised $119.15.
Tuna was five cans for $1, a 10-pack of Scott tissues cost $1, flour was 25 pounds for $1.98 and Vienna sausage was 10 for $1.
60 years ago 1965
Newport area residents helped Goodwill Industries set a 25-year record in wages paid to the handicapped in 1964. Power loads at Northern Lights increased 21% from the year before, due to extreme cold weather and increased installation of electric heat.
Wildlife in northeastern Washington experienced the worst winter in 1954 to 1955. The State Game Department had 24 feed stations, and farmers were feeding deer along with cattle.
50 years ago 1975 Beau Tucker, who was born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus, was name poster child for the 1975 March of Dimes drive against birth defects in Pend Oreille County.
A head start grant for $78,720 was granted to the Northeast Washington Rural Resource Development Association in Colville. Herb Shepherd, Frank Capehart and several others took 400 pounds of pea hulls by snowmobile up to the feeders they had built the previous summer. The hulls were donated by farmers.
A truck hauling concentrated zinc ore from the Pend Oreille Mine slid off the road. No one was injured.
40 years ago 1985
The Gem State Miner took three newspaper awards from the Idaho Newspaper Association, including Best Front Page, the third time in four years The Gem received the award among weekly newspapers with circulations of 2,000 or less. The Gem was also runner up in General Excellence and Best Special Edition for its Horizon.
Idaho Hill Elementary was running out of space for its 205 students in grades one through eight. There is no room for kindergartners, who travel to Priest River. Idaho Hill is attended by
