Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1914-06-19
4TH OF JULY
EXCURSION
Bonners Ferry Plans to Join With
Standpoint in Big Celebration
Many Autos Going
LOW FARE EXCURSION TRAIN
Local People Friendly to Standpoint
Over County Division Support

AT no time In the history OF the
two towns have the relations be-
tween Standpoint and Boomers
Ferry been more friendly than
just now and as an expression of
this feeling Standpoint seems to be
unanimous in supporting Boomers
Ferry in the latter towns request
for the division of Bonner county
and Boomers Ferry citizens have
planned to forego a Fourth of July
celebration this year and join with
Standpoint in that city's big three
day celebration.
Boomers Ferry people have ar
ranged for a special train on the
Spokane International railway for
the Fourth of July excursion to
Standpoint on July Fourth and
fully $50 people will go to Sand
point in automobiles.
The excursion train will leave
here at $50 O. clock in the morn
ing and the round trip tickets,
which will be sold. at $1.35 each,
will be good for the return trip
until July 9th. Local people had
TO guarantee 500 to the railway
company and tickets to cover this
amount are now being sold. 1t is
estimated that more than the
required number of tickets have
already been sold.
Manager Brewer has offered the
local baseball boys 500 and their
expenses to play the Standpoint
Tigers the afternoon of the Fourth.
The local boys will take a strong
line up to Standpoint and the fans
confidently hope to bring home the
long coveted scalps of their rivals.
The Kootenai Indians from the
Mission here will be one of the
attractions at the Standpoint celebra-
ton and the Standpoint people
have arranged to provide a camp
ing ground and pay all expenses
of the Indians for three days. The
Indians will hold their usual war
dances, exciting pony races, and
feats of horsemanship.
The majority of the business men
and citizens of this district are
entering into the plan of cooper
ating with Standpoint this Fourth
of July with a vim that can but
result in record attendance from
this locality.
This feeling is accounted for by
the fact that almost every Sand
point business man and a large
majority of the leading citizens of
that city were seen Monday by a
delegation from Boomers Ferry in
regard to their views on county
division. In single day the Bon
ners Ferry delegation secured the
signatures of nearly a hundred
Standpoint citizens and business
men to petition IN which North
ern Bonner county asked for county
division and on the list of sigma
lures were every one of the names
of the men who had opposed
county division two years ago. 1t
was impossible to see every bust
ness man or every citizen of Sand
point but it was only too evident
that the sentiment of the city is
favorable to county division. In
fact only one man, of all those
interviewed, announced himself as
being against division. This sup
port from Standpoint should be
most gratifying to all the people of
Northern Bonner county and prac-
tically assures county division as
most of the residents of the other
towns of the county have already
expressed themselves as being
favorable to county division.