Editing Bovill, Idaho (section)

==History==
[[Image:Bovill-hotel-idaho-us.png|thumb|left|Historic [[Hotel Bovill]]]]
Bovill was named for a settler.<ref name="nrhpregBovillOperaHouse">{{cite web|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Bovill Opera House |url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/weekly_features/Bovill.pdf |date=December 2009 |author=Suzanne Julin |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |access-date=2010-03-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605143349/http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/feature/weekly_features/Bovill.pdf |archive-date=June 5, 2011 }} (26 pages, including 6 photos from 2009)</ref> Hugh Bovill was an Englishman who bought the Warren Meadows homestead in 1901 to ranch.<ref name=hotbov>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aa1fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yzIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5396%2C2089002|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|location=(Idaho)|last=Wickline|first=Michael R.|title=Resort business has its roots in early 1900s|date=May 6, 1990|page=26–Centennial}}</ref> With the rapid infusion of loggers, homesteaders, and sportsmen, Bovill and his wife Charlotte opened a hotel in 1903, which included a store and post office in 1907.<ref name=psioh>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=41ZOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=LfkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4955%2C3282848 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |last=Cross |first=Helen |title=Bovill past seen in old hotel |date=August 27, 1979 |page=3}}</ref> The&nbsp;[[Washington, Idaho and Montana Railway|railroad]] arrived that same year and as logging activity increased nearby, the town became too wild for the couple and their two daughters, and they left for [[Coeur d'Alene, Idaho|Coeur d'Alene]] in 1911;<ref name=hotbov/><ref name=psioh/> (Hugh died in 1935 in Oregon, Charlotte in 1947 in California).<ref>"Idaho for the Curious", by Cort Conley, ©1982, {{ISBN|0-9603566-3-0}}, p.56-57</ref>

On 15 April 1912, the workers at the Number 4 and Number 8 camp near Bovill of the [[Potlatch Lumber Company]] went on strike for better rations and a twenty-five cent per day pay raise.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://depts.washington.edu/iww/iwwyearbook1912.shtml |title=IWW Yearbook 1912 |last=Hanley |first=Michael |website=IWW History Project |publisher=[[University of Washington]] |access-date=18 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602022351/http://depts.washington.edu/iww/iwwyearbook1912.shtml |archive-date=2 June 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Notice of the strike was published in the ''[[Industrial Worker]]'', a weekly newspaper of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] which was published out of [[Spokane]], Washington at the time.<ref name="IW_1909_08_05">{{cite news |author=<!--no by-line.--> |date=25 April 1912 |title=Strike at Bovill, Idaho |volume=4 |issue=5 |page=1 |newspaper=[[Industrial Worker]] |url=https://archive.org/details/v4n05-w161-apr-25-1912-IW |quote=On April 15 all the men at camp No. 8, Potlatch Lumber Company, Bovill, Idaho, went on strike for better food and twenty-five cents increase per day. Ninety men are out, and all are standing solidly together. The men at camp No. 4 are also out, as conditions there are very foul and the men have had to work about twelve hours per day. At camp 8 the work is so dangerous that two men were killed and several badly crippled in one week's time. One of the men writes in that the balance of the men are willing to join the ONE BIG UNION, and asks that any organizers in that district to give the matter immediate attention.}}</ref>

The [[Bovill Opera House]], at 2nd and Pine, was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2010.