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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1925
Page
6
Kimberley and Wycliffe Notes describe town life with visits, holidays, and arrivals. News covers a hospital birth, school opening delays, new teachers, local travel to Spokane and Bernie, and a government road project with $20 000 planned for Kimberley Cranbrook improvements.
A Labor Day program featured Cranbrook defeating the Indians six to five in a tense morning baseball game with Genest Brogan and Pascuzzo delivering key hits. The Indians led with runs in the third and sixth, the High School rallied in the ninth for three runs as Brogan Beach and Godden scored. Evening events included a six-race program, an automobile race won by Fred Stewart in a Ford, and a Popular Girl contest won by Miss Muriel Reade.
Mining expert F H Mason says Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada has completed current programs at Trail smelter and Bonnington Falls, plans for higher output, and may target new northern BC fields with metallurgical plants if water power is developed. exploration for lead and zinc continues near railway hubs.
The Golden Star notes that the planned motor road through Kicking Horse canyon will bring thousands of visitors to Golden. Banff traffic averages 200 cars daily in peak months, and Brewster Livery co plans daily sight seeing routes. A bungalow camp near Golden is being considered by operators and CP Rail to host patrons, boosting local overnight stays.
Salvation Army youth group invites all to a Sunday evening song service at 7.30. A contract for a new tipple and air washer at the International Coal and Coke plant in Coleman Alberta was awarded to Manitoba Bridge and Iron Works for 250000 dollars. Steel construction will begin once foundations are ready and should be completed by Christmas. It is among the continent's few plants of its kind and the first mine engineering project of this scale awarded to a Canadian firm in the West. Mr. C. B. S. Whiteside, general manager of International, sealed the deal in Calgary last week. announcement followed on Saturday.
The Alberta highways branch reports high tourist traffic this summer with 220 cars daily entering Banff. From June 1 to August 7, tolls collected at the east entrance on the Calgary Banff highway total 15 240 for 69 days, split 8 560 westbound and 6 680 eastbound.
The Cranbrook High School Class of 1925 reflects on two formative years under Mr Wilson and later Mr Porter, noting school spirit, leadership, and participation in sports. They celebrate winning the silver C prize, Berta Cameron’s prize essay in the Blue Goose Fire Underwriters contest, and captaining a successful school baseball league. Twenty four students took exams with all but six supplementaries, marking the province’s highest pass rate and the class as the first to hold a graduation in the province.
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