Salute to Kimberley - Page 10
Oughtred Hall with its dance hall, bowling alleys and billiards also houses the badminton and basketball clubs, while the school room takes care of the first aid classes.
Excellent band
The Camp band is also one of the community's biggest assets. Although this organization contains some outside members it is essentially a Camp band, and has advanced to a very high standard of merit for an amateur organization, their services are always freely given at any function.
The children in Camp are also well taken up with basketball and field sports. There is also a lacrosse team in process of formation in connection with Kimberley.
For those who prefer to get further afield, the golf links at Marysville improve every season and also increase in membership.
Many trophies won
The list of trophies to be won in these various sports is a formidable one and the array of silverware in the various halls is splendid tribute to the generosity of the donors and their appreciation for sport. Curling trophies are in predominance, those being held are: new York Life Grand Challenge Cup, Kimberley Curling Senior Trophy, Grand Challenge Cup of the B.C. Curling Association, T. Eaton Cup, Kootenay Curling Association Cup, Carmel! Laird Cup, Kimberley Curling Club Trophy, LW. Spring Grand Points Competition, Fit Reform Cup, Kootenay Curling Association, Burke and Morrison Cup, Hodgson Clock and Chapman Cup.
Football enthusiasts can boast of seven different emblems of victory: Cammell Laird Cup, Sanderson Cup, Kerrigan Challenge Cup, Beattie Challenge Cup, Blaylock Cup (Kootenay Championship), Bennett Shield (Alberta Championship), and Lephardt Shield.
Hockey trophies are the Diamond Bros. Cup, and Sullivan Mine Cup.
Baseballers hold the Nelson Daily News Cup where the track men have the Cranbrook Brewing Cup, Western Grocers and Giant Powder of Canada Cups. There is also the Cranbrook A.A.A. Cup won in tug-of-war, the Ingersoll-Rand Bowling Cup for annual competition and Mechecknie Basketball Cup.
There is also the Diamond First Aid Cup confined to teams at the concentrator and the Oughtred Cup for competition between first aid teams from the Top Mine, Tunnel and Concentrator on July 1st.
The Ladies' Curling Club of Camp also hold a trophy presented by D. Sutherland, and the Kimberley Ladies' Curling Club have the Hazelwood Cup.
With no limit to the incentive to win and every facility for the playing of games it is no wonder that Kimberley has produced some good athletes, their track teams having also won fame at various meets both in the East and West Kootenays. Not only the spirit of sport but the spirit of sportsmanship is fostered in every way and there is no doubt that this summer will see a continuance of the interest in every form of sport.
1930 Fire damages local garage
Old Kimberley garage nearly destroyed in Saturday night blaze
The shrill shriek of the fire siren at the police station Saturday night at about 2 o'clock brought a sleepy populace to its feet, with a realization that danger threatened. The cause of the alarm was a fire in the middle section of the Kimberley Garage. The writer was among the first at the scene, and from what we could see, the fire had evidently been under way quite a while before the alarm was turned in. The whole upper section of the building was ablaze inside and great volumes of smoke and fumes poured from the crevices and several openings in the roof.
The fire engine made a good run and was on the job within a short time and willing hands soon had three streams pouring into the building. Before the arrival of the engine the living rooms above the garage, which had been occupied until the night before, were inspected by the police and others to see that no one remained in the building.
The battle with the flames lasted over an hour, but the fire demon had taken its toll, as the whole front and middle section of the building was practically destroyed with their contents. The back section, which comprised the repair and workshop, remains intact. ln this section was the car belonging to Ted Halvorsen, which at first was supposed to have been destroyed. Among the three or four cars taken out before the water was turned on, was one belonging to Fred Martell°.
An unfortunate accident occurred while salvaging the stored cars, when Alex Trickett, in breaking the glass in the door of a locked closed car, received a badly lacerated wrist. It is said that two of the tendons of the wrist were severed and he suffered greatly from loss of blood before receiving medical attention.
The most amusing thing at the fire was the spectacle of a Chinaman rushing from a laundry building located half a block away laden with his mattress and all his bedding, which he carefully deposited at Martin's corner. A few minutes later, a section of the hose burst near him and he made a frantic grab for his bed and carried it over to the Bank of Commerce, from which vantage point he watched the progress of the fire.
The alarm was given by Lawrence Almas and two other boys, who broke the alarm box at the freight shed, not knowing that it had been disconnected. They then rushed to the Ritz Cafe and phoned for the truck. About that time Jimmy Booth turned in the alarm from the police station, and with the assistance of two or three others soon had a stream playing on the fire at the rear.
The loss was fully covered, as it is understood that insurance aggregating about $9,000, was carried by Beale & Elwell, Kimberley.
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Page One 1896 - 1910, - Page Two 1900 - 1911, - Page Three 1912 - 1920, - Page Four 1921 - 1924, - Page Five 1925
Page Six 1926, - Page Seven 1927, - Page Eight 1928, - Page Nine 1929, - Page Ten 1930, -
Page Eleven 1930, - Page Twelve 1931/32, - Page Thirteen 1933 - 1936, - Page Fourteen 1937 - 1939, - Page Fifteen 1940, -
Page Sixteen 1941/42, - Page Seventeen 1943, - Page Eighteen 1944/45, - Page Nineteen 1945/46, - Page Twenty 1946/47, -
Page Twentyone 1948, - Page Twentytwo 1948, - Page Twentythree 1949, - Page Twentyfour 1950/51, - Page Twentyfive 1951, -
Page Twentysix 1952, - Page Twentyseven 1953, - Page Twentyeight 1954/55, - Page Twentynine 1955, - Page Thirty 1956/57, -
Page Thirtyone 1957/58, - Page Thirtytwo 1958/59, - Page Thirtythree 1959 - 1961, - Page Thirtyfour 1961/62, - Page Thirtyfive 1962/63, -
Page Thirtysix 1963/64, - Page Thirtyseven 1964 - 1966, - Page Thirtyeight 1967, - Page Thirtynine 1968 - 1970, - Page Forty 1970, -
Page Fortyone 1971, - Page Fortytwo 1972, - Page Fortythree 1973, - Page Fortyfour 1974/75, - Page Fortyfive 1975, -
Page Fortysix 1976, - Page Fortyseven 1976, - Page Fortyeight 1977/78, - Page Fortynine 1978, - Page Fifty 1979/80, -
Page Fiftyone 1981/82, - Page Fiftytwo 1982/83, - Page Fiftythree 1983/84, - Page Fiftyfour 1985, - Page Fiftyfive 1986/87, -
Page Fiftysix 1987/88, - Page Fiftyseven 1988/89, - Page Fiftyeight 1989 - 1991, - Page Fiftynine 1991/92, - Page Sixty 1993/94, -
Page Sixtyone 1995, - Page Sixtytwo 1996/97, - Page Sixtythree 1997/98, - Page Sixtyfour 1998/99, - Back CoverReturn to Keepers Index
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