Looking Back: 100 Years Ago, 10-mile-per-hour speed limit

110 years ago - April 27, 1916

While visiting his father and friends here, bugler Stuart McCulloch contracted measles and had been put in the isolation hospital. It was the first case of measles in Rosetown.

Another visiting bugler also had a rough time here. Wesley Elliott of Swift Current had an arm broken while cranking a car that backfired.

Wiggins-district settler Louis Dupas, 59, died of heart failure on the morning of April 22 at his house on 4-33-17. Dupas left a wife, two sons and five daughters.

100 years ago - April 29, 1926

Rosetown council determined to enforce the 10-mile-per-hour town speed limit.

D. P. Kerr was driving slowly on April 24 when his car hit young Cecil Hawes who was riding a bicycle on the wrong side of the street. The boy, who received a gash in the head and other minor injuries, had turned a corner into the path of Kerr’s vehicle.

70 years ago - April 26, 1956

Around 4 p.m. on April 21, a car driven by William Holler of the Eston district left Highway 7 about a mile east of Zealandia when the wheels caught the soft shoulder of the road. It plunged into a large slough. The car came to a rest about 80 feet from the highway.

Gilbert Kidd, 18; Bob Miller and George Hicks, both 17; and Graham Copeland, 16, who were driving from Harris, noticed it. Water was up to the car’s hood and Holler could be seen crouched on top of the back of the front seat. While they watched, the car started to sink into the mud. There was about five feet of water and mud there and about nine feet of water by the highway.

Hicks and Copeland left for Zealandia for help. Kidd took off his shoes, entered the icy water and swam out to the car. On arrival, he helped Holler to get his head and shoulders out of the open side window and supported him until help came.

Those on the highway built a crude raft which, with attached ropes, Zealandia mechanic Harold Brown pullled while swimming out to the car. Holler was helped onto the raft and towed to the highway. Brown stayed at the car to help Kidd, who was by then numb and exhausted. Through a rope left at the car, Kidd and Brown wered pulled on the raft to safety. A tractor eventually pulled out the car.

The former Fiske businessman reported in the April 12 issue to have died had the name of Gordon Thrower, not Thrours.

50 years ago - April 28, 1976

A out-of-province man returned to pay a debt: $5 to Rosetown Co-op general manager Jim Herron. Fifteen years before, on a schoolboy dare, he’d shoplifted a cigarette lighter in the store. Herron said he looked like he had “shrugged off a heavy weight!”

30 years ago - April 29, 1996

A photo showed Reg Schultz handling a large pop bottle at the SARCAN depot on the 19th, SARCAN depots’ eighth anniversary and Earth Day.

20 years ago - May 1, 2006

While working in her garden 12 years ago, Leona Deibert lost her wedding ring. The ring was a replacement for her original ring lost when doing laundry with a wringer washer. After losing the second ring, she didn’t get another.

Leona and husband Emil tried to find the second ring, even using a metal detector bought from Bill Kellett.

On April 22, Emil was rototilling the garden and saw something on the ground: the ring with only a few dents and scrapes.