Looking Back: 100 years ago, Louis Forchner lost a horse
110 years ago - Feb. 10, 1916
Former resident Fred Perkins had died, wrote Clayton LaMarsh from the front to cousin Ruby White of Ridpath.
Their battalion made a charge at Givenchy on June 15, taking and then giving up three lines of German trenches. They lost three-quarters of their soldiers and 21 of 22 officers.
Perkins had been wounded slightly earlier but refused to go to the dressing station, joined the charge and got wounded again and again. The last time he fell, “he sat up and started working his rifle.” He was wounded five times but refused to go back and was finally killed. “Had any officer of his company lived, he would most certainly have recommended Perkins for some honor . . .”
A quarter-section near town, with a house, stable and a well, was on sale for $21 per acre.
100 years ago - Feb. 11, 1926
Young Pat Cain saw a meadow lark east of Herschel during the mild weather in January. He also brought blooming pussy willows to school.
Louis Forchner lost a horse when it got smothered in a straw stack, said the Marriott correspondent.
The Feb. 4 Marriott column had said George Robertson of Harris couldn’t be present to speak at Marriott Hall on “The Hospital Question,” wrote editor C. W. Holmes.
“This should have read ‘The Hog Pool Question’ - a great difference in subjects, indeed. The information was given over the phone and voices were almost inaudible that day . . . The inaccuracy was not at all the fault of the correspondent,” wrote Holmes.
70 years ago - Feb. 9, 1956
Canadian Pacific Railway officials decided to cut trains on the Moose Jaw-Macklin line - including here - to three days a week from six.
At their annual meeting, the 74 Rosetown branch members of the Saskatchewan Civil Servants Association elected Allen Linklater as president, Joe Bentham as vice-president, John McCulloch as secretary-treasurer and Doug Hiller, Lorne Empey, Carl Byer, Reg Fox, Reg Frerichs and Pete Swiala as executive members.
A photo showed Gunner Louis Castagnier of Rosetown doing a high jump during parachutist training at the Canadian Joint Air Training Centre in Rivers, Man.
50 years ago - Feb. 11, 1976
A fire destroyed the Pioneer Hardware store in Dinsmore on Feb. 4. It apparently started in the wiring. Smoke was first seen around 9:30 p.m.
Volunteers and Dinsmore and Wiseton fire departments began fighting the blaze, but when it became uncontrollable, they called for help from Elrose, Outlook, Rosetown and Milden. People also rushed into Dinsmore with tanks of water.
Firefighters and others saved the variety store and pool hall from burning and salvaged propane tanks, hockey sticks and a snowblower from the hardware.
Damage was estimated at $120,000. Hardware owners Mr. and Mrs. Ken Gorham weren’t available for comment, said the Feb. 6 Dinsmore Hi-Flyer.
Burglars broke into the Rosetown Union Hospital early on Jan. 31 and took x-ray and lab equipment, an electronic calculator and two transistor radios. Shortly after, police located two suspects in Saskatoon and charged them with possession of stolen property.
30 years ago - Feb. 12, 1996
A photo showed employee Eric Fredeen hammering an auger pipe into shape as Barton Seed Cleaning was to open that week.
Joe von Doellen joined the Rosetown Co-op as meat manager.
20 years ago - Feb. 13, 2006
Florine Klassen, 80, had been selected as Rosetown citizen of the year. She’d volunteered for the high school band, music festival, drama, dance club, meals on wheels and the senior choral group.