Looking Back: 100 Years Ago, plans to build a convent
110 years ago - March 2, 1916
“Parties contemplating establishing a sash and door factory and planing mill are expected in town within the next few days to look over the town and consider its possibilities as to a point in which to establish their industry.”
Ivan Tinkess returned to Canada from the war zone in charge of a company of convalescent soldiers. Tinkess “is expected along any day to visit his parents and other relatives at Anglia.”
The R. B. McLean Grain Co., Ltd., was building an elevator at Pym siding, the halfway point between Rosetown and Zealandia.
Rates were $1.50 to $2 per day at the Rosetown Hotel.
100 years ago - March 4, 1926
There were plans to build in the spring a convent costing about $40,000, said editor C. W. Holmes.
People at Milden received “a severe shock,” to say nothing of the reaction of Kenneth L. Campbell, when the lifeless body of his wife was found hanging by a rope in the garage behind her home.
“Her husband kept a poolroom in the town and they had a comfortable home.” She had been in ill health “for quite a time” and had undergone an operation in 1925. It was said that she had on occasion hinted that she would kill herself.
A note dated Feb. 26, two days before, directed that her estate go to her husband and that her body be taken for burial to Pembroke, Ont., where her sisters lived.
Cst. Burr of the provincial police in Rosetown consulted with the coroner, Dr. Drummond of Conquest, and decided an inquest wasn’t needed, she having killed herself in a fit of temporary insanity.
70 years ago
That issue wasn’t available.
50 years ago - March 3, 1976
Fire destroyed a home at 339 Sixth St. E. Plumbers had been heating pipes to thaw them out when shavings caught fire at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 28. One room was completely destroyed and the remainder had water and smoke damage. Fourteen tenants were left homeless and many Rosetown people helped them out.
A blizzard on Feb. 26 “stranded several people for the night and created starting problems the next morning - if you could find your car.” One photo showed a mound of snow covering nearly all of a car.
Rosetown Composite High School staff nominated three students for the junior citizen of the year award: Mary Payne, Joel Shortt and Donna Lefaivre.
30 years ago - March 4, 1996
The Town of Rosetown, the Rosetown school division, adjacent local groups were applying for a $30,000 federal government grant to help connect the community to the internet, said local alderman Tyler Tollefson.
While his family were hauling grain, they returned to the farm south of Rosetown to find a grain auger motor, bin sweep, belts, hose and a gas tank missing, said Norm Collins. A photo showed Collins and Cst. Brian Haley in the yard looking at damage done by the thieves.
20 years ago - March 6, 2006
Walter Aseltine School students shaved the beard and moustache off of principal Perry Johnson, something he’d allow if the students raised $1,000 in pennies for Telemiracle. They collected over 120,000 pennies. A photo showed Johnson and students Bernard Charpentier, Ben Sherk, Brendon Boyd, Jennelle Minish and Nicole Crossman.
Another photo showed winners of the fourth annual Rosetown and District Chamber of Commerce business awards: Elaine Domes for employee, Janae Dawson for student employee and Margaret Sparks, accepting for the business of the year, the Red Rose Restaurant.