Looking Back: 110 years ago, Fortune Bachelors Club
110 years ago - March 9, 1916
The Fortune Bachelors Club planned to put on a dance on March 10 at Hillside School. Admission was free and the ladies attending would supply refreshments.
Miss M. MacLean invited ladies to an early showing of spring millinery (women’s hats) in showrooms over D. M. Geddes’ store.
Thrush & Gawletz bought the carting and draying business owned by A. Boos.
100 years ago - March 11, 1926
At Anglia, A. G. Mott was having a filling station installed in front of his grocery store on Front Street.
Cecil J. Paine of Auckland, New Zealand was visiting his uncle, Dr. H. Paine. “He is very much interested in our winter sports” and on his second attempt on skates at the rink here “was seen gliding around” with ease.
Herschel curlers C. Fraser, L. H. Lamoby, James Ballentine and skip S. J. Leonard “journeyed through a blizzard” to play a Wiggins quartet. After playing and with the storm still raging, they gratefully accepted their hosts’ invitation to stay overnight.
70 years ago - March 8, 1956
With no more Canadian Pacific Railway daily service on the Moose Jaw - Macklin line, mail between Moose Jaw to Rosetown was to go by truck.
Passing away were James Cameron Hay, 43, Mrs. Alphonse Gagne, 68, and former resident William McKenzie Gillespie, 35, of Saskatoon.
Hay was born here, grew up in the Idaleen district and married Inez Isabel Smith at Inwood, Ont., in 1940. They’d since lived on a farm in this district. Mrs. Hay, sons Ronnie and Larry, daughter Maxine, brother Robert of Rosetown and sister Mrs. J. L. Gusthart of Saskatoon survived him.
Mrs. Gagne was born in Vermont, wed in New Hampshire and settled in this districf in 1913. She and her husband were visiting son Roland in Cobourg, Ont., when she died. Other son Armand of Gunworth also survived her.
Gillespie had recently worked here as field supervisor for the Veterans Land Act. Wife Helen, son James, daughter Peggy and his mother, Mrs. J. A. Gillespie, survived him.
50 years ago - March 10, 1976
The Town of Rosetown put 40 lots up for sale on March 4. About 15 lots sold “right away,” seven more sold after that and a housing project was to take about eight lots.
A photo showed Rosetown Legion auxiliary members Agnes Fisher and Zelma McIsaac presenting a cheque for $1,157.18, proceeds from the Robbie Burns Day dance, to Mrs. Clarke Rathwell and Guy Halliday, representatives of the Senior Citizens Activity Centre.
30 years ago - March 11, 1996
The Prairie Schooner tourism region had a new office at the Rosetown & District Civic Centre. Donna Johnston took on the two-day-a-week job of running the office in addition to her work as administrator of the Wild Goose Recreation Association.
A photo showed Girl Guide Krystal Van Ryckeghem pouring a cup of tea for Girl Guide area commander Bonnie Jean Low of Davidson during the Guides’ tea at the Legion hall.
20 years ago - March 13, 2006
A photo showed a scene from Arsenic and Old Lace with cast members Rome Molsberry, Rod Parker, Debbie Oliver and Marlene Weston. This first production by the Rosetown Community Theatre Group was a sellout.
The Rosetown Lions Club, which began in February 1946, was to celebrate 60 years that week. A 1982 photo showed local Lions who did a bike-a-thon then to raise money for the Lions Manor housing complex: Ted Brumwell, Bill Reynolds, Dale Abrey, Red Pearce and Dale McLaren with Gordon Gardner, a charter member and bike-a-thon driver.