Looking Back: 110 years ago, wheat selling for $1.04 per bushel
110 years ago - Feb. 17, 1916
Describing games in the local bonspiel took some imagination:
“Magistrate Evans with the assistance of a blacksmith, a lumber dealer, and a doctor succeeded in placing a heavy fine on J. Telfer, the grain merchant and his assistants, a machine company collector, a banker and a farmer.”
The market report stated that No. 1 northern wheat was selling for $1.04 per bushel, oats for 31 1/2¢ per bu., barley for 45¢ per bu., flax for $1.86 per bu. and potatoes for $1 per bu., as well as a dozen eggs for 40¢ and a pound of butter for 30¢.
100 years ago - Feb. 18, 1926
At an Outlook bonspiel, skip George Shaw, R. C. Buchanan, H. Morrison and F. L. Cassidy had won the Grand Challenge and would finish at least fourth in the Macdonald- Crawford event.
Six local teams played in a Saskatoon bonspiel but “did not overburden” themselves with their winnings or jewelry.
At Herschel, Public School teachers G. H. Brown and Miss N. Irving “go out to the Lamborn Farm three nights a week to teach several subjects, including grammar, to the adult Mennonites who wish to learn the English language,” stated the Herschel correspondent. “Mr. Brown states that they are picking up our language very rapidly.”
70 years ago - Feb. 16, 1956
Rosetown “was lagging behind in major accomplishments,” Mayor Herb Greenwood told the Rosetown Board of Trade.
Rosetown needed an arena, a home for the aged, a health centre and a drainage system, and such large projects could only be handled by the community as a whole, not individual clubs or organizations, said Greenwood who “appealed to everyone to co-operate in all activities and keep Rosetown ‘a good town.’ ”
High school curling teams played in west central zone playoffs in Conquest. After defeating an Outlook rink and a default win over a Kerrobert foursome, skip Diane Foster, Arlene Byer, Pat Anderson and Gail Loken lost to a Biggar team in the final. Stuart and Graham Copeland, Clarence Pearce and skip Gib Kidd lost to a Brock team.
50 years ago - Feb. 18, 1976
A photo showed baby Michelle Lavigne, father Ed Lavigne, grandmother Mrs. Ray Lavigne, great-grandmother Mrs. Jack Hannay and great-great-grandmother Mrs. Doris Slywka.
The Bill Scott family said they’d phoned daughter Kathy after a major earthquake hit Guatemala. She was working for the Canadian International Development Agency in nearby Belize. She said it happened at about 3 a.m. and lasted for “three interminable minutes.” Kathy lived in a concrete building which was swaying and anything on a flat surface fell off. She “found it to be a terrifying experience.”
30 years ago - Feb. 19, 1996
An article looked at the work of wheelwright George Shipman of Plenty. Repairing or building wooden wheels wasn’t an dying art; it was increasing in popularity, said Shipman.
Stories inside were about Lawrence and Helen Simpson who’d recently received a heart transplant and had a heart bypass operation, respectively; and about Jim Arnold who was still waiting for a heart transplant.
20 years ago - Feb. 20, 2006
A photo showed Alistair Smith of Rosetown holding the bronze medal he’d won in weightlifting at the Saskatchewan Winter Games. With a clean-and-jerk lift of 71 kg and a snatch lift of 55 kg, Smith placed third in the 62-kg class in Melfort.
The Communities in Bloom committee had about $1,000 but needed another $2,000 to put lights on the Rose Trail along Marshall Avenue, said committee chair Joan Henderson.