Looking Back: 30 years ago, rodeo queen Erica Britton

110 years ago - June 29, 1916

J. S. Naylor, a Rosetown-based Dept. of Agriculture representative, spoke at a Grain Growers of Anglia meeting on Saturday evening about soils in relation to hay and pasture crops.

C. H. Casler, manager of the King George Hotel in Fiske, and his wife visited here.

100 years ago - July 1, 1926

A grain buyer for the Brooks Elevator Co. in Herschel, Owen Pruden, killed himself with a shotgun blast to the heart on June 30.

Clinton Davis, employed by the Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Co., had been helping Pruden earlier in the day before returning to his own elevator. Davis returned to the Brooks elevator around 4:50 p.m. and went to load a car. The main loading spout was out of adjustment and, intending to use the man-lift, discovered it had gone up. Davis climbed the ladder to the cupola and found the body.

Pruden had risen very early that day. The Marlin 20-gauge pump gun he used was his own.

He was 39 years old, married with three children, the oldest being 10.

Cst. Burr of the provincial police and coroner Dr. E. T. Myers deemed that an inquest was unnecessary. “No reason other than a fit of despondency appears to account for the rash act.”

50 years ago - June 30, 1976

Fifteen families on Anglia put on a barbecue and played games during a gathering to say goodbye to Dr. and Mrs. Martin Chin and daughters.

Mr. and Mrs. Jake Klassen of Herschel celebrated their silver wedding anniversary at the home of Mrs. Clara Funk.

A “much welcomed rain” meant replacing a wiener roast with a morning coffee party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fines to honour Bob on  retiring from 14 years as a school bus driver.

After 48 years as penpals, Cora Gratrix of Rhyl, North Wales and Edith Large of McGee finally met. At Mrs. Large’s invitation, Mrs. Gratrix travelled here. The ladies were to tour of Western Canada before she returned to Great Britain.

Coleman coolers were selling for $25.99 and packages of 250 serviettes for $1.57 at Stedmans.

30 years ago - July 2, 1996

A photo during the rodeo here showed rodeo queen Erica Britton reaching into the draw drum for the winning ticket in the Rosetown Historical Society’s tractor lottery.

That $100,000 ticket belonged to Jim and Myrna Foster. The Fosters didn’t know how they’d spend it. “But when you’re farming, it’s not hard to get rid of money fast,” said Jim.

The Saskatchewan Volleyball Association named Don Trapp of Harris as its juvenile male player of the year. Trapp was to play on the provincial team in the 1997 Canada Games in Brandon, Man. He’d finished high school a year early, completed his first year in the University of Saskatchewan College of Engineering and played on the Huskies. The team was to tour Japan that summer.

20 years ago - July 4, 2006

Mike Gawletz and Meagan Lefaivre, both 19 and of Rosetown, were to run the Rosetown Community Youth Program that summer.

Recent post-secondary graduates included Carly Seibold with a B.Sc. degree fro the University of Alberta, Christine Lypka with a B.Ed. degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Lee Martin with a B.Comm. degree from the U of S and three children of Skip and Bev Vermeulen of Saskatoon, formerly of Harris, Wiseton and Brock: Amber with a B.Sc. in pharmacy, Steven with a B.Sc. in computer science, both from the U of S and Amy with a B.Sc. in biology from the University of Wisconsin.