Looking Back: 50 years ago, Century Bath Unit
110 years ago - June 22, 1916
N. Brownbridge gave the soldiers here the free use of his bowling alley and pool tables that week.
Duncan Scott Gay had been killed in action while a member of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Flanders. Gay had worked here in 1912-13 as teller-accountant at the Union Bank.
Twenty people were in the municipal hospital. There had been four new cases, one birth and seven people discharged and/or cured in May.
The hospital report also acknowledged gifts: rhubarb from Mrs. D. P. Kerr of Camberley; eggs, cream and chicken from Howard Fleet, a crock of butter from each of Mrs. Andrew Shannon of Kingsland and Mrs. Howard Powell; and magazines from Mrs. D. M. Geddes and Mrs. C. W. Holmes.
100 years ago - June 17, 1926
The Rosetown Board of Trade realized a surplus of $524.45 from the Empire Day celebration.
Lethbridge barrister C. F. Jamieson was visiting here for a week as part of a Saskatchewan tour for the Native Sons of Canada, of which he was an officer. The group was trying to “combat the exodus of our young people, to stimulate the demand for Canadian products, to encourage the sons and daughters of the foreign born to endorse Canadian institutions and ideals and to induce those from other lands to become citizens of their adopted country.”
L. Naismith had been given the exclusive dealership here for Nash automobiles. He had for sale two four-door sedans: a Nash Light Six for $1,600 and a Special Six for $2,215, both f.o.b. Rosetown.
50 years ago - June 23, 1976
The Rosetown Hospital Auxiliary bought a Century Bath Unit for the nursing wing. The unit consisted of a hydraulic lift, a wheelchair that could be secured to the lift and a tub which permitted chest-level submersion.
A photo inside showed that year’s graduates from Milden Central School: Donna Simpson, Patty Anton, Garnet Greer, Ines Kettel, Lorrie Heeg, Cheryl Stewart, Kim Rouse and Cheryl Garrett.
Agnes Wickett was honoured at Rosetown Division III School on her retirement on June 16. She’d begun teaching at Jerome School in 1931 on an annual salary of $750. By 1935, her salary had been reduced to $500. In 1937, she quit teaching to raise her family. In 1956, she filled in for someone and in 1957 returned on a full-time basis.
In May, Milton Munchinsky, son of James Munchinsky of Sovereign, graduated with a doctor of divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He had since taken a pastoral position in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Roblin, Ont.
30 years ago - June 24, 1996
Hailstones did more than $10,000 in damage to Jim Arnold’s car while he and others huddled in the golf clubhouse. The insurance adjuster told Arnold he’d not seen a vehicle so bad in a long time.
The hail also pounded two other parked vehicles and even punched holes in a motorhome carrying a couple from Regina. The couple stayed overnight here and then headed back to Regina with their planned vacation over, at least for a while.
Six long-time teachers were retiring: Laverne and Sharon Friesen of Walter Aseltine School; Doug DeBoice, Jake Wiebe and Ron Anderson of Rosetown Central High School; and Gary Hatchen, the Harris-Tessier Central School principal.
Also retiring was Ernie Henderson, maintenance supervisor at Walter Aseltine School.
20 years ago - June 26, 2006
An early-morning collision on June 19 of a pickup truck with a northbound semi-trailer unit resulted in the death of the pickup truck driver, Randy Wickett, 50, of Rosetown.