Looking Back: 70 years ago, Film of the 1955 Brier
110 years ago - March 16, 1916
Stuart Mooney had built a two-and-a-half-storey, 10-room house on his farm on 16-31-14. It had a hot-air furnace and was to have hot and cold water upstairs and downstairs. George Pepper did the interior decorating.
Over 100 people attended a unique leap-year dance at Ivor School on March 9. A ladies orchestra furnished the music. Ladies waxed and managed the floor, did the calling and took a collection from only ladies. They got the largest collection ever at the school, about $40. The men who attended had to supply the refreshments.
Katherine Ogle of Belvoir and Edward Fitzgerald of Rosetown got married at St. Patrick’s church at Belvoir on March 7.
100 years ago - March 18, 1926
Mrs. James Crossman, 54, died on March 17 in California. Mrs. Crossman had been in poor health for about two years after a pneumonia attack.
On Dec. 10, Mr. and Mrs. Crossman and daughter Mae left here for the West Coast. After two weeks in Vancouver, they went on to Venice, Calif. About three weeks ago, she got very ill and was taken to a Santa Monica hospital. Medical staff determined her condition was too advanced for an operation.
Mrs. Crossman was born in Georgetown, Ont., wed in 1899 and came to Balcarres, Sask., in 1904, Milestone in 1907 and here in 1910, living on their farm three and a half miles south. Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Moote, who’d lived with her the last seven years; daughters Mrs. Fred McArthur, Mrs. John Cameron, Irene and Edna and sons James, Raymond and Lester also survived her. The funeral and burial were to be here.
70 years ago - March 15, 1956
George Shaw of Rosetown took a film of the 1955 Brier on a recent holiday to Iowa and Oklahoma, he said after returning. Shaw ended up showing the film 17 times. About 700 people turned out for two showings in Tulsa.
The music festival was well attended despite blocked roads. A Kindersley contingent with about 130 children got here on their second attempt. Helen Yuers won the Hon. J. T. Douglas Trophy for outstanding performance.
Some people at the festival made a hour-long tape of singing by Rosetown Public School children. Some teachers and Mrs. Max Grasely brought the tape to the Saskatoon sanitorium where her husband, the school principal, was a patient. He and other patients “thoroughly enjoyed” their singing. With a recorder they’d brought, he sent greetings and thanks and said he hoped to return to school by Easter.
50 years ago - March 17, 1956
Local First World War veterans Andy McCulloch and Herb Stevens received citations and medals from Jim McCulloch and Ed Schultz, respectively, during observance of the Royal Canadian Legion’s 50th anniversary.
The Rosetown Jubilee Stamp Club was re-organized with officers Jack Chapman, Oscar Lindell and Walter Adnam. The club met monthly. Membership, open to anyone 14 or older, cost $2 per year.
30 years ago - March 18, 1996
Precision Metal Fabricating, maker of Rake-up combine pickups, laid off its staff here. Sales had to catch up to the amount of inventory, said president Loren Katzenberger.
A photo showed young skaters Brittany Gray and Tyson Willms waiting their turn at the Rosetown Elkette ice show Movies on Ice.
The Day of the Fiddle event at the community hall included guest fiddlers and the Rosetown Fiddlers.
20 years ago - March 20, 2006
Sun West School Division officials suspended student assessment tests until 2007 for a lack of people to do them, said director of education Janet Cassell-Beckman.