Looking Back: 70 years ago, ice carnival queens
110 years ago - Feb. 24, 1916
The annual hospital ladies’ aid shower resulted in donated items such as 13 pillows, four tea kettles, a silver butter knife, a carpet sweeper, three lamps and a crate of oranges.
Dan McCrimmon had sold his Massey-Harris dealership to Hutcheon & McClelland and joined the army.
Cora Van Allen left for Herschel to work in the Quebec Bank.
The Central Garage had a Chevrolet car “in for your inspection.” It sold for $760 f.o.b. Rosetown. A better car for a higher price was a Hupmobile; $1,385 f.o.b. Windsor, Ont., stated proprietors Hamilton & Adrian.
100 years ago - Feb. 25, 1926
Charles E. Cayley, principal of Rosetown High School for six years, had been appointed as a professor of history at Trinity University in Waxahachie, Texas.
70 years ago - Feb. 23, 1956
Elks crowned ice carnival queens Donna Smith and Pat Franklin representing Rosetown Composite High and St. Joseph’s schools, respectively. Joyce McIsaac won the 7 and 8 girls race. Paula Cowan won for children’s best costume, 7 and under.
Dr. John Angus Perrin died. Perrin began medical practice here in 1918 and only retired in 1955, due to his own ill health. The funeral was to be held here.
Fifteen women and a male dance instructor met at the home of Mrs. Cam Lawrence and formed the Rosetown Dancing Association for children’s dance lessons. They decided to rent the school and requested men to move a piano there “through six feet of snow” from the Silver Glen Café.
A large crowd at the Unique Theatre heard the Rosetown Fireside Group sing here. Three local people did solos: boy soprano Eddie Hintze, pianist Helen Yuers and baritone Ron Gawletz.
A badminton club report noted “Betty Crossman, whose agile recovery shots were a treat to observe.”
50 years ago - Feb. 25, 1976
Sask. Power officials held an open house for its new $100,000 building at 116 Second Ave. W. Photos showed the building, collection clerk Armella Rollheiser and people touring it and having doughnuts and coffee supplied by Wally Yoner of Highway Host Restaurant.
Former Rosetown MLA John T. Campbell, 84, of Saskatoon died. Campbell, of the Laura area, was first elected for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1994. He served as public works and highways minister from then until retirement in 1960. Daughters Joan Nisbet of Saskatoon and Beth Stewart of Vancouver, sister Florence George of Hamilton, Ont., formerly of Delisle, and other relatives survived him. Wife Eva in 1973 and son William Scott Douglas in 1963 predeceased him.
30 years ago - Feb. 26, 1996
A neighbour phoned Doug Collins to tell him that there was a truck in his farm yard.
Collins came out to the yard, which had a vacant house, and told the two men in the truck to move along.
“I knew they were up to no good,” he said.
Collin told the RCMP who found the men and their truck with used furniture in the back. They got the men’s names, took pictures and sent them on their way, said Cst. Sam Hewson. They also informed the Saskatoon RCMP who subsequently arrested the men in connection with 18 break-ins and recovered 40-50 pieces of furniture from secondhand stores. Collins checked his house and found that the furniture had been moved around. He’d interrupted his own break-in.
20 years ago - Feb. 27, 2006
The Rosetown Chamber of Commerce did an economic survey, said chairperson John Kadler. Ninety-five per cent of local business owners felt business would stay the same as in 2005.