Looking Back: Four men returned from overseas
100 years ago - Nov. 5, 1925
A child of a penniless family died at the hospital here. The father, mother and two daughters aged four years and 19 months, respectively, couldn’t speak English. They’d travelled from Frankerweise, Russia to friends in Winnipeg who hadn’t the space nor the means to feed them.
They then sought to stay with other friends at a Mennonite colony near Milden, going there by train via Rosetown.
When the family got here in the past week, the 19-month-old was seriously ill. All were starving, having only a small piece of bread which they’d saved for the children. The parents hadn’t eaten in three days.
Local people took them to the Western Boarding House. They got fed. An interpreter was brought in. People canvassed the town
and got “a ready response.” A physician found the baby had pneumonia. She died at the hospital on Nov. 3 and was buried here on the 5th. Having been received food, clothing and money for train tickets, the rest of the family set out for Milden. A “distressing” part was that the friends there hadn’t money to get the family through the winter.
80 years ago - Nov. 1, 194
Four men returned from overseas. Sgt. Eldon Somerville had been in the army but, before he served in northwest Europe, had married Ethel Monk of Welling, Kent, England in March. She was still there but he hoped to have her with him by Christmas. Pte. C. T. Smith and L.-Cpl. Harold Torry had seen action in northwestern Europe. Sgt. K. L. Winter had served in England and Italy.
Glenn F. Williams died in Rochester, Minn., where he’d undergone a successful operation at the Mayo Clinic but died of a blood clot in the brain. Williams was born in Sidney, Man., and entered the hardware business after completing his schooling. He and his family moved here in 1929 to open Williams Hardware. Widow Lauretta, sons James of Montreal, Gerald at the University of Saskatchewan and Donald at home, three brothers, three sisters and other relatives survived him.
70 years ago - Nov. 3, 1955
Dr. C. R. Giles got 122 votes; Stewart Gordon, 127 votes; and George Fensom, 110; for election as school trustees. Mrs. Norman Smith fell short with 94 votes.
Rosetown Composite High School students selected Wayne Glass, Lois Kerr, Betty Lust, Donna Smith, Margaret Dunn, Marlene Potratz, Carol Clarke, Boyd Denny and Isobelle LaFayette to their council.
50 years ago - Nov. 5, 1975
Kayla Elaine (née Jiricka) Cranshaw graduated with a bachelor of education degree and Lauris Moxley with a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Saskatchewan fall convocation.
Tom McGrane, 65-year-old editor and publisher of the Elrose Review, died suddenly on Oct. 31.
30 years ago - Oct. 30, 1995
About 200 people gathered here on Oct. 27 to tell Quebec, ‘“Don’t Go,” regarding its impending referendum. Mayor Alma Dubé, students Devin Dubois and Andrea Pearce, Yvette Norman (in French) and Dennis Dyck, one of the organizers, spoke tohs
An article inside profiled Marc Jeannotte, an exchange student from south Montreal at North West Central School in Plenty. Although too young to vote, Jeannotte supported the “No” side.
20 years ago - Oct. 31, 2005
After 29 years here, the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant here was to close on Nov. 8. People would drive from Biggar for chicken, said employee Marj Lafortune.
The Block Parent program here was in doubt due to a lack of members in the sponsoring Kinettes, said Kinette Kathy Kammer.