Looking Back: Ice carnival queen candidates

110 years ago - Jan. 13, 1916

In the evening of Jan. 6 at the Rosetown Hotel, a portable lamp sprung a leak, spraying on the house porter gasoline which ignited immediately.

The porter jumped through a window and, on reaching the street, bystanders rolled him in the snow to put out the flames.

Along with very bad burns about the face, hands and back, he was badly cut about the face and arms from going through two panes of glass but got the help needed to stop the bleeding.

Mike Gawletz also had his hands and face badly burned. The prompt use of a fire extinguisher quickly put out the flames in the hotel rotunda.

100 years ago - Jan. 14, 1926

The Rosetown Rosebuds hockey team lost 4-2 in Kindersley and 3-1 at home to the Outlook team, who included brothers Jack and Reg Bentley of Delisle (they didn’t score any goals).

Harold and Maurice Paull arrived here from McCreary, Man., intending to make their home here.

The Herschel boys and girls had a toboggan slide, extending some six hundred feet from a hilltop southeast of the school. Three togoggans of different sizes had been bought with Christmas concert proceeds. Credit for it went to principal G. H. Brown and builder John Dull.

70 years ago - Jan. 19, 1956

Dr. W. L. Hutcheon had been appointed as professor and head of the University of Saskatchewan soil science department.

Hutcheon had been born and raised on a Rosetown-area farm, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hutcheon. He obtained from the U of S degrees of bachelor of science in agriculture with distinction in 1939 and master of science in 1941. After service as an artillery captain in the Second World War (mentioned in dispatches during the Beveland campaign), he did graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley, served as U of S assistant and associate professor and received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in December. Hutcheon was married with three children.

Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Ray celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.

50 years ago - Jan. 14, 1976

Ice carnival queen candidates were Nicole Normand and Nancy Sled, both aged 17 and Grade 12 students at Rosetown Composite High School.

Kim Seymour, a 1975 graduate of the school, won a $200 Rosetown hospital auxiliary bursary. She was training at Kelsey Institute in Saskatoon to be a dental assistant.

The acting director and medical health officer for Rosetown Health Region, Dr. W. G. Davidson, appointed two public health inspectors: Wendel Stroh as senior public health inspector and David Smith as public health inspector C.P.H.I.

30 years ago - Jan. 15, 1996

The Canadian Red Cross was turning 100 and the Saskatchewan division picked Dinsmore as a place to launch centennial celebrations.

Reasons were local support and the Dinsmore pillow.

The junior Red Cross at the school was due at least in part to the 20-year maintenance by teacher Jeff Lawrence.

The pillow was created during the First World War by Albermarle-district residents to raise money for the Red Cross. People would donate (10 or 50 cents, depending on the source) and get their names embroidered on a pillow. The pillow, with 106 names, was auctioned and bought by Andrew Lonseth for $25. A photo showed a granddaughter of Lonseth, Sherrie Gullacher of Humboldt, telling the story of the pillow, then in the Dinsmore museum.

20 years ago - Jan. 9, 2006

Local Grade 11 student Tamara Wipf was to represent Saskatchewan at the Forum for Young Canadians in March in Ottawa.