Looking Back: Senior Hockey Team 100 Years Ago
110 years ago - Jan. 27, 1916
About 100 people attended the ball at the Unique Theatre put on by the Bachelors Club as a send-off for member E. J. Roycraft who had been promoted from Union Bank manager here to the Winnipeg head office. Sutton’s Orchestra of Outlook supplied music for the dancing.
Ford cars were on sale at Rosetown Machine & Auto Company: the Runabout for $480, the Touring Car for $530, the Coupelet for $730, the Town Car for $780 and the Sedan for $890; all prices were f.o.b. Ford, Walkerville, Ont.
100 years ago - Jan. 28, 1926
The senior hockey team beat a Kindersley squad 6-1 here. Skinner Paulin “brought the fans to their toes when he cleverly stickhandled his way from near the boards at the left of the goal through three Kindersley players” to score his team’s second goal.
About 20 ministers and laymen of the Union Presbytery of Kindersley met here. “A plan was set on foot to raise several of our mission fields to regular charges where ordained ministers could be placed in the spring.”
Herschel hardware merchant E. G. Aime had bought the hardware store in Stranraer. He was filling its shelves with merchandise and had put Herschel resident W. Green in charge.
70 years ago - Jan. 26, 1956
On Dec. 12, the day of the big blizzard, Mr. and Mrs. Len Sparks, who farmed south of Dodsland, lost their dog, wrote Dodsland correspondent Mrs. M. D. MacLeod.
The dog was 18 years old “and quite a pet so they hated to lose him . . .” After the storm, Mr. Sparks dug around straw stacks and places where he thought the dog might have crawled for warmth. Thirty-seven days later, on Jan. 17, while working at the barn he heard the dog crying and traced the sound to a large snowdrift. Sparks got a shovel and dug until the dog crawled out “very gaunt and thin but not seriously the worse for the experience.”
Citizens quickly put out a chimney fire at the home of J. N. Larson with extinguishers and fire-suppressing bombs, wrote Ruthilda correspondent Mrs. Charles Simpson.
Faye Hogan and Keith Bartlett won the Harris School Gr. 5-6 oratory contest.
Stormy weather and blocked roads forced the cancellation of the dance at the Hester School, near Hughton, reported Hester correspondent Miss Elizabeth Rolston.
50 years ago - Jan. 28, 1976
About 250 people attended the Robbie Burns night here. The Rosetown Senior Citizens Choir directed by Doris Hearn sang several Scottish songs, as did Sharon Erickson, accompanied by Charles Birss.
Along with Highland dancers and a piper, the M.C., Rev. Miller Nixon, introduced Jim Herron, who toasted Burns. The Brooks Orchestra played then and for the dance following.
30 years ago - Jan. 29, 1996
Value-added Industries Community Bond Corp. members asked Rosetown council to invest in it so the corporation could meet a $1-million goal. The money would go into area ventures, possibly an elk-horn processing operation and a hull-less barley flour mill. So far, $258,000 had been invested, said corporation president Jerry Spence.
20 years ago - Jan. 30, 2006
Despite large numbers of deer in the Harris game preserve, crop damage and concerns about collisions, most people at a public meeting felt the preserve should stay as is, said Jim Angus of the RM of Harris.
The Rosetown Community Thrift Store board bought the Rosetown Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall but wouldn’t move the store there before the hall got renovations and an addition, said board chair Judy Wilson.