Looking Back: Sinclair 50th Anniversary
100 years ago - Dec. 3, 1925
Former settler George Ogle died of injuries after falling off of a building in Truckee, Calif. Ogle, 43 and unmarried, had been working on a construction crew on the Southern Pacific Railway. The impact fractured his ribs, which pierced his lungs. He died about four hours later.
Ogle was born in Pont Briand, Que., had gone west in 1909 and homesteaded south and a little west of Rosetown, near Gunworth, in 1910. Some of his brothers joined him that year and his other brothers and mother, in 1911.
In the fall of 1924, Ogle went to Trail, B.C., stayed the winter, then went to Washington state. In mid-November, he moved to California.
His mother, Mrs. Mary Ogle; sister Mrs. E. Fitzgerald, living south of town; and brothers James, Lewis, Henry, Stanley, Vincent and Michael, all of this district; Fr. F. J. Ogle of Spirit Lake, Idaho; and John Ogle of Darwin, Minn., survived him. The funeral and burial were here.
80 years ago - Nov. 29, 1945
Municipal voters sent Johnny Franklin, W. E. Innis and T. H. Smith to Rosetown council, favoured former reeve Joseph Evans over incumbent Oliver A. Brown as Pleasant Valley reeve and chose incumbent Marriott reeve J. H. Johnston instead of 13-term councillor William Wardrop.
The Rosetown Curling Club began its season with a large membership: 104 members.
Ridpath people held their last welcome-home gathering, the guest of honour being Pilot Officer David White.
Gnr. Clifford Gee, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gee of Rosetown, returned from overseas. He’d seen action with the 21st Battery of Saskatoon in France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Bob Ogle won the district Bryant oratory contest, with Lorraine Westphal of Sovereign an extremely close second.
70 years ago - Dec. 1, 1955
Mr. and Mrs. George Sinclair celebrated their 50th anniversary. They’d wed in Shawville, Que., homesteaded in the Idaleen district and moved to town in 1950.
Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova, Unitarian Service Committee of Canada executive director, spoke here. Hitschmanova, of Ottawa, said Greece, devastated by earthquakes, needed the most help. About 75 per cent of Korean schools had been destroyed in the war, she said.
A photo showed D. A. Powell of Rosetown posing with the first white marlin of the season, which he’d caught near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It weighed 57 pounds and measured seven feet six inches.
Receiving 10-year plaques as Government Insurance agents were G. B. Oliphant of D’Arcy, R. A. Tyson of Feudal, Greenwood Agencies here and the Pym Co-op of Zealandia.
50 years ago - Dec. 3, 1975
Due to “the very poor turnout” at its Nov. 28 meeting, Ken Werner said he would continue to chair the United Appeal campaign until 1976.
A Saskatchewan Wheat Pool director presented a watch to George Ament for 25 years. Ament worked in his home town of Glidden for the first 11 years, at Pym and Malmgren for over a year and the remainder at Fortune and the north Rosetown elevator.
30 years ago - Nov. 27, 1995
Milton Lunney of Milden received a Zone 7 volunteer recognition award. Lunney, nominated by the Milden New Horizons Goldorama Club, had been United church treasurer while a teenager, Elks club treasurer, cemetery manager, village councillor, etc.
20 years ago - Nov. 28, 2005
A photo showed the Fiske centennial mural with organizers Tena Siemens, Charlene Siemens, Marianne Mahon and Joan Sinclair. Missing was Pat Siemens. Liza Gareau Tosh of Harris painted the mural which showed Mr. and Mrs. Ev McNeill, Sam Gidden and the first baby born in Fiske: Roy Olson.