100 Years Ago, 1926 — Carmania sells White Owl cigars, 4 for 25 cents; Grade 5 honour roll lists Clint North, 87, and Jim Bryson, 80; Homewood Young People produce a play at Memorial Hall; P & B Cash Store sells head lettuce for 15 cents; Carman Corn Growers Association formed with James Grey as president; Robert McGregor has hatching eggs ready; Tom Laycock of Rosebank returns from Toronto with a prize heifer; E.M. Sanders Drugs sells kidney medicine.
75 Years Ago, 1951 — Gerry Kuik advertises for Dutch to come to Canada as farm hands, carpenters or gardeners; Roseisle’s C. Walsh earns Master Elevator Merit Certificate; Mrs. F. Ostrander wins a prize on CBW’s Now I Ask You; Gordon Garwood opens an office to secure possible oil rights on farmland; Kinsmen conduct Easter Seal campaign; Joanne Peterson crowned Ice Cavalcade Queen by predecessor Jocelyn Loree; Safeway sells one quart Lucerne milk for 19 cents.
50 Years Ago, 1976 — Miami Community Centre opens with the Altamont Orchestra entertaining; Glenn Steeves finishes laying water and sewer in Grundy; Art Poppe wins Corn Grower Award with 138.7 bushels per acre; Cece Dracass wins trophy at Game and Fish for most coons and magpies; Sonatrice Singers perform at the Manitoba Ladies’ Curling Association in Winnipeg; Carman’s 1975 total for social welfare was just $784; Carman Radio & TV antenna installs, regularly $100, now $29.95.
25 Years Ago, 2001 — Principal Bill Bunka announces retirement after 18 years in elementary; International Women’s Day recognized; Carman AA celebrates 30 years; Brad Dyck named Tri-Star Rural School athlete; MP Brian Pallister reads in Graysville during I Love to Read Month; Five Finger discounts a concern at stores; D & M Foods sells Maxwell House 300 g coffee, two for $5; Main Street four-lane project on hold.
