100 Years ago, 1926 — Newly amended Temperance Act prohibits liquor in places other than private dwellings; fresh milk and cream at W.H. Palmer’s Carman Dairy; Peck’s Service Station is your North Star Oil agent; Neil Galbraith sells young pigs for $14 per pair; Magistrate Halverson fines Raymond Confectionary $200 plus $10 costs for liquor in his store, with Ryall Hotel, Grand View Hotel and Dorfman’s pending; call 42 for Porter’s Garage service truck; farmers along the N/E Carman drainage ditch receive compensation.
75 Years ago, 1951 — Manitoba Power Commission holds Farm Electrification Day to demonstrate more than 75 electric appliances; Sperling wins Grand Aggregate at the high school track meet with 109.2 points, followed by Morris with 53.7 and Carman with 52; 16 members of the Miami Seed Club contract to grow malt barley; Safeway Pepsi and Coke, 16 bottles for 36 cents; Doug Keith to represent Roseisle at provincials in the half-mile and one-mile races; Allan Clarke of Carman to appear on CKY radio after a contest to find new talent; Eva and Art Grundy receive lavish gifts after more than 30 years of helping youth in Carman; Sperling holds its first graduation ceremony for five students.
50 Years ago, 1976 — Parkway Motors grand opening staff includes Cornie Unger, president; John Neufeld, vice-president; Gil Lesage, sales manager; Harold Hiebert and Archie Hardy, service; John Pokitar, parts; Dennis Woods, books; George Enns, Len Giesbrecht, George Huston, Ken Kroeker, Gary Dinnin and Jim Sherwood, mechanics; Dick’s Heating sells air conditioners from $325 to $510; at the Central Plains Swim Meet, Robin Penner places first in breaststroke; Kin Club grows from 25 to 40 members in the past year; Harry McKnight builds the “world’s largest corn planter” at 48 feet wide.
25 Years ago, 2001 — Rene Comte elected CEO of RHA; Carman Development Corp. offers $10,000 business loans; Myron Krahn named Homewood Co-op agronomist; Terry Laycock co-ordinates Carman Heel & Wheel-a-thon for Crohn’s and Colitis; after 10 years, Carman Fair to feature harness racing, says DAS president Dave Suderman; Rob and Bev Franzman operate Hillside Hail; grand opening of Boyne Regional Library renovations; Graysville Mennonite United welcomes Norman and Rose Dyck as pastor couple.
