Early century fashion. Male child is in "Plus Fours" dress, dress-like top, short pants tucked into socks. Other child (girl?) is wearing a white gown trimmed in lace. Woman's dress has lace collar and cuffs.
Famed author W.O. Mitchell visited the Rosetown Centennial Library in April, 1981. Foreground, L-R: Jean Backlund, W.O. Mitchell, Wilbie Metheral, 3 unidentified people are shown in the background.
A lady stands outside a sod house which was the very first Winona School. The Winona district hosted "sodding bees" where they would pile sod walls three feet thick against the wooden frame of the school, producing a building which was warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Sodding bees were a community event at the Winona School. Walls of sod three feet thick would be piled against the wooden frame of the school to make a building that was warm in the winter and cool in the summer. In this photo, a large group of people stand/sit outside and on top of Winona School. Contact Rosetown archives for names.
