The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on November 13, 1931.
 
Women Leaders of Poultry Project Build Self-Feeders
 
Models Fashioned are Conclusive Proof That Feminine Hands Can Efficiently Hit the Nail on the Head
 
Women leaders have been “hitting the nail on the head” the past week as a result of their leader training meetings, which were held in Luverne Thursday and Friday of last week under the direction of Miss Cora Cooke, of University farm.
“The Feeding and Care of the Laying Flock” was the topic of discussion and one of the features of the meetings was the building of a simple, cheap poultry mash hopper.
Most men have vague ideas as to the ability of Rock county women as carpenters, but judging from the noise in the club rooms on both afternoons, most nails were hit on the head. In fact, most of the nails vanished into the wood, and those that didn’t will in the next few weeks. As a result the feeders were completed and look as attractive as they are serviceable. It is understood that each of the twelve groups of women will construct a similar feeder in their group meetings to be held in the next few weeks.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Star on November 6, 1931.
 
Luverne Cuts Employees’ Salaries $2000
 
Ten Per Cent Reduction To Lower Tax Levy One-Fifth; Every Office Is Affected
 
George DeLate, Superin-tendent of Light Plant, Takes Biggest Loss — Town Police to Receive $90 Per Month
 
The Luverne city council made a 10 per cent wage cut for every employee on the town payroll at the regular November meeting held Tuesday evening of this week. It is estimated that approximately $2,000 will be saved the tax papers in this manner. The yearly tax levy amounts to $9,200. With the $2,000 cut the tax levy should be reduced at least 20 per cent. It requires more than $9,200 to run the town of Luverne but the balance is made up with profits from the city light and water plant.
How Salaries Are Cut
In addition to the 10 per cent cut on the payroll, day labor was cut from 35 cents per hour to 30 cents per hour. The following salaries were cut to 10 per cent:
George DeLate, superintendent of light and water, former salary $200 per month, cut to $180.
Milton Alwin, chief engineer, $145 salary cut to $130.50.
Harry Funk and Ory Bell, engineers, $125 salaries cut to $112.50.
Ben Lewis, helper, $85 salary cut to $76.50.
O. M. Olson, heat inspector, $115 salary cut to $103.50.
Henry Arendt, lineman, $120 salary cut to $108.00
Charles Streeter, meter man, $100 salary cut to $90.
P. J. Connell and Hans Thompson, police officers, $100 salaries cut to $90.
Roy Fitzer, recorder, $140 salary cut to $126.00
Frank Ferguson, municipal judge, $50 salary cut to $45.00.
Carl Omodt, treasurer, $50 salary cut to $45.
C. J. Larson, fire chief, $15 salary cut to $13.50.
The mayor and town council members took a 10 per cent cut on their salaries. They received $50 per year each.
Ray Engan, city attorney, received a salary of $15 per month which was cut to $13.50.
Health officers of Luverne received a total of $40 per year. There are three officers, Dr. C. O. Wright, P. J. Connell and C. J. Larson. They will receive a 10 per cent cut.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Star on October 30, 1931.
 
Bankers of Rock County Organize
         Organization of a Rock County Bankers’ Association was perfected at a meeting and banquet held at the Manitou hotel in Luverne Friday night. Until this organization was perfected, Rock county was the only county in the state not having a bankers’ association.
         Need for the organization was urgent because the Minnesota Bankers’ Association will pay two-thirds of the $1,000 reward for the capture of the Hardwick Bank robbers as soon as the rightful claimants to the reward have been established. Only two-thirds of the reward will be paid inasmuch as only two of the three robbers have been apprehended. Over a dozen claims for the reward have been made. The Rock county association will decide as to the rightful claimants.
Engebretson President
         John Engebretson, of the Kenneth State Bank, was elected president of the county organization, L. H. Bock, of the Exchange State Bank, of Hills, vice president, and C. D. Millard, of the Rock County Bank, secretary and treasurer. Other banks in the county are the Magnolia State Bank, Hardwick State Bank, and Kanaranzi State Bank.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on November 6, 1931.
 
Armistice Day To Be Observed in Luverne
Many Business Places Will Be Closed All Day
Armistice day — the anniversary of the closing of the great World war — will be observed throughout Rock county next Wednesday, November 11th, in the usual respectful and patriotic manner, in common with all other sections of the country.
While the day will be comparatively quiet, in striking contrast to the excitement and jubilance of November 11th, 1918, the occasion will be commemorated to varying extents everywhere. Most of the Luverne business institutions will remain closed throughout the entire day, as will the public schools.
An appropriate  program will be presented in the morning at the Luverne high school under the direction of Dell-Hogan post No. 123, American Legion and Auxiliary, beginning at 10:45 o’clock, to which the general public is invited. The program will open with a vocal selection, and there is to be a moment of reverent silence at 11:00 o’clock, in accordance with the national custom. The address of the day will be delivered by Ivan O. Hansen, Esq.
Luverne and Pipestone high school football elevens will stage their annual battle beginning at 2:30 o’clock. This game will conclude the season’s schedule for the local high school team.
One of the most popular events of the day will be a public dance, to be given under the auspices of Dell-Hogan post No. 123, at the Luverne Armory in the evening, and this is expected to draw attendants from a wide area.
Pen’s Dakotans, an eight-piece orchestra, will furnish the music and dancing will start at 9:00 o’clock.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Star on October 18, 1929.
 
Barbecue To Be Feature of Witch Day
Gigantic Community Hallowe-en Party to be Held Here Oct. 31st Under Auspices of Commercial Club
“Witch Day” will be featured in Luverne, on October 31st with entertain-ment and decorations appropriate to the Hallowe’en season and with a program climaxed by a tremendous Barbecue, at which all comers will be invited to share a part of a huge beef, which will be prepared over an open fire in good old fashioned style, and served free, with buns, coffee and sugar and cream.
Details of the celebration remain undetermined at this time, but the resolution to celebrate on October 31, with a gigantic community Hallowe’en party, with all the trimmin’s, was reached at a special session of Luverne Commercial Club, Tuesday night, at which time the club agreed to sponsor and finance this event.
Committees were immediately appointed to arrange the details of the celebration, conforming to the resolution presented to the club by its retailers’ committee. The retailers’ plan called for a “Witch Day,” with a suitable program, featured with a barbecue using a whole beef, prepared on the city street, in an old fashioned way and served free, and enlivened by a street program, club-operated stands, bands, a dance, and what not.
To the conventional Hallowe’en surprises, the club arranged for an addition of prizes of another character — merchandising value surprises. Each and every merchandising establish-ment will be urged to present to visiting beef eaters special values of a character in keeping with the day in their sensational character. These values will be extensively, advertised according to arrangements, and preparation of show windows in conformity with Hallowe’en will be made throughout the city.
In addition to an entertainment program of professional character, highlighted by the first local appearance of the famous Little German Band, of New Ulm, Minn., there will be innumerable street novelties of a Hallowe’en character, including old fashioned apple ducking, fortune telling and similar events.
In order to further convey the Hallowe’en spirit the club contemplates making a witch disguise the official costume of the day and varying this dress with costumes giving wearers the appearance of various Mother Goose characters.
In the baby beef parade, presented by the 4-H clubs of the county, the committees hope to call public attention to another aspect of the celebration significance to Rock county, the committees point out, for the serving of an entire beef to the people of the community, puts a very proper emphasis upon an industry which has made Rock county famous. Not only has the community been honored by the exhibition of prize beeves of the 4-H workers and others, but, for three years, the carlot baby beef prize, awarded by the extension division with the cooperation of the livestock breeders, has gone to Rock county beeves, raised by James Ellsworth, of near Magnolia.
The evening program will be presented in the Luverne armory, as will also the afternoon program should the weather make it advisable. An old time dance with music furnished by the radio-broadcasting vaudevillians, the Little German Band, will close the day’s events.
Committees appointed by President Engan, to arrange the details of the day included a committee on Barbecue, Concessions, Publicity, Entertainment, Decoration, Parade and Finance. A. M. DeLapp heads the Barbecue committee; J. E. Cameron the concession committee; B. E. Pelstring the publicity committee; J. R. Wiggins the entertainment committee; F. C. C. Smith the decoration committee; C. G. Gaylord the parade committee; H. B. Creeger of the finance committee.
Each of these committees will have sub-committees to take care of other details of the program. A meeting of the above named chairman, has been planned for this evening, at which time the reports of the committee heads on progress thus far will be heard.
Other action taken by the special club meeting Tuesday night, included the decision to close Luverne’s stores from 10:00 on, on Armistice Day, and the appointment of a committee to confer with the executive of the Legion on Armistice Day arrangements.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Star on October 11, 1929.
 
House Snow Plows Here
 
Minnesota Highway Department to Erect Building in Luverne to House two Snow Plows
         Plans to erect a building here, to house two of the Minnesota Highway Department’s new motor truck snow plows, were made known yesterday by H. E. Chard, district engineer of the department and J. F. O’Meara, division maintenance superintend-dent, both of whom were here to negotiate for a site, just south of the Omaha lines, on the tile factory spur, near the Petersen sand pit. Construction of a fifty by thirty foot shed is to be started at once and made ready to accommodate the new equipment this fall, according to District Engineer Chard.
         According to Mr. Chard, the department has purchased eight new motor trucks, with from eighty to one hundred fifteen horsepower motors, for use in Southwestern Minnesota, and Pipestone and Luverne are among the towns where the equipment will be stationed. The new trucks constitute dual-purpose equipment adopted by the highway department as the solution of the snow removal problem. The trucks are adequate in power and speed to keep a good area of the highways free from snow and during the other seasons of the year when they are not needed for snow removal they will be utilized for maintenance purposes, each outfit eliminating a number of the old horse patrols.
         Residents of the community can expect from this additional equipment, located right here in the community, winter travel facilities that have never been afforded in previous winters. Not only is the new road cleaning apparatus much more powerful and efficient than that used in previous winters but heretofore all of the equipment has been located farther up toward the cities and the extreme southwestern part of the state often laid blockaded for days before the equipment could reach this section.
         Following completion of their business here, Mr. Chard went to Pipestone and to Ortonville, from which points he planned to return to Saint Paul, and Superintendent O’Meara returned to Windom.
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The following appeared in The Rock County Star on October 4, 1929.
 
Frank Clague Is Luverne Visitor
         Luverne was favored on Monday of this week with a visit from Congressman Frank Clague, the Representative of the Second District. The Congressman spent most of the day in the city, visiting friends and renewing political contacts. At luncheon, he was the guest of the Luncheon Club and spoke for a few moments on his recent trip in the submarine and his experiences in air traveling.
         The Congressman told luncheon club guests that he had visited every county in the district and talked with over five hundred farmers in the past few weeks. “There is a spirit of contentment in the district,” Mr. Clague declared, “indicating that conditions are much better than they have been for the past several years. There is quite a movement in land, as a whole. In our county there has been a big land movement and one firm in Redwood Falls has sold twenty farms in the past six weeks. I think I can say that there is a general improvement among the farmers and business men in the district.”
         Club members especially enjoyed the legislator’s account of a trip in a submarine which Mr. Clague and other House members recently under-took as a part of their investigation, as a House committee of submarine conditions. The Congress-man told how he and four other members of his committee went out from Norfolk in the S 5 and went down with it in 135 feet of water, remaining there for two and one-half hours and enjoying an undersea luncheon during their submergence. Luncheoners enjoyed the description of the submerging and raising apparatus and a general account of sub operations and limitations.
         Equally entertaining was the versatile law-maker’s account of an air voyage from Lakehurst to New York, in the army’s dirigible, Los Angeles.
         The Congressman made no comment on the pending tariff legislation, but in private conversation he seemed worried about the fate of farm schedules and inclined to feel that the President should intervene in behalf of farm rates and against industrial rates just as he intervened for the flexible provision.
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The following appeared in The Rock County Star on September 20, 1929.
 
Hills Picnic Is Successful Event
Former Senator Magnus Johnson Delivers Feature Address of Day
Nearly a thousand people are estimated to have turned out for the annual picnic of the Hills Co-operative Creamery Association held at Hills Saturday and the event was a successful one from every standpoint. Weather conditions were good and the season was opportune enabling the farmers to be present.
The feature of the day’s program was an address by former United States Senator Magnus Johnson, who talked on agricultural problems and emphasized the necessity for co-operation among farmers in order to place them on a par with other industries. The former Minnesota senator compared farmers to the roots of a tree furnishing nutriment for the success of the central trunk or the agricultural industry as a whole.
         Other features of the day’s program were a variety of field sports and a baseball game between Brandon and Valley Springs. Music for the event was furnished by the Hills band.
         The Women’s Civic League of Hills dispensed food to those who did not bring their lunches to the grounds. The Hills Co-operatives Creamery boasts a membership of nearly 500.            
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The following appeared in The Rock County Star on September 20, 1929.
 
Excursion to Land O’ Lakes
 
Arrangements Made for Special Train to Land O’ Lakes Plant in Cities Next Thursday
 
         An opportunity to see the Land O’ Lakes Creamery plant in the twin cities at specially reduced rates will be afforded the people of this community Thursday, September 26th, according to an announce-ment made yesterday by County Agent C. G. Gaylord. Included in the special features arranged for those who will be members of this excursion are the low round trip rate, free dinner at noon, special entertainment on the train, thorough inspection of the Land O’ Lakes plant, and time for visiting in the cities.
         The round trip fare for this excursion will be $4.00 from Worthington at which point the excursion train will start on its journey. The train will leave Worthington at 5:15 o’clock Thursday morning and return there at midnight of the same day. The train will leave St. Paul at 7:30 o’clock Thursday evening.
         This excursion is being sponsored by the Omaha railroad and by the local creamery units of the Land O’ Lakes Association located in the counties of southwestern Minnesota adjacent to the Omaha railroad. An attempt will be made to the trip interesting both coming and going and the Land O’ Lakes plant in the cities will be ready to give the visitors a royal welcome.
         All those interested in making the trip are requested to leave word to that effect at the Luverne Co-operative Creamery as soon as possible.
         Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, 312 E. Main Street, Luverne, MN 56156.
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