The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on January 18, 1924:
FARMERS TO BE PROVIDED WITH HITCHING PLACES
Home Automotive Co. Tenders Use of Vacant Lots for This Purpose to Luverne Commercial Club
Accepting the offer of the Home Automotive Co., to donate the use of the vacant lots at the corner of Lincoln and McKenzie streets as a hitching place for the teams of farmers, the Luverne Commercial club at a meeting held Tuesday evening completed arrangements for the installation of the necessary hitching posts for such a purpose.
First efforts of the club were directed towards ascertaining what arrangements could be made for providing barn shelter for teams of farmers while in town during the winter months, and to find out what hitching post facilities could be provided. A committee composed of Ben. Pelstring, Lloyd Long and Will Ellis was named to take charge of this matter.
This committee made its report Tuesday evening, to the effect that it was impossible to secure barn room on a scale sufficiently extensive to be of any value, but that the Home Automotive Co. had tendered the vacant lots as a hitching place. The offer of the Home Automotive Co., was accepted and the matter of providing hitching facilities was taken up.
The result was that the city of Luverne donated a supply of old boiler flues, which can no longer be used at the plant, which will be utilized as hitching posts; the Luverne Motor Truck Co., agreed to do the sawing and drilling on the flues free from charge, and Manager Harry A. Edgar, of the Northwestern Telephone exchange, will furnish the necessary cable, and the tools required for digging the post holes.
And last, but not least, thirty odd other members of the club have agreed to form a posthole digging bee, on a certain day, as early as will be convenient, when they shall undertake the task of digging the post holes and setting the posts.
Through arrangements made with the common council, it will be the duty of the street commissioner to see that the hitching places are kept clean.
Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.
Mann welcomes correspondence sent to mannmade@iw.net.