Remember When June 22, 2023

10 years ago (2013)
•Luverne’s Jazmine Olson was crowned Miss Minnesota USA Teen in the USA Ambassador Pageant Saturday, June 8, in Sioux Falls.
The teen division included 16- to 18-year-olds competing in Interview, fashion wear, evening gown and on-stage chat. …
Olson will represent Minnesota in the national pageant July 31 through Aug. 4 in Tampa, Fla. …
Olson, daughter of Mike and Denise Olson, will be a junior this fall at Luverne High School.
 
25 years ago (1998)
•Girls’ hockey got a nod of approval from the Luverne City Council Monday. The council, authorized a grant application for start-up funding from the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission.
Organizers estimate it will cost about $20,000 to get the program established. The grant application will be for $10,000 with the Luverne Optimist Club providing a matching amount of $10,000. The City Council’s vote of support was needed as part of the grant application, but the council will not contribute money.
 
50 years ago (1973)
•Margaret Merrill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Merrill, Luverne, is on her way to Quito, Ecuador, for 10 weeks as a student in the Americans Abroad Program.
A senior this fall at the Luverne High School, Margaret will stay with the Jose Herrera family in Quito. She will return to Luverne August 28.
This is the third summer that a Luverne High School student has been selected to participate in the program.
The American Field Service program includes the summer Americans Abroad Program and the regular school year exchange student program.
 
75 years ago (1948)
•Sixty-seven eighth graders from Rock county’s ungraded elementary schools will receive their diplomas at the 36th annual eighth grade commencement exercises here Friday night, June 25. This year’s class is larger by eight graduates than the 1947 class. The program in the Luverne high school auditorium will begin at 8 o’clock. D. M. Fleming, superintendent of Hills Consolidated School, will give the commencement address.
 
100 years ago (1923)
•Within thirty minutes after Gabriel Gysland, of Magnolia township, had parked his Dodge car near the Rock County bank corner Monday afternoon, his automobile was swiped by a fifteen-year-old lad, alleged to be a son of E. A. Hoxey, of Spencer, Ia. …
Young Hoxey was turned over to Sheriff Wiggins; Gysland declined to prosecute him, and while the sheriff was endeavoring to communicate with the boy’s father, Hoxey walked out of the jail office, and was last seen running north through the Catholic church property, with every indication of being in a hurry to get away.
Gysland had picked the boy up at Magnolia to give him a ride as far as this city, when the lad told him that he wanted to go to Hardwick to get work. On the way over Hoxey had been rather inquisitive in regard to how the Dodge car was handled, and as soon as Gysland missed his automobile he suspected the boy and recalled that he said he wanted to go to Hardwick.
In company with E. L. Connell, of the Home Auto Co., Gysland took up the trail, and apparently arrived at Hardwick ahead of the lad. From there they went east and finally returned to Luverne. Shortly after they had left Hardwick, Hoxey and the stolen car showed up there, the boy stopping at the Strassburg garage to buy two gallons of gasoline, and had then gone west.
F. O. Dolvin suspicioned that the car the boy was driving was the stolen one, and with an acquaintance started out to overtake the boy, after some delay. About a mile and a half west of Hardwick, Dolvin caught up with Hoxey.
When questioned, the lad admitted he had borrowed the car, and declared that he intended to take it back to Luverne, as soon as he had gone to a farm a little farther on to see about securing employment. The boy and the car were brought back and turned over to the sheriff.