10 years ago (1995)"The Hills City Council tabled the sale of the Municipal Liquor Store and approved a building permit for the construction of a funeral home in Hills at their meeting Tuesday night. …John Spiess, Miller Architect and Builders, presented the Council with plans for a funeral home. Rich Roste, Rock Rapids, Iowa, is tentatively planning to construct the funeral home." 25 years ago (1980)"Construction began Monday on the new water tower in Beaver Creek. …The new tower will contain some 50,000 gallons of water and is expected to improve both water quality and pressure.It will also allow Beaver Creek to flush city water mains, one of the best ways of improving water quality."50 years ago (1955)"The Spitzer Well Co. of Tracy, Minnesota, began work drilling Hills a new ten-inch well last Saturday morning. They had moved in Friday afternoon and set up their rig, ready to go Saturday morning.The first half day they got to a depth of some 15 to 20 feet and expect to get down to the 240 feet within a couple of weeks, if everything goes well. After completion of drilling, Mr. Spitzer indicated another two weeks would be used in developing the well, that is, pumping to clear up the water and test it out to see how much water it will produce." 75 years ago (1930)"Although he owns a real modern home with all conveniences in Luverne, and able to take life easy if he chooses, George Nuffer gets the working fever every so often and drives out to the old home farm that his son Elmer is managing, and helps here and there about the place." 100 years ago (1905)"The township Board of Supervisors meet this afternoon to accept the new steel bridge across Mud Creek. This is without a doubt one of the best steel bridges in Rock County. It has all steel backing and is worth inspecting by all who are interested in good and substantial bridges."