10 years ago (1995)"Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Spindler and son, Klass, Brazil, arrived Sunday night for a couple days’ visit in the Charlie and Dawn Sandager home. They are the parents of Cristiano Spindler, the Sandagers’ exchange student. The family will be vacationing for two weeks in Canada and various parts of the U.S."25 years ago (1980)"Betty Rauk will retire from Rauk’s Grocery on Aug. 23 after 33 years of service.She has been affiliated with the store since 1947. The store was founded by her father in 1909. Her son, Ron, will continue to operate the store."50 years ago (1955)"The Spitzer Well Drilling Co. of Tracy won the bid for drilling the new well for Hills. Drilling will get underway within the next few weeks, according to plans. Spitzer’s bid was set at $4,055, to drill to a depth of 2,240 feet, plus setting a sand screen. He was the lowest bidder on the job. At present the company has a rig working at Edgerton, where they are drilling a well down into rock." 75 years ago (1930)"The Luverne fire truck was called to the Ben Slieter farm home Monday afternoon to assist with the fire in a new stack of straw near the barn. The straw stack burned to the ground and it is believed to have started from a lighted cigarette. With the help of the fire truck and threshing crew they saved the barn." 100 years ago (1905)"Lars Kolsrud has got the record beat for Martin township corn so far this year. He brought in five stalks Tuesday which measured 9 feet 2 inches. Each stalk has two large ears silked out. Lars says he has about thirty acres of the same quality on the school section north of his home. Talk about corn country. Martin township is surely ‘It.’ "