Remember when?

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)
More than 100 Rock County 19 and 20-year-olds have signed up for a possible draft. The registration is mandatory, under the penalty of a $10,000 fine.
Walter Johnson will be the new city administrator in Luverne.
The city of Luverne will not challenge the Census Bureau figures that show a 2.3 percent decline in population.50 years ago (1955)
An elementary rural school building will be placed on a foundation just north of the Luverne elementary school for use this fall by one of the lower grades.
Al McIntosh wrote his "Personal Chaff" column about the hot weather and scenes from downtown: "Luverne’s brigade of wall ‘proper uppers,’ who stand by the Rock County Bank, were nowhere to be seen today. They fled to some shady street spot to sit on a curb. … Whether it’s the heat or the hooch one Luverne character should refrain from telling people that he’s an undercover man for the FBI. … T.M. Jacobsen plods past, the perspiration dripping down his rugged Norwegian face. … ‘Slim’ Fowler wearies along, not making it faster than a mile an hour because of the heat. … Doc Haggard drives up. Since the doctors took him off cigars he is smoking those sissy cigarettes. … Doc Keitel hustles along back to his office, a lot faster than he’ll be doing 20 years from today. … A dull day, a miserably hot day, but still — name a nicer place in all the world in which to be than Luverne."75 years ago (1930)
Plans are well underway for Rock County’s 22nd annual fair on Aug. 27 through Aug. 30.
Traffic laws will be better enforced, with two state patrolmen working in the county.100 years ago (1905)
Sixteen miles of cement sidewalks, costing in the aggregate $43,574, tells in a nut shell what Luverne has done in the way of permanent sidewalk improvements during the last five years — largely within the last three years. That no other town in the state the size of Luverne, and probably no town even twice its size, can make an equal showing in the matter of cement sidewalks. The people of Luverne have many reasons to be proud of their hometown, many reasons for thinking it the most beautiful little city in the Northwest, and one of the things that justifies their pride is the extent and completeness of the system of cement sidewalks and cement crossings.