10 years ago (2009)
•One-lane traffic on the bridge over the Rock River on East Main Street will soon be diverted to the north side.
The second phase of the bridge replacement project will begin in the next few weeks, according to County Assistant Engineer Jess Greenwood.
That means workers will be busy on the south part of the bridge in coming months.
25 years ago (1994)
•In an effort to bolster support for wrestling, gymnastics and cross country, Hills-Beaver Creek and Luverne high schools joined forces nearly five years ago for these athletic programs.
Per that agreement, Luverne currently pays the total cost of the gymnastics and wrestling programs while Hills-Beaver Creek pays the total cost of the cross country program.
In theory, the agreement should benefit both teams. This year, however, Hills-Beaver Creek had only 5 runners sign up for cross country; Luverne had 23. Only three H-BC athletes signed up for gymnastics, and no one signed up for wrestling.
Considering the cross country program is costing Hill-Beaver Creek nearly $7,000 with only five participants, this makes the program an expensive venture. Add to the fact that few students take advantage of the other two programs, Hills-Beaver Creek superintendent Tom Knoll is having second thoughts about the agreement.
50 years ago (1969)
•Fire leveled a 40x60 foot wooden frame barn, killed 72 head of hogs, and destroyed 1,700 bales of straw and hay on the Alvin Kramer farm Sunday afternoon about 5:15.
Kramer and his family were away at the time of the fire. “This is the first time in several months that the entire family has been away from the farm,” Kramer said. The barn was located on another farm, about 300 yards south of the home place.
Twelve sows and 60 one-month-old pigs were killed, 1,200 bales of hay, 500 bales of straw, plus the building were all lost. “We had to kill four small pigs Sunday night because they were burned bad and wouldn’t have lived,” Kramer said. Only one sow and four small pigs escaped.
About 50 cattle also used the barn for shelter but were all outside at the time of the fire.
75 years ago (1944)
•Increase in salaries of most of the city employees were voted by the new city council in their first session here last Wednesday night. These increases were to offset increased living costs, and to place salaries of local city employees more in line with those in cities of equal size. …
Salary increases for the various positions were: superintendent of utilities from $3,000 to $3,300; chief engineer from $1,860 to $2,100; engineers, $1,800 to $1,980; plant operator, $1,500 to $1,740.
100 years ago (1919)
•The frequently heard contentions that the snow of the fore part of the week occurred at an extremely late date in the season, and the adverse outlook that some express as a result of the delay in seeding and other spring farm work, led W.H. White to dig up an old and discarded ledger in which Col. Harrison White once started to keep a diary. And, this is what he found:
Wednesday, April 13, 1892 — Snowed all day: with an east wind.
Wednesday, April 20, 1892 — Started snowing this morning and continued all day; east wind.
Monday, May 9, 1892 —Snowed hard this morning until 10 a.m., and rained the balance of the day and all night.
May 17, 1892 — The hardest rainfall I ever saw in this county set in at 4 p.m. and continued throughout nearly all the night. Many small bridges were washed out through the county.
May 20, 1892 — Started snowing this morning and continued nearly all day, with a wind from the northwest. But the snow melted as fast as it came, and it grew clear at night.
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