10 years ago (2006)
•The Interpretive Center atop the Blue Mounds State Park is open again, after three years of being closed for lack of state funding.
But it’s not state funding that reopened the doors.
It was efforts and donations of local groups and individuals that now funds a part-time employee in the former Fred Manfred residence.
25 years ago (1991)
•Don Wilcox, Luverne, donated his hand-carved, antique wooden car collection to Rock County.
The collection is special because Wilcox carved the cars himself. …
He chose to donate his collection to the county because the courthouse was recently remodeled and he wanted people to see it.
The display case is located in the basement of the courthouse.
50 years ago (1966)
•Three Rock County girls will be among the 21 princess candidates at Region XI Dairy Days in Pipestone Friday and Saturday. …
The Rock County girls, along with 18 others, will be in the Friday evening parade beginning at 8:30 p.m. Saturday they will be in Pipestone stores promoting dairy products.
Saturday evening the girls will be in attendance at a Princess banquet in St. Leo’s Hall. The banquet is open to the public. At 8 p.m. Saturday evening the coronation will take place on the courthouse lawn. The girl chosen will represent Region XI at the State contest during State Fair Time.
75 years ago (1941)
•The Rock county mattress project will begin next week, according to an announcement made by county Agent J. Kenneth King. The mattress-making center in Luverne will be in Floral hall at the fair grounds, and it will be the only center in the county.
Plans are being completed to make 87 mattresses. The length of time the project will be under will depend, of course, upon the number of mattresses it will be found possible to complete each day. The first meeting next week will be to train a supervisor, and then those who have had applications for mattresses accepted will begin the work.
100 years ago (1916)
• As the culmination of an altercation in which five young men of Battle Plain and Vienna townships became more or less involved Sunday afternoon, Tom Tobiason was disemboweled and received numerous knife wounds on his left shoulder and arm at the hands of his neighbor, John Blankenfurt.
The injured man is at the Luverne hospital and from present indications his chances of recovery are quite favorable. His assailant is confined in the county jail with the charge of assault with a dangerous weapon against him, pending the outcome of Tobiason’s injuries.
The trouble is said to have started while several young men were spending the afternoon at the Haeme & Tobiason home on the east half of 32, Battle Plain, when a quarrel developed between Tobiason and Alvah Wilcoxon.
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