remember when

10 years ago (2005)
•Larry Swenson called the Rock County Sheriff’s Department Tuesday morning, Oct. 25, after sighting a mountain lion from his combine northwest of Luverne. ...
He said the big cat jumped from the cornfield he was harvesting, effortlessly cleared a fence and ran north into Touch the Sky Prairie.
 
20 years ago (1995)
•Though plans are not quite in place, organizers of the Agri-Energy ethanol plant have put the wheels in motion for construction of the project in Luverne. ...
According to Dave Kolsrud, chairman of the new co-op board, the $24.5 million dry-mill corn processing plant will be built on the west side of Luverne inside the city limits between IBP and Walnut Grove.
 
50 years ago (1965)
•Sometimes it takes all four hands of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Madison of Blue Mound Catering Service, Inc., to get all the information necessary to serve a large turkey banquet. The Madisons estimate they have served nearly three-quarter million dinners in almost 12 years of catering. With the holidays coming up the million mark may not be far away. They cover a 250-mile radius from Luverne with seven truck-mounted ovens.
 
75 years ago (1940)
•Three members of the Mann family, Robert, Eva Lu and Beatrice, all qualified for the final competition in the baby beef division at the Junior Livestock show in South St. Paul Wednesday.
•Establishing a new state record for the event, Carl Bly, of Springwater township, the Rock county titlist, won the much coveted state corn husking contest staged Thursday of last week near New Ulm. ...
Bly husked 32.45 bushels to exceed the old record of 29.19 bushels set in 1939 by Richard Huth, of Granite Falls, who finished fifth this year.
 
100 years ago (1915)
•In compliance with orders issued by Mayor Hawkinson, a much more stringent enforcement of the laws governing automobile travel is to be made by Chief of Police Connell beginning with today. All auto drivers will  hereafter be compelled not only to drive at a reasonable rate of speed while in the city, but they must also keep to the right side of the road, and must turn corners “square.” All who fail to do so are to be prosecuted without exception.