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Remember When Aug. 1, 2019

10 years ago (2009)
•An estimated 500 people attended the Rock County Talent Show Thursday night in the grandstand of the fairgrounds.
The following are the top finishers in each division from the Rock County Fair Talent Show. …
Pre-teen division–1st place: Madilyn Oye (“See You Again”); 2nd place: Spotlight Dance (Let’s Get Crazy); 3rd place: Spotlight Dance (Bad Case of Loving You). Teen Division: 1st place: Kira Graber (Indes-cribable); 2nd place: Shannon DeBoer (I will Be); 3rd place: DJ Bones and Just Isle (playing bongo and acoustic guitar). Open division–1st place: Rachel Wilson and Taylor Kruger; 2nd place: David Walle (“The Love of Spike Malone”-piano); 3rd place: Critical Threat (composed hard rock piece).
 
25 years ago (1994)
•The Magnolia School building may become a secure adolescent detention center this fall if a recent proposal is approved.
A private adolescent treatment company, Posi-tive Directors Inc., Cham-berlain, S.D., presented its proposal and offer to Luverne School Board members. …
The Board gave preliminary approval to selling the building and land for $100,000, and, if the sale is approved, the facility will begin operating around Oct. 15.
50 years ago (1969)
•”I’ve never seen anything like it,” Garret Hoogland, Magnolia Town-ship farmer said after the army worms had almost destroyed a 180-acre corn field.
Hoogland told The Star Herald Monday that he hadn’t noticed the worms until Saturday morning because they hadn’t touched the outside row. “We received hail here about 7 a.m. Saturday and after it stopped I walked into the field to check for damage.
“I found hail damage, but also found the worms, millions of them. I knew right away my corn crop was lost but I wanted to hire a spray plane and attempt to control the worm movement.” Hoogland said.
Hoogland couldn’t get a plane Saturday but one came from Rushmore Monday afternoon. “I used Sevin on the entire field and within 12 hours about 50 per cent were dead.”
“I think we must have had at least 15 worms per square foot in the field. I spent about five minutes in the field one night and even had worms in my pockets.
 
75 years ago (1944)
•Karl Greear, who has owned and operated Greear’s Greenhouse and Nurseries here for the past 13 years, announced Mon-day that he had sold the entire business and his residence to Milford Bailey, his employee for the past 10 years.
Mr. and Mrs. Greer and son, Roland, will move to Rochester October 1, having purchased a home there, and Bailey will be given possession of the business or accept employ-ment after moving to Rochester, commenting, “We’re tired, and just want to rest.”
 
100 years ago (1919)
•After reposing in the Rock county jail for five days, C. J. Story and Max Berg, said to be members of the late “Red” Burzette’s notorious Sioux City gang of bootleggers and gunmen, were arraigned before Judge N. R. Reynolds Mon-day morning for examina-tion on the charge of grand larceny, preferred against them by John Papadakis, of Sioux City. At the close of the hearing they were ordered held for their appearance at the September term of district court, and bail fixed in the sum of $3,000.
The crime with which the two men are charged is that of holding up Papadakis on a road five miles south of Trosky on the night of June 26th, at about 11 p.m. In company with Nick Bovis, the plaintiff was then homeward bound with a cargo of booze, consisting of four cases of whiskey in pint bottles, and seven and a half cases of whiskey in half-pint bottles, valued at $720.
The plaintiff claims that he was not only relieved of the entire stock, but also of what money he had on his person, and his automobile then put out of commission, to prevent pursuit.

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