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Remember When for Aug. 31, 2017

10 years ago (2007)
•All-terrain vehicle owners will be legally driving on city streets, even without the slow-moving vehicle emblems on their ATVs, as the ordinance first dictated.
Those proved difficult to attach to most ATVs, so the Luverne City Council Tuesday amended the city ordinance, requiring ATVs to have a safety flag displayed at least six feet from the ground.
With that minimum height, the flag will be above drivers’ height and clearly visible.
 
25 years ago (1992)
•A bacteria contamination in Ellsworth’s water system is a thing of the past. But the city’s growing nitrate problem has city officials looking for a solution.
On Aug. 26, the third and final test of Ellsworth’s water showed negative for the pesky bacteria that surfaced during a routine water test in early August. …
Farrell said Ellsworth is now focusing its attention on the nitrate problem. Ellsworth’s water has 23 percent nitrate and that number is growing. Nitrate levels are required to be no higher than 10 percent. Pregnant women and children under the age of 1 are advised not to drink Ellsworth’s water.
 
50 years ago (1967)
•Luverne City Chief of Police Lyle Authier has submitted his resignation to the City Council effective October 1.
The Council, meeting Monday night, reviewed Authier’s resignation but took no action on the matter in hopes Authier would reconsider and withdraw the signed paper.
Authier told the Star-Herald his plans were to enter the insurance business as a general agent for Mutual Service Insurance Co. He will remain in Luverne and work in Pipestone and Rock counties.
 
75 years ago (1942)
•Traffic deaths in Minnesota have been reduced more than 54 percent during the two months of June and July, since the 40 mile an hour maximum speed limit became effective as a measure of war-time traffic control.
Fatalities during June totaled 29 as compared to 49 deaths in June of 1941 and even more remarkable reduction was noted in July when only 26 persons met death in traffic as compared to 71 in July of 1941. The drastic reduction of traffic fatalities was commented upon by John E. Casey, state chairman of the Minnesota Editorial Association’s “Save 100 Lives” committee, in a statement addressed to the almost 500 Minnesota editors cooperating in this campaign.
 
100 years ago (1917)
•The Ashcreek State Bank opened for business Tuesday morning with Thos. F. Innes as cashier. The charter for this bank was secured several months ago, but its opening was delayed until the completion of a new brick bank building at Ashcreek.
The new institution was organized by officers of the First National bank, of this city, and starts with a capital and surplus of $12,000. The stockholders and board of directors are A.D. LaDue, president; O.P. Huntington, vice president; W.M. Jacobsen, Herman Fitzer, C.H. Christopherson, and D.M. Main.
A similar state bank will begin business at Beaver Creek, under the name Beaver Creek State Bank, as soon as the new bank home at that place is fully completed. This bank will have the same stick holders as the Ashcreek bank, with Mr. LaDue as president; Mr. Jacobsen, vice president, and Henry Nowka, cashier.

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