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Remember When Dec. 17, 2015

10 years ago (2005)
•The city of Luverne Public Works Department tore down the small house on the corner of Lincoln and Cedar streets in Luverne Tuesday morning.
... The project is part of an anticipated Luverne Fire Hall expansion.
 
20 years ago (1995)
•By the end of the school board meeting last week, board members seemed to concentrate on expanding the existing high school-middle school to include space for all of the district’s elementary students. ...
The district already owns properties to the south of the existing building, which makes that option attractive. Also the district could save money by sharing facilities, reducing expenses for utility expansion and development and by simplifying transportation.
 
50 years ago (1965)
•J. C. Frakes, who has been in the contracting business in Luverne since 1930, has opened the J. C. Frakes Paint Store at 306 West Hatting St.
He and his son, Dallas, have sold their interest in the Luverne Cabinet and Millwork Company to their associate, Milt Abraham.
 
75 years ago (1940)
•With construction of hundreds of airfields throughout the country as the coming No. 1 project in national defense for 1941, Luverne’s possibilities of establishing an airport appear in an encouraging light, local aviation enthusiasts were informed Saturday upon the visit here of C. A. Bowers, of St. Paul, district airport engineer for the Civil Aeronautics Authority. ...
To pave the way for the receipt of federal appropriations, the principal task confronting local aviation enthusiasts is the acquisition of land for the airport site. A minimum of 80 acres is necessary to conform with the CAA requirements for a Class I airport, the smallest of the four types of fields listed by the Aeronautics Authority.
 
100 years ago (1915)
•A special train of twenty-three carloads of live stock were shipped Tuesday from this place to the Chicago markets over the Rock Island. The shipment consisted of six cars of cattle and seventeen cars of sheep.
•About all the small boys in this section, augmented by quite a number of old “boys” were at the Rock Island station Saturday afternoon to meet “Santa Claus,” who arrived on the afternoon passenger for the express purpose of entertaining youth at the New Palace theatre.

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