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Remember When July 18, 2019

10 years ago (2009)
•A highlight of the reunion weekend was Saturday morning’s dedication ceremony of the old jail at the Rock County Courthouse Square.
After 18 months and $4 million worth of construction, the former Rock County Jail was dedicated Saturday and officially named the “Rock County Veterans Memorial Building.”
Former Luverne Mayor Bill Weber emceed the dedication ceremony, attended by roughly 750 people.
 
25 years ago (1994)
•The Amoco Food Shop, South Highway 75, Luverne, reported a theft last week by what police are calling “a band of gypsies.”
About 10 people in four cars pulled up to the Amoco gas station off Interstate-90 at about 9 a.m. Thursday, July 14.
One of them distracted the cashier with a pricing question in the back of the store while others stole about $1,400 cash from a bank bag behind the counter, according to Assistant Police Chief Mike Winkels.
“It’s a pretty common ploy,” he said.
Groups such as these generally travel from town to town along the interstate using a similar scam, Winkels said.
 
50 years ago (1969)
•Additional information was received here last week from Minnesota State Sen. John L. Olson on the proposed South Dakota Information Center and Rest Area on Interstate 90.
According to Sen. Olson, the area will be located approximately one-half mile west of the state line, in South Dakota, and will be approximately 26 acres in size.
The information and restroom building will contain about 2,650 square feet of floor space and will be equipped with flush-type toilet facilities, hot and cold running water, a large bulletin board, and a space for informational literature and an informational representative. …
The complete rest area will be scheduled for official opening sometime during the late fall of 1970.
 
75 years ago (1944)
•Better lock the chicken coop — thieves are evidently working in the county according to Sheriff Roberts. John Henriksen reported Sunday night that he had lost 200 leghorn pullets, weighing  about 3 1/2 pounds apiece. Henriksen believes the theft took place about June 27th when he left the farm to bring his wife home from Rochester but he didn’t discover his loss until Sunday when he made a count of his flock preparatory to having them vaccinated.
 
100 years ago (1919)
•Genuine  hand grenades, that would have played their part in the world war but for the signing of the armistice, are to be distributed soon by the banks of Rock county as receptacles for funds to be used in purchasing thrift and war savings  stamps. Arrangements to this end have been completed by Wm. Jacobsen, county chairman of war savings activities.
The primary purpose of securing the grenades is to promote to children, in particular, and individually to give them opportunity to win these war trophies free of cost through the purchase of war savings stamps.
The grenades will be distributed by banks among the children who desire to secure them for receptacles for saving funds to be used in the purchase of war savings stamps, with the understanding that the grenades are the property of the bank distributing them. However, as soon as a child under seventeen years old saves enough and purchases one $5.00 war savings stamp, the bank will relinquish ownership of the war trophy, and the grenade becomes the property of the war savings stamp purchaser.
Adults will also be provided with grenades, but in order for them to secure these receptacles as souvenirs they will be required to purchase two $5.00 savings stamps before the grenades become their own.

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