Remember When July 21, 2016

10 years ago (2006)
•The city of Luverne will be able to build on the historic look of downtown with the donation of a town clock.
Warren Herreid said he and his extended family would like to buy a standing clock that would be installed next to the Palace Theatre, in front of FGL Commodities and in line with the streetlights.
Herreid said to the Luverne City Council Tuesday, “The way I came up with it was after you council people put in the old-fashioned-type streetlights, I thought it would make a nice statement for the town.”
 
25 years ago (1991)
•The County Board requested Tuesday that environmental officer Rick Dillon pursue an environmental impact study of the proposed SMA hog farm expansion in Section 13 of Rose Dell Township.
About 20 people who live near the proposed building site told commissioners they oppose construction of a 980-animal unit facility in Rose Dell Township for environmental reasons.
They believe the soil type near the facility is not conducive to spreading large amounts of manure and that water quality will eventually be affected by the feedlot.
 
50 years ago (1966)
•Luverne will be the site of Hawke’s first annual Baton Twirling Clinic for high school majorettes, to be held Saturday, August 13th it was announced yesterday by the Luverne Chamber of Commerce Office. …
Mrs. Anna Dean Hawke, Gibbon, Neb., is directing the clinic. Mrs. Hawke is an accredited N.B.T.A. instructor, and is director of the clinic held annually in Gibbon which draws nearly 300 students. She teaches 80 students privately and is State Director of Our Little Miss Nebraska Pageant. Also teaching at the Luverne clinic will be Rita Aughenbaugh Anderson, De Smet, S.D., Miss Majorette of South Dakota from 1961 to 1963 and twirler with the South Dakota State University Band from 1963 to 1965.
 
75 years ago (1941)
•What is perhaps Luverne’s oldest building – the barn on Spring street between Lincoln and Main streets – will be torn down soon to clear the lot so that it can be used for automobile parking to relieve the congested condition of the streets during busy hours.
During the past week the City of Luverne has closed a deal with Mrs. Dave Stephen, who owns the five lots which comprise a quarter of a block, whereby the buildings are sold to the city and a lease on the ground is granted by Mrs. Stephen. …
When the building goes down under the hand of the wrecker, and the high board fence is torn down, one of the last landmarks of pioneer days will vanish. It is difficult to establish just when the building was erected, but from accounts found in the Arthur P. Rose History of Rock county, it is very probably that it was built either in 1872 or 1873.
 
100 years ago (1916)
•Arrested Monday morning on the charge of bootlegging, Walter Dunbar, who has made his home in Luverne for the last year, was ordered held for his appearance at the next general term of district court, following an examination held before Justice Reynolds the same day. Bail for his appearance was fixed in the sum of $500, and as he was unable to furnish such a bond, he was committed to the county jail.
The complaint against Dunbar was preferred by Mrs. M.E. Sigler, of Des Moines, Ia., wife of the owner and manager of the Capital City Colored Giants base ball club, under the belief that Dunbar had sold Sigler the booze that resulted in his intoxication Saturday night and led to a fracas between Mrs. Sigler and her husband during which she was quite badly beaten.