10 years ago (2009)
•Detour signs went up Monday, and the bridge was closed Wednesday, diverting Luverne’s East Main Street traffic to other routes over the Rock River.
Contractors began at 5 a.m. Wednesday pouring concrete for the bridge deck in the eastbound lane. A two-inch bridge deck surface will overlay the concrete.
According to the Rock County Highway Department, East Main Street will be closed to traffic at the bridge through Monday, July 13.
The detour route includes Rock County Highway 9 (golf course blacktop), Rock County Highway 16 (the blacktop south of Schoneman Park) and U.S. Hwy. 75.
25 years ago (1994)
•Travis Bird will have many fond memories from his Luverne High School days when he reflects upon his accomplishments in the future, but a time he may cherish most came a few short weeks after graduation.
Bird, who was one of 32 1994 high school seniors selected to play with an all-star football team, returned to his rural Kenneth home Sunday night after a seven-day stay in Ireland.
It was an adventure filled with the excitement of traveling overseas to a country strange to Bird, and he made the trip with a group of strangers he now calls friends.
Although he made the trip to play football, Bird said the experience of itself involved far more than that. In fact, he talked more about what he encountered and who he met than about the games Team Minnesota played in Ireland.
50 years ago (1969)
•Thieves were busy again last weekend in Luverne as the city police were called to investigate two different complaints.
Thursday night thieves entered the Ripco Red Carpet Store on West Main but nothing was reported stolen. Entry was gained into the building by breaking a back window on the west side of the building.
Sometime Friday night thieves stole three tires and two rims from automobiles owned by Clarence Thone. The autos were located near the fairgrounds. The tires were valued at $5 each and the rims at 50 cents each, according to the city police.
75 years ago (1944)
•Professional shop-lifters entered Herreids Jewelers here Saturday, and walked out with a solid gold man’s watch valued at $100 and a ladies’ cocktail watch, set with six rubies, valued at $135.
Arlo Wilson, who is an employee at the store, said a man and a woman came in, the woman stating that she wanted a diamond ring reset. As she was talking to Wilson, and explaining what she wanted done, her companion took one of the watches out of the window, and another out of the case.
The woman made no deal with regard to the ring, and upon leaving, she stated she would be back later. Neither she nor the man were seen again.
100 years ago (1919)
•If present plans and expectations are fully met, Luverne’s newest commercial corporation, The Quartzite Quarries, Inc., will have a stone crushing plant in operation at the mounds within ninety days.
This company was incorporated some weeks ago, as announced in the Herald at that time, and its board of directors and officers are J. E. Treat, president; Wm. Jacobsen, 1st vice president; J. P. Coffey, 2nd vice president; S. A. Cross, treasurer; Harper Shaffer, secretary; A. A. Anderson, assistant secretary, and Frank F. Michael.
The company owns about 130 acres of land, formerly a part of the S. B. Hazard farm, lying on the west side of the Rock Island right-of-way, and it is here that the stone crushing plant will be installed. …
It is planned to install a crushing plant that will have a capacity of from 500 to 600 tons of rock a day, and to increase the output as fast as the demand warrants.
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