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Remember When for Oct. 12, 2017

10 years ago (2007)
•Prices will soon go up for lots in the industrial park owned by Luverne Economic Development Authority.
The LEDA owns a lot and a half lot in the industrial park along the curve of Commerce Drive with a current asking price of $5,000 per acre.
LEDA Director Jill Wolf said she’s been comparing that price to what other cities are asking for their land, and Luverne is low by comparison. …
Wolf recommended LEDA raise its lots to 50 cents per square foot in order to be in line with other communities along Interstate 90.
 
25 years ago (1992)
•Rock County Commissioners were handed one more landfill possibility Tuesday.
Ron Schaap, Schaap Sanitation in Worthington, asked Rock County to consider transporting its garbage to the Nobles County landfill rather than joining a regional landfill in Lyon County.
At the Board’s previous meeting, Commissioners verbally agreed to join Lyon County’s landfill beginning on July 1, 1993. But no bidding agreement was made.
Schaap said in reality Lyon County doesn’t need Rock County’s business to proceed, but he said the Nobles County landfill, which he operates, does.
"I have more to lose than any public entity,” he said. Schaap already handles the county’s recyclables.
 
50 years ago (1967)
•Luverne City’s first fall leaf pickup is scheduled to start Monday, October 16. As it takes better than a week to cover the city, residents should not be impatient if the leaf pickup truck does not come by immediately.
LaVern Kafka, Street Department superintendent, said his crew will start on the north-south streets first in the west end of town. From there they will start from the north ends, taking east-west streets and work south.
Weather conditions naturally will dictate the expediency with which the pickup is completed. Wet leaves are a hindrance.
 
75 years ago (1942)
•Hit over the head by a blunt instrument and knocked unconscious by an unknown assailant Wednesday afternoon, Edward Gibb, 24, manager of the Atlas Lumber Co yard at Kenneth, was assaulted and robbed by an unknown assailant.
Amount of money stolen was not immediately ascertainable but Gibb said it was in excess of $50. While being treated in a local physician’s office, Gibb told what little he knew of the robbery, prior to the time he was found lying in the yard office unconscious by Bernard Severtson, shortly after 3 p.m.
The robber walked in from the back of the lumber yard and said he wanted to buy some nails and asked Gibbs if he could cash a $50 check. The yard manager counted the money in his billfold and said that he could. He leaned over to get the nails and that was the last that he remembers. He has $6 of his own money in a watch pocket, but this was not found by the thief.
 
100 years ago (1917)
•Under an order filed in the clerk of court’s office the fore part of the week, Judge L.S. Nelson finds that A.A. Cook is entitled to $322 for labor performed and material furnished; $50 as attorney’s fees and costs and disbursement in his suit against the Luverne Hotel Company.
The case was an action to compel payment for the remodeling and erection of fire escapes and other work on the Manitou hotel building done in the fall of 1916 by Mr. Cook, and was heard by Judge Nelson on June 18.
Mr. Cook sought to collect $455.65 for work and material, and asked $75 as attorney’s fees, while the defendant company set up the claim that the charges for doing the work were exorbitant. The plaintiff was represented by E.H. Canfield, and the defendant company by A.J. Daley, and considerable evidence was presented by both sides.

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