Remember When Oct. 24, 2019

10 years ago (2009)
•Eastern Farmers Cooperative is moving dirt and pouring cement for a new 10,000-ton dry fertilizer storage facility west of Magnolia.
Eastern Farmers purchased 15 acres of land from John Bowron and his sister, Judy Bowron, for the purpose of consolidating its agronomy operations on the site.
Plans are to centralize crop nutrient, crop protection products and seed business that is currently handled at East-ern Farmers facilities in Luverne, Ellsworth and east of Magnolia.
 
25 years ago (1994)
•While the legislature and media have focused recent attention on ethanol production, local and regional soybean producers have followed similar marketing strategies.
A group of independent farmers and landowners in southwest Minnesota, northwest Iowa and southeast South Dakota are organizing and investing in a soybean processing plant.
“The idea is to get in on processing plants, because they’re trying to get in on farming,” said Hills farm Eugene “Pucky” Sandager. He and several other Rock County farmers and landowners have already invested in the project. …
So far, more than 900 investors have joined the cooperative, South Dakota Soybean Processors, and 400 members are still expected to join, according to co-op vice president Dennis Hardy, Beresford, S.D.
 
50 years ago (1969)
•Only two children in Rock County can have a deer for a pet legally. The two children are Lynn and Denise Daleiden, both daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Daleiden.
The children, Lynn 11, and Denise, 5, do have a pet deer, for now, Mrs. Daleiden said, but only because their father is the park manager at Blue Mounds State Park.
According to Minne-sota law, a tame deer can only be kept at a state park or state game refuge.
The deer, which the children named “Buck-shot,” was brought to the Daleidens last Memorial Day weekend by Game Warden Richard Remme. A farmer, while working in the field, ran over the animal and reported the accident to the game warden.
Remme asked the Daleidens if they would take care of the animal, which was only a few days old at the time. The small buck deer had a broken hip, which is now completely healed after several visits to a local veterinarian.
“The deer trails the children all over the park. He’ll even follow them to the school bus in the morning. I think the deer was more popular with the campers this summer than the buffalo were,” Mrs. Daleiden said.
Both Daleiden girls fed the deer from a bottle all summer. “We mixed evaporated milk and water for Buckshot,” Lynn said. “We still feed him pellets but he’ll eat anything.
“When we want to play with him and he isn’t around the house, we just ring a bell and he’ll come running. When he hears the bell he thinks it’s feeding time,” Denise said.
 
75 years ago (1944)
•A strange woman, who cashed a $9.15 cream check at the Creeger and Company store Monday, was being sought by the county peace authorities this week.
A “Harry Doe” complaint has been filed by Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dorn, who farm two miles east of Adrian, who allege that some unidentified woman endorsed their name to a cream check in that amount, issued to them by the Adrian Cooperative Creamery, and which check they had never received. The check was dated Sept. 26.
 
100 years ago (1919)
•That the price of milk will be increased to 14 cents a quart or 45 cents a gallon on November 1st is the announcement made this week by Luverne’s two dairymen.
The price of cream will also be raised to 14 cents for one-half pint, if by any chance the dairymen should have this product for sale, but they state that the demand for milk is so great that there is little opportunity to secure cream.