50 years
By Mavis FodnessMarch 06, 2024Retired Luverne businessman Dick Herman hasn’t missed a meeting over the 50 years he has been a Lions Club International member. Each month since 1972, Herman attended the club meeting either in Luverne or in Arizona, where he and his wife, Clarice, spent their winters. “It’s a local group and we do things for the city, the community as well as for the world,” Herman said. Asked to join by a…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyAugust 27, 2019The following appeared in the Rock County Star Herald on Aug. 5, 1965. OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY- Kanaranzi Bank Has Served Community Half A Century Open house will be held Saturday afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m. at the First Farmers State Bank in Kanaranzi, commemor-ating the 50th anniversary of the bank’s founding. Free coffee and doughnuts will be served during the afternoon to visitors, and a number…
By Betty Mann, President, Rock County Historical SocietyAugust 08, 2016In November 1867, Mr. Hawes brought with him John Lietze and family who were to maintain a stopping place, or half-way place, as it was called on the mail route. Although both the Estey and Lietze families spent the winter of 1867-68 on the Rock river within ten miles of each other, neither knew of the presence of the other, each family believing itself to be the only one in Rock county. At…
By Betty Mann, President, Rock County Historical SocietyJuly 19, 2016The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on July 18, 1924: Continued from last week: ROCK COUNTY AS IT WAS FIFTY ODD YEARS AGO During the Autumn of 1866, Nathan C Estey and James Johnson, of Spirit Lake, Iowa, visited the county for the purpose of selecting claims on the un-surveyed lands for themselves and for Mr. Estey’s younger brothers, also having a few goods to barter with the…
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