Magnolia
January 03, 2024Mary A. Kraetsch, age 89, of Luverne, Minnesota, died Sunday, December 24, 2023, at the Good Samaritan Society – Mary Jane Brown Home in Luverne. Memorial service will be Friday, December 29, at 11 a.m., with visitation beginning at 9:30 a.m., all at the First Presbyterian Church in Luverne. Burial will be held at Maplewood Cemetery in Luverne. Arrangements are under the care of Hartquist…
By Mavis FodnessDecember 20, 2023Four years after announcing plans to build a 1,522-acre solar farm north of Magnolia, developers are again moving forward with the Elk Creek Solar project. Tom Karas, senior project manager, and Marc Morandi, permitting manager with National Grid Renewables (NGR), updated commissioners Dec. 12. Residents can weigh in on the project during public hearings in February. “I’m sure you are aware…
December 06, 2023Mary Ellen Donth, age 83, of Magnolia, Minnesota, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on Thursday, November 30, 2023, at Sanford USD Medical Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A visitation will be Wednesday, December 6, from 4:30-7 p.m. at Hartquist Funeral Home in Luverne, Minnesota. A funeral service will be Thursday, December 7, at 10:30 a.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church…
By Lori SorensonNovember 08, 2023A Magnolia couple lost their home, all their personal belongings and their pets in a housefire Monday morning. Firefighters from three communities were on the scene at the intersection of Garfield and Luverne streets in Magnolia for several hours, but the house was a total loss. The homeowners, Lucas and Gladys Dohlmann, were at work when the fire started. It was reportedly called in by a…
September 27, 2023Johannes Rudolph Nath, age 84, of Magnolia, Minnesota, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loving family on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A visitation was Monday, Sept. 25, from 4-7 p.m. at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne, Minnesota. A funeral service was Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 10:30 a.m. at the church followed by a burial at St…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyDecember 01, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 11-25-20 edition of the Star Herald.) School A completely equipped, nine grade school is maintained in Magnolia. It is conducted in a two-story building, erected in 1893 at a cost of several thousand dollars. Before that year the site was occupied by a small district school house, in which a…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyNovember 23, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 11-19-20 edition of the Star Herald.) The proposition was carried by a majority of four votes, there being twenty cast in favor of the project [to create a municipality] and sixteen against. The election to select the first officers under the new government was set for October 2. Following is the…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyNovember 17, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 11-12-20 edition of the Star Herald.) Within two weeks after the plat was recorded, Gov. Yale had sold ten lots in the new town, more were sold a little later, and the promoters predicted a lively boom during the season of 1892. And they were not altogether disappointed in their hope. One of the…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyNovember 10, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 11-05-20 edition of the Star Herald.) During the summer of 1884 an event occurred which resulted in the death of one proposed town and the birth of another. The victim in this case was Drake. That point had proven to be an undesirable location for any expansion on the part of the railroad company…
By Betty Mann, president, Rock County Historical SocietyNovember 03, 2020The following appeared in The Rose History in 1911. Rock County Village (continued from 10-29-20 edition of the Star Herald.) Magnolia Magnolia, an incorporated village of eastern Rock county, is a station on the Worthington-Mitchell branch of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad, seven miles east of Luverne. The line separating sections 11 and 14, Magnolia…- January 28, 2020To the editor Each year when I sit down to write a thank you letter from Southwestern Youth Services to our community, I have to think for several days about just how I want to convey what is in our hearts. Inevitably, the words “once again” come to my mind and, inevitably, I say to myself that I have to come up with a different word choice because I’ve used “once again” so many times over the…
By Betty Mann, Rock County Historical Society PresidentMay 29, 2018The following appeared in the Rock County Star Herald on August 14, 1952. Magnolia’s new paved street was being used this week. The project which consisted of paving the street, new walks and gutters the full length of the business district, cost slightly over $15,000. Four new luminaire dome type street lights were also installed at a cost of $865. Shown above are a number of Magnolia residents…- August 01, 2016To the Editor: I am writing this letter to encourage all voters in the first and third county commissioner districts to be sure to vote in the upcoming primary. It is very important that those of us in agriculture maintain a balanced county board. Everyone in Rock County is affected by agriculture in some way, but those actively involved in agriculture have more at stake than most. Agriculture…
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