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10 years ago (2005)
•The City Council approved a loan to the Rock County Development Corporation for $337,500 to purchase 91 acres adjacent to Interstate 90 and contiguous to the city.
The property was owned by the late Marty Mayes and is near Papik Motors.
 
20 years ago (1995)
•The word on the 1995 harvest season is that yield and quality are down markedly from last year’s bumper crop, but prices are favorably reflecting that trend, particularly with corn prices topping out at 10-year highs. ...
This year’s harvest was spurred by an early killing frost on Sept. 22. Though it’s not unusual to have frost as early as Sept. 15, the first killing frost usually occurs in Rock County around Oct. 6.
 
50 years ago (1965)
•Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hoogeveen have purchased the home owned by W. C. Meyer at 216 West Main and plan to open a beauty salon there at an early date. ... Mr. Hoogeveen is just out of the army. Prior to his two years of service in the army Mr. Hoogeveen had operated a beauty salon at Mankato for a year and owned a shop at Redwood Falls for two years.
 
75 years ago (1940)
•The Luverne Style Shop will reopen for business Friday. Mrs. H. F. Wildung has made several buying trips to the market and every article in the shop is completely new for the reopening.
Every article in the Style Shop at the time of the fire, Sept. 23, has been shipped out by the salvage company which handled the fire sale for the insurance underwriters.
 
100 years ago (1915)
•Luverne’s public park is to come into its own, according to plans now being made by members of the common council, for no longer will the wealth of beauty with which nature has endowed it be permitted to be obscured by lack of attention or proper care. On the contrary a studied effort will be made to improve upon nature wherever possible.
The change is to be accomplished by properly trimming all worthy trees, the cutting down of others and all brush, the establishment of driveways, the filling in and leveling off of all holes and last but not least, the providing of drinking fountains and ample seats and tables at various places.

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