10 years ago (2006)
•Local theater buffs are in for a treat next month when the Luverne Area Community Foundation teams up with the Green Earth Players to stage a murder mystery on the prairie. …
The plot of “Murder at the Midnight Hour” invites guests (the audience) to attend a New Year’s Eve midnight wedding of Jewel Hogget and Roger Windsor.
The wedding turns out to be a deadly way to ring in the new year as audience members get involved with figuring out who among them is the killer.
25 years ago (1991)
•Scott DeBates was simply curious when he applied for the job of respiratory therapist on Saipan, the capital of the North Mariana Islands, located about 1,350 miles south of Japan.
But when the 1986 Luverne High School graduate got word he was chosen from more than 50 applicants, he didn’t hesitate in accepting.
According to Scott’s mother Shirley, he called her one night with the news. “I couldn’t even talk,” she said. He graduated from Mount Marty College in Yankton, S.D., and left for his first job on Saipan.
50 years ago (1966)
•A 1964 Chevrolet pickup owned by Harry (Oakie) Williams of R-1, Magnolia burned up only a few yards from the firehall Wednesday morning when the engine of the vehicle burst into flames as it was parked at the curb of the Magnolia main street.
Williams had gone into a store to purchase cigarettes after parking at the curb a short time before. When he came out the pickup engine was burning.
Magnolia firemen answered the alarm and had the flames out in a short time, however the pickup engine and inside of the vehicle was burned.
75 years ago (1941)
•Before so very long persons entering Rock county from Iowa over Highway No. 75 will be greeted at the Minnesota state line by a monumental sign similar to the one pictured above which now stands beside Highway No. 16, just inside Minnesota on the South Dakota line east of Valley Springs. Although the design of the one being erected on the Iowa line is the same as the above, Kenneth Warten, of Minneapolis, who is in charge of the work for the state highway department, says that more attractive material used and a better looking job obtained.
100 years ago (1916)
•E.M. Hawes, junior member of the firm of Hawes & Son, had a narrow escape from a serious if not fatal injury last Friday when a roof overloaded with brick gave way and the mass of debris fell to the first floor of the building. Mr. Hawes was so almost directly under the mass that part of it grazed his back, inflicting painful but not serious injury. A number of workmen engaged in the alteration work had left the place but a few minutes before the roof fell, and had they been at work at the time they also would have met with serious injury.
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