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Remember When July 19, 2018

10 years ago (2008)
•Removal of the low-head dam on the Rock River near Luverne City Park will be delayed until next year in order to study its effect on city wells.
The dam will be replaced by a system of nine rock weirs that will be installed starting north of the Main Street bridge and continue past the railroad bridge.
The weirs will control the grade of the river, so the water level doesn’t drop and affect the city’s wells.
If the river level drops more than a few feet, it would affect the adjacent shallow aquifer that feeds the city’s water supply.
Two surveying sources have confirmed the project won’t affect the river level by more than 12 inches, but the city and county want to err on the side of caution.
 
25 years ago (1993)
•Subway and Amoco are open for business in Luverne.
Subway manager Mary Sammons said she has been interested in Subway ever since going to college in Sioux Falls and eating at Subway there. She traveled to Wayne, Neb., for training, which included learning how to make all the combinations of sandwiches and completing book work. Subway’s 12 employees trained for two days before opening on July 7.
“When you get busy, all you can do is make those sandwiches,” Sammons said. “That’s the best kind of experience.”
 
50 years ago (1968)
•Unless an operator is obtained this week, one of Luverne’s oldest established service stations will be closed after Saturday night.
Wilbert Eichmann, who has operated Willie’s Mobil at the corner of Main and Estey for the past four years, will hold an auction sale starting at 6 p.m. tonight (Thursday) to dispose of his equipment and inventory. The station will remain open for the sale of gasoline only through Saturday.
On Monday, he will become the Chevrolet dealer at Salem, S.D., and his family will move there to join him as soon as their home in Luverne has been sold.
Where the bus depot will be relocated still had not been determined yesterday. Mr. Eichmann has been the local agent for bus service, and all buses coming into Luverne have made their regular stops there. It was expected, Eichmann said, that the decision would be made before the end of the week.
 
75 years ago (1943)
•Two important meetings are planned for the coming week, Leonard A. Arp, war board chairman announced. A meeting of the new meat committee and the war board will be held in the AAA offices at 2 p.m. next Thursday, July 22, and that evening, there will be a public meeting in the court house to acquaint the public with the plan under which the meat committee will function and to clear up general inquiries concerning the slaughter program.
 
100 years ago (1918)
•The Home Automobile Co., the latter part of last week received its first “Fordson,” the new farm tractor being turned out by Henry Ford and Son. Thirteen of these tractors have been assigned to the Home Company, for Rock county, with the understanding that they are to be sold to farmers at cost, through arrangement with the United States government and federal food administration for Minnesota, as an aid in increasing food production.
Up to Wednesday the Home Automobile Co. had booked orders for eight of these tractors, which leaves only five more to be sold at cost to users. After this allotment had been disposed of, the selling price of the tractors will be increased so as to include the dealer’s usual margin of profit.

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