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Remember When July 2, 2020

10 years ago (2010)
•St. John Lutheran Church, Luverne, hosted its Second Annual Block Party Sunday, June 27.
“The entire community was invited,” said one of the organizers, Elaine Fick, “especially our close neighbors through special invitation by our awesome Vacation Bible School kids who hand-delivered invitations to a large area of our neighbors.”
Block Party attractions included balloon artists Harry and Marilyn Flanagan from Jasper, plus Keith Smedsrud’s plane train from Luverne and a small collectors’ car show.
Ron and Jane Cote brought their guitars, voices, and sound system for entertainment, including more volunteer talent from the church.
 
25 years ago (1995)
•Anthropologists from the Science Museum of Minnesota drove from St. Paul to the John Cronberg farm west of Luverne recently and poked around in the dirt of a nearby field.
They found broken pieces of pottery and china from turn-of-the-century settlers. They found pieces of stone that had been heated in hearths, and they picked up tiny chunks of charcoal that had been discarded 100 years ago from kitchen cook stoves.
While these items made for interesting conversation, the archeologists didn’t find what they came looking for, evidence of an ancient Indian campsite which would have existed thousands of years prior to white settlement.
 
50 years ago (1970)
•Close to $1.5 million will be paid in July and August to Rock County farmers who have contributed to the idea of stabilizing markets and the conservation of soil and water resources by taking part in the 1970 wheat and feed grain programs.
“Farmers will be receiving their program payments earlier this year than ever before,” stated Jim Lewis, county executive director for the ASC committee. Lewis explained that the first batch of payments were made beginning July 1. “Because of the excellent cooperation between farmers and their local ASCS office,” Lewis continued, “70 per cent of the participating producers in Rock County are receiving their payments in July.”
July payments total around one million dollars of the entire amount coming into the county. The remaining half million dollars should be distributed by the middle of August, according to Lewis. Additional payments will continue to be made as rapidly as farmers certify compliance program requirements and as fast as individual farm records can be processed and checks returned to the ASCS county office for distribution.
 
75 years ago (1945)
•Lois Iverson, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Iverson, who reside north of Luverne, miraculously escaped with only minor cuts and bruises Sunday, when she fell out of a moving car onto the paving near Beaver Creek. She was riding with her parents, when some way, the rear door came open, and the pressure against it threw the little girl out. She was rushed back to Luverne where the examining physician found no serious injuries other than bruises and minor cuts.
 
100 years ago (1920)
•Beaver Creek’s school building, a four-room brick structure of modern design, was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire Wednesday night.
The lightning struck shortly before nine o’clock, but the resultant fire was not discovered until about half an hour later, when the flames broke through the roof.
A chemical engine was brought into use and the fire was about squelched, when the supply of chemical became exhausted. Before other methods of fighting the blaze could be put into force, the fire had spread through the upper part of the building and continued to gain headway.
The school building was built in 1905 at a cost of $7,500, and $7,000 insurance was carried on it. It is estimated, however, that the building cannot be replaced now for less than $25,000 or $30,000.

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