10 years ago (2011)
•Corn prices surged to nearly $8 per bushel last week in response to news that global corn inventories will drop.
On the Chicago Board of Trade, corn closed at more than $7.99 per bushel Friday.
In Luverne, corn prices at Eastern Farmers Coop Elevator closed at $7.59 per bushel, more than twice what it was a year ago.
That compares with the past three-year average high-cash corn price of roughly $5.50 per bushel, and the May estimates for the 2011-12 season at roughly $6 per bushel.
25 years ago (1996)
•When Red Arndt came home one night last week, his children told him someone had been in their home to read the water meter in the basement.
As a city employee, Arndt knew Kathy Gyberg is the only person authorized to read water meters for the city, and he also knew she did this only during the business hours on scheduled routes.
When he reported the incident to City Hall, finance officer Barb Berghorst said she’d also received phone calls from city residents asking how often the city would need to read the meter, since theirs had already been checked once this summer.
No one could provide a clear description of the supposed unauthorized meter reader, but Berghorst and Gyberg decided to report it to police. …
Police Chief Keith Aanenson is cautioning every city resident not to allow strangers into their homes. “No one besides Kathy should be going into homes,” he said. “Apparently the (meter reader impersonators) have entered the homes, gone down into the basements and looked around.”
While no stolen property has been reported to law enforcement, Aanenson said the person could be simply “casing” homes for later entry.
50 years ago (1971)
•In spite of inflation, milk is still your best buy at the supermarket. In fact, the real price of milk and dairy products has been declining steadily for 20 years. The real price is what a man can buy with an hour’s labor. Statistics show that the average manufacturing wage continues to far outstrip retail dairy price increases.
The real prices of butter and milk are half of the 1940 real prices.
75 years ago (1946)
•Opening for business this week in Luverne is “Jim’s Shoe Service.” Proprietor of the shoe repair business is J. W. King who came here from Adrian to establish the new business. Mr. King had been in the shoe repair business there for 12 years. When he went to the navy, in which he served 2 1/2 years in the Pacific, he sold his business there.
“Jim’s Shoe Service” is located in the new building recently completely by A. P. Fitzer, a half block south of Nelson Bros. store on South McKenzie street. When Mr. Fitzer builds the second new building Mr. King will move in there as his permanent location.
100 years ago (1921)
•Comedy possessing genuine elements of gripping drama and delicate sentiment without the sacrifice of mirth-producing qualities is promised in Douglas Mac Lean’s latest Paramount picture. “The Home Stretch,” which will be shown at the Palace theatre Sunday. …
As Johnny Hardwick, the juvenile turfman, MacLean is said to give a performance which surpasses his “Sergeant Grey” in “Twenty-three and a Half Hours’ Leave.” His vigorous personality and clever comedy “business” are the outstanding features of the production. Beatrice Burnham as Margaret Warren, a winsome small-town girl, heads the supporting cast which included Margaret Livingston, Wade Boetler, Charles Mailes and Molly McConnell. “The Home Stretch” was adapted to the screen by Louis Stevens from the original story by Charles Belmont Davis.
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