10 years ago (2012)
•Five members of the Luverne High School tennis program received postseason awards to cap a successful season.
Luverne, which won the Southwest Conference title with a 4-0 record during the regular season, landed five of the 10 positions on the 2012 All-Southwest Conference Tennis Team.
Three LHS juniors and two sophomores cracked the annual honorary roster.
Cardinal juniors making the team include Dustin Deutsch, Joey Vajgrt and Scott Nelson.
Sophomores Blake Ziegler and Jonny Vajgrt grace the list as well.
25 years ago (1997)
•Hills-Beaver Creek basketball player Steve Esselink will begin his hoop-filled summer as a member of the Minnesota Select White Team this week.
Esselink, who will be a junior next fall, and the rest of his teammates will be hosting the Minnesota Select Summer Tournament through Sunday.
The tournament will attract 17 teams from Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota. All games will be played at the University of Minnesota Sports Pavilion in Minneapolis.
50 years ago (1972)
•A big birthday party is planned by the residents of the Hardwick area to celebrate the village’s 50th anniversary this week.
Festivities will begin Friday evening and continue through Sunday. Bill DeBates and Henry Hengeveld, co-chairmen of the celebration which is being sponsored by the Hardwick Community Club, said this week that everything is in readiness for providing a gala time for young and old.
The youngsters will be featured first. At 6:30 p.m. Friday, they will stage a kiddie parage through Hardwick’s main street. Mothers have been busy making costumes; children have been training their pets and fathers have been building some of the vehicles which will be used for the floats.
75 years ago (1947)
•Formal opening of “Boland’s Drive-In”, Luverne’s latest curb service eating spot, will be made on Tuesday, July 1.
Lee Boland is the owner and he has remodeled the interior of the building he owns at the east end of Main street, just west of the Rock Island tracks. Curb hop service will be featured but there will be accommodations for the patrons inside the building.
The “Drive-In” will be open from 4 a.m. till midnight each day. Featured will be hamburgers, hot dogs, a variety of sandwiches and short orders with French fries as a specialty, soft drinks, ice cream and malted milks, homemade pastries.
100 years ago (1922)
•The unexpected happened this week in that two Ford automobiles, stolen from Rock county owners, have been recovered, one at Valley Springs and the other at Worthington, but the practically new 1921 Chandler seven passenger touring car, abandoned Wednesday of last week near Magnolia, remains unclaimed.
One of the Ford cars recovered was owned by Henry Hass, of Vienna township, and was stolen Saturday evening, after it had been left standing opposite the Farmer’s National bank. It was missed at about nine o’clock in the evening, but it was not until about midnight that it was definitely ascertained that it had been stolen, for it was thought that one of the young people had taken the car to go to a dance. This car was recovered at Worthington the following day.
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