10 years ago (2009)
•Two Luverne suspects are in jail on charges of theft, swindling and possession of counterfeit U.S. currency.
Multiple law enforcement agencies were in Luverne Tuesday to execute search warrants on two Luverne residences.
Arrested were 29-year-old Dennis Prater at 300 ½ West Bishop Street and 33-year-old Terrance Schaffer at 903 E. Dodge Street. …
LaDonna Van Aartsen, cashier/operations officer with First Farmers and Merchants Bank, Luverne, sent out an e-mail last week describing the fake $100 bills.
A Chamber Alert was also issued with the counterfeit information.
“They are bleaching $5 bills and stamping them as $100,” Van Aartsen said. “The counterfeit pens are not working because they actually are money.”
25 years ago (1994)
•Changes in the post office box numbering system may help the post office run more efficiently in the long run but will undoubtedly cause a few headaches.
Because box holders at the post office have the same box number as those on the rural routes, box numbers inside the post office are being changed to allow more automated sorting by the sorting system in Mankato.
When the new system is completed, Luverne rural routes will be numbered 1 through 350 and the post office box numbers will begin at 500.
50 years ago (1969)
•Schools in the Luverne, Hills-Beaver Creek and Hardwick systems were forced to close for 1 ½ days again last week as another seven inches of snow fell in Rock County.
Both the Luverne street department and the county highway department had to start over again after just cleaning up six inches which arrived Feb. 21 “Several county roads were blocked but this last snowfall wasn’t bad because it wasn’t wet and the wind didn’t blow,” Don Barth, Rock County Engineer said.
Barth also reports that all county roads are again open but are now posted with weight limits of five or seven tons.
75 years ago (1944)
•For a second consecutive year, the Luverne Cooperative Creamery Association manufactured over a million pounds of butter, it was reported Tuesday at the annual meeting of the company. This year’s volume, 1,030,710 pounds, is the biggest in the history of the organization and is greater by 22,300 pounds than last year’s total, according to Louis Gilbertson, manager.
Net earnings of the organization for 1943 were $11,552.76 when all the expenses were deducted from the gross income. Profits were pro-rated back to the patrons at the rate of 1.14 cents per pound of butterfat sold to the creamery in 1943.
100 years ago (1919)
•Arrangements are now being perfected for a big gathering of the patriotic people of Rock county to be held in Luverne on Friday evening, March 14, for the purpose of discussing plans for the erection of a structure that will serve the double purpose of an armory for H Co., 5th M.I.N.G., and also as a county community building.
The erection of an armory for the county’s national guard organization is virtually a settled fact, but there is much sentiment in favor of making the building a more spacious and imposing structure that armory needs alone would require, and having it serve the dual purpose of a community and memorial building in which the county as a whole may have and share.
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