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Remember When May 20, 2021

10 years ago (2011)
•The world-famous wood-carved sculptures of Fred Cogelow are on display at the Brandenburg Gallery in the Rock County Veterans Memorial Building.
Cogelow is widely known and acclaimed in fine art circles. His work appears throughout the country in museums, private residences, art studios and businesses. Cogelow hails from Rock County ancestors — the Bush family from Hills.
 
25 years ago (1996)
•Luverne High School senior honor students approached the School Board Tuesday night with their concerns over criteria for the Top 10 Students designation.
Luverne’s Top 10 students are names for the honor based on cumulative four-year grade point average and corresponding class rank. …
Post secondary option allows students to attend college at nearby campuses while remaining a student at Luverne High School.
 
50 years ago (1971)
•James A. Harner, Zumbrota, has been named principal at Luverne high school. He will begin his duties July 1. He fills the vacancy created by the resignation last year of John Holsen. Since that time, John Rath served as both junior and senior high principal.
Supt. Harvey Eitreim said that present plans call for Harner and Rath to share a joint principalship, a plan now being used at Montevideo and several other Minnesota schools. Under the plan, Eitreim said, it is hoped that the duplication of duties can be avoided, and that the two men will serve both junior and senior high departments, but in specific areas. One will likely be assigned to administration, organization and supervision while the other will be assigned to curriculum, personnel and supervision. This remains to be worked out, however, before school starts next fall.
 
75 years ago (1946)
•An invitation to everyone living in the Luverne trade territory to make use of the city park for school picnics, family reunions, and family outings was issued this week by the Luverne Civic and Commerce association.
“The city council has gone to considerable expense to provide Luverne with a fine park, with adequate picnic facilities.” P. D. Stephenson temporary chairman of the Luverne Civic and Commerce association stated this week, “and we are anxious that the people of this community use it as much as possible.
 
100 years ago (1921)
•A fire, alleged to be of incendiary origin, totally destroyed the south bleachers at Athletic park shortly after two o’clock  Monday morning, and but for the prompt arrival of the fire department the grandstand and north bleachers would have been consumed. When the department arrived, the flames had spread through the south end of the grandstand and were rapidly eating through the roof.
Two incidents serve to strengthen the theory that the fire was set. Shortly after 7 o’clock Sunday evening a member of the Harry Campbell family, who occupies the living quarters at the sales pavilion, discovered the bleachers on fire, and Mr. Campbell succeeded in putting out the fire.
M. E. Teeter, secretary of the agricultural society, was notified and went to the fair grounds at 8 o’clock that evening and made careful inspection of the bleachers to make sure the fire was extinguished. The location and character of the first fire indicated that it might have been due to a cigarette or cigar being thrown under the bleachers during the ball game in the afternoon.
But the second fire was discovered at about 2:40 a.m. or approximately seven hours after the first one and that a spark would smolder for this period is highly improbable. Then too, on Monday President G. A. Hagedorn of the fair association, discovered a gallon oil can in about the center of the site of the burned bleachers, and it is considered quite certain that this can was not there early Sunday evening.

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