10 years ago (2006)
•In this quarter of 2006 Sheriff Mike Winkels said crime in the city has been similar to recent quarterly reports.
He shared those numbers with the Luverne City Council during its regular meeting last week. …
Assault – 2 in this quarter, 11 in all of 2005.
Disorderly conduct – 2 in this quarter, 6 in all of 2005.
Drugs and narcotics – 1 in this quarter, 19 in all of 2005.
Theft – 3 in this quarter, 12 in all of 2012.
25 years ago (1991)
•As cool autumn evenings signal the coming darkness of winter, the season for the unexplained is here.
To say the mysterious is limited to the stages of Hollywood is to do Rock County a disservice. In a recent interview with Elaine Harms’ fourth hour Luverne English class, seventh-graders shared some of the strange stories they have heard about places in Rock County. …
One boy said a house, once located near the Farmers Elevator, had the reputation of being haunted. It was said to have something inside that was shaking it. It was demolished by the local fire department.
50 years ago (1966)
•To a farmer like Glen Kindt, who lives three miles west and a mile south of Jasper, a neighbor is a lot more than the fellow who lives across the road, or in the next section. To him, a neighbor is a fellow who’ll drop whatever he’s doing at home to lend a hand where it’s needed.
Monday, Kindt had about 100 neighbors on his farm, picking over 200 acres of corn with 27 corn pickers, 50 tractors, about as many wagons, and about a dozen elevators. Twenty women gathered to provide the food and serve dinner and lunch for the workmen.
Meanwhile, Kindt was in the Veterans Hospital, where on Friday of last week, he underwent surgery on his right foot.
75 years ago (1941)
•In spite of the fact that the weather Friday was decidedly on the “raw” side, and not to be conducive to the fullest enjoyment of an outdoor affair, throngs of people converged on Luverne from all points of the compass to attend the Hallowe’en Pancake party sponsored by the Luverne Civic and Commerce association, and the free pancakes disappeared like the proverbial hot-cakes that they were named for.
•It was estimated at 5:30 p.m., when the supply of free refreshments was exhausted at the large tent on Lincoln street north of city hall, that between 10,000 and 12,000 cakes had been served by the Pillsbury pancake makers, a matter of nearly 5,000 individual servings. More than 4,000 cups of coffee were served from the Nash automatic urns, and 22 gallons of Karo syrup and 50 pounds of butter were used.
100 years ago (1916)
•A meeting of the contributors to the fund that has been subscribed for skating rink purposes and others interested in the project will be held tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the city hall to perfect an organization to take charge of the work.
During the past week a fund in excess of $100 has been raised by the circulation of a subscription paper for the purpose of defraying the expenses of preparing the grounds for the rink and providing for its upkeep, and consequently an organization will be necessary to take charge of the project and have general supervision.
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