10 years ago (2012)
•Football fans at the Luverne-versus-Pipestone game Saturday afternoon were treated to a special patriotic display on Cardinal Field.
Gary and Janine Papik of Papik Motors, Luverne, sponsored the display that included patriotic bunting, flags from 50 states and 30 American flags — all decorating the fence surrounding the field.
The highlight of the event came during the National Anthem, played by student members of the LHS pep band.
The local color guard presented the colors, and student volunteers gathered under a 30-by-50-foot American flag, and they carried it back and forth across the length of the football field.
The Papiks said they brought the display to Luverne as a way of thanking veterans and active military families in the communities.
25 years ago (1997)
•It was almost anticlimactic, but on Monday the Luverne City Council unanimously added its stamp of approval to the joint law enforcement contract that the Rock County Board approved Oct. 21.
Beginning Jan. 1, Rock County Sheriff Ron McClure will oversee county law enforcement that will authorize Luverne’s current police officers to become deputies. The city will contract with the county for law enforcement and will share equally in the cost. The staff positions will include two sergeants and an investigator.
50 years ago (1972)
•Tom Dahlberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Dahlberg of Luverne, was vital in the 20-7 Gustavus Adolphus win over Hamline College Saturday, rushing for 238 total yards in 35 carries.
The win gave the Gusties sole possession of first place in the 1972 MIAC title race.
In his four years at Gustavus, Dahlberg has totaled 3,288 yards rushing in 771 carries, including 27 touchdowns. As a sophomore in 1970, Dahlberg broke the Gustavus single-season rushing record with 1,158 yards and 12 touchdowns.
75 years ago (1947)
•The Luverne Style Shop will open for business in its new ultra modern home Saturday, Mrs. H. F. Wildung announced this week.
Temporarily located in the rear of the new building for several weeks while the work in the front part was being completed, the Style Shop will again have its entrance on Main street. …
The former Style Shop location was remodeled and given a new brick exterior, and an addition was built to the south, thereby creating a two-story structure with a 24-foot exposure to the north and a 135-foot exposure to the west. The exterior is of buff face brick. The entrance to both store quarters will be beautified by the use of peach-colored structural glass and appropriate window trim. A canopy above the entrance to the Style Shop will carry the firm name in large aluminum letters, indirectly lighted at night. Curved plate glass has been used to give a striking modernistic effect to the store front. Ceramic title is also being used to further beautify the front.
100 years ago (1922)
•The Steen State bank was burglarized early Saturday morning. About $150 in bonds and War Savings stamps, and from $15 to $20 in pennies, besides certificates of deposit and other valuables which they found in the safety deposit boxes were secured. Church money, amounting to about $75, which had been left in the vault for temporary safe keeping also disappeared. It is believed that the robbery was committed at two or three o’clock in the morning, but it was not discovered until the following day when the cashier of the bank, A. H. Stell, came to open the building.
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