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Remember When Oct. 13, 2016

10 years ago (2006)
•They didn’t plan the training to coincide with National Prevention Week, but members of the Luverne Fire Department handled three house fires in two days this week.
They burned down a rural house Monday night as part of a training exercise, but at 1 a.m. and about 7 p.m. Tuesday they responded to fires at abandoned rural farm places. …
Sheriff Mike Winkels said the fires are suspicious, but there was no evidence to suggest arson yet. “If people have any information about these fires, definitely give us a call,” he said.
 
25 years ago (1991)
•Gert and Vicki Bruynes of Hardwick are doing their share to help Rock County walk around the world.
For them it is more than a month-long effort. In fact, if their yearly totals were added up, they might eventually walk around the world on their own.
Each afternoon when Gert gets home from work, she changes into her walking shoes, and she and her daughter start hiking the roads near their home on the edge of Hardwick. They walk four miles each day.
 
50 years ago (1966)
•A 12-room two-floor educational unit will be added to Bethany Lutheran Church with work beginning this fall and completion scheduled for next year. ...
Members of the building committee are: John Arends, Erling Hoiland, Jim Hoiland, Walter Halverson, Herman Schmidt, Robert Erickson, LaVern Kafka and Verdell Lorenzen.
 
75 years ago (1941)
•Joe Baker, of Luverne township, who operates the northeast quarter of section 30, made his bid Friday morning for top corn-growing honors when a test of his field of Pioneer Hybrid revealed a yield of 102.3 bushels to the acre. …
The field of hybrid was the object of much interest throughout the growing season, and Friday was set as the day on which to determine the yield. M.H. Voelz and John L. Green, both Luverne men, were present as unbiased witnesses for the test, which was identical with that used in official state contests.
 
100 years ago (1916)
•From an advertisement:
The goal of half a century is achieved.
For fifty years and more, the Two Spool Sewing Machine has been the dream and goal of inventors and large sums of money have been spent in unsuccessful efforts to produce it.
After years of patient, unflagging work, we have succeeded. We have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and have finally produced the Eldredge Two Spool—a thoroughly practical and entirely satisfactory sewing machine, that sews direct from two spools of thread.

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