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Remember When Oct. 17, 2019

10 years ago (2009)
•There was a lot more than frost on the pumpkins over the weekend and into Monday.
With winter weather Friday night into Saturday, and Sunday night into Monday, several inches of snow had accumulated on lawns, trees, shrubs, patio decks and, yes, on the pumpkins.
After an unseasonably warm September, area residents wondered if they’d slept right through fall after Friday night’s temperatures plummeted into the mid-20s and stayed there for much of Saturday.
This was also the case Sunday evening into Monday morning.
The October snowfall didn’t require much shoveling, as much of it melted on streets and sidewalks.
But driving on local county roads and I-90 became treacherous overnight as dropping temperatures caused precipitation to freeze on traveled surfaces.
 
25 years ago (1994)
•Blue Mounds State Park sold 19 buffalo during its annual bison auction Wednesday. According to park officials, sales totaled $41,700, which is much better than they’ve seen in several years. Bidder turnout was also good this year with buyers attending from Iowa, South Dakota, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Proceeds from the bison auction are returned directly to the park.
 
50 years ago (1969)
•It’ll cost approximately  $395,442.14 to operate the city of Luverne in 1970. About $236,019.25 will be raised from local taxes according to figures as submitted at the county auditor’s office Wednesday night.
Last year approximately $219,879.22 was raised from local taxes. About $16,000 more will have to be levied for 1970. Last November the citizens of Luverne voted to spend $2,000 to advertise the city of Luverne. The $2,000 is included in the $16,000.
Luverne’s city council, after several long budget meetings, adopted the 1970 budget at Tuesday night’s regular city council meeting.
 
75 years ago (1944)
•Ahead of the parade in the post war expansion program slated for Luverne is the Luverne Oil Co., which opens its Firestone Store this Saturday. The store will be located in the front of the Service Auto building, just a half block south of Gimm & Byrne’s.
Preparations for the opening of the store have been underway for months and during recent weeks shipments of merchandise have been piling up in the Service Auto building waiting to be unpacked and displayed.
Vernon Cornish, who has been in charge of the Luverne Oil company’s preparations, emphasized that this new store was not a “duration” proposition but is being established for “all time.”
 
100 years ago (1919)
•With $2,172.00 as the actual returns from a field of potatoes, P. C. Ordung & Son, of Luverne township, find no cause for complaint over the past season’s potato crop.
The seed used was Petoskeys and the field yielded 1,400 bushels, which were sold to numerous potato con-sumers in this city at prices ranging from $1.50 to $1.60 a bushel. The task of digging the potatoes and delivering them to the purchasers was completed the latter part of last week.
The Messrs, Ordung were aware from the outset that the crop was an extraordinary one, com-pared with the vast majority of the yields for the present year, but they did not know to a certainty what the field had produced until the delivery records had been checked over.

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