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Remember When Oct. 20, 2022

10 years ago (2012)
•The Rev. Andrew Palmquist and his wife, Christine, have moved their family to Luverne from Lakeland, Fla., to begin serving the Bethany Lutheran Church congregation.
Palmquist explained that in the Evangelical Lutheran Synod pastors are “called” by congregations.
“We weren’t looking for a call. We were actually comfortable where we were, but sometimes it’s good to have a new challenge and we did eventually want to get back to the Midwest,” he said.
After prayerfully deliberating between the call to Luverne and staying where they were, the Palmquists felt led to Luverne.
 
25 years ago (1997)
•After years of mulling over how to solve the problem, Luverne School Board members have decided it’s time to repair the ailing Cardinal Football Field.
For the past several years, the center of the field has been “sinking” and not draining properly. Superintendent George Maurer asked for approval at the Sept. 25 School Board meeting to go ahead with plans to repair the field, pending their approval on the costs.
He returned to the board Oct. 9 with estimates. It will cost $6,660 to move the dirt and protect the track. The board approved that expenditure so work can begin immediately after the last home football game of the season.
To install an automatic sprinkler system could cost up to $13,000, and grass seed could cost roughly $2,000, bringing costs for the entire project up to $15,000 to $19,000. …
According to discussion at the last two School Board meetings, the problem with the football field dates back to 1987.
 
50 years ago (1972)
•As an introduction to National Business Women’s Week, Oct. 15-22, the BPW of Luverne held a breakfast at Lamberton’s Café on Saturday morning with members and guests attending.
A skit was presented and original poetry was read. Gladys Eitreim was installed as a new member.
The highlight of the morning was naming the WOMAN OF THE YEAR chosen by the club.
Woman of the year is charter member of the Luverne BPW Club Margaret Vegge. She has been a very faithful member, serving on many committees and always a great booster for the club, members say. She has served her church as a Sunday School teacher for many years and is active in choir and in a church circle. She taught school many years before changing her occupation and she is a highly respected member of the Luverne business community. She started working as a part-time employee and over the years has become active in the business and became manager of Renfro Variety.
Much of her success is due to her interest in other people, she says. Many of her early customers now have children that are customers.
 
75 years ago (1947)
•Fourteen head of registered ewes owned by Dallas Bowron, Magnolia, found a hole in the fence and wandered out and down the railroad track. As a result Bowron has only two head left after the ewes refused to yield the right of way to an approaching Omaha railroad train.
 
100 years ago (1922)
•One of the most important motion picture contracts ever closed by a theatre manager in this section was executed the first of the week by Manager Herman Jochims, of the Palace and Cort theatres, with the Paramount company.
This contract calls for sixty-six big special features, including twenty three of the 1922 productions, and forty-one of the extra special features, which represent all of this company’s biggest attractions for 1923.
The first one of the big features secured under the new contract to be presented, will be Cecil DeMille’s production, “Manslaughter,” with Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy in the stellar roles. Next will come “The Old Homestead,” with Theodore Roberts in the role of “Uncle Josh.”

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