The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on January 20, 1905.
 
To Save Our Shade Trees
Danger From Scale Insects
Remedy Recommended by Prof. Washburn Which Should be Applied While Trees are Bare
I wish to call the attention of the city council, the owners of trees near the city hall and all others who are interested in the beautiful shade trees for which Luverne is noted, to the condition of the Maple trees near the city hall.
Perhaps it is not realized that the eggs from the scale infesting those trees have scattered and now cover all the other young trees in that vicinity.
I took Prof. Washburn to see them when I had him here last summer. He recommended that the trees be trimmed back and the branches burned. That would have destroyed the most of the bugs.
Then he recommended that the trees be sprayed with a solution of lime, sulphur and salt while the trees are bare to kill the eggs. This solution will not do when the trees are in leaf.
The formula follows:
Quick lime, 50 pounds; sulphur, 50 pounds; salt, 50 pounds; water, 150 gallons.
Shake the lime thoroughly, then add the sulphur; cover with water and boil briskly for at least one hour, then add the salt and boil for 15 to 20 minutes longer; add water to make 150 gallons. Apply with spray pump.
Very truly,
C. E. Older
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on January 13, 1905.
 
The committee in charge of the Modern Woodmen’s annual dance which is to be given next Thursday, January 19, have completed all arrangements in a very satisfactory manner and the indications are that the dance will be one of the most enjoyable entertainments of the kind ever given by the lodge.
As previously announced the dance will be held in Union hall; Odd Fellows’ ball will be used for cards and other games, and supper will be served in the Arcade building.
The lodge has secured Prof. Ainsworth’s orchestra of Mason City, which has no equal in the entire northwest.
As announced in these columns a few weeks ago, the lodge this year will not send out invitations except to neighboring lodges as a whole, and to the members of their own lodge. This action is taken to avoid the possibility of missing some whom the lodge would like to have attend, a result which it is practically impossible to avoid in sending out a large number of invitations.
Therefore, to the general public, they extend through the columns of the Herald, a cordial invitation to attend. All are invited and all will be made as welcome as they have ever been at any previous party given by this hospitable lodge.
The price of tickets for the dance will be $1, which will include supper for two. No admission will be charged to the card rooms. A charge of 25 cents per plate will be made for supper to all who do not dance, and also to those holding dance tickets who bring more than one lady to supper with them.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on January 13, 1905.
 
Barely a quorum of the members of the Maplewood Cemetery association turned out Monday evening to attend the annual meeting held in J. H. Furlow’s office.
While this fact indicates the implicit faith and entire satisfaction  of the lot owners in the present board, the officers would much prefer to have seen a large turnout.
The directors whose terms expired were Messrs. A. D. LaDue and W. E. E. Greene, and both were re-elected for the term of three years.
The financial affairs of the association, as indicated by the statement published in these columns last week, is in excellent condition. The association now has a balance of $1,802.87 on hand, with no indebtedness.
In this connection it is proper that credit should be given to the Ladies’ Cemetery association for their part in aiding the association in a financial way. During the past year the ladies have raised their own efforts and donated to the association $500 for the purpose of assisting in the construction of a chapel and vault at the cemetery.
At this meeting it was decided to advertise for bids for the construction of the chapel above referred to. The vault was completed last fall and is now in use and the chapel will be built to join it in accordance with the plans drawn before the vault was built.
The report of J. S. Joles, actuary, shows that thirty-five bodies were interred in the cemetery during the past year, and that the vault now contains four bodies.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on December 18, 1931.
 
Rock County’s Total Population is 10,962
 
Second Census Bulletin Gives Detailed Report of 1930 Enumeration; Luverne Has Population of 2, 644
Rock County’s total population is given as 10,962 in the second series population bulletin of Minnesota for 1930, in the 15th census of the United States. The report embodies a detailed tabulation of the number of persons in every city, village and township, segregating the farm from the urban population, and lists the population in every place.
According to the table, there are 6,738 persons residing in the rural districts of the county, this figure representing slightly more than half of the total figure. There are 5,773 of the male sex, 5,189 of the female sex, and 6,219 of the age of twenty-one years and over. The divisions of the county follow:
Battle Plain — Total-504; Male-283; Female-221. Beaver Creek — Total-751; Male-401; Female-350. Beaver Creek Village — Total-224; Male-110; Female-114. Clinton — Total-730; Male-399; Female-331. Denver — Total-475; Male-257; Female-218. Hardwick — Total-247; Male-140; Female-107. Hills — Total-407; Male-195; Female-212. Jasper (Rock Co.) — Total-100; Male-49; Female-51. Jasper (total) — Total-769; Male-386; Female-383. Kanaranzi — Total-558; Male-306; Female-252. Luverne city — Total- 2,644; Male-1,284; Female-1,360. Luverne twp. — Total-503; Male-282; Female-221. Magnolia — Total-416; Male-232; Female-184. Magnolia vil. — Total-240; Male-120; Female-120. Martin — Total-875; Male-481; Female-394. Mound — Total- 463; Male-258; Female-205. Rose Dell — Total- 644; Male-344; Female-300. Springwater — Total-634; Male-339; Female-295. Vienna — Total-547; Male-293; Female-254.
         Nobles county has a total population of 18,618, 10,644 persons being listed among the farm population; Murray county has 13,902, with 10,236 on farms and Pipestone county has 12,238, of which 6,230 are on farms. The city of Worthington shows a figure of 3,878, Slayton, 1,102 and Pipestone 3,489.
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The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on December 4, 1931.
 
Will Open Bids on New Paving December 22
 
Eleven Miles on No. 6 from Luverne to Iowa Line is Included in Projects Under Consideration
 
1932 Program Calls for 428 Miles of Concrete
 
Paving Luverne to Adrian Link Will Make Continuous Pavement from Cities to Iowa and Dakota Boundaries
 
Bids on 223 miles of truck highway paving, including eleven miles on No. 6 running south from Luverne to the Iowa line, to be built in 1932, will be opened at the offices of the Minnesota Highway department December 22nd, according to announcement made this week by Commissioner C. M. Babcock.
The list of projects on which bids will be taken at that time constitute more than half of the 1932 tentative paving program. Proposals were opened in November on one hundred miles of hard-surfacing for the coming year.
All the projects on which bids will be considered December 22nd are connecting links between pavements already built, or extensions of existing pavements. The proposed work will complete several important continuous paved routes.
The list includes the following projects:
Paving T. H. No. 6 from Luverne to the Iowa line. No. 9 is now paved from Luverne to the Dakota line, and when the link from Luverne to Adrian is completed, there will be continuous pavement both to the Iowa and South Dakota boundaries on the Sioux Falls and Sioux City routes.
Lake City to Wabasha and Alexandria to Brandon, which will provide continuous pavement on T. H. No. 3 from LaCrosse to Brandon, a distance of 299 miles.
Four jobs on T. H. No. 8, which with sections already completed will make continuous pavement from Bemidji to East Grand Forks.
Paving T. H. No. 15 from Fairmont to junction with No. 16 near Madelia, which with pavements on other routes will make continuous hard surface as far southwest as Adrian.
Pave the new grade on T. H. No. 18 from Zimmerman to Milaca. With pavement built this year this will make continuous pavement to Omaha on this route.
Pave No. 20 from Chatfield to Fountain and Preston to the Iowa line. This with work already done or under contract will complete the paving of T. H. No. 20 (U.S. 55) and furnish a new short all-paved route from Minnesota points to Chicago.
Start paving T. H. No. 30 from the junction with paving on No. 8 to Bejou. This is a link in what will eventually be a paved route to Crookston via Detroit Lakes.
Extension of paving on T. H. No. 5 from present terminus south of Mankato, to Amboy.
The project on trunk highway No. 6 will necessitate the spreading of 128,620 square yards of concrete, and 174,000 cubic yards of excavation.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on November 27, 1931.
 
Sale of Christmas Seals Under Way
 
R. C. Engan Will Direct County Campaign; Adequate Supply of Attractive Stamps Available
Everything was in readiness for the official opening of the county-wide sale of double-barred cross Christmas seals, which started yesterday, simultaneously with that of the state and nation. R. C. Engan, Esq. is county campaign director, and precinct managers who are assisting are Mrs. A. J. Rauk, of Beaver Creek, and J M. Johnson, of Hills, Mr. Engan will have charge in Luverne.
Holiday festivity of “the good old days” has been chosen for the design of the Christmas seal commemorating the silver anniversary of the fight against tuberculosis. Pictured on the 1931 seal is an old-time stage coach drawn by four horses prancing in the snow. Aloft on the upper deck a passenger blows his horn to blazon Christmas greetings to the countryside.
Supplies for the Christmas seal sale have been received by Mr. Engan. Included in the package were thousands of Christmas seals, Christmas bonds, brilliant posters and window cards bearing the health coach as it passes merrily along its way to carry Christmas greetings to all.
Posters and window cards will appear in store windows and on billboards along the highways of the state this week, inviting everyone to enter the fight against tuberculosis through the purchase of Christmas seals.
Seals in the municipalities will be sold by house-to-house canvas, through the mail and its booths. In rural sections, where health habits are being taught in the schools through an educational program financed by the sale of Christmas seals, the seal sales will be conducted by the school children, with the teachers in charge.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on November 13, 1931.
 
Women Leaders of Poultry Project Build Self-Feeders
 
Models Fashioned are Conclusive Proof That Feminine Hands Can Efficiently Hit the Nail on the Head
 
Women leaders have been “hitting the nail on the head” the past week as a result of their leader training meetings, which were held in Luverne Thursday and Friday of last week under the direction of Miss Cora Cooke, of University farm.
“The Feeding and Care of the Laying Flock” was the topic of discussion and one of the features of the meetings was the building of a simple, cheap poultry mash hopper.
Most men have vague ideas as to the ability of Rock county women as carpenters, but judging from the noise in the club rooms on both afternoons, most nails were hit on the head. In fact, most of the nails vanished into the wood, and those that didn’t will in the next few weeks. As a result the feeders were completed and look as attractive as they are serviceable. It is understood that each of the twelve groups of women will construct a similar feeder in their group meetings to be held in the next few weeks.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Star on November 6, 1931.
 
Luverne Cuts Employees’ Salaries $2000
 
Ten Per Cent Reduction To Lower Tax Levy One-Fifth; Every Office Is Affected
 
George DeLate, Superin-tendent of Light Plant, Takes Biggest Loss — Town Police to Receive $90 Per Month
 
The Luverne city council made a 10 per cent wage cut for every employee on the town payroll at the regular November meeting held Tuesday evening of this week. It is estimated that approximately $2,000 will be saved the tax papers in this manner. The yearly tax levy amounts to $9,200. With the $2,000 cut the tax levy should be reduced at least 20 per cent. It requires more than $9,200 to run the town of Luverne but the balance is made up with profits from the city light and water plant.
How Salaries Are Cut
In addition to the 10 per cent cut on the payroll, day labor was cut from 35 cents per hour to 30 cents per hour. The following salaries were cut to 10 per cent:
George DeLate, superintendent of light and water, former salary $200 per month, cut to $180.
Milton Alwin, chief engineer, $145 salary cut to $130.50.
Harry Funk and Ory Bell, engineers, $125 salaries cut to $112.50.
Ben Lewis, helper, $85 salary cut to $76.50.
O. M. Olson, heat inspector, $115 salary cut to $103.50.
Henry Arendt, lineman, $120 salary cut to $108.00
Charles Streeter, meter man, $100 salary cut to $90.
P. J. Connell and Hans Thompson, police officers, $100 salaries cut to $90.
Roy Fitzer, recorder, $140 salary cut to $126.00
Frank Ferguson, municipal judge, $50 salary cut to $45.00.
Carl Omodt, treasurer, $50 salary cut to $45.
C. J. Larson, fire chief, $15 salary cut to $13.50.
The mayor and town council members took a 10 per cent cut on their salaries. They received $50 per year each.
Ray Engan, city attorney, received a salary of $15 per month which was cut to $13.50.
Health officers of Luverne received a total of $40 per year. There are three officers, Dr. C. O. Wright, P. J. Connell and C. J. Larson. They will receive a 10 per cent cut.
 
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The following appeared in The Rock County Star on October 30, 1931.
 
Bankers of Rock County Organize
         Organization of a Rock County Bankers’ Association was perfected at a meeting and banquet held at the Manitou hotel in Luverne Friday night. Until this organization was perfected, Rock county was the only county in the state not having a bankers’ association.
         Need for the organization was urgent because the Minnesota Bankers’ Association will pay two-thirds of the $1,000 reward for the capture of the Hardwick Bank robbers as soon as the rightful claimants to the reward have been established. Only two-thirds of the reward will be paid inasmuch as only two of the three robbers have been apprehended. Over a dozen claims for the reward have been made. The Rock county association will decide as to the rightful claimants.
Engebretson President
         John Engebretson, of the Kenneth State Bank, was elected president of the county organization, L. H. Bock, of the Exchange State Bank, of Hills, vice president, and C. D. Millard, of the Rock County Bank, secretary and treasurer. Other banks in the county are the Magnolia State Bank, Hardwick State Bank, and Kanaranzi State Bank.
 
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