The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on December 15, 1922:
 
LIVESTOCK MEETING WILL BE HELD TOMORROW
State Livestock Specialist to Propose Methods of Eradicating Tuberculosis From Rock County Herds
The lecture on tuberculosis eradication work which has been scheduled for tomorrow afternoon under the auspices of the Livestock Sanitary board and the committee on tuberculosis eradication work, promises to be of great interest not only to the farmers and livestock breeders of the county, but to every other citizen as well, and every man and woman is urged to attend.
The meeting will be held at the Commercial club rooms, and will begin at 2:15 p.m. or directly after the close of the street Christmas celebration. W.A. Peck, of University Farm, or Dr. Fritz, a tuberculosis specialist, will be here for the afternoon. The speaker will give statistical information showing the heavy losses sustained each year by livestock breeders through tuberculosis, which during the last fifteen years has raised from 15 to 25 per cent of the total numbers of swine slaughtered.
Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.
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The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on December 1, 1922:
 
TRANSFER OF BODIES IN OLD LUVERNE CEMETERY APPROVED
Maplewood Cemetery Proposition to Receive and Care for Bodies
The proposition of merging the Luverne cemetery with that of the Maplewood cemetery was reported as accepted at a meeting of the trustees of the Luverne association held Wednesday evening.
As outlined in these columns in previous issues, this provides for removing the bodies now interred at the old Luverne cemetery to Maplewood, and the eventual sale of the Luverne cemetery land, the funds and property of this association to go to the Maplewood association.
It was announced that the officers of the Maplewood association had arranged to set aside suitable lots for the re-interment of bodies now in the old cemetery, but it was decided to postpone the work of removing them until spring.
The unplatted portion of the Luverne cemetery, consisting of about 22 1/2 acres of land, was leased to W.L. Ward for the ensuing year at the Wednesday evening meeting.
Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.
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The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on November 17, 1922:
DEER HUNTING NEW SPORT ENJOYED IN ROCK COUNTY
E.W. Brown Shoots Fine Buck near Ashcreek After Exciting Chase—Deer Discovered in Pasture
Deer hunting is not on the calendar of regular sports in Rock county but it is not impossible to indulge in this sport here on occasion.
Leastwise, E.A. & E.W. Brown brought in a 200-pound buck yesterday afternoon, which they killed near their farm in Clinton township yesterday afternoon following an exciting chase. The trophy of the hunt is now at the New meat market and is the object of considerable curiosity and speculation.
Early yesterday afternoon E.W. Brown went to the pasture on the river at the Brown farm half a mile north of Ashcreek to count some cattle, and while there he ran across a deer. Having neither license or gun, he secured Ed. Smith, who operates a part of the Brown farm, to watch the deer while he hurried to Luverne to secure a license and a high-powered rifle.
Accompanied by his father, E.A. Brown, he rushed back to the farm, where they took up the trail and after a mile and a half chase across country were able to get close enough to the deer for “Ned” to shoot him.
According to reports the deer was first seen early yesterday morning near Kenneth, and was again seen later in the morning at what is known as the old LaDue farm a mile south of Luverne, where it stayed long enough for Gay Maxwell, who operates the farm, to secure a picture of it. The deer was also seen by Mrs. Bert Haakenson, south of Maxwell’s, where it was in a pasture with some cattle.
The animal was apparently traveling from the northeast, but whether it came from the north woods or escaped from some park is not known.
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The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on September 21, 1921:
WILL MAINTAIN REST ROOM AT FAIR GROUNDS
Instructive Health Work Exhibit Will Also be Made Under Direction of County Nurse Doyle
A public rest room will be one of the features of the Red Cross and Public Health exhibit at the Rock county fair to be held September 13th to 16th. The rest room and exhibit will be in charge of County Nurse Miss Mary Doyle.
A large tent has been donated by the fair association for rest room purposes and will occupy one of the prominent positions on the grounds. In addition to the rest room facilities, the “health tent” will have special facilities for the handling of all first aid cases on the fair grounds. Cots will be ready at all times for the use of the ill or the injured.
Health propaganda in pamphlet form will be distributed from another part of the tent, and the subjects covered will include everything from pre-natal care to the correct nutrition for the growing child.
This tent is expected to fill the long felt want of a place on the fair grounds, where women and children may rest, and where emergencies may be effectively handled.
A bureau of general information on public health problems will be conducted and it is probable that several visiting public health nurses will be in attendance. Much help will be needed to successfully carry on the public health program at the fair and volunteer workers are requested to hand their names to Miss Doyle at the rest room before September 10th.
An additional feature in the public health program will be the showing of free health movies in the sales pavilion during the fair. This movie show is made possible by the Rock County Public Health Association and the pictures are exceptional inasmuch as they are complete dramas with a strong health moral.
If it is found feasible to darken the sales pavilion, the shows will be given afternoons as well as evenings, and the pictures are of interest to the young, as well as the old.                 
 
 
 
 

 
The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on November 10, 1922:
“SELF SERVE” GROCERY TO BE OPENED TOMORROW
New Style Grocery Store to be Conducted by Otto Orloske in Soutar Block
A new grocery establishment to be known as the “Serve Yourself” grocery store, will be opened to the public tomorrow by Otto Orloske, in the new Soutar store building on Freeman Avenue. All kinds of groceries, fresh and dried fruits and flour will be handled.
This is the first establishment of a “Serve Yourself” grocery in this city, and there is every reason to believe that it will be a success. The entire stock of goods will be on display and within easy access of shoppers. The customers themselves select the supplies they want, without awaiting their turn to be served. Only one clerk or cashier will be employed, who will receive the payments and make change and act as general informant.
Mr. Orloske will continue to purchase cream and also poultry.
As a special offering on his opening day, Mr. Orloske will give away free a box of candy to the first fifty customers making a purchase amounting to $3.00 or more.
Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.
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The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on November 3, 1922:
BURGLARS PAY VISIT TO STATE BANK OF STEEN
Gain Entrance Through Window and Ransack Safety Deposit Boxes—Obtain Less Than $300
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. The gang had stolen their tools from the railroad section house, and gained entrance to the bank by breaking through a side window. The combinations of both the inner and outer doors of the vault were blown off, and the safety deposit boxes pillaged in a way that left them nothing more than a worthless heap of scrap metal. The robbers took the precaution of piling a number of sacks of earth around doors to deaden the sound of the explosion. The money safe had not been tampered with, the $20 in pennies mentioned above having been left outside of the safe.
Because of the fact that the safety deposit boxes had been rifled, it has been impossible to ascertain the accurate amount of the loss, for some of the customers had kept various valuables in their boxes, and these were also taken.
Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.
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The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on October 27, 1922:
 
LUVERNE BANKS TAKE EXTRA PRECAUTION AGAINST HOLDUPS
High Power Rifles Are Placed in Second Floor Offices Offering Clear View of Bank Entrances
Acting on suggestions from the American Bankers’ association, the entrances to Luverne’s banks are now well covered by high power firearms which have been placed so as to be convenient for use in case an attempt is made to hold up any of the institutions, especially in the day time.
Several long range rifles have been placed in office rooms on the second floor of business places that offer a clear view of the entrances to the banks, and are to be kept ready for instant use in case an alarm is given.
The location of these rifles is such that if any bank robbers were to attempt to stage a daylight holdup, they will find the period that it takes them to get out of range of the rifles, painfully long.
Similar action in regard to placing loaded rifles in places convenient for most effective use in case of holdups has been taken by banks in many other towns in this section on the theory that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.
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The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on September 1, 1922:
GROCERY PRIZES TO BE GIVEN AWAY TONIGHT AT PALACE
The following prizes will be given between the first and second show Friday evening, featuring the County Grocery. The groceries to be given are purchased of Snook’s Grocery, and are all of superior quality:
1 sack Eaco flour, 1 pound Atwood coffee, 1 can peas, 11 pounds sugar, 1 can sardines, 1 package Quaker oats, 1 pound package Palace tea, 1 pound crackers, 1 peck potatoes, 1 can Three Star brand corn, 1 can Sunkist peaches, 1 can Del Monte pineapple, 1 can salmon, 1 pound mixed cookies, 10 bars Crystal White laundry soap and 1 bar toilet soap, 3 bars Palm Olive soap, 1 high grade broom, 1 carton matches, 1 pound peanuts, 1 pound mixed candy.
Don’t miss the opportunity to see if you are lucky in winning one of the above prizes. There will be no increase in prices for the show and the above articles are Given Away Free if you hold the right number.
Donations to the Rock County Historical Society can be sent to the Rock County Historical Society, P.O. Box 741, Luverne, MN 56156.
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The following appeared in the Rock County Herald on June 19, 1902:
 
Union Services at the Park
A meeting of representatives from the different churches was held in the lecture room of the Presbyterian church last Monday evening and the question of holding union meetings in the park similar to those held last year was considered. After a thorough discussion it was decided that union meetings be held during July and August. The services will be held on the Sabbath at 4 o’clock. Committees on program, music, grounds, finance and advertising were appointed, also an executive committee consisting of the pastors of the churches, and the following L.C. Hodgson, J.D. Kibbee, R.H. Holcombe and Rev. E.H. Bronson to have a general supervision of the work. It was the earnest wish of the meeting that these services should prove a source of much blessing to the citizens of Luverne and surrounding country. The first service will be held Sunday July 7th of which special announcement will be made later.