Remember When May 11, 2023
10 years ago (2013)
•The effects of the April 9-10 ice storm continue to be felt around the region, and especially in Rock County, where damage was among the worst.
At Tuesday night’s Luverne City Council meeting City Administrator John Call reported that public works crews are continuing to trim trees and remove trees damaged from the storm.
“We hauled out 125 loads of debris from the main city park and from Riverside Park,” Call said.
“They have taken down 45 trees in the main park. It’s thinned out, but it’s still a beautiful park.”
25 years ago (1998)
•For many residents in the Kenneth area, the bank in Kenneth is the only bank they’ve ever done business with.
It's the banking institution that handled their first personal savings accounts, college funds, and loans for cars, home and farming operations. For many, the bank in Kenneth has been an important part of their lives.
That will all come to an end Friday when the bank will be open for the last time. The State Bank of Edgerton, which bought the Kenneth bank in 1993, will continue to provide banking services for its clients. But for residents in and around Kenneth, the closing of the building represents another major blow to small-town survival.
50 years ago (1973)
•Bill Getman, a former Luverne boy who now lives in Wayne, Pa., was presented with a check for $100 recently for winning first place in an essay contest, sponsored by the Jaycees of Wayne. Bill’s essay “Our Community Needs” stressed the importance of becoming involved in community affairs as the only cure for our nation’s leading disease, which, Billy says, is apathy.
The answer, he says in his essay, is “tough love.”
“Not a Hollywood, romantic, emotional love, “he wrote, “but a love that forces us to spill our guts to people, that makes us put ourselves on the line for people. Let’s start ‘squealing’ on those who destroy our schools, let’s start going to those meetings where community and school needs are discussed, and let’s support those people who stand up against the useless waste of money…If it is only to cut the grass of a neighbor who cannot do it herself, let’s get involved!”
75 years ago (1948)
•Another Luverne teacher has resigned and three new faculty members have been hired for the coming year, Supt. M. C. Munson announced this week.
Latest to announce that he would not return next year is Leonard Anderson, who has taught the past two years in the commercial department. He announced no definite future plants.
Employed as athletic coach for the coming year is Arling Anderson, who for the past six years has taught school and coached athletics at Lake City, Minn. Mr. Anderson has had a good record in both football and basketball, according to reports. A graduate of St. Olaf college, he is married and has three children.
Miss Genevieve Huisenfeldt, Marshall, who for the past four years has taught at Redwood Falls, will teach typing and shorthand next year. She received her training at the College of St. Catherine, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis Business college.
Miss Hildegarde Bunge, Plato, Minn., who will be graduated from St. Cloud State Teachers college this spring, has been employed to teach girls’ physical education and biology.
100 years ago (1923)
•If the new law regulating public dances, passed by the state legislature, is anywhere near as effective as its authors planned, it will make a marked change in the manner of conducting dances in many sections of the state.
The law, which is Chapter 139, provides that proprietors of dance must procure a license, from the councils in incorporated places, or from township boards or the county board in unincorporated places. Applications for the permit are carefully safeguarded under the provisions of the law to prevent undesirable persons from securing permits. Five persons can petition for the revocation of the permit if they find the law is not being observed in the conduct of the dances.