10 years ago (1993)"Hills Community Club presented a check in the amount of $1,000 to the Hills City Fire Department to be used toward the purchase of the new fire truck and rescue van."25 years ago (1978)"Keith Vanderburg, son of Mrs. Henrietta Vanderburg, Beaver Creek, graduated with high distinction from the Valparaiso School of Law at Valparaiso, Ind., on May 21st.He was sworn into the Indiana Bar at Indianapolis on June 1st. He has accepted a position with a law firm in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a 1971 graduate of Hills-Beaver Creek High School."50 years ago (1953)"Districts 19, 34, 37, 39 and 61 will hold a meeting in Hills on Friday evening, June 12, at which time they will call upon the electors of those districts to decide whether or not they should become a part of the present consolidated district, now known as District 66." 75 years ago (1928)"Four veterans of the Civil War — W.C. Johnson, L.L. Bryan and J. B. Dunn of this city, and Goodman Anderson of Hills — were luncheon guests of the Luverne Kiwanis Club Monday noon, as a slight tribute by the Club in recognition of Memorial Day. Theo. Winchell, Beaver Creek, and Austin Maxwell, Kanaranzi, the only other known surviving veterans in Rock County, were also invited, but were unable to attend."100 years ago (1903)"The baseball uniforms did not arrive in time for the ice cream sociable Friday evening, but the evening was a gigantic success never-the-less. The advertised moonlight was there in all its splendor making a perfect evening and the amount of ice cream stowed away by the young and the old was truly marvelous. Games of all kinds from ‘Take the one, leave the udder’ to ‘Skip them along my darling’ were kept up from dusk until midnight. The sociable netted the ball club in the neighborhood of $20."
