10 years ago (1994)"Approximately 20 percent of Rock County voters gave their opinion at the polls on Tuesday, Sept. 13, in the 1994 primary election. A total of 1,129 voters cast their ballots on Tuesday. Clinton Township cast 29 ballots, Hills City 77 ballots and Martin Township cast 40 ballots. 25 years ago (1979)"Tony Bosch, owner-operator of the Clover Farm Store in Hills, announced the sale this week of his store in Lester, Iowa, to Royce Scheitland of Burlington, Iowa. The sale takes effect immediately. Mr. Scheitland will take over the ownership and management of the Lester store immediately. Bosch will continue to own and operate the store in Hills."50 years ago (1954)"The Hills High School band will be seen on television at 11 p.m. next Sunday night, Oct. 3, from KELO-TV, Sioux Falls. The station has made special arrangements to film portions of the Tri-State Band Festival at Luverne Saturday, Oct. 2." 75 years ago (1929)"After three long years of uninterrupted slumber, football will again be revived in Hills. And it’s going to be a real revival. The high school squad has been working out for three weeks in anticipation of the first game Friday. Enthusiasm around the school building has reached the highest pitch since the last time we beat Luverne in basketball. The school is planning to turn out 100 percent strong for that first game, and unless we are awfully badly mistaken, the rest of the community won’t be very far behind them. Hills has always had a reputation for putting everything across that they ever tried. You old-timers haven’t forgotten those football teams of 25 years ago have you? Well, the high school boys aren’t promising to have any such team of iron men as those were but they are promising to have a team that won’t stop fighting until the final whistle blows or they are carried off the field." 100 years ago (1904)"The demand for residences in Hills keeps up to such an extent that something ought to be done to supply the demands. Either some of our well-to-do farmers should build few residences, which would bring good returns on the investment, or else we should set to work and organize another building and loan association conducted along up-to-date plans."
