10 years ago (1994)"Tracee Lenderts was among an elite group of athletes at the Northwestern College Basketball Camp conducted July 11-14. There were 155 campers in attendance. Leenderts, the daughter of Alan and Bonnie Leenderts, Hills, collected the ninth grade champion and camp champion award in the one-on-one tournament." 25 years ago (1979)"Members of the 1942 Steen softball team were: Harvey Scholten, Arnold Wissink, Vyron Paulsen, George Goemen, Kenneth Van Voorst, Preston Heunick, John Van Malsen, Bob Helgerson, Rich Aykens, Ben Hoogeveen, Dennis Scholten, Curtis Paulsen, Archie Helgeson and S.O. Mithun."50 years ago (1954)"Hats off to the Hills Implement Co. They are ripping up some of those 50-year-old sidewalks and replacing them with new. All the walk from the front door, back along the south side to the east end of the building is being replaced. We hope the disease is contagious!"75 years ago (1929)"This is a case of a man growing younger as he grows older — none other than R.B. Hinkly, one of Luverne’s prominent citizens who was in Hills Tuesday morning, and mind you, he was on the job posting bills for a circus. Mr. Hinkly is no ‘springer’ as many of Hills old residents will remember that he was one of the parties that started the first bank here in 1893. He looks about 55, but must be a lot older and he is a granddad many times over."100 years ago (1904)"A couple of giddy young girls, still in short dresses, who claimed Rock Rapids as their home, were here Sunday afternoon in company with a pair of young men. Their actions while in town indicated that they were all heading for the lower regions, and someone should have taken them by the nape of the neck and marched them home to their mammas."
