10 years ago (1994)"The Hills-Beaver Creek One-Act Play cast and crew won third place honors at Sub-Section competition. Members of the cast and crew are, Samantha Vahey, Alicia Sandager, Corey Nuffer, Laressa Sandstede, Austin Cragoe, Matt Ebert, Jeff Ebert, Brent Taubert, Andy Anderson and Beth Jansma. Director is Kay Dahlquist."25 years ago (1979)"The Hills-Beaver Creek Patriot boys have been seeded No. 1 in the District 8 boys’ basketball tournament, just as many of the fans in the area had predicted. Luverne was picked in the No. 2 slot with Southwest Christian taking the No. 3 slot." 50 years ago (1954)"Merle Thompson accompanied Clarence Rollag, DeKalb seed corn dealer, to Redwood Falls recently where the winners of DeKalb’s 1953 corn growing contest met for a banquet and where the winners received their awards. Merle’s yield was 120.02 bushel per acre, the highest in Rock County."75 years ago (1929)"The county graveled road which goes through our town has been closed to auto traffic for more than a week now. A bunch of men from town were out Friday and shoveled east to the new gravel and Tuesday morning the snowplow came through finally!"100 years ago (1904)"During the schoolhouse fire on Jan. 7, many of the children lost all their books, which most of them could ill afford to do, and a public entertainment will be given by the pupils and teachers at the Opera house Friday evening, as a benefit entertainment to reimburse the pupils for their loss. An admission of 25¢ will be charged and we trust that every man, woman and child in the district will turn out and assist in this worthy enterprise. A good program has been prepared which is well worth the price of admission."
