10 years ago (1993)"Mother Nature huffed and puffed and blew down a 500 feet by 100 feet building at Hills-Beaver Creek Coop Farm Service in Hills Sunday morning.Steve Fagerness, manager of the H-BC Coop, said Sunday’s strong winds took the partially-constructed building down between 10 and 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. The building will be used to store feed and seed."25 years ago (1978)"The third annual reunion of the Pleasant View neighbors was Saturday, Sept. 16, at the Hank and Lucille Smith farm northeast of Hills. More than 180 persons from the Hills, Beaver Creek and Steen area attended the event, which included a potluck supper with a whole roast hog, games for the kids and an old-time tractor pull. Bill Weber, Luverne, served as Master of Ceremonies for the reunion program, and Jack Wysong, Steen, and Mr. and Mrs. Tub Beyenhof, Hills, helped with preparations for the event."50 years ago (1953)"A record of achievement in conservation has won honors for Josephine Ward, Hills, a member of Blue Ribbon 4-H Club, in the form of a trip to the 4-H State Conservation camp in Itasca Park Sept. 17-20.A trip to the annual State Conservation camp is considered one of the coveted 4-H awards." 75 years ago (1928)"Dirt roads seem to be the lot of most of the farmers in Minnesota. Fortunate residents of the cities or tourists from other states may spin along over paved or surfaced roads of the splendid trunk highway system but something like two-thirds of the farmers of Minnesota, so the study of the U.S. Census indicates, still live on dirt roads and battle with the justly famous Minnesota mud."100 years ago (1903)"Editors are first to hear gossip or scandal, indiscretion of men and women, things unfit for publication, intrigues, clandestine meetings, flirtations of married women, night rides, young gone astray, rumors of married men, and in fact, all the neighborhood scandals. Editors generally know all naughty doings in a community, no matter how secret. If one-half what they heard was published there would be divorce, social ostracism and other woes; there would be shotguns and gore, imprisonment, lynching, desolate homes, shame, humiliation and misery. The editor also learns much of the hypocrisy of life, and it is a wonder he believes anything on earth or in the hereafter. People who abuse him often owe their standing in society to his forbearance."
