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10 years ago (1995)
The word on the 1995 harvest season is that yield and quality are down markedly from last year’s bumper crop, but prices are favorably reflecting that trend, particularly with corn prices topping out at a 10-year high.
Architects showed plans for a proposal for a new middle school addition to the Luverne High School.
Southwest Christian won the Sub-Section 10 Volleyball Championship. 25 years ago (1980)
The city of Luverne is keeping electric rates the same but is raising garbage and sewer. The sewer rates were proposed to increase from $2.50 per month to $22.50 per month in order to pay for a new sanitary sewer system. Garbage rates were proposed to increase from $2.50 to $4 per month.
St. Catherine’s Church is using a sex education class that is making its debut outside of metropolitan parishes in Minnesota. The unique program, which involves both teenagers and parents, is expected to expand to other communities.50 years ago (1955)
Halloween didn’t bring much in the way of vandalism to Luverne. Other than the usual trick or treating, more than 200 children turned up at the Civic and Commerce Association party. They bobbed for apples and received bottles of pop and a cookie. 75 years ago (1930)
The collection of relics of the Rock County Historical Society, which has been on public exhibition in a display window of the I.I. Smith furniture store, was transferred Tuesday to the McKay barber shop, where it will be on exhibit for a few weeks.
Erling Johnson, youngest son of Carl J. Johnson, who recently underwent an operation for the removal of a bullet lodged near his spine, has been at home since the middle of last week and is getting along very encouragingly. He was accidentally shot about three years ago while walking on the Rock Island tracks near the stockyards. 100 years ago (1905)
Tom Rovang reported that his two corn pickers, John and Lewis Larson of Primghar, Iowa, each picked and cribbed 125 bushel of corn in nine hours one day last week. This is certainly a record.

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