10 years ago (1993)"Nearly every Rock County office has been working frantically to assess damages caused by Saturday’s flood waters. They have been strapped with the difficult job of determining what the cost will be of returning Rock County to its pre-flood condition. … After a great deal of hair-pulling and number crunching, county officials entered $2.5 million on the bottom line and faxed it to St. Paul."25 years ago (1978)"City officials and representatives for the doctors at the Luverne Medical Center are working on final details for the purchase of land for a new medical facility to be located adjacent to the Luverne Community Hospital.Kenny and Larry Goebel are completing final plans for a new $600,000 supermarket facility to be located on Highway 75 across from Lampert Building Center in Luverne."50 years ago (1953)"A Rock County farm boy, who graduated from Luverne high school in 1936, has been selected to receive the 1953 Award for Advancement of Basic and Applied Sciences by the Yale Engineering Association.He is Dr. Franklin Ordung, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.N. Ordung, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.N. Ordung, of Luverne township, who is presently associate professor of the electrical engineering department of Yale University."75 years ago (1928)"Seventy-two individual cows of the four hundred under test in the twenty-seven herds in the Rock County Cow Testing association, produced forty or more pounds of butterfat during the month of April, according to the tabulation of tester Edward Schwab.… O.A. Paulsen & Sons, of Clinton Township, had the greatest producing cows for the month, one a grade Holstein giving 1,674 pounds of milk and 77 pounds of butterfat; another producing 74.1 pounds and a third one 62.4 pounds of butterfat."100 years ago (1903)"R.J. Cobban and James Speers were ‘laying off’ Monday and were engaged in conversation on the mutually interesting subject of wells. Mr. Speers will begin a well for Mrs. Gartland and Mr. Cobban hopes to strike an artesian flow in a well he will drill for Ole Halverson on his farm on Section 36, Rose Dell township."
