10 years ago (1994)"Randy Creeger is preparing for the opening of his fifth coat store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Creeger started the coat store concept in 1979 when he opened his first store in Willmar.Since then he has opened stores in Rochester in 1981, Mankato in 1982 and converted Creeger Clothing in Luverne into a coat store in 1991."25 years ago (1979)"The new Human Services Building will be the traditional brick exterior, rather than wood faced as originally planned. County commissioners changed construction materials during a special meeting Friday following an investigation of insurance fees and discussions with area residents."50 years ago (1954)"A Luverne man will be host to, and dinner companion of, President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the banquet which will be held next Tuesday night at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. Alan C. McIntosh, publisher of the Star Herald, will preside over the affair as president of the National Editorial Association. President Eisenhower will be the principal speaker at the banquet.Not only will President Eisenhower be present at the affair but Vice President Nixon and Chief Justice Warren will be guests at the head table at the banquet.… One of the last official acts of McIntosh as the retiring head of the NEA will be to present an engraved plaque to President Eisenhower honoring the Chief Executive for opening up additional avenues of public information to the people of America.The occasion will mark the first time in the 69-year-old history of the publisher’s association that a President of the United States has attended one of the association affairs." 75 years ago (1929)"Manager C. E. Johnson, of the Luverne Co-operative creamery, was awarded a silver trophy for the highest-scoring butter exhibited at the annual convention of the Land O’ Lakes creameries of the 12th Minnesota district held Friday at Hendricks. A federal cream inspector judged the butter and Mr. Johnson was awarded the highest honors on a jar scoring 94 1/2 points. … This winning is made all the more noteworthy through the fact that the jar of butter entered by the Luverne creamery manager was taken out of a fairly large regular churning and was not made from a small quantity of especially selected and treated butterfat, as is frequently the case. About fifty Land O’ Lakes creameries were represented by their managers or officers."100 years ago (1904)"The many friends of Guy and Harry Burlingame in Luverne will be pleased to learn that they are making good progress in their overland trip to North Dakota and that they are thoroughly enjoying the trip. They left Luverne Wednesday afternoon of last week and spent the first night at Jasper with their old friend, Tom Dunn. Thursday night was spent at Flandreau and Friday night at Clear Lake, S.D., where they were guests of C.J. Ronald. Saturday night they camped on the banks of Lake Kampeska, and on Wednesday night of this week, after being on the road just one week, they reached Ellendale, just across the line in North Dakota. At that point the boys had covered about two-thirds of the distance to their first objective point — Bismarck — and had driven on an average about forty miles a day."
