10 years ago (1994)"Southwest Minnesota’s search for water came one step closer to reality Tuesday when the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development awarded $50,000 to get the Lewis and Clark Rural Water project off the ground.The Lewis and Clark Rural Water System, if all goes as planned, would supplement existing water supplies to communities and rural water systems in southeast South Dakota, northwest Iowa and southwest Minnesota. The system, as it’s proposed, would serve 178,690 people."25 years ago (1979)"A new county-city law enforcement building with facilities for county and district court matters is the recommendation of the County Law Enforcement Study Committee.A report of the committee’s activities, together with recommendations signed by committee members, will be submitted to the county board of commissioners and city council of Luverne for consideration at their June meetings."50 years ago (1954)"An auction sale and rummage sale next Wednesday will be the closing events to raise funds for the community hospital drive. To date about $90,000 has been received in pledges and from all sources. The goal of $125,000 is still $35,000 short.… ‘We are urging everyone to bring what they can to these events,’ George Golla, general chairman said."75 years ago (1929)"Fully four inches of water fell in two rainstorms that passed over Rock County Monday night and Tuesday afternoon and evening. As a result, growing crops and vegetation of all kinds received the one impetus for rapid growth that had been missing since warm weather was ushered in."100 years ago (1904)"Jacobson & Colby have been operating their sawmill in the east part of town this week, and have sawed a large pile of lumber from the cottonwood trees grown along the west side of the street running toward the Mounds beside the railroad. The entire plant, excepting the engine, was constructed by Neils Jacobson, and even the saw is a home product."The mill does excellent work and its operations have been watched this week with great interest. Mr. Jacobson has sawed twenty thousand feet of lumber on his farm this year from trees of twenty-seven years’ growth, and during the season thus far they have sawed eighty thousand feet, all from timber grown in Rock County."
