10 years ago (1994)"The Luverne Fire Department and Rescue Team swiftly squelched a potentially-deadly ammonia leak Monday afternoon in a Main Street apartment building.The team was called to 403 E. Main Street, Luverne, when workers salvaging iron from the basement of the building cut into an ammonia tank. The deadly gas sent the two workers fleeing.A woman and a two-month-old baby were in the building at the time, but they were evacuated safely."25 years ago (1979)"Someday, perhaps at a birthday party, Jessica Lynn Feikema will have an interesting story to tell. Jessica was born at 2 a.m. Sunday, March 4, in the midst of the worst winter storm of the year.Mr. and Mrs. Ron Feikema needed the help of parents and neighbors to get to the Luverne Community Hospital Saturday night."50 years ago (1954)"Construction of the new Grace Lutheran Church will start March 1, 1995, it was decided at a congregational business meeting held Tuesday evening.The new structure will be built on the property acquired by the congregation last year, located on North Kniss Avenue between Bishop and Crawford streets."75 years ago (1929)"If anyone doubts that spring really has arrived, all that is necessary for indisputable confirmation is to watch the small boys and the ‘big kids’ as they indulge in the annual spring pastime of playing marbles. They have been doing it since Saturday just about as regularly as they could find a plot of ground that was not covered with snow or water."100 years ago (1904)"Ordinarily now one expects times to be as good in a presidential year as in other years. The devoted adherents of both parties may be confident that their side will win, but the mugwump whose dealings are to be affected by low tariff, high tariff or no tariff is likely to wait and see how the cat is going to jump. There are not many of this kind of men, but heretofore there have been enough to affect business. The present year promises to be an exception to the rule. Prosperous conditions have prevailed without interruption for seven years. … Prosperity is so firmly established that not even politics can shake it. And then, most people feel certain that Roosevelt will be re-elected."
