10 years ago (1994)"Luverne and Magnolia school districts are on target to meet the April 1 deadline for Cooperation and Combination plans. The two school boards met Thursday to hear reports from the four committees set up to smooth the path toward combining the school districts.… The committee recommended one superintendent be selected before combination in 1996. Two high school principals would serve Luverne’s grades five through 12, one elementary principal would serve grades K through four in Luverne, and Magnolia would have a half-time principal for grades K-6."25 years ago (1979)"Alcohol, manufactured from grain and other products grown on Minnesota farms, may be a vital source of motor fuel some day if the petroleum situation worsens.Gasahol, a blend of 90 percent gasoline and 10 percent alcohol (ethanol), is already in use and gaining in popularity, according to reports. As supplies become shorter (Iran supplies have now been cut off) and as prices of imported petroleum go up (OPEC announced increases in excess of seven percent last week), alcohol could well become more important to the fuel industry."50 years ago (1954)"Two new directors were elected Tuesday by the stockholders of the Luverne Cooperative Creamery Association. They are Vernon Ver Steeg, Kenneth, and Leo Mulvihill, Luverne. They will succeed W.G. Perkins and Chris Kopp, Luverne."75 years ago (1929)"About seventy gallons of alcohol, cached away in the snow banks on the southeast, center and northeast edges of the junction of state aid road No. 8 with trunk highway No. 6, two miles north of this city, were uncovered shortly before noon Wednesday. The uncovering was done by Rock County’s new snow plow as it dug into the snow banks, the immense supply of booze being located within the first few feet of highway that the snow plow was put to work on. … Almost before those in charge of the snow plow realized what had happened in the uncovering of the first supply, a considerable number of spectators who had assembled to watch the snow plow work, pounced upon the booze and proceeded to carry it away; one, two and three cans to a person."100 years ago (1904)"Four of Rock County’s prosperous farmers went to Little Rock the latter part of last week to visit with an old friend whom they had known in the old country or in Plymouth county, Iowa. They were Wm. Mann, Albert Ahrendt, Fred Hamann and Chris Jauert. Their friend’s birthday fell on the date of the birth of the ‘Father of His Country’ and the celebration was of a dual character."
