10 years ago (1993)"Apartment buildings and houses should be sprouting in Evergreen Addition before spring.The Luverne Economic Development Authority Monday approved the prices for 55 lots in the area being developed east of the Veterans Addition. … Prices on the lots will vary according to their size, view, traffic patterns and landscape potential. The average price for the lots will be slightly more than $16,000. Real estate commissions will be added to the price of the lots."25 years ago (1978)"Three boxes of steaks were stolen from a Harker’s Wholesale meat truck in Luverne sometime Friday evening.… Two boxes of six ounce sirloin steaks, valued at $37.90 per box, and one box of eight ounce rib eye steaks, valued at $39.20, were reported missing."50 years ago (1953)"Electric power from the Missouri River project at Fort Randall will not solve Luverne’s problem of an ever-increasing electrical load. The way it now looks to the city council, it will take an expenditure of at least $575,000 in the next two years to keep ‘ahead of the game.’"75 years ago (1928)"A large percentage of the male population of Rock County has, since Monday morning, been enjoying the privilege of hunting pheasants. In proof of this it is only necessary to state that up to the fore part of this week County Auditor Ray Koehn had issued seven hundred licenses. Fully half of these were secured during the week preceding the opening of the pheasant season."100 years ago (1903)"John Connell, the popular druggist, is making an offer that is just like finding money, for he is selling a regular 50¢ bottle of Dr. Howard’s celebrated specific for the cure of constipation dyspepsia at half price. In addition to this large discount he agrees to return the entire purchase price to any customer whom the specific does not cure."
