Diamond Club
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianJanuary 14, 2026The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group and it appeared in The Rock County Herald on Feb. 5, 1942. “It was a long time ago that I first visited Luverne,” recalls William E. Hocking, of this city, this week’s Diamond Club member. “As a matter of fact, you’d never know it was the same place. The first thing about Luverne that I remember was eating dinner in a hotel which…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianDecember 30, 2025The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group and it appeared in The Rock County Herald on Jan. 22, 1942. The fear of contracting one of the most dreaded of diseases, human cholera, was one of the many experiences in the life of Ernest Kiebach, Sr., of this city. The fear was even greater under the circumstances, than it would have been under ordinary conditions, for he,…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianDecember 17, 2025The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Jan. 1, 1942. Charley Ehlers story continues farming as a boy. Soil conservation, a common byword of modern day farming was practiced in that country when he was a boy, he recalls. He remembers well how land was planted to clover, and later plowed to make it more fertile. He attended the state school, at which religion was taught as one of…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianDecember 09, 2025The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Jan. 1, 1942. “I’m having some of the fun now that I didn’t have time for when I was a youngster,” declares Charley Ehlers, Luverne, who is this week’s Diamond Club Member. Charley, who reached his 75th birthday in November says that the fact that one has passed the three-quarter century mark does not mean that he is getting old unless he…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianNovember 19, 2025The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Dec. 4, 1941. Despite the fact that they are 82 and 76 years of age, respectively, Mr. and Mrs. Evert Fikse, Steen, this week’s Diamond Club members, are literally as active as youngsters and enjoy themselves just as much. It’s not at all unusual to see just the two of them get into the family car and drive to the river or a nearby lake for a…- By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianNovember 12, 2025The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Nov. 27, 1941. “To get the fullest enjoyment provided by the modern conveniences of this day and age, it is necessary that you have experienced life in an earlier era.” This is the contention of Mrs. Marit Sundem, 90, of Hills, this week’s Diamond club member. “What the younger generation takes for granted today—the speedy automobiles, the…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianOctober 22, 2025The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Nov. 6, 1941. One of the most familiar sights on the Luverne streets now, and for almost 60 years, is one of Clarence M. LaDue and his horse drawn milk wagon. At the age of 86, he is hale, hearty and agile, and getting down from the seat of the wagon and getting back up on it is no trick at all for him. That he still uses the horse drawn…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianOctober 15, 2025The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Oct. 30, 1941. “I guess I’ve been what they call ‘Jack of all trades’,” says William Iserman, Luverne, this week’s member of The Star’s Diamond Club. Mr. Iserman, who lives alone in the home he built for himself just back of the Presbyterian parsonage, is healthy and active, and thrives on his own cooking. As a matter of fact, cooking was one…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianOctober 08, 2025The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on Oct. 23, 1941. Enjoying the distinction of being the only living charter members of the Luverne chapter of the Order of Eastern Star are Mr. and Mrs. Mark Swedberg, this week’s Diamond Club members. Active in lodge work, Mr. and Mrs. Swedberg helped organize the Eastern Star and have continued to maintain their memberships until the present…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianOctober 01, 2025The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group. Members of this group consist of persons age 75 and older. This article appeared in The Rock County Star on Oct. 16, 1941. An interesting story of how Rock county gained much of its early day Norwegian population is told by Martin O. Wold, Luverne, this week’s Diamond Club member. Mr. Wold knows the story well because he experienced…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianSeptember 10, 2025The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group. Members of this group consist of persons age 75 and older. This article appeared in The Rock County Star on Sept. 25, 1941. As far as is known, no one in Rock county has lived on the same farm as long as Robert C. Norton who resides a mile east and one and one-half miles north of Luverne. It was 72 years ago that Mr. Norton…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianAugust 27, 2025The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group. Members of this group consist of persons age 75 and older. This article appeared in The Rock County Star on Sept. 11, 1941. Because there was not enough to do on an eight acre farm in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, for 11 children, James Horne, 79, of Luverne decided the thing for him to do was to find work and support himself. A visit…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianAugust 20, 2025The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group. Members of this group consist of persons age 75 and older. This article appeared in The Rock County Star on Sept. 4, 1941. Holding an Australian cavalryman’s horse, hearing the whine of bullets and watching four powerful horses slip and slide on an icy road in an attempt to move a heavy cannon sounds like story book stuff. But in…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianAugust 13, 2025The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group. Members of this group consist of persons age 75 and older. This article appeared in The Rock County Star on Aug. 28, 1941. Ask John Oye, retired Mound township farmer who lives here, where he was born, he’ll tell you frankly he isn’t sure. At the time when he came into the world, the part of Europe where his parents lived was…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianAugust 06, 2025The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group. Members of this group consist of persons age 75 and older. This article appeared in The Rock County Star on Aug. 21, 1941. From the standpoint of years, it is doubtful if there is a public official in Minnesota today who has held an elective office as long as O. E. Ferguson, former county clerk of court and present judge of…
By Betty Mann, Rock County HistorianOctober 30, 2024The following article is part of the Diamond Club Member group that began in the January 7, 1943, issue of the Rock County Star Herald. Members of this group consist of persons of age 75 and older. The following appeared in The Rock County Herald on May 10, 1945. This world may have “gone to the dogs” in many respects since the days Mrs. Willmine Buus, Luverne, was a girl, but from the…
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