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  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    April 11, 2023
    The 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 September 16, 1943. The Civil War to most of the residents of Rock county was another war fought in the south over the question of slavery. Only a…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    March 28, 2023
    The 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 Sept. 9, 1943. Looking back over the past half century, Mrs. August Hamann, Luverne, wonders sometimes if some of her experiences in early day Rock…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    March 21, 2023
    The 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 Sept. 2, 1943. You can’t beat a life of retirement for a good time, according to William Mitchell, Luverne, who after four years of taking life easy…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    February 28, 2023
    The 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 Aug. 19, 1943. “When the Kiebach family moved from Iowa to Rock county,” declared Mrs. William Mitchell, Luverne, I thought they were going to clear…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    February 14, 2023
    The 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 Aug. 5, 1943. Jacob Wahlert, Luverne, holds two county records and both records are worthy of note. First he is the father of 16 children, all of…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    February 07, 2023
    The 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 July 29, 1943. This article is continued from last week. That fall, Mr. (Theodore) Lemke was helping his father plow. The place they were working was…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    January 31, 2023
    The 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 July 29, 1943. A lone, dim light, shining in the inky darkness, served as a beacon to direct an ox-drawn wagon and its four weary occupants toward…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    January 10, 2023
    The 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 July 22, 1943. Whenever you feel you’re working too many hours a day, at too small a salary, think of Mr. and Mrs. William Schuldt, of Hardwick. When…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    December 20, 2022
    The 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 July 8, 1943. This article is continued from last week’s edition of the Star Herald about L. G. Larson.   Remembers Storms Mr. Larson spent part of…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    December 13, 2022
    The 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 July 8, 1943. A man with experiences is L. G. Larson, who lives in the northwest part of Beaver Creek township. Student school teacher, store clerk…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    December 05, 2022
    The 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 July 1, 1943, and is continued from last week. Helped Bind Grain Before she was married, Mrs. Ellis W. Colby learned how to do both indoor and out of…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    November 29, 2022
    The 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 July 1, 1943. One of the few living persons in this area who can claim having seen Jesse and Frank James, the famous Northfield bank robbers, is Mrs…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    November 21, 2022
    The 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 June 24, 1943. To have a band playing, and a celebration in progress to herald her arrival to this section of the country was the experience of Mrs.…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    November 15, 2022
    The 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 June 10, 1943.   That a person is never really too old to begin farming has been demonstrated by John Swenson of Mound township, who held a sale and…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    November 08, 2022
    The 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 June 3, 1943.   A person no older than he thinks he is, and if he takes an interest in life, gets plenty of exercise, and has something to do to keep…
  • By Betty Mann, Rock County Historian
    November 01, 2022
    The 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 27, 1943. “When we could see three stars in the sky, then it was quitting time,” declared D. W. “Dick” Campbell, Luverne, as he recalled the days…
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