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125 YEARS AGO
Oct. 12,1900
Every store window up-town today contains a big white and blue bill announcing the Pipestone and Luverne High School football game to be played here on Saturday. The two games played here last year had the effect of stirring up a great interest among our people in football and if the weather is favorable there will be a large attendance at Saturday’s contest. Although we have confidence that our boys will come out winners, we anticipate one of the liveliest games of the season, and no one who enjoys this great sport should fail to be present.
100 YEARS AGO
Oct. 16, 1925
Between nine and ten o’clock yesterday morning, as a crew of city street workmen were busy on Lowry street just south of Catlin, the tarvia they were using boiled over and caught fire. The result was quite a blaze and dense smoke. Chemical fire extinguishers were quickly brought, and the fire was soon put out. No alarm was turned in, but one of the city fire trucks was run to the scene of the blaze.
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Knitters for four more sweaters with sleeves are wanted to complete the quota assigned to Pipestone County Red Cross Chapter, for ex-soldiers in hospitals. Yarn and directors will be furnished. If you will help with this work kindly notify Mrs. Luella McGillvray, phone No. 1.
75 YEARS AGO
Oct. 12, 1950
With the rats again becoming a nuisance in Pipestone, it will be an all-out war against the rodents here Thursday, Oct. 26, when the Jaycees begin a Rat Killing campaign to rid the city of rats. The drive will get underway with the spreading of poison bait in the business districts and the stockyards, and any residential area that requests the service. The poison, which will be supplied by the city, is of a type that is deadly to rats but harmless to pets.
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Mrs. Harold W. Johnson of near Verdi was named winner of KSOO farm safety contest and will be interviewed over the air tomorrow at 12:20 p.m. Mrs. Johnson won the contest with a description of the safety conditions on her farm and will be awarded some $40 in merchandise. More than 120 entries from this area participated in the contest.
50 YEARS AGO
Oct. 16, 1975
The fourth phase of Pipestone’s Urban renewal project will be underway shortly with the demolition of buildings on the east side of the 100 block of North Hiawatha. When these buildings are torn out only the removal of the Donoco and Jones Furniture will still be unfinished. Other buildings taken down earlier were the buildings across from M & M where the new parking lot now lies, the old buildings south and west of Hicks Motor Co., on the same block and the old Okey Cleaners building which stood just south of the American Legion. Until destruction of the buildings along Hiawatha begins, citizens have been removing salvageable materials they bid on previously.
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Herb Vinson, Ruthton, recently became a Pipestone County Sheriff’s Deputy. Before joining the Sheriff’s crew, Vinson was on the Tracy City Police force for 16 months. Prior to that, he spent 10 years in the Army’s criminal investigation branch. Vinson spent eight of those years in Europe and two in the states.
25 YEARS AGO
Oct. 12, 2000
It was a moment many felt would never arrive. For two years, backers of a new school struggled to get a bond issued passed. For many of those people, the realization of a successful bond issue hit home Tuesday, with crews poised to begin site preparation work on the new school site even as the ground-breaking took place.
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One of Pipestone’s oldest family-owned businesses, Toggery Dry Cleaners of 109 2nd St. SE, closed its doors Friday, leaving the community without a dry cleaning service. Bob Longstreet was the third generation of Longstreets who operated a dry-cleaning business in Pipestone. The business was started by Clarence Longstreet in 1913 and later by Bob’s parents, Vernon and Marcella and his uncle, Lee Longstreet in 1975. Bob moved into the business in 1980 but had been involved with the business since 1958.