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1.1:40; the good people of that town turned out en masse to see it and tendered their guests as hearty a welcome as their limited facilities -would admit. Every place of business in the town had been closed in honor of the event and when dinner time arrived everybody was welcomed to thegoodly dinner which had been prepared—and the hungry guests did full justice to the meal. After dinner all who could get insicle assenibl-at the school house and listened to short talks by a number of speakers until time for the return trip of o the train. The meeting was presided over by Martin Esbeck, a merchant Kimball ton and one of the directors of the new road. President Cuy-kendall was the first speaker and was followed by C. F. Chase, Dr. Camp-1 \ bell, W. A. Follette and H. S. Rass-ji The Engine that Pulled the Train 'mussen, of this city; John Petersonand S. C. Pedersen of Elkhora andto Ellchorn. The gentlemen officers were re-elected and Messrs. ;AJbert Jorgensenv finally induced the city of- M. N. Esheck Albert Jorgensen and, Mr. cuykendall made a statement c ficials to call a special election of 8/C. Peterson were added to the ^ fte finiincial CGTldition of th.e com, which the citizens voted on the pro- board of directors. Later Mr. H. S. I pany w])ich showed t]iat gome ?50 .'f position to sell the electric light(Rattenborg was chosen general field 00§ of lhfl stocfe sllbgcriptiQns liave’f plant, As all know, the voters were,and right of way man and his wm-lo^ yet ^ ^ ^ and ^ a,( decidedly unfavorable to the sale of has proved that no mistake was made!moa(. yrgent a])peal to thoae had' (not yet paid for their stock to do so iwithout delay, ts the payment of the 1 r .'subscriptions already pledged would sthe plant and the proposition was in the choice for the position, lost by a large majority. But the The Contract Lettalks on the streets plainly indicated The struggles and trials of thethat opposition to the sale of the promoters of the new road for |make ^ possible^ t; complete and slight plant did not mean opposition|next few months would make too the road whi]e their uou.pay.'1to the building of an interurban,long a story to print here and so in*^ WQuld n,ake matters Yery road, by any means. In fact the the language of the novel writers, we barrassing at fte present t-„ne \desire for a road seemed to have I draw the curtain over s this scene , I
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Atlantic Telegraph
Atlantic, Iowa, US
Fri, Jan 03, 1908
Page 7
Full Page
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Warren W.
NA, 26 Jun 2018
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