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acu also has a fine line of office deskswas and bank fixtures.jade -3 of I Cold Storage Statesmen*He The Nelson County News which ired wa8 i,ere in the palmy days of rap* I county organization according to road the Ordway plan, says: ture ««in 1883 Gov. Ordway gave this ki county quite a striking illustrationof his high character by issuing She commissions for the three commis-sioners of Nelson county, in blank,1 s“e (the names of the three commission-whJ era being filled in by Mr. P. I. flP2 Kane) in return for which little ntea l kindness a share of the townsite of Lakota was given to Mr. Harvey of tne I \7alsh county, (Ordway9s present itnes I partner in the stock raising busi-W3es* ness) which he, (Harvey) made no com-1 bones of saying belonged to Ord-jctor i way • This action on the part of 1 on I this gentlemen of 'high character ~anu I and extended experience9 which was isted l done against the unanimous protest have I of the inhabitants of the county, I resulted in saddling a debt of 630,-1000 on our shoulders, which we i for I have not got rid of yet. Oh yes! s of I this gentleman has a ‘high charac-I ter,9 in fact its more than 'high,9 its I rotten.99 •t , “Matilda and I are Coin*.”J I «|tve jU8» got a letter Matilda;tar a I From our old Friend Tom, You Know,
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Wahpeton Times
Wahpeton, North Dakota, US
Thu, Aug 15, 1889
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