Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-04-05

The Mayor Inaugural.
Mayor Richardson delivered the fol
lowing Inaugural before the board OF
aldermen and a large number Of citizens
at the court house on Tuesday evening:
Mr. Pres,dent. and Gentlemn afthe
City Council Of tho new born City of Lit
tile Falls:
70 obedience to yonr request md in
accordance with an oldtime custom, !
~ this time, on assuming and entering
upon the performance 0fthe duties q
| the Office OF mayOr Of our young t:lty,
will in brief address you on . few mat
| stera Of q general character.
The most casual observation OF the
lands now embraced within the limits
OF the city of Little Falls and adiacent
territory reveals the fact that far lack
in prehistoric times Little Fails was 4
central point for large tract Of country
then ttlickly populated. Coming down
to conparati yely a late period its pos
1I1'sua1 = % ios ~.
trloes q lndlans tlat slnna oitea tnls re-
xioR OF country JUST PRIOR 70 lts occupa-
non ny the An9io.oaxonl q. race iess tn .a,a
nan = century ago. wen tue WHO
tachment for this locality as the buffalo
fingered in this vicinity 40 late as 1920.
II q GENITAL location lis desirable Lit.
tic Falls is very advantageous situated,
locafad N she In ON the Father Of VA.
ters, tine great q lsslssi ppil mNlway 9e.
tween the equator and the north pole,
worry nearly IN the centre OF North
America. OF the great state q Minnes0-
e and also IN tho centre Of MORRISON
eouniy, which has territory contain-
Ing ihirty-two full townships Of keel
lent farm and timber lands. While We
may not hope that Little Fslls WIN he
t0lne = tekln or London IN tue near
future still the boy Of today may hope
TO see her the ths:a city N the great
commonReaNho OF Minnesota.
!, Little Falis was surveyed ana iald out
Into village lots IN 1922, IN which year
your numpie servant became res,dSqs
q the then embryo. clty o. Llttle sf Fan :.
She then had within her Unite An ex-
ceilent saw min, = store, q eoaEdine
mouse ana TWO pflvnte residences.
FROM that tlme on Ior three years, con,
sldering tne TACT mat ene was an inlano
town one hnndred miles from navlgaole
waters ana nye hundred lnl!es IRON the
nearest raliroad sne grew fapidly
ana Vltla&e iote rose 20 stne Ralne
OF one tnoosana uoiArs eaen; an9
ae)acent ianas 10 one hundreN doNaIs
per acre; ootn Jam ana sGspenslon
pndge were put across the Mississippi
flver: oat WINDS ana nooos came anu
swept tnem away hotwl'ns'sn9,ng tney
were Duiit upon Fock. az AM that ttme
me popGiatlon OF tne ,VnlsRe mao
seacneu aoout one t"ousanu' ou' ~ SOD
DeRan 10 gIoW Iess! o~!Mg 20 Sarlous
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