The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-02-04

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and called upon The News To tell of
mass meeting that was held one night
this week in Lamro to denounCe this
newspaper because OF some OF the
reports said to be born in bias and
denounced by Lamro as "slush," which
have appeared in The News to the in.
jury of Lamro.
The Lamro business men called a
I mass meeting to protest and to take
some action in regard to the matter
Some of them thought The News must
have been bribed by rival townsites
to print stun injurious to Lamro
Others declared that The News must
be a railroad tool" and that its print
ing biased reports damaging to IamrO
with the deliberate intention of help.
ing to kill the town and build up a
rival at the Northwestern railroads
command All were agreed that Lam.
70 was getting the worst of 1t and
they were fighting mad about it, They
were saying sizzling things when Mr.
Crook told the meeting that he had
known w. n. lluse for good many
years and that he didn't believe Mr..
lluse was the kind of a man who
would act as anybody's tool, or that
he would do anything Intentionally
to injure Lamro or any other town.
He said he thought the best thing
to do would be to make Il trip to The
News Office and explain the situation,
and that he was confident LamrO
could expect square deal" at the
hands of The Norfolk News, if the
situation We're explained.
The meeting agreed to that plan
of action and Mr. Crook came to eX.
plain to The News that Lamro is not
moving away, that it is now, as it has
been for a year or more, thriving.
prosperous county seat town of 700
people, and, what was more, that it
doesn't intend to move away or to
die, but that it has, in the opinion of
every Lamro business man, "A thor.
oughly bright and substantial future
before it.
He said that report sent to The
News by one of its correspondents in
the Rosebud country some weeks ago,
giving the impression that Lamro had
become divided in Il town row over
whether to move or not and that only
a few still chung in futile effort to
hold a town there, had done damage
to the town and that it was unfair
because it was not a true statement
of the case. He realized that The
News has an immense circulation
throughout north Nebraska and south.
ern South Dakota, and it was because
of the tremendous effect of such an
item that Iamro business men were
so wrought up.
"All those reports that have given
, an impression -, Lamro was dying
or would die" Mr.. Crook said, ARE
slush, pure and simple. They come
from biased sources, with the purpose
of injuring Lamro but as a matter
of fact, the county seat never will be
moved from Lamro. 1t can not be
moved any more than the Gregory
county seat could be moved from Fair.
fax in the attempt made couple of
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takes a majority of all votes cast to
move county seat in South Dakota.
Every town in the county would be a
candidate. And for any one town to
secure a majority of all votes cast,
is absolutely out of the question.
1t can't be done?"
And to this county seat proposition
MIR. Crook pinned his faith when he
selected Lamro to live in.
Mr.. Crook admitted that some of the
Lamro people had moved to Winner,
and that some of the business insti-
tutions had moved across the prairies
to the new townsite on the railroad.
} Included in the institutions that moved
) were two banks, a printing Office and
: a hotel. He pointed out that two banks
still remain, said there were still three
| hotels and that the LamrO business
men had bought a newspaper to re-
place the one which moved to Winner.
He told of hard luck that had been
encountered in the efforts to get the
new newspaper going, the machinery
hdNluS DttI uulHptu Out VI Il freight
er's wagon enroute to Lamro and bad,
ly mashed. So new machinery had to
be sent for and this has delayed the
new publication.
He said the big Van Meter hotel was
moved across the prairies with sixty
horses, but declared three weeks were
required to do the moving instead of
an hour and thirty minutes, as had
been claimed by one Winner enthus.
last.
Mr. Crook was loud in his praise of
the Rosebud country. He said that
much of Trip county and much of
Meyer county is just as good as the
best farm land in Madison county,
and he considers it territory of very
vast opportunities.
; Mr.. Crook was assured by The News
; that this newspaper has no partisan
interest in any townsite fight, that it
: is first and last a newspaper and as
such wants to give its readers all the