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ley in sisal, for was not sisal bread
and butter to the farmer and was not
Townley's organization a farmers or
ga%nization?
So Lundeen raised money at At
water, Mimi, upon his future pros
poets. He secured, as it developed
recently, $500 from August Broman
and S. B. Glader. "Mr. Glader and
myself paid Mr.. Lundeen $3.50 each,
when he went up to North Dakota to
see the. League about the sisal propo-
%sition, and he gave us a written agree
ment to give us 1850 shares each in
the new sisal company" wrote MI.
Broman after he learned that Townley
had organized a company. Like many
a man who has helped a promoter out
in a pinch, Mr.. Broman was looking
for a return upon his investment.
Lundeen had been taken sick in St.
Paul and died and Townley had not
been informed of the Atwater prom
Uses.
In November, 1919, Mr.. Broman
wrote to Bank Examiner Lofthus Of
North Dakota, who had officially in
spected and reported favorable upon
Townley's Florida enterprise:
Through the Minnesota Leader we
are informed that you have recently
been in Florida inspecting the sisal
plantation now under the control Of
the Nonpartisan League. Some of
the people of this place bought stock.
This stock was purchased from E.
Lundeen, promotera of the business,
and bought at the time that he went
to Fargo to meet representatives of
the Nonpartisan League"
This brings US to Fargo, North
Dakota. To a room in the Gardner
hotel, with Edwin Lundeen, of Miami
and A. G. Townley, the promoter
present; and incidently, the writer
then Townley's private secretary ane
personal representative. 1t was there
that A. c. Townley, the boss ploi'
tician, surrendered to A. C. Townley
the promoter. 1t was there that Ed
win Lundeen walked the floor ant
painted a picture as only a promoter
can paint. A picture of Sunny South
ern Florida; a picture of groves o:
oranges, grape fruit and tropica
plants. A picture of a vast acreage
of land-the best that God has pro
duced-in a perfect climate that will
produce millions for those who get j
: before the boom sets in.
The Florida gentleman was at hi
: best. He had already sold stock q
Atwater, Mimi, in Townley's futur
r Florida enterprise. He must max
r good. He painted another picture
I a vast sisal plantation, of a cordae
plant and Irvine for the farmers; no
I the great farmer-leader could g
financial assistance, if necessar.
, from the farmers of North Dakot;
Townley, the promoter, also wake
the floor. Townley, the dreamer, the
e took possession of Townley, the prt
G moter, and Townley, the POLITICAL
was entirely forgotten in that roo
. in December, 1916-and the farmer
f of North Dakota and the terminal ell
vator was forgotten with him.
i On that day, in the Gardner hott
, a deal was closed. Townley paid Luz
- deem $3.50 to bind the deal whereby
sisal enterprise was to be promote
Lundeen went back to Florida a hapI
man. Townley was to send an j
vestigator and if his report was favo
able great activities would be the +
e suit in Dade county, Florida.
vi In March, 1917, the writer, then
California at the deathbed of his vii
received a telegram from Townley, /
employer. 1t said: "When can y
=, leave for Florida? Lundeen gettil
y. anxious" The writer had been sele'
ed as the investigator. A sight drs
for $500 was drawn on A. G. TOWN.
:, through a bank at Norwalk, CAL, a
on April 10, 1917, we left over t
- Southern Pacific for Miami, "by t