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158 in many incidents that were very funny, and in disappointments that were pathetic.

Every village was ambitious to become the county seat of its county, and contests were entered into which even to this day influence the affairs of many communities.

Men with learning and ability to grace the United States Senate have frequently spent the best years of their lives in a vain attempt to develop a village, intended by nature and environment simply as a local market for farm products, into a commercial city, and sometimes they have succeeded at the expense of a neighboring village much better situated. In several instances county seat