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History of New Rockford: March 26, 2018

On July 18, 1901, Orley Couch came up from Minneapolis, where he had attended the School of Pharmacy, and resumed his position in A.C. Buck’s drug store. W.C. Carter was in town. That evening there was a dance in Hulbert’s Grove, hosted by the baseball team; there wasn’t a very large attendance, so financially it was a failure, but the dancers had a good time.

On July 18 (or July 11), M...