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“ieii fnan three milei apart. ZJown tounderi recognized tnat the community with the moit reiiaenti at the time of the organization of JLubooch (^ountg could win the countg ieat. Lfo avoid a prolongea fight over the courthouie, the competing town promoteri agreed to aitandon their exiiting towniitei and eitabliih a new one. iJn UJec. 19, 1890, the two groupi agreed to termi and ioon eitabliihed the new towniite of rJLubboch. f-^romoteri ioid one hundred town loti in the new community almoit immediately. ZJheie jLuoooch reiidenti, together with iettleri on outiging ranched and itoch farmi, moved to organize the countu. _/t petition for organization wai circulated and the required 150 iignaturei obtained, illloit lihelu the petition contained fraudulent iignaturei becauie women were not allowed to vote at the time and moit are iheptical that there were 150 men in exiitence in the area to iign the petition, ^ome ipeculate that the name of horded, mulei and dogi are poiiibiu liited on the document, vjut the petition wai iubmitted to ^udge Covington in C^roibu L-ountu on Zreb. 9, 1891. ZJne election to organize the countu toon place on llllarch 10, 1891, and the town of oLubboch wai ietected ai the countu ieat. — ZJhii information wai tahen from a brochure publiihed bu the rJLubboch l^ountg Centennial .Steering Committee and iupplemented bg facti from a ieriei of articlei printed bu the rJLubboch ^Mvaianche-Aournai. ' .^C^KaC*^fl j Hgte:N^1|ir^ " ' ^Hw -- ^C J ■[^■BJ^^n^. n^j^^^nHK ' ' ' ^taP$ ' k \| |ffi|^P^£ L^-.f ^M ^x^^ 5^^* " " ^ ^: ' il-:^-vm^ r - ' MjMf^ ' ^^^^T ' ^KI^^B W^ff^ ^ Aj^^^^^tKB^ Jg: ' fel On Aug. 28, 1923 people gather outside the Courthouse. (Photo from Southwest Collection) Gov. Neff speaks at the celebration in 1923. (Photo from Southwest Collection) ”