‘Kid Mayor’ campaigned to pave downtown Pelican Young mayor launched petition drive to ‘modernize’ town’s business district during Great Depression

by Joan Jarvis Ellison Special Correspondent
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An image of heavy equipment preparing downtown Pelican Rapids for its first paving of the dirt street—in the 1930s.


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