one o'clock
A new determination to complete and perfect his plant-setting machine had taken possession of him . * * * * * The meeting to organize a promotion company that would in turn launch the first industrial enterprise in the town of Bidwell was held in the back room of the Bidwell bank one afternoon in June . The berry season had just come to an end and the streets were full of people . A circus had come to town and at one o'clock there was a parade . Before the stores horses belonging to visiting country people stood hitched in two long rows . The meeting in the bank was not held until four o'clock , when the banking business was at an end for the day . It had been a hot , stuffy afternoon and a storm threatened .