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In September 1878 an addition of one room was built onto the schoolhouse. A. S. Newcomb was the first teacher employed under the independent district, having tanght since its organization in March. When the additional room was built in the fall. Mrs. Newcomb was employed as the teacher for that room. The first school board was constituted as follows: S. S. Warner, H. Jacobson. and James M. Hoskins.
With the advent of the C. & N. W. railroad in 1882, and the consequent increase in population. a larger building was required for school purposes, so a building of four rooms was erected in 1883, costing sixty-five hundred dollars.
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This constitutes the front part of the present structure. While this was being built, the Methodist church was rented for the use of that part of the school which could not be accommodated at the schoolhouse. The new building served the needs of the school until 1898. In the summer of that year an addition was erected, together with the installation of a new steam heating plant. This constitutes the present building, standing as it does on the top of a hill. near the edge of the town, from which can be obtained an excellent view of the town. the river beyond, and the surrounding country.
The following are the present teachers in the school : superintendent, W. J. Hunt; principal, Abbie Laughlin : first assistant principal, Ivah MeCredie; second assistant, Clara L. Farmer; grade teachers: Lida Burkholder, Florence Jeffrey, Mable Elder, Frances Evans, Minnie Steen, and Iowa Wray. The total enrollment at the present time is two hundred and eighty.
The board of directors is composed of the following men: E. M. Duroc. P. A. Saxerud. N. A. Lundvall. F. K. Northey, Geo. S. Cate.
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHI. 4
The Baptist church in Sioux Rapids had its beginning Angust 11, 1881. when Rev. V. Bloodgood, who lived and preached at that time in Spencer, came and organized the society with about twelve members. P. W. Goodrich was elected the first deacon of the church. and also the superintendent of the Sunday school. 11. D. Smith. W. II. Scarborough, and P. W. Goodrich constituted the first trustees.
Rev. Bloodgood remained in Spencer for sometime after the organization of the church in Sioux Rapids, but came to the latter place every alternate Sunday to conduct the services which were held in a schoolhouse in the country. and in the Methodist church in town. In 1884 the present church building. which was also the first one, was erected. When the M. & St. L. railroad was constructed through the town, requiring removal of several residences, a house was bought and moved on the lot beside the church and was made the parsonage. The church society now owns a good property. valued at twenty-three hundred dollars, and free from debt.
The ministers who have served during the history of the church are Revs. V. Bloodgood. Jenkins, Perry, Grote, John Firth, who is now a missionary in India, W. P. Pierce. E. W. Lyman, E. G. Boyer. Luther Ross, C. M. Wilcox. J. H. Brace, a student who preached during vacation. A. J. Hislup, Wm. Edwards, a supply from Marathon, T. M. Evans, who supplied for one year. living in the country at the same time, and J. V. Wright.
The following persons constitute the present officers of the church : deacon. Geo. Ross ; trustees : A. B. Claus. R. W. Thomas, Geo. Ross, D. S. Williams, and Jean Ackley; clerk, Miss Jennie Thomas; treasurer A. B. Clans. The society has an enrollment of twenty-five active, resident members.
The Sunday school has an curollment of about thirty. Mrs. George Ross is superintendent, Miss Alice Trusty, secretary, and Jennie Thomas treasurer.
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The Baptist Young People's Union has a membership of twenty-six with Mrs. Viola Claybangh, president. J. V. Wright, seeretary, and Mary Myers, treasurer.
There is a Ladies Aid Society with Mrs. Cora Streeter, vice-president. acting president, and J. V. Wright, secretary.
The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society has Mrs. Geo. Ross as president, Miss Jennie Thomas, secretary, and Mrs. Alice Wright, treasurer.
There is a Young People's Sewing Circle with the following officers : pres- dent, Miss Jennie Thomas, secretary, Jennie Crain, and the treasurer, J. V. Wright.
THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHI.
On November 4, 1875, a council of pastors and delegates from neighboring churches was hell in the public schoolhouse of Sioux Rapids "to consider, and if deemed advisable, to assist in organizing a Congregational church." Rev. Ephraim Adams, Home Missionary superintendent, Rev. W. J. Smith of Newell, and Rev. W. L. Coleman of Spencer were the ministers present. It was "deemed advisable" and the organization of the church was effected with twelve members. The first officers recorded are those serving in 1878; at that time II. H. Gleason, and S. S. Warner were deacons. and A. S. Newcomb was the clerk.
About 1881, during the pastorate of Rev. A. M. Beaman, the first church building was erected. which is described as "an humble chapel, twenty by thirty- six", and it stood across the street, a block south of the present site. It was afterward removed and converted into the present parsonage upon the construction of the present church building in 1888.
The officers of the society are as follows; deacons: Geo. Cate and C. G. Conley : deaconesses : Mrs. J. P. Farmer and Mrs. C. G. Conley ; trustees : C. G. Conley, T. M. Murdoch, and H. H. Hall ; clerk, Susan Parker; treasurer, Geo. Cate. The enrollment numbers at present one hundred and twenty.
The officers of the Sunday school are composed of W. J. Hunt, superintend- ent. Quincy Boynton, secretary and treasurer. and Mrs. bucy B. Smith, assistant superintendent.
The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor have a membership of thirty-three ; Emily Eade is president, and Osear Rosell, secretary.
The Ladies have their Aid Society with Mrs. T. M. Murdoch, president, and Mrs. F. H. Helsell, secretary.
The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society has for its officers : Mrs. H. H. Hall, president, and Mrs. B. L. Parker, secretary.
There is a Home Department Sunday school, consisting of forty-two mem- bers, at the homes of which meetings are held for the study and discussion of the regular Sunday school lessons. Mrs. B. L. Parker is superintendent.
These ministers have served as pastors in the church : Revs. Smith, A. M. Beaman, E. P. Hughes, W. C. Hicks, Hand, T. C. Walker, Burns, J. K. Nutting. Fisk, tra Holbrook. R. T. Jones, and Rev. C. N. Martin, who is the present pastor.
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NORWEGIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHI.
The church bearing the above name was organized in Sioux Rapids, May 11, 1871. C. W. Johnson was the first leader of the society. Other officers elected were Svend Pederson, secretary; Ole II. Dahl, cashier; Peter Johnson, O. Storla, and Il. Storla, deacons; Peter Jacobson, and Ole Halvorson, trustees. A. P. Aaserid was the first minister.
Services were held for several years in the courthouse, which was then situated in Sioux Rapids, and also in the schoolhouse and in private homes. The first church, a building thirty by forty, was erected in 1882. An addition, twenty-four by twenty-eight. was built in the summer of 1894, besides a small part for the altar. The present parsonage was erected in the summer of 1891, and the society now owns a splendid property in every respect.
The present officers are constituted as follows: deacons: T. Colby, B. O. Christenson, A. Tallaksen; trustees: P. E. Barstad. A. Refsland, and H. L. Halvorson ; secretary, G. O. Osmundson. The membership of the church society numbers three hundred and thirty.
The Sunday school : H. B. Urdahl, superintendent, and Sophia Urdahl, secretary.
The Young People's Society: Halfdan Helmers, president.
Lee Centre Ladies Aid Society (in the country) : Mrs. Albert Hanson, is president.
Sionx Rapids Ladies Aid Society : Laura Landsness, president, and Mrs. II. Helmers, secretary.
There are two societies composed of the young ladies of the church, one called The Young Ladies Society, with Augusta Johnson as president, and the other called the Young Girl's Society, with Julia Christensen as its president.
The present pastor is now organizing an English Lutheran church in Rem- brandt, at which place he has been holding services since the fall of 1908.
The following ministers have been pastors of this church: Revs. A. P. Aaserid, Amon Johnson, P. Matson. HI. O. Helmers, and the present pastor, Henry Noss.
TIIE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.
The Seventh Day Adventists of Sioux Rapids organized themselves into a church society on the 20th day of August, in the year 1902; and at that time twenty persons signed for membership in the organization. L. S. Scott was elected the first elder, C. W. Hollingsworth, deacon ; Mrs. C. Il. Tyrrell, clerk; Mr. C. Il. Tyrrell. secretary and treasurer; and Mrs. C. W. Hollingsworth, missionary secretary.
Their first building was a portable tabernacle, a steel frame building with corrugated iron roof, which was erected immediately following the organization of the society. This continued to be their meeting place until the summer of 1907, when it was taken down and replaced by their present wooden frame building, twenty-two by thirty-eight, including the pulpit addition.
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There have been sixty-one members taken into the church, of whom thirty- nine are still active resident members. L. S. Scott is the present elder for the society, and f. T. Hollingsworth and Henry Hanson compose the deacons; the clerk is Mrs. C. II. Tyrrell; secretary and treasurer; Henry Hanson ; missionary secretary, Mrs. C. Davis.
The Sabbath school is composed of forty-eight members ; Mrs. C. H. Tyrrell is superintendent, and Mrs. C. W. Boynton, secretary.
The Young People's Society of the Seventh Day Adventist church consists of between fifteen and twenty members with A. R. Smouse, president, and Elmer Hanson, secretary.
In connection with the church, the society also conducts a general school. along the lines of the public school, with the elimination of those features which do not conform to their religious ideals. The school holds its sessions in a rented building situated at the edge of town. This school was instituted about six years ago, but they have not held sessions every consecutive year since that time; the second term was held about four years ago, the third one being the present term. The first teacher was Miss Edna Schee, the second Mable Naggle. and the third and present teacher is A. R. Smouse, with his wife as assistant at times. There is an enrollment of about sixteen pupils ; the school holds sessions the same as other schools, except that the length of the term this year (1908-09) is seven months.
C. W. Boynton, who lives in Sioux Rapids, is one of the four state directors of the church in lowa. He has in his distriet fifteen churches under his supervision.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The Methodist Episcopal church at Sioux Rapids really dates baek to 1859 when Rey. O. S. Wight of Cherokee preached a sermon at the home of Luther H. Barnes, near the present site of the town. Mr. Wight was looking for promising places in which to hokl meetings but was evidently not favorably impressed as it is not shown that he returned. In 1864 Rev. Seymour Snyder made trips to the settlement on the Little Sioux river in this county and preached at intervals at the home of G. W. Struble and W. S. Lee. From then until 1872 there is no record of meetings held, but that they were is undoubted. In 1872, Rufus Fancher, who had a homestead east of Sioux Rapids, was ap- pointed by the northwest lowa conference to supply the Sioux Rapids charge, which he did. In 1873, J. S. Zeigler was sent, followed in 1874 by C. W. Wiley. The Sioux Rapids cirenit was divided in 1875, the west half being called the Peterson circuit and the east half retained the name it had borne before.
Included in the Sioux Rapids circuit were the following appointments : Douglass, Liberty, Herdland, Gillett's Grove, Pickerel Lake and Menoti. Of these the first four were in Clay county and the others in Buena Vista. Ser- viees were held at Sioux Rapids every Sunday morning. and in the other charges from two to four weeks apart.
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Rev. L. B. Keeling came after Mr. Wiley and Seymour Snyder was re- turned in 1876, the grasshopper year. Mr. Snyder also served in 1882. Although times were very hard in 1876 Mr. Snyder had the satisfaction of seeing the original church of the society erected, a frame building thirty by forty in size, at a cost of seventeen hundred dollars.
William McCready came in 1877, and Rufus Fancher in 1879-80; O. H. P. Fans in 1881, at which time the circuit was again divided and Sionx Rapids was made a separate charge, with but two circuit charges. Since then A. J. Beebe. W. J. Suckow. J. C. Bascom, F. L. Moore, Z. C. Bradshaw, C. H. Hawn, F. S. Joray, Jos. Jeffrey. S. P. Marsh, I. E. Edwards. II. D. Trimble and HI. W. L. Mahood have served as pastors.
The Sunday school, missionary societies and Epworth League, as well as the church, are all in flourishing condition. « The church has weathered some hard storms and stress, but now, with a commodions house of worship and a devoted people, the days of trial are over.
THIE MASONIC LODGE,
Masonry began in Sioux Rapids when Enterprise Lodge No. 332 of the above order was instituted on the 4th day of June. 1874. Among its first officers, W. L. Pratt was master; Gustave Gilbert. senior warden; and hot Thomas, junior warden.
The lodge was organized in the hall in Echo Block, which continued to be their meeting place until November 5, 1880, when the building was burned, the records and charter of the lodge being destroyed with the building. A dupli- rate charter was obtained shortly afterward, but the lodge was not active until about 1884. Different halls were rented successively for several years. They have occupied their present hall from the time the building was erected in 1900.
The present elective officers are as follows: E. W. Clark. M. W .; E. R. Cone. senior warden ; H. h. Farmer, junior warden ; E. J. Norris, secretary ; and J. P. Farmer, treasurer.
CHAPTER, ROVAL ARCHI MASONS.
The Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons was organized May 9. 1898, with fourteen charter members. The following composed the first officers : JJ. E. Hen- riques, M. E. H. P .; H. II. Hunter, E. K .; G. C. Allison, E. S .; F. Il. Helsell, treasurer; C. B. Mills, secretary, also C. of IL .; E. J. Norris, P. S .; W. HI. Pratt, R. A. C .; S. G. Nordstrum, M. 3rd V .; H. W. Mayne, M. 2nd V .; A. S. Weir, M. 1st V .; 1I. D. Smith, guard.
The present officers are constituted as follows: E. J. Norris, E. Il. P. ; E. W. Clark, E. K .; J. R. Schweitzer. E. S .; L. R. White, treasurer; F. K. Northey, secretary; S. W. Whitehead, C. of II. ; E. M. Bowers. P. S .; W. H. Scarborough, R. A. ( .; G. W. Gallimore, M. 3rd V .; W. M. Skelton, M. 2nd V .; E. R. Cone, M. 1st V.
WEST BRIDGE.
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ORDER OF EASTERN STAR.
Buena Vista Chapter, No. 309, of the Order of Eastern Star began its existence on the 26th day of April, 1901. Seventeen persons composed the charter membership of the lodge, of whom the following officers were elected : W. M., Mrs. Lucy B. Smith; W. P., H. J. Leyson; A. M., Mrs. Ruth Leyson; secretary, Mrs. Donna Ebersole : treasurer, Mrs. Ada M. Mills; conductress, Mrs. Agnes Lundvall; A. C., Mrs. Belle Colwell ; chaplain, Mrs. Mary Thomas; Adah, Miss Mary Leighton ; Ruth, Miss Ida Leighton; Esther, Mrs. Kate Noris; Mar- tha, Mrs. Lucinda Durkee; Electa, Mrs. Louise Pratt; warder, Mrs. Atta Leighton: sentinel, E. J. Noris; marshal, Mrs. Rose Hoskins; organist, Mrs. Flora Hunter.
The lodge has now an enrollment of seventy-six members. Of the present officers, Alpha Clark is W. M .; II. L. Farmer, W. P .; Miss Mary Leighton, A. M .; Mrs. Lucy B. Smith, secretary; Mrs. Lela Bowers, treasurer; Miss Clara L. Farmer, condnetress; Miss Glenora Helsell, A. C.
I. O. O. F. LODGE.
Buena Vista Lodge No. 574, of the order above named, was instituted April 6, 1893. There were eleven charter members as follows: M. S. Helland, A. II. Retsloff, J. J. Graham, G. A. Thompson. Oscar Miller, J. G. Hollingsworth, Wm. F. Hartman, J. H. Divine, P. G. C. H. Johnson, A. E. Wright, and L. Thorson.
The lodge was organized in the upper room of an old building standing on the south side of the street, and which was then used as a store but now used as a warehouse or store-room. This continued to be their meeting place until 1895, when they moved into their present hall upon the construction of the build- ing in which it is located.
There is a membership of sixty-seven, of whom the following constitute the present officers : J. II. Hale, N. G .; D. W. Eiler, V. G .; Geo. D. Plager, secre- tary ; O. W. Eaton, financial secretary, M. P. Typper, treasurer; O. L. Byam, warden ; E. E. Smith, condnetor; P. O. Holland, I. G .; T. II. Whitehead, O. G .; C. P. Sickles, R. S. to N. G .; Geo. Skelton, L. S. to N. G .; Z. T. Holdon, R. S. to V. G .; C. E. Jacoby, L. S. to V. G .; D. S. Williams, chaplain ; Geo. Streeter, R. S. S .; Geo. Price, L. S. S.
SIOUX VALLEY ENCAMPMENT NO. 208, 1. 0. 0. F.
The Encampment of the Odd Fellow Lodge was organized January 20, 1905. The following five men composed the charter members: C. P. Sickles, E. E. Smith, I. R. Fairchild, O. L. Byam, and C. W. Jones.
There is a present enrollment of thirty-five members, with the following elective officers: P. A. Saxerud, C. P .; P. O. Holland. II. P .; Clarence Me- Danel, S. W .; Howard Byam, J. W .; Perry Sickles, R. S. ; Geo. S. Cate, F. S.
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REBEKAH LODGE NO. 387.
Sionx Valley Rebekah Lodge began its existence September 17, 1897. The charter membership was composed of the following persons: Charles C. Grue, A. H. Retsloff, Lillian Retsloff, J. H. Divine. Carrie E. Divine, O. L. Byam, Mary J. Byam, J. W. Smith, Martha W. Smith, C. P. Siekles, J. M. Donaghu, Jessie Donaghu, P. O. Ilolland, D. S. Williams, Nellie D. Williams, Nellie MI. Harriman and Elizabeth Mustell.
The present officers of the lodge are constituted as follows: N. G., Mrs. Pearl Jacoby ; V. G., Mrs. Minnie Sehaller ; secretary, Ora M. Williams ; financial secretary, C. P. Sickles; treasurer, Mrs. Jennie Northey : chaplain, Mrs. Ala Byam; O. G., Mrs. Ada Smith; I. G .. Mrs. Jessie Struthers; R. S. to N. G., Mrs. Erey Wills; L. S. to N. G., Emma Sehaller: warden, Mrs. Gustave Perkins ; conductress, Mrs. Mary Byam.
MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA.
Sioux Rapids Camp No. 3228. of the Modern Woodmen, was organized on the 23d day of September, 1895. There was a charter membership of twenty- four, from whom the following persons were elected to be the first officers: M. C. Struble. V. C .; T. B. Brown, W. A .; N. A. Lundvall. banker; Adelbert Tymeson, clerk; W. S. Perkins, escort : Elba Clark, watchman; Chas. Cady. sentry ; S. G. Nordstraum, physician : C. B. Mills, delegate; JJames Morris, Frank Schweitzer, and W. J. Crawe, managers.
The lodge occupied the Masonie hall until 1900; there were no meetings of the order from this time until 1906, when they moved into the I. O. O. F. hall. There is a present enrollment of thirty-five members. No meetings are held, although the organization is kept up. The officers are composed of the follow- ing: V. C., F. K. Northey; A. L. Johnson. W. A .; II. J. Leyson, E. B .; Seott Whitehead, clerk; Il. M. Adams, escort; Chas. Marshall, sentry; Chas. Cady, watchman ; E. E. Smith, physician; E. M. Bowers, N. A. Lundvall, and W. M. Hoskins, managers.
COURT OF HONOR.
Logan Court No. 510 of the above named order, was instituted in Sioux Rapids October 21, 1897. The organization was effected in the G. A. R. hall. Afterwards the 1. O. O. F. hall was rented as their meeting place.
The following persons were elected the first officers: Grant Bruner, chaneel- lor; Rebecca Ellis, vice chancellor ; Alice E. Johnston, recorder; A. B. Stevens, chaplain ; E. R. Ellis, treasurer; Carrie Divine, conductress; A. B. Claus, guard; H. W. Hubbell, O. G .; H. W. Hubbell and J. 11. Divine, medical examiners ; O. F. Fairbanks, A. B. Stevens and Florence G. Morris, directors.
The lodge has ouce had an enrollment of one hundred and twelve members; the membership at present is sixty, headed by the following officers: F: A.
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Gabrielson, P .C .; Geo. S. Cate, chancellor; I. R. Fairchild, V. C .; Thos. M. Murdoch, recorder; C. E. Jacoby, chaplain; E. M. Bowers, conductor; G. W. Streeter, guard ; Lucinda Durkee, sentinel; E. E. Smith, M. D .; I. R. Fairchild, E. M. Bowers and E. W. Clark, directors.
HOMESTEADERS, NO. 101.
The Homesteaders Lodge began in Sionx Rapids when sixty-one persons, on March 19, 1907. formed themselves into the order of that name. The first officers elected were as follows: P. A. Saxrnde, president ; Henry A. Burkholder, vice president ; C. G. Gustaveson, secretary; T. Il. Whitehead, treasurer; Carl G. Rosell, marshal; Oscar Eaton, chaplain ; E. E. Smith, M. A. A .; Chas. Olm- stead, herald; Mrs. Emery Marry, lady of charity ; Mrs. J. H. Collins, lady of entertainment.
The enrollment of the lodge at the present time is thirty-two, with offieers as follows: president. Thos. Whitehead; vice president, Lewis ITollison ; seere- tary, Oscar Eaton ; treasurer, E. E. Smith ; chaplain, H. J. Ackley; M. A. A., J. Iluntley ; herald, N. Bredvick ; marshal. Carl Rosell.
BROTHERIIOOD OF AMERICAN YEOMEN.
Sioux Rapids Homestead, No. 465, of the above named order, was organized on the 17th day of April, 1900. Twenty-six persons composed the charter membership. The officers at the present time are: C. C. Grue, foremn ; C. W. Jones, M. C .; Oscar Eaton, correspondent ; R. Fairchild, physician : Carl Rosell, overseer; Geo. Collins, sentinel; John Reng, guard. Thirty-seven members constitute the present enrollment.
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB.
The organization of the Commercial Club was effected September 1, 1908, forty-eight persons signing for membership at that time. Officers were elected as follows: H. J. Leyson, president ; Geo. S. Cate, vice president ; C. E. Ryder, secretary ; Ralph Martin, treasurer ; H. L. Farmer, O. Oberg, N. A. Lundvall, R. B. Smith, and Geo. G. Plager, board of managers.
The Club occupies rooms on the upper floor of the Farmers and Merchants Bank building. Beside other rooms, they have a large reading room which is open to the members and their visiting friends at all times.
The officers at the present time are composed of the following men: H. L. Farmer, president ; Geo. S. Cate, vice president ; Geo. Sherman, seeretary ; Scott Whitehead, treasurer. The enrollment at present is composed of about fifty members.
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THURSDAY AFTERNOON CLUB.
The above named chib is an organization of the ladies of the town, formed for the pursuance of systematic study in literature and art. It is a matter of interest to note this inclination for literary pursuits is not new to the ladies of Sioux Rapids. their first society for this purpose being formed as far back as 1886.
At that time their organization was known as "The Literary Club." In 1889 The Literary Club was formed into The Mystery Club, which continued until 1897, when the present Thursday Afternoon Club was formed. Four remaining members of the former organization. Mrs. W. H. Pratt, Mrs. F. D. White, Mrs. J. P. Farmer, and Mrs. F. II. Helsell, were instrumental in organiz- ing the new society. Officers were elected as follows: Mrs. W. H. Pratt, presi- dent ; Mrs. Lyman Johnson, secretary ; and Mrs. T. G. Thomas, treasurer.
The officers at the present time are: President, Mrs. F. II. Helsell ; secretary, Mrs. I. P. Davidson ; treasurer, Mrs. R. B. Smith.
LINN GROVE.
When the Northwestern railway was built through the north part of Buena Vista county in 1881 a station was established at Linn Grove, and a depot was built there the same year. Prior to that time a settlement had been located near the old mill dam in the Little Sionx river for many years. that being one of the earliest settlements in the county. The old mill supplied the people of that part of the county with grist for years.
No town had been built, nor does it appear that any had been contemplated. The mill was situated on the river at the mouth of a "gulch," near which was a fine grove of native timber and it was the timber that attracted the builder of the old mill and the settlers who took the land nearby.
But with the coming of the railroad in 1881, and the building of the station, the importance of the place as a business location soon made itself known, and in 1883 (. 1. Brostad & Company built a store building and put in a stock of goods. They had the situation to themselves for two years, when. in 1885, Thompson & Buland built an elevator and began to buy grain and stock. Not long after this A. J. Breda put in a hardware stock, also buikling a building, and the Wisconsin Lumber Company established a yard at the Grove, and the town was an assured fact. C. L. Ward had been located there for some time, owning the mill, and he opened a loan office which soon was changed into a bank. In the meantime several new residences had been erected on the hill above the town, and when a site for the new schoolhouse was wanted that, also, was built at the head of the street leading up the hill from the business section of the town.
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