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Ilector has grown rapidly during the past five years, a fact due chiefly to the splendid agricultural showing of the eom-
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munity and to the way the farmers and town people have co- operated together for the welfare of all. At present the popula- tion is very close to 1,000 and each year sees new residenees built and other improvements made.
A great deal of shipping is done each year from Hector and many carloads of grain and stock go from here. The stores and business places are modern and up-to-date, and many of them are of briek. The business men are progressive and keep only the best in their lines. Many fine modern homes are to be found here and the well-kept lawns and shade trees add to the beauty of the place. The high school is one of the best in the state. The people are loyal and wideawake and are always working for the interest of the village.
The land around Hector is gently rolling and was at one time prairie, but is now nearly all under cultivation and dotted with beautiful groves and prosperous looking farm buildings. The soil is a heavy black loam with a clay subsoil.
Ilector has six churches as follows: The English Methodist, Swedish Methodist, Swedish Lutheran, German Lutheran, Cath- olie and German Evangelical. The English Methodist congrega- tion is making plans to build a new $10,000 edifice and the work will be started next spring. Rev. Lawrence Radeliffe is the pas- tor. The Catholic church does not have a pastor just at the pres- ent time, but Rev. Father Anthony Scholzen, of Bird Island, has charge of this parish and comes here every other week. All of the other churches have their own pastors, Rev. J. Kulberg being the pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church ; Rev. H. W. Krull. pastor of the German Lutheran church : Rev. W. G. Rath. pastor of the Evangelical church, and A. G. Ilultgren, pastor of the Swedish M. E. church. In addition to the above religions de- nominations, the Seven-day Advents also hold meetings each week in the homes of their members.
Less than forty years ago the present site of fleetor was one of the most unlikely spots that could be imagined for the location of a thriving, active village. Marshes and mud holes furnished a home for muskrats and a haunt for wild water fowl. In the firm places among the swales wound the desolate track of the old Cedar Mill-Hutchinson-Hector-Plainfield-Beaver Falls stage route. In Hector township the stages stopped at the Heetor postoffice, kept by John Baker in the northeast corner of the southwest quar- ter of section 2 and at the Plainfield postoffice, kept by J. B. Perkins in the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 30.
The home of August Mahn, partly a log house and partly a dugout, was 1,500 feet northwest of the present railway station. and the home of August Prelwitz was some 3.000 feet southeast of the present station.
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Hector had its beginning in 1878, when the crew of the rail- way construction company eame through. On the future site of the village the Lang warehouse (now succeeded by the V. H. Smith elevator ) was erected, by Charles Lang, of Hastings, Min., and was operated by his son, William F., who was also the first station agent under the management of the railroad construction company. and had as his telegraph operator, Harry W. Clark, with headquarters in the warehouse, until the depot was com- pleted. When the construction company turned the track over to the I. & D. railway company, now a part of the C. M. & St. P. railway system. Harry W. Clark was appointed as station agent and operator by the H. & D. company. In July of the same year, M. Abbott moved his stock of goods from Lake Preston and squatted on the townsite of Hector until it was surveyed. In the same month Cornish & Bourne started the first Inmber yard and built an office in the main street near the depot. Sometime during the summer logland and Stranberg squatted on the town- site and put up a shanty, which was used for a blacksmith shop. They cut a stack of hay, stacking it on the ground now occupied by the State Bank of Hector. The townsite was surveyed in Sep- tember, 1878, and the lumber yard and office was moved west of the depot to the place now known as the MeGregor Inmber yard. M. Abbott built his store on lot 1. block 4. In September, W. D. Griffith came from Hutchinson and built on lot 2, bloek 3, and opened for business the first of October, 1878. C. H. Nixon came from Ft. Ridgely and built a store on lot 24, block 4, and opened for business about November 1, of the same year.
Osear H. Baker built the first dwelling house in the fall of 1878 on lot 1, block 7. and his son, Guy, was the first child born in the village. W. D. Griffith was commissioned as postmaster Oct. 8, 1878, and the supplies were moved from the farm of John Baker to the store of W. D. Griffith. The Plainfield postoffice was dis- continued a few months later. John Trueman, a carpenter from Fort Ridgely, after completing the store building for C. H. Nixon, built a drug store for B. A. Knapp, and a hardware store for him- self on lot 7, block 3. J. B. Perkins erected a hotel on lot 2, block 4, and started serving the public about Jan. 1, 1879.
In 1879 there was an impetus to the growth of Hector. Ames & Archibald erected a warehouse about a block east of the depot, now the site of the Farmers' Grain Exchange. M. T. Cornish erected a residence in lot 1, block 5. In the spring of 1879 Nel- son & Peterson, of Red Wing, built a hardware and furniture store on lot 23, block 3. The first school in the village of Heetor was taught by Minnie Padden in a room over the kitchen of J. B. Perkins' hotel in the spring of 1879. Religious services were con- ducted by Rev. George Potter, of Boon Lake, the hotel being the place of meeting. In the spring of 1879, James Chapman started
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the first meat market. Andrew Strom arrived the same year and built a combined store and residence, but did not put in a stock of goods until the following year. G. F. Bergram opened a blacksmith shop in 1879 on lot 12, block 1. Frank Deming opened a lumber yard, afterward sold to Henry Stockman. Miles P. Clark came in from Ft. Ridgely and opened a hotel on lot 1, block 3.
In 1880. Bart W. Sehouweiler opened a general store on lot 1, block 7. with a house in the rear. Louis Thiele opened a general store in lot 2, block 4. Thiele's building was on the corner, facing the right of way, west of the hotel, which laced the same way. John Pfefferle, from New Ulin, opened a saloon on lot 18, block 3.
Village lots in Ilector were first assessed in 1880. Those who had already secured lots were: M. P. Clark, lot 1, block 3, lots 12, 13, block 4; W. D. Griffith, lots 2, 3, block 3; O. 11. Clark, lot 4, block 3: S. Pierson, lot 5, block 3: H. W. Clark, lot 6, block 3; John Trueman. lots 7 and 10, block 3, lot 20, block 4; Ulrich Baderseher, lots 8, 9 and 12. block 3: Lonis Seulter, lot 11, block 3; Arnold Vineent, lot 14, block 3: James Chapman, lot 15. bloek 3, lot 1, block 6; John Pfefferle, lot 18, block 3. lot 15, block 8; Geo. R. Peacock, lots 16 and 17, block 3; Nelson, Peterson & Co., lots 19. 22 and 23, block 3; S. Iverson. lot 20, block 3; J. West- over, lot 24, block 3, lot 4. block 6; M. Abbott, lots 1. 4, 5, 8, block 4; J. B. Perkins, lots 2, 3, 6, 7, 10 and 11, block 4, lots 22, 23, block 4 ; J. H. O'Brien, lot 9, block 4. lot 17. block 7; Frank Camp, lot 16, block 4: B. A. Knapp, lot 17, block 4; C. II. Nixon, lots 21. 24. block 4: M. T. Cornish. lots 1 and 4. block 5; S. II. Corse, lot 5, block 5: John L. Egbert, lot 8 block 5; Wmn. Marshall, lot 2, block 6: Franeis Hadley, lot 5, block 6: O. H. Baker, lots 1 and 4, block 7; Margaret Doyle, lot 2, block 7; Andrew Strom, lots 5 and 8, block 7; John Trueman, Jr .. lot 9, block 7; Chas. Peterson, lots 10, 11, 14, 15. 18, 19, 22, 23, Block 7; Uriah Tibbets, Jot 16, block 7: Hoglund & Strandburg. lots 2 and 3, block 8; N. P. Nordquist, lots 6 and 7, block 8; Amund A. Dahl, lot 10, block 8; August Land, lots 11 and 14, block 8: Chas. Schaffer, lot 18, bloek 8; W. B. Dodge, lot 19, block 8; E. Dodge, lot 23, block 8; Peter S. Hanson, lot 10, block 13: Jolm Carson, lots 1 and 4, block 14; Emily Johnson, lot 2, block 14: Kate Turner, lots 8 and 9, block 14.
In 1881 the first newspaper was printed, the paper appearing for the first time in June as the Hector "Mirror," with E. D. Morris, editor. Feb. 23, 1881, the village of llector was ineor- porated and the first election was held March 11, the same year. There were seven good stores in the village at this time.
The first lawyer in Hector was W. C. White.
In 1882 the village had a population of 250 and a directory of that year shows the following activities here : five dry goods
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and grocery stores, two drug stores, two hardware stores, one millinery, one Furniture and one jewelry store, two blacksmith and wagon shops, one harness shop, a shoe shop, a paint shop, two meat markets, one livery stable, one lumber yard, three hotels, four saloons, two elevators capable of storing 60,000 bushels of grain, one lawyer and one physician.
In contrast to the summary of 1882, the summary of 1915 is an interesting study. It is as follows :
Theo. C. Albrecht, garage; A. Albrecht, blacksmith ; Oscar A. Allen, lawyer; Aug. B. Anderson, grain elevator; Mrs. Charlotte W. Anderson, milliner; Beck Bros. (Jno. and Andrew), meats; Gust F. Berggren & Son, blacksmiths ; Peter A. Berggren, photog- rapher ; Carl Bergman, painter; Berry Bros.' Milling Co. (Alfred Berry, president ; G. M. Berry, secretary and manager), flour mill ; Ralph Braithwait, farm implements; Ed. Boeck, tailor: Frank Dodge. proprietor of the Ilector HIonse: B. Brechet & Co. (B. Brechet, Chas, and Frank Wedin), general store; C. Coolidge & Son, restaurant ; Commercial Ilotel, JJno. F. Davis, proprietor ; Harry L. D'Arms, physician ; Henry S. Deming, railway express and telegraph agent ; Fred B. Dodge, barber; William B. Dodge, barber ; Frank Doney, barber; A. L. Erickson, variety store ; Geo. S. Eichmiller, cashier of the State Bank of Hector; Ang. M. Eric- son, dentist ; Fred Foesch, restaurant ; Farmers' Grain Exchange Co., Harry Mumson, agent in grain elevator; Farmers' and Mer- chants' State Bank (capital. $20,000; A. E. Schroeder, president ; W. B. Strom, vice-president : S. W. Anderson, cashier ; A. B. Dahl- gren, assistant cashier) ; Hector Land Co. (O. A. Allen, F. R. Stocker, O. E. Smith) : William JJ. Hager, jeweler; T. Hanson, garage : Hector Creamery Co., J. C. Past, manager; Hector Ele- vator Company, Geo. Hokanson, manager: Hector Mirror, Ernst W. Nobbs, publisher; Hector Produce Co., Jno. Koehler, man- ager: Ileetor Telephone Exchange Co. (S. W. Anderson, presi- dent ; II. L. Torbenson, secretary ; A. L. Erieson, manager) ; Hee- tor Waterworks, M. A. Cummings, manager : Ilirt & Son (Tos. and A. E.), express ; J. H. Herrman, hardware ; Chas. Il. Holberg, harness ; Frank and Charles Hamilton, painters; Harry W. Nel- son, photographer; Johnson Hardware Co. (Geo. Johnson, presi- dent : Leonard Johnson, vice-president ; A. E. Schroeder, seere- tary and treasurer) ; Richard Johnson, pool hall ; Kemble & Wil- son, painters and furniture repairers : Jacob Kaplan & Son, gen- eral store : HI. E. Koehler, general store ; R. B. Lorenz, restaurant ; Harley E. MeClaren, veterinary surgeon : Lindberg Brothers, res- taurant; MeGregor Bros. & Co., Anton T. Lindblad, agent, hun- ber; Harry E. MeKibben, physician; Monarch Elevator Co., E. L. Griffin, agent ; Chris. Nelson, blacksmith ; Nelson Bros. (Swan P., Edw. and Alfred P.), general store; Ernst W. Nobbs, pub- lisher of the Hector "Mirror": Emery O. Olson, garage; Jerpe
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& Nelson (William Jerpe, Ole M. Nelson), general store; Phil- lips Bros. (Ira H. and William A.), lands; C. Schwarzkopf, blaek- smith ; Schwarzkopf Bros. (Albert and Eugene), hardware; Vic- tor II. Smith, grain elevator ; State Bank of Hector (capital, $25,- 000; surplus and protits, $25,000; G. K. Gilbert, president ; H. A. Reed, vice-president ; G. S. Eichmiller, cashier : 11. L. Torbenson, assistant cashier) ; Stearns Lumber Co., Henry Tinnes, agent ; W. B. Strom Drug Co. ( Win. B. Strom, Chas. JJ. Whitney, Russell F. Clarke) : W. B. Strom, postmaster; E. W. Thurston, livery; Ezra Town, billiards; T. Tegner, livery; Mrs. Sophia Wedin, confec- tionery.
The oldest business establishment in Heetor is the blacksmith business of G. F. Bergram. He opened his shop on lot 12, block 7, in 1879, and still continues there.
The oldest retail establishment in Heetor is the W. B. Strom Drug Company. In 1879, Andrew Strom came to Hector from Beaver Falls, and built a combined store and dwelling house. In 1880 he put in a stock of drugs and general merchandise. W. B. Strom was associated with his father and continued the business after the father's death in 1892. In 1908 the W. B. Strom Drug Company was formed by W. B. Strom, R. F. Clark and C. J. Whitney. The postoffice is in this store and the company is one of the most important in the village.
The next oldest store is the general store of Barney Brechet in lot 19, bloek 3. The store was established in 1893 and has un- dergone several changes of location.
The next oldest establishment is that of the Johnson Hard- ware Company. In 1895, George Johnson and Hans P. B. Peter- son, under the firm name of Johnson & Peterson, bought out Erick- son & Whitney and engaged in business on lot 4, block 7. Later A. E. Schroeder took the place of M. Peterson in the firm and the Johnson Hardware Company was incorporated. The Hector Lumber & Supply Co., a large organization, had passed into the possession of the Farmers' & Merchants' State Bank and C. H. Freeman. In 1905 it came into the possession of the Jolison Hardware Company, and the Johnson Hardware Company moved to the location of the Hector Lumber & Supply Company, lots 21, 22, 23 and 24, block 3. The building was burned in the spring of 1915, and a large new block erected, the company, in the mean- time, occupying its former location in lot 4, bloek 7. The firm deals in shelf and heavy hardware, furniture, farm machinery, motorcycles, automobiles and undertakers' supplies. It also deals in live stock. The new building is 50 by 80 feet, with full base- ment and full second story. Besides this, the company has a large warehouse and stock barns. The officers are: President, Geo. Johnson ; vice-president, Leonard Johnson; secretary and treasurer, A. E. Schroeder.
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Probably the next oldest concern is the mill of Berry Brothers, erected in 1899. The concern is composed of several brothers and was originally from Norwood where the company is still in business. Two of the brothers, Alfred and George, live in Hector and operate the Hector mill. "Berry Brothers' Best" is an ex- vellent product and is in high favor with housewives. The other partners in the Berry Brothers' Milling Co. are: Oscar Berry, of Norwood, and Henry Berry, of St. Paul. The mill at Heetor has a weekly capacity of 1,000 barrels. The mills at Norwood and Buffalo Lake are good-sized establishments and there is also a large warehouse at St. Paul which serves as the principal ship- ping point of the company.
The Hector Elevator Company, a farmers' co-operative ele- vator, has been in business since 1894. The company, with the exception of one year, when erops were very poor, has always paid a good dividend. It is regarded as one of the most reliable elevators in this part of Minnesota.
One of the oldest co-operative elevators in the state, the com- pany does a general grain business, handling on an average about 150,000 bushels of grain a year. The Hector Elevator Company has the name of always paying the farmers the highest market prices for grain.
Much of the success of this company is due to the skillful and high-class management of George Hlokanson, who stands high with the business men of the village and the farmers of the surround- ing country. Last year the company paid in addition to the reg- ular dividend to the stockholders a 4 cents per bushel return on all grain hanled.
A business institution of Ilector which plays an important part in the commercial life of the community is the Farmers' Grain Exchange Company. independent buyers and shippers of all kinds of grain, seed and fuel. The company was incorporated in 1912.
It is a farmers' cooperative elevator and is backed by some of the most substantial men in the community. The size of the business may be judged from the fact that each year approxi- mately 160,000 bushels of grain are shipped out. The company pays the highest market prices to the farmers. The Farmers' Grain Exchange Company also does a big business in wood and coal.
The active manager of the company is JJ. H. Monson. Mr. Monson is a live wire and one of the best liked business men in the village. The officers are: Pat O'Donnel, president : A. E. Jung. secretary, and August Beske, treasurer.
In the Palace Theater Ilector has a high-elass movie house that is a credit to the village. Dr. A. M. Erickson, a well-known dentist of Hector, is the owner and manager. The Palace is
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housed in a good building, and has a seating capacity of 400. The moral tone of the theater is high. Few theaters of so high a class are found in eities many times the size of Hector, and the establishment is a decided asset to the town.
The Heetor Telephone Exchange is a company formed by local business men and farmers in the vicinity of Hector. The authorized capital of the company is $25,000 and there are about 500 subscribers. There are about two miles of aerial cable and half a mile of underground cable in the village, besides many miles of lines in the surrounding country. The officers are: S. W. Anderson, president ; John A. Johnson, vice-president ; H. L. Torbenson, secretary, and G. S. Eichmiller, treasurer. The board of directors consists of S. W. Anderson, John Ad Johnson, H. E. Torbenson, G. S. Eichmiller and B. J. Butler. Alfred Erieson is manager of this company and has held this position for many years.
Hector was surveyed Sept. 11-14, 1878. by D. N. Correll on the southwest quarter of section 5, township 115. range 36, and filed April 9, 1879. The original owner was the Hastings & Da- kota Railroad Company.
Hector was incorporated by act of the legislature, approved Feb. 23, 1881. The first election was held March 11. 1881, in charge of C. Il. Nixon, O. F. Peterson and John Truman. The result of the election was as follows: President. W. D. Grif- fith; trustees, C. II. Nixon, O. F. Peterson and B. W. Schon- weller; recorder, H. Simmons; treasurer. M. Abbott: justice, A. Strom; constable, James Chapman.
The village was reincorporated eight years later and a char- ter election held March 12, 1889, at the office of T. F. Deming, resulting as Follows: President. Wesley Smalley ; comeilmen. A. R. Gress, E. G. Hagquist, A. Carlson ; recorder. E. E. Cook ; treas- urer, W. D. Griffith: justices of peace, W. F. Grimmons and Smith Dewees : constables. W. E. Kemp and E. O. Otness.
The present officers are: President, A. B. Anderson; conn- eilmen, Ole M. Nelson, Geo. Hokanson, C. H. Holberg : recorder and marshal, M. A. Cummings; treasurer, H. L. Torbenson : jus- tice of peace, C. H. Nixon and W. B. Strom ; constables, Harry Schieble and C. Il. Coolidge. The school board consists of : President, Geo. M. Berry ; secretary, Hemy L. Torbenson ; treas- urer. A. E. Schroeder : A. B. Anderson, O. A. Allen, W. B. Strom.
The opera house and village hall combine a large and hand- some structure. In this building are the recorder's and marshal's offiee, council chamber, firemen's rooms. Commercial ('Inb room, fire hall and opera house. The auditorinm seats 400 people and has a stage that is adequate for all purposes.
Hector has its own waterworks system. The water is obtained from a well 376 feet deep and this produces an inexhanstible
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supply of pure spring water. The village has a sewage system, electric lights, fire department, good cement sidewalks, both in the business and residential districts, and the main street of the town is wide and clean of all posts and telephone wires. Among the lodges in the town may be mentioned the Masons, Woodmen, Workmen, Modern Brotherhood, and Eastern Star.
The old town hall was built in 1891. The village gas plant was put in in 1903; the present sightly city hall was erected in 1906: the present town hall was erected in 1914; the contract for the electric lights from Bird Island was signed early in 1915; waterworks were first constructed in the village in 1896: exten- sive waterworks alterations and improvements were made in 1915.
The story of the town hall is an interesting one. It was built jointly by the village and township of Hector, and a l'ew years later taken over by the township. It was purchased on Sept. 23. 1914, by Dr. A. M. Ericson, who converted it into the high-class Palace Theater. That same fall, Dr. Ericson ereeted the present town hall by contract as part of the purchase price of the property at the rear of the old building.
Hector has a first-class water system which gives adequate fire protection, a well organized fire department and good equip- ment. Wm. Jerpe is the fire chief and Joe Prelvitz the assist- ant chief. Both of these men take a great deal of interest in the department and generally the first to get to the scene of any fire. The equipment consists of two hosecarts, a hook and ladder and an elegant chemical engine. This apparatus is housed in a specially built fire hall in the lower part of the village opera house. All the members of the fire company are volunteers and are always on hand when their help is needed.
The park, originally a und hole donated by the railroad company, occupies block 17. Through the efforts of the Ladies' Improvement Society it has been filled in and made into a ver- itable beauty spot in accordance with the plans of a landscape artist. There is a pretty bandstand, and the park is a delight- ful expanse of lawns, grand walks, trees, shrubs and flower beds. The officers of the Ladies' Improvement Society are: President, Mrs. A. B. Anderson; vice-president, Mrs. Henry Deming ; sec- retary. Mrs. 11. L. D'Arms; treasurer. Mrs. G. S. Eichmiller.
The Commercial Club is one of the live institutions of the town and has done a great deal during the past few years for the advancement of the community. W. B. Strom, the president, is one of the prominent business men of the town and under his direction the club has done a great deal of good along the line of road work. both in Hector and the surrounding country. The other officers of the club are: E. W. Nobbs, secretary : S. W. An- derson, vice-president ; and G. S. Eichmiller, treasurer. The di-
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reetors of the club are: William Jerpe, A. B. Anderson, George Berry and A. E. Schroeder.
Hlector has been remarkably free from fires with the excep- tion of a few weeks in the spring of 1915, when several serious fires took place. The largest was that of the JJohnson Hardware Co. The F. R. Stocker residenee, formerly the O. F. Peterson home, and one of the best in the township, went up in flames during the same season. The Snyder Livery barn, back of the opera house, burned and endangered the whole village. It was a rambling unoccupied building; the sparks lighted on roofs all over the village, and it seemed certain that at least the opera house would be destroyed. But by heroie efforts everything ex- cept the barn was saved. It was also during this season of fires that the private garage of J. J. Prelvitz burned with the Maxwell "Six," which was in it.
The personal property taxpayers in Hector in 1915 were: A. B. Anderson, O. A. Allen, C. Alvord. A. P. Anderson, S. W. An- derson, Mrs. Charlotte Anderson, Theo. C. Albrecht, Louis An- derson, Andrew Beck, J. P. Butler, Ralph Braithwait. B. Brechet & Co., II. R. Behrns. G. M. Berry, Berry Bros., Berry Bros. ' Mill- ing Co., A. J. Brown, G. F. Berggren, Beck Bros., Emil Beek, W. G. Benson, P. A. Berggren, Alf. Berry, Mrs. C. H. Coolidge. M. A. Cummings, R. F. Clark, W. A. Cords, Il. S. Deming, HI. L. D'Arms, Frank L. Dodge, Fred B. Dodge, W. B. Dodge, E. I. Dodge, J. F. Davis, Frank W. Donney, A. L. Ericson, A. M. Eric- son, G. S. Eiehmiller, C. P. Fredrickson, Farmers' Grain Exchange Co., A. G. Fredrickson, F. O. Foeseh, Chas. Fahlberg. H. A. Gilt- ner. P. L. Griffin, A. S. Hallquist. C. H. Holberg, Amanda Han- sen, J. H. Herrmann, Mrs. I. L. Hamilton, W. J. Hager, Hector Elevator Co., Hector Produce Co., A. E. Hlirt, Leon B. Hawes, J. II. Hirt, Thomas E. Hanson, E. G. lagqnist, Hanson Bros., Weking Hallquist, Leonard Johnson, Geo. Johnson, Jerpe & Nel- son, Johnson Hardware Co., Horace Johnson, F. A. Johnson, R. A. Johnson, William Jerpe, H. E. Koehler, J. Kaplan, C. A. Kight, John Koehler, H. W. Krull, J. G. Kallberg, O. M. Kiser, D. Koehler, Thomas J. Leary, R. B. Lorenz, John Lindberg, A. T. Lindblad, John Lundstrom, Dan Loftmann, Fred Dindekugel, Will Lindekugel, II. E. MeLaren, Monarch Elevator Co., MeGregor Bros. & Co., Otto Mortenson, J. H. Monson, F. G. Masehke, H. E. Mckibben, W. B. Marshall, Ben Nelson, E. W. Nobbs. God- frey Nelson, C. II. Nixon, Alf. Nelson, Nelson Bros., Edward Nel- son, O. M. Nelson, S. P. Nelson, E. O. Olson, Pat O'Donnel. I. H. Phillips, Ang. Prelvitz, Victor Peterson, Joe Prelvitz, J. J. Prel- vitz, J. C. Past, G. Riedler, Mrs. Lizzie Riedel, H. A. Reed, Rev. L. Radcliffe, F. II. Sehwanbeck, Frank A. Swan, A. D. Swan, Strom & Clark, S. J. Shulson, Harry Schiebel, Alf. Sandien, O. E. Smith. Mrs. Carl Schwarzkopf, Carl Sehwarzkopf, Alb. Selberg,
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