St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-05
FLANDREAU'S GREAT GROWTH
The Business Done in One of Dako-
ta's Leading Marts,
And Some of the Leading Houses
Located There.

The beautiful village of Flandreau, Oak,
is located on the Sioux river, forty miles
north of Sioux Falls on the line of the
Southern Minnesota Division of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee 81 ST Paul, on an elev-
ated plateau overlooking the river, which
makes a graceful curve from a westerly
course to Southerly direction, and has
about twelve hundred inhabitants. The
growth of the town has been steady, and at
present there is quite building boom going
on. Not a spare mechanic is to be had.
Another fine $4,000 school house is in
course of construction, and the Touring mill
of Bates, Lindsey & Co. is having a fine
new set Of machinery added, consisting of
rollers for turning out Seventy-five barrels
of flour daily under the management of
Mr.. Peter PallanSch, a man who has had a
lifelong experience as miller in Wiscon-
sin, and who will bring the push and en-
ergy necessary to make the enterprise
complete success. There are at presents
first-class hotels, four churches, with
church societies, and five graded schools.
There are insurance agents, attorneys,
banks, 1 band, 3 blacksmith shops, 9
barber shops, 2 boot and shoe manufac-
turers, 4 clothers, IL carpenters and builders
1 coal yard, 2 druggists, dentists, dress
makers, 5 drygoods stores, 2 dray lines, 1 flour
ing mill, 1 feed mill, furniture store, eX-
elusive groceries, 4 grain buyers, 2 hard
ware, 2 harness shops, agricultural inn
plements. 3 jewelry stores, livery stables,
2 lumber yards, 2 meat markets, 2 news
papers, opera house, 3 physicians, paint
erS, 2 restaurants, 6 real estate agents.
steamship agents, 3 Saloons 2 sale and feed
stables, wagon maker, wagon and buggy
dealers and 1 wood yard. There
are several branches of manufacture
ing that would pay handsomely,
among which is paper mill,
sash and blind factory, foundry and ma
chine shop, linseed oil mill, cheese factory,
tow mill and brick yard, all of which
would pay handsomely from the start. The
Willmar 81 Sioux Falls railroad will prob
ably reach Flandreau early the coming
spring, and the Fargo Southern, now in
operation to Ortonville, will also be built,
its southern terminus reaching here this fall
or early in the spring. The following
prominent business men of Flandreau are
briefly outlined and in most instances have
been identified with the growth of the town
since its organization:
TENOLD HoLLIM.
These gentlemen carry full line of dry
goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and crock
cry, having started in business in 1882 in the
Oleson block. Last year they purchased the
Neprual block, which they have improved and
put in irst-class condition, and are now en-
Joying large trade
JONES KELLY.
The above named enterprising firm are ex-
tensiVe dealers in dry goods, groceries, boots
and shoes and gents furnishing goods The
senior member of the firm is county treas
urer, and his time is mostly spent at the court
house in this city, but the junior member is
general favorite and first-class business
man.
d. 8. WHITE,
PROPRIETOR of the Family Drug Store" came
to Flandreau from Ft. Atkinson, Wis, when
the town was young. His stock of goods is
very large and complete in drugs, paints.
OILS, glass, books and stationery. jewelry and
sllverplated ware, groceries, crockery, wall
paper, curtains, etc., and he has enjoyed a
magnificent trade ever since starting in 1879.
He now manufactures a large line of phar-
maceutical preparations, which have always
proved very reliable.
r.. L. BROWN,
The leading hardware merchant, began very