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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-12
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is 20x36 feet is the hardware depart
ment, with a we'll selected stock of
shelf and heavy hardware, creamery
goods. stoves and ranges, paints, oils
and glass, and the Acorn stoves and
ranges a specially. There is a good
tin shop in connection with a master
mechanic in charge. The middle room,
3Ox5O feet is the postofice and gen.
eral dry goods department. On the
left hand side is one of the finest dis
plays of dry goods and dress goods
to be found in the county. The day
we called the ladies were there look
ing over the latest styles that the
obliging clerks we're displaying for
their benefit. The ladies are all aware
of the fact that this is just the place to
get the most fashionable material and
the trade given this establishment is
the best way to judge of the apprecia-
ton it receives from the public.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
In this department can be found a
large stock of boots and shoes. all
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sizes and at prices within the reach
Of all.
CLOTHING AND GENTS FURNISH.
INGS.
The north room which is 16x24 feet
is the clothing, gents furnishing and
office department, where a nice line
of ready-made garments, all sizes and
prices are well displayed. This store
is headquarters for gents furnishing
goods.
LUMBER.
This company has one of the larg-
est lumber sheds in South Dakota. It
is three stories in height with a 20
foot driveway down the center, and
it's taxed to it's utmost capacity with
pine and all kinds of building ma
terial. In fact this firm can furnish
you everything from the cellar bot
tom to the chimney top, and they
will not be undersold by any firm
in the state.
FARM MACHINERY.
In this branch of the business they
are surely we'll equipped for they have
a building for that purpose 4Sx6O feet
and 1T is filled with all the necessary
implements for this country, includ-
ing mowers, reapers, binders, plows.
harrows, discs, gasoline engines, Rock
ford wagons and buggies, threshing
machines, hay tools and repairs for
all machinery sold. In fact you can
get anything in this department from
an apple pearer to a steam thresher
with prices on the live and let live or
e The company also, handles all
kinds of soft and hard coal, and they
buy everything the farmer has for
sale, and at all times pay the highest
market price.
Mr.. OLeary, the other resident
member of the firm is a native of
Canada and came to this city twelve
years ago and was formerly engaged
in the grain buying business. He is
a fine gentleman to meet, thoroughly
posted in his line of business and has
always taken an active part in the
city and county affairs, and is one
OF our most successful business men.
The firm gives employment to three
clerks, J. E. Turbock, general store
clerk; Miss Nellie O'Leary, book
keeper and postoffice clerk, and G.. l..
Selm in the lumber and fuel depart
ment.
This firm buys for cash, getting
large discounts which they give their
patrons the benefit of in the way of
low prices. They are enjoying the
fruits of a large patronage built up
by honesty and conservative business
methods-and those who buy goods at
prices will continue to buy there if
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ness firms in this section of South
Dakota and the large stock carried by
them would be a credit to a town
many times the size of this. The COM
pany consists of Alfred Tenneson and
d. O'Leary of this city and A. T. Ten
neson of Wisconsin and James Jen-
sen of Minneapolis, all of whom are
successful business men. Alfred Ten
neson is a native of Norway, coming
to the United States in 1888, and the
only characteristics of the country
that he could emulate were those of
eating, sleeping and laughing. His
first position was that of a shipping
clerk in Minneapolis, where he later
attended the business college and
graduated with high honors. He came
to this city to clerk for an older
brother and is now the manager of
this mammoth establishment. He was
appointed postmaster of this city
seven years ago and is still holding
his responsible position with much
credit to himself and to the entire
satisfaction of the general public.
THE BUSINESS
Is that of general merchandising,
hardware, farm machinery, lumber
and fuel. The store is 5Ox50 feet on
the corner, divided into departments
as follows: The corne room which
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Everybody is interested nowadays,
not only in having a good picture of
themselves but of their friends, and
the best place to get them is at the
gallery of
M. ]. VIXEN,
the photographer and landscape ar
fist. Mr.. Vixen came to MontevidiO
in 1889 and to this city a year ago,
and his gallery would be a credit to a
town much larger than this. This
gallery is well patronized by the best
class of people in the city and his
samples speak for themselves.
IN CONCLUSION
We desire to thank the many public
spirited citizens of Revillo for their
judicious support and kindly encour
agement in making this special issue
a success. The people of whom we
made mention are the ones who have
contributed to the u%pbuilding of this
city and vicinity. and are assuredly
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light which heads his herd, won
sweepstakes in the under-year class of
the Ohio State fair in 1897, for which
Mr.. Aney paid $500. The next in class
is Aney's Chief Perfection, who won
the junior championship sweepstakes
IN the under-year class of the Ohio
state fair this year, for which Mr..
Aney paid $500. Another fine speci-
men of his hogship in the herd is Da-
kota's Gold Chief, sired by the Iowa
and Illinois State fair winners of 1896.
Mr.. Aney has shipped hogs from his
herd to all parts of both Dakotas, Min
nesota, Iowa, Wyoming, Montana, and
as far north as Manitoba. He is the
state lecturer for the farmers institute
corps OF South Dakota. and is the
swine editor of the Dakota Farmer, and
a very valuable and well-posted man
for the hog-raising people. Catalogues
and price list will be sent free upon
application. The following letter to
the Dakota Farmer more than proves
all that we or Mr.. Aney have said about
his animals:
"F'reeport, ILL.,, Nov. 8, 1901.
Editor Dakota Farmer: The Poland
China boar Sunlight. at the head of
Mr.. o. r. Aney's herd of Wilmot, your
state, l consider one Of the best ami
mails of his family that | have ever
seen. To begin with, he is large and
heavy boned, has as good a head and
ear as could be desired. He is broad
and massive and withal, an excellent
breeder. His breeding is second to
none. His sire is Ideal Sunshine. be-
mo tho hiphacf- nr;.al D>l,-l rl:..
boar now living, and his dam, Galena,
mas the honor of doing what no other
SOW has ever done: Gone to the Ohio
state talr three years in succession and
won first in class and sweepstakes each
year. l nave no hesitancy in pronOun-
cling Sunlight the most valuable hog
that ever tracked South Dakota soil,
and Mr.. Aney deserves the patronage
or all the breeders and farmers, be-
cause ne has secured and is mating to-
gether some OF the best animals the
breed affords. The second lieutenant
or the herd, Aney's Chief Perfection,
mas beer out himself and won as much
glory as possible for a youngster of
MS age-that of winning sweepstakes
Ior boar under n year at the Ohio
State fair in 1891. The judge was j.
M. klever, and no words of mine can
honor him more than the showing
honors he has won for himself. Da-
kota's Gold Chief, Mr.. Aney's third
hog, deserves mention along with his
more noted colleagues. He is one of
the smoothest and best of his tribe l
have ever seen. His sire, Gold Chief,
won first prize at the Illinois State fair
in 1898, where J. M. Klever was Judge,
and sold for $685., when hogs were very
low. His dam is by Ramsey's Perfec-
ton, one of the best Perfection hogs in
Illinois today. Respectfully,
81. V. GOTTA"
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progression. In the south the writer
found many of these so-called lone
mans town." a title given to a town
where one or two men have got rich
off the surrounding country and are
not thankful for it, and are acting
the "dog-in-manger," and never spend
a cent towards a public enterprise,
and also do all they can to retard i'm
migration. fearing that a further de-
velopment of the country and a larger
growth of the town would prevent
them from having everything all their
own way. Albee unfortunately has
a few such individual firms. but their
names are not mentioned in this is
sue-we would not be guilty of be-
spelling the good name of the town
by giving the smallest mention of
them. If the citizens of the town and
vicinity have the good of the town
at heart and believe in patronizing
firms who have and are doing much to-
ward the upbuilding of the city, they
will give a cold and meager patronage
to such individuals. Only those whose
names appear in this issue are worthy
of your confidence and patronage.
THE CITY HAS
One bank.
Two general stores.
Two hardware stores.
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pie who have a little surplus money
n do not are to put it into land
would invest it in some reliable min
ing stocks instead of that gambling
Board of Trade in Chicago, they would
reap much larger returns and find it
a much safer investment. There are
a great many opportunities for invest
ment, but the average reader is not
sufficiently posted upon the safest
mines and stocks for investment, there
fore he hesitates about making such
investment for the want of knowledge.
Ye writer has visited every state in
the union and has made a personal
inspection of all the various oil and
mining regions of our country and he
is personally acquainted with most of
the mining stock brokers and he can
say without fear Of contradiction that
one of the leading and most reliable
mining stock firms in the country is
that of the American Mines Develop
ment company, whose headquarters are
at Minneapolis, Mimi, located at COL
606 Northwestern building, with Frank
b.. Plummer secretary. The president
OF this company is Hon. Stewart
Goodrel, of Chicago, Ill.,, and who was
formerly assistant state auditor of
Iowa, and among the auditing COM
mittee is Hon. Charles Taylor, special
agent OF the United States Department
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they wish to save money.

they wish to save money.
NORTHWESTERN ELEVATOR co.
Is the name of another large and ex-
tensive grain business of Albee, which
has added many a pearl to the COM
mercial casket of this city. This COM
pany established an elevator in this
city II years ago, which has a storage
capacity of 10000 bushels of grain and
is fitted up with good machinery and
operated with a gasoline engine. J.
c. Cahill, the local manager, is a ma
tive of Iowa, but came to this county
twelve years ago, and was an educa-
tional worker for seven years. He
has been in the employ of this COM
pany five years and is the leading
grain buyer of the city.
The company pays out all the way
from $4,000 to 500, 900 per year for
grain to the farmers of this section,
which in return is paid to the mer-
chants for clothing and the neces-
saries of life. 1t is no uncommon &C.
currence in this town to see a farmer
with a load of grain who has driven
fifteen or twenty miles with it, and
after he has sold it nine out of every
ten will distribute a liberal share
OF what they have received for it
among the business men of the town.
IN fact we are glad to see Albee in
possession OF such a business as this,
as 1t creates a trade center and grain
marketing point. 1t is just such bust
ness institutions as the Northwest
ern Elevator Co. hat makes a town.
WOOD AND FEED.
In connection with the grain bust
ness Mr.. Cahill has a wood and feed
mill that will grind 60 bushels OF FEED
per hour and will saw about 25 cords
of wood per day. They keep wood and
feed on hand at all times. This firm
gives employment to two men and
they are the leading grain, wood and
feed dealers of the city. Mr.. Cahill
is a thorough business man and owns
a magnificent home in the city and is
enjoying the patronage of a wide cir
Gle of friends.
The pioneers of any county are the
snow plows of civilization. They are
theones who have breathed the breath
of life into your country and were
instrumental in Transforming these
vast prairies into densely populated
farming country and planting therein
towns, school houses and churches.
One of the pioneers of Grant county
is
HON. PIERCE CAHILL,
who claims Wisconsin as his native
state, but came to Osceola county,
Iowa, in 1872 with his father and
mother. who took up a homestead in
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A good bank is a very important fac
tor in the makeup of any progressive
community and the people who read
this paper will judge it's people and
it's surroundings largely by the cha
acter of it's banks or bank. There are
very few towns in South Dakota or
in any other state, Of the size of Albee
that possesses such a worthy banking
institution as the one operated by the
above named company. This bank is
a branch of the large bank at Big
Stone City. which is the largest and
strongest monied institution in the
state.
The bank of Albee has a capital
stock of $4,000, but the individual
responsibility of the several stock
holders is i've $75,O A. H. Tasker
is the cashier and has been in the en-
ploy of this bank about two years.
The business transacted is the gen
eral class of deposits, exchange and
collections, usually in institutions OF
this kind. They buy and sell land and
do a general conveyance business.
| The members of this bank are known
all over the state in banking circles
as they have nine banking institutions
in South Dakota and Minnesota with
Headquarters at Big Stone City. and
! they are all in a flOuriShing condition.
The bank is most finely equipped with
banking house furniture and fire proof
vault with steel safe and as a double
precaution for the protection OF their
many deDositors they carry burglar
insurance and are members OF the
State Bankers Association. COnser-
vatism and good judgment have char
acterized the transactions Of the bank
at all times and as a result it has
! not beer hampered by those embaras-
| ing occurrences which often mark the
pathway of less carefully managed
financial institutions. It's connections
with the business world are always
the best. and courtesy and reliability
have secured for this bank a large
and substantial following among the
hest class of men in the city and
county.
The members of the firm Of Gold &
Companv have always done their
share towards the upbuildlng OF every
laudable enterprise in the city and
county and are the ones most worthy
of your confidence and patronage. 1e
writer is personally acquainted with
, the Gold Bros. and he can say with
out fear of successful contradiction
that the banks under their manage
ment are the most substantial In
situations located in the Mississippi
valley.
ALFRED TENNESON & co.
From it's early history to the pres
ent time Albee has been wonderfully
favored with men of capital and ad-
yanced ideas and men who have as
sisted very literally in the upbullu,
ing of every laudable enterprise OIL
the city and county.
The above named company IS one
If the largest and most extensive pus'-
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men of the county who are engaged
in business and with whom we had an
opportunity of forming these conclu-
sions. Yes, Grant county has an ex-
c%eptionally bright lot Of young bust
ness men, whose names will be found
together with many of their portraits
in this edition.
IN CONCLUSION.
We found the business men in the
several towns of Grant county, with
the exception of n or two instances
and instances Of this kind are found
in every toWn-an enterprising class
of men. To this class Of people we say,
God speed, and wish for them a long
and prosperous business career, as they
deserve. For, it is they who assisted
very materially in this trades edition,
and it is they who have breathed the
breath of life into the city in which
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OF Agriculture, in charge of sugar in
vestigations, and Hon. Phil. G. Hanna,
United States consul general to Mex
leo. These men are all we'll known
and reliable business financiers, and
the simple fact of their being at the
head of this company insures reliable
lty and standing, and a correspondence
with the secretary or members of the
firm will be truthfully and promptly
answered. This firm is in touch with
all the new mining and ore PROPOSE
lions of the United States, and the
writer hereof takes pleasure in recon-
mending them to the public. The plan
adopted by this company for the pay
ment of stock is very simple and easy
and within the means of young people
with limited capital. All stock sold by
this company will surely enhance in
value. Literature will be sent upon
application and agents are wanted in
this city.
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that county and Pierce followed the
occupation of a farmer boy. The
family moved from Iowa to Minnesota
and thence to Wisconsin. In 1883
the father came to Grant county and
young Pierce and Frank came along
with him to work on the farm.
Pierce is now farming on his own
hook, having about 800 acres of fine
land in Grant county located two miles
east of Albee. The farm is equipped
with a fine residence, horse and cattle
barns, feed yards, wind mill and store
houses for grain. He is an extensive
breeder of
HEREFORD CATTLE
and has SO head Of thoroughbreds and
grades which is one Of the finest herds
in this part Of the state. The bull at
the head of the herd, is known as
Duke" a fine registered animal duly
recorded. He is fattening % head of
steers for market and is one of the
leading stock men of the county. Hon.
Pierce Cahill is a very popular mem
Der in the political circles, having
e e elected state senator a year ago
last fall on the republican ticket, and
has held many important committees.
among them was: Appropriations"
state affairs" ''legislation.' "expen-
ses,' and "educational," and he has
proved a very creditable official
and will be most assured
ly renominated next year. Mr..
Cahill has been raised in the
country from boyhood up and is prac-
tically a self-made man. so far as
finance and education is concerned.
and has a good word for his people
and county at all times. Too much
credit can not be given him for the
service he has already rendered and
he has the confidence and respect of
every citizen in the county and is
numbered among the leading progress
sive farmers and stock raisers.
THE ALBEE CREAMERY.
Buttermaking in South Dakota is
yet in it's infancy and although we
have owe two hundred creameries,
the products of which are in great de-
mand, we are in need of many more.
1t is only during the past few years
that the development of this indus
try has been SO marked. South Da-
kota is rapidly advancing to the front
rank of the dairy states, and is known
as the banner country for the pro-
duction of fine butter. Farmers have
found the dairy business profitable
beyond their fondest dreams because
of the ch%eapness of all kinds of feed
ing stuff, and because of the highly
nutritious grasses, which are every
where found in luXuriant abundance.
This creamery was established here
four years ago and is well equipped
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with modern machinery and it's prod.
ucts rank No. 1 western and finds a
ready sale in the best markets.
r.. K. Smith, the proprietor, lives
IN Wisconsin and is an extensive
creamery man of many years expert
ence.
VIII Lawrence is the manager and
has mad a grand success in the
creamery business. The creamery
was erected at a cost of $500 and
has a~capacity of separating Is, 900 lbs.
OF milk per day.
Mr.. Lawrence. the manager, is a
first class buttermaker and the
creamery is we'll p%atronized by all
the WelEto-do farmers who come from
n to fifteen miles with their milk
TO this creamery and receive the high
est market price for their products.
o. S. JOHNSON
Is n of the pioneers of this county.
coming here in 1879 and took up a
homestead of 800 acres nine and one
half miles south of Milbank. His
farm is n of the finest in the coun-
ty with a fine residence and out build
lngs, and he is an extensive breeder
OF English Short Horn cattle and the
Poland China and Chester White hogs.
Mr.. Johnso is one of the progressive
farmers who has learned by his own
experience that this is a natural corn
and hog raising section, for corn like
stock a be bred to suit the climate
and hog cholera and other diseases
that are prevalent among hogs in
other states are unknown in this Sec
ton. The farmers in this county who
have given their attention to the rails
ing OF hogs and corn are the most sue
cessful. Mr.. Johnson is a highly re-
spected citizen and a valuable acouisi-
ton to this county.
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the best and most extensive west Of
the Mississippi river.
We know this is a broad statement
to make, but is a fact, nevertheless. We
have visited every thoroughbred estab-
lishment in South Dakota, Minnesota,
Iowa, Missouri Kansas, and know
whereof we speak. He has ninety-five
registered and aged brood sows and in
all $50 head, that are numbered and
on the registration books. He has
males and females and bred sows for
sale at all times, and they are from
such well-known families as follows:
Ideal Sunshine, Gold Chief" Chief
Perfection H." "Missouri's Black
Chief" BLACK Chiefs RIVAL" and, in
fact, there is not a noted hog in the
Poland China families of the United
States but what he has represented in
his herd. The famous boar, Sun
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ALBEE, SOUTH DAKOTA

Among the thriving towns of Grant
county situated in a locality of good
crops and peopled by a few enterpris-
ing citizens we find Albee. This city has
a population of about $50 people most
of whom are alive to the interests of
the town and country tributary. Like
many other towns we have visited.
more especially characteristic to the
south, it has a few moss backs" who
are all self and very narrow when it
comes to a public enterprise. Some
new energy backed by new blood is
being grated into the makeup of the
city, however, which, with a few older
citizens who always were progress
sive, the town is in a fair state OF
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One creamery,
One lumber yard,
Two grain buyers,
Three fuel dealers,
One barber shop.
THE CITY WANTS
A Touring mill,
Meat market,
Drug store,
Doctor,
Furniture store.
SCHOOLS
Albee takes pride in her schools and
willingly supplies all the demands Of
her young in the educational line. The
building is a n story structure with
good teachers in charge and about IS
pupils enrolled. The efficient board
consists of VIM. Bunting. chairman,
and Hon. Pierce Cahill, secretary.
GOLD & CO., BANKERS.
There is no one business in a city
or town that adds so much to the fin
ancial standing of the county as does
the bank.
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In Grant county we found a class of
old settlers whose biographers appear
elsewhere. Perhaps no county in the
state contains as many old and wealthy
settlers as does Grant county. AS a
rule, old settlers of a county are not
among the well-to-do people of later
years, but the old settlers of Grant
county are composed of better material
than usually characterizes the new
counties of the west. Grant got start
ed right and it has always gone right.
The pioneers Of Grant county were
frugal, Industrious, economical, yet
liberal in public matters, thus bringing
to the door of every later old settler
example and prosperity. This same car
dinal feature on the part Of the old set
tier has manifested itself down to the
present time and it is with pleasure
we note the prosperous condition and
the exemplary habits of the younger