The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23


manager, is one Of the important en-
terprises of the state. The company
operates everywhere throughout the
Northwest, and has built over ESQ
bridges, and is prepared to do all kinds
of structural work Mr. Dibley has
had long and practical experience, and
furnishes plans and estimates on APP
plication..
The firm of Wasem & Gard has
been in existence ten years. They adj
yertise the big Furniture Store !.
With Little Prices" They keep every
thing in house furnishing goods; their
stock fills three stories. They are also
undertakers and have the funeral car
| used in the obsequies of President Nc
Kinley at Canton.
Fargo's Commercial club. now Of
ficered by J. c. Hunter as president,
and George N. Phelps as secretary, has
taken on renewed activity. 1t has
membership Of ITS, and is beginning to
do things. President Hunter is man.
| ager of the Fargo Mercantile company,
wholesale grocers, and Secretary
Phelps, fifteen years in Fargo, is
successful attorney. Good men both.
The legal procession in Fargo has
strong representatives, among others
Benton, Lowell & Holt. the former an
old resident The firm of Barnett &
/
the latter came from Iowa. Pierce &
| Tenneson opened their Office last
spring. The senior of this firm, Ed
| Pierce is a well known banker and
state senator from Sheldon, N. D. The
junior, B. G. Tenneson, is a graduate
of the Minnesota university. James w.
| Glassford opened his office two years
ago. He Is native of Elk River,
Mimi, and a graduate of the Chicago
university.
AS already stated, Fargo is the great
machinery distributing point of the
Northwest. all of the leading imple-
ment factories having branches. The
J. l. Case Threshing Machine compa-
ny's house is an imposing structure,
| 100x125 feet in size, three stories high,
and with storage sheds furnishes $4,000
| square feet of room, sufficient for $50
outfits. The offices are most attractive
! in red oak finish The branch is in
| charge of e. S. Tecktonius, for eighteen
years a company representative. The
! Robb-LaWrence company are neWcom-
ers, who show faith in Fargo by put
ting up f1ve-story block, containing
| 1000 square feet Of floor space in which
| general implement, storage, bonded
| and transfer business to to- be trans
acted. William Robb, the head of the
| firm, is from South Dakota. The Mich
ols-Shepard Threshing Machine COM
| pany have large building and do a
| large business, under the direction of
J. M Bathrick. The Minneapolis
Threshing Machine company is repre-
scented by T. H. Roney, for over twenty
years a North Dakota machinery man.
| The companys building is 75x100 feet
! and two stories high. The Reeves. &
| Co. Traction Engine company is rep
resented by f. w. Weego, SON. law
of Col: Winship the Grand Forks ed
| itor, and he has been in Fargo one
! and a half years. He has eight men
on the road, and over 200 of his en-
| gines are already in use for plowing
and road work In the Northwest. The
Parsons Hawkeye Automatic Feeder
| is represented by George Edgerton,
| who recently came to Fargo from AUS
| tin, MINI. The feeder is made at New
ton, Iowa, and is widely known and
! popular The Marion (Ohio) Manu-
featuring company have offices in the
same building, jill. Boucher, general
agent ~
Johnson & Powers, old residents, are
contractors and builders, and do work
in all parts of the West. Among re-
cent buildings put up by them are the
| Northwestern Telephone, Walker, Nc
Hanch and Hancock blocks, the addf-
| ton to the court house and the state
normal shool at Valley City.
| Schlauser & Ostbye are contractors
! and builders and employ a large force
! of men in their shop, where they make
| a specially of store and office fixtures.
Mr.. Ostbye is an old resident and has
been member of the city council for
! several TERMS.
The Robertson Hardware COM
pany are new conlerse but have five
men on the road, and expect soon to
| have commodious quarters in the new
Robb-LaWrence building.
The Office of the grand recorder of
United Wofkmen is in Fargo, ineeharge
of e j. Moore, "a former well-known
neWspaper man, who takes time from m
looking after III lodges, with 10, 000
members IN the state. to edit the North
dakota Workman, a handsome month
" ofseigllt pages.
Il am SPECIALISTS the legend ap-
pearing on the cards of O. w. Kerr
manager of the North Dakota Eollec-
ton agency. Collections is his spec
ialty and he makes no charge If he
! does not collect. He came to. Fargo
| from CooperStoWn.
Fargo has good hotels. One of the
oldest men in the business of caring
for the public is p. Elliott, who came
to Fargo in 1873, and .has4been in the
hotel business since 1881.
! H. Boerth is manager ct sthe North
Dakota Decorating company and has
lived in Fargo for ten years. He
makes a speciality ofsartistle frescoing
and interior decorating. ard recent
samples of his work can be seen in the
| Catholic church at CasseIfon, the op-
era house at Wahpeton saiad various
new residences in Fargo.
George Prize is the scoalfeetioner
baker and caterer of Fargo, and gives
employment to eighty persons. His
cafe is spacious and atfractive and
does fine business. LII connection
| with the restaurant he makes candy
for which there is a growing demand
owing to its excellence and spurity, ir
the sale of which he intends soon te
put men on the road. E#
Clifford II. Clark is theShead of the
Clark Produce company and opened
his present business in 1895. He han
dies all kinds of country produce, max
ing speciality Of seed potatoes, cult
| waiting this year lao acres of the Early
Ohio variety, of which he ships many