Hecla, Brown County, SD -- 1916 Business Directory This information extracted from the "Northwestern Gazetteer and Business Directory", vol. XX (1916-1917), published by R. L. Polk & Co. Data transcribed by Joy Fisher, sdgenweb@yahoo.com. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the SDGENWEB Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm HECLA. Pop 500. Brown county. An incorporated village on the C & N W Ry and the James river 35 miles n e of Aberdeen the county seat. Has Catholic, German Lutheran and Methodist churches, 4 grain elevators, a feed mill, an opera house, 2 banks, 2 hotels, a municipal electric light plant and water works. A weekly newspaper the Brown County Journal is published. Land is worth $30 to $75 per acre. Ships grain and live stock. Exp Am. Tel W U. Harry Donovan P M. Last Name First Name Business Arlington Hotel Richd Stortz propr Armour Andr. farm impts Atlas Lumber Co. Robt F Taylor mngr Barlett Jos. W. mngr, G W Van Dusen & Co. Bradner & Co. S. G. (Saml G and Lucinda Bradner), gen store Brown County Journal Frank L Young pub) Cole Edw. S. moving pictures Crawford Geo. W. barber Dawson Donald R. dentist Dinger Chas. L. see Sandberg & Dinger Dinger J. Alb. real est Dolan Stephen W. ins agt Dysard Frank J. harness Eagle Roller Mill Co. Wm P Hines mngr, grain elevator Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Hecla, The (capital $25,000), N W Stehly, pres; J J Stehly, vice pres; Clyde McGinitie, cashr; R J Roby, asst cashr Fassold Jno H. billiards First National Bank (capital $25,000, surplus and profits $25,000), F B Gannon, pres; John Yunker, vice pres; D T Lane, cashr; J H Kissinger, asst cashr (see adv) Gannon F. B. pres, First National Bank Guild Harry W. harness Harholt-Miller Clothing Co. (Clarence Harholt, Edw T Miller) Hecla Co-operative Elevator Co. S J Zellar, pres; Clyde McGinitie, sec and treas Hecla Mercantile Co. (Fred W and Phil Herther Jr), gen store Herther Fred W. see Hecla Mercantile Co. Herther Peter farm impts Herther Phil (Jr.) see Hecla Mercantile Co. Hines Wm. P. mngr, Eagle Roller Mill Co. Holmes Chas. F. phys Hubert Herman garage Jones E. O. sec, Social Telephone Co. Jones Morgan see Wilmsen & Jones Kelly Bros. Pharmacy (Jno and Chas Kelly), drugs Kissinger J. H. asst cashr, First National Bank Kissinger & Lane (Jno H Kissinger, David T Lane), real est Lane David T. cashr, First National Bank, farm loans and insurance (see adv) Lane David T. see Kissinger & Lane Lyon & Co. J. D. (Jno D and Mrs Grace Lyon), grocers Maher Earl L. billiards Marquard Frank photogr Mather Michael S. real est McGinitie Clyde cashr, Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Hecla, The McGinitie Clyde sec and treas, Hecla Co-operative Elevator Co. Miller Edw. T. see Harholt-Miller Clothing Co. Morgan Wm. H. attorney at law, collections receive prompt attention Palmer Geo. notions Park Hotel Fred G Wenger propr ($2.00 per day) (See adv) Pember Reuben R. lawyer Pfutzenreuter Bros. (Geo, Hein, Robt and Wm F), gen store Roby R. J. asst cashr, Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Hecla, The Sandberg Chris blksmith Sandberg & Dinger (Chris Sandberg, Chas L Dinger), automobiles Scott & Co. J. E. J E Scott, pres; W M Scott, sec and treas; real est Shank Edith M. osteopath Social Telephone Co. G D Stokes, pres; E O Jones, sec Stehly J. J. vice pres, Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Hecla, The Stehly N. W. pres, Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Hecla, The Stehly Nicholas W. furniture Stokes G. D. pres, Social Telephone Co. Stolle Bros. (Jno and Otto), meats Stortz Richd propr Arlington Hotel Summers Carson conf Taylor Robt. F. mngr, Atlas Lumber Co. Thorp Elmira (Mrs.) restaurant Twaddle Herbert H. ice Twaddle Raymond D. feed mill Van Dusen & Co. G. W. Jos W Barlett mngr, grain elevator Wenger Fred G. propr Park Hotel Wilmsen & Jones (Napoleon J Wilmsen, Morgan Jones), harness Young Frank L. pub Brown County Journal Yunker John vice pres, First National Bank Zellar S. J. pres, Hecla Co-operative Elevator Co.