Bemis, Deuel Co., 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, http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000031 . 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://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm BEMIS. Pop 100. Deuel county. A village on the C R I & P Ry 14 miles s e of Watertown. Has a Lutheran church, a bank and 2 grain elevators. Exp Am. Tel W U. Mabel Joens P M. Last Name First Name Business Bremer C. W. grain elevator Brown E. A. A E Selchert agt, grain elevator Burns M. J. r r, exp and tel agt Dummann E. E. gen store Hagna Lumber Co. Chas Zerfoss agt Joens Jno H. gen store Lockhart A. J. pres, State Bank of Bemis Nevenheim Wm. farm impts Rorman M. L. cashr, State Bank of Bemis Selchert A. E. agt, E A Brown State Bank of Bemis (Capital $5,000), A J Lockhart, pres; M L Rorman, cashr Sullivan M. W. pool Tesch O. G. blksmith Zerfoss Chas. agt, Hagna Lumber Co.