Armour, Douglas 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 Armour. Pop 960. Douglas county. An incorporated city and the county seat on the C M & St P Ry 62 miles n w of Yankton. Has Baptist, Congregational, Catholic, Methodist, Christian and Episcopal churches, 3 banks, 2 hotels, a flour mill, 5 grain elevators, a commercial club, a public library, an opera house, an electric light plant and water works. Two weekly newspapers the Herald and the Chronicle-Tribune are published. Ships grain, live stock and produce. Land is worth $60 to $100 per acre. Exp W F & Co. Tel W U. Wm Moore P M. Last Name First Name Business Aardappel Chas. see Foster, Wolfe & Aardappel Addie John W. lawyer and states attorney Anderson Jno F. garage Armour Club B F Boylan (Jr) sec Armour Garage F W Antrim propr, fireproof storage, accessories and repairing Armour Herald Geo E Hagen pub Armour House Hans H Boock propr, rates $1.50 per day, commercial trade solicited Armour Opera House R Slettebak mngr Armour Public Library Mrs Minnie Raben librarian Armour State Bank (capital $25,000) F G Floete, pres; Bert N Beaumont, cashr Armour Telephone Co. B W Burnett, pres; I S Burnett, sec and treas Armour Water Works (municipal) Atwater Chas. C. real est Barnes Mark restaurant Barrett Jas. P. harness Bean Jno S. undertaker Beardsley D. L. sec and treas, Carlon Elevator Co. Beaumont Bert N. cashr, Armour State Bank Berry Edgar F. barber Berry Jas. nursery Bigler Lottie G. phys. Boock Hans H. propr Armour House Booher Leroy Forest Hammitt agt, grain elevator Bootjer C. W. cashr, Farmers & Merchants Bank Bootjer & Palmer Chas W Bootjer, Walter H Palmer) Boylan & Sons B. T. Bayard T, Lawrence H and Bayard T Jr), farm impts Brown Chas. see Chesley & Brown Brown Geo. cementwkr Burnett B. W. pres, Armour Telephone Co. Burnett I. S. sec and treas, Armour Telephone Co. Cameron Jno F. div mngr, Interstate Power Co. Carlon Patrick (Jr.) livery Carlon Elevator Co. D L Beardsley, pres; Jas Carlon, sec and treas Carney Saml D. phys. Chesley & Brown (Geo L Chesley, Chas Brown), real est Chronicle-Tribune Eli Thomas pub. Citizens State Bank (capital $25,000) Solomon Wenzlaff, pres; E G Wenzlaff, cashr Clark Wm. G. furniture Coon & Faughender (Loren M Coon, Jno Faughender), pool Crutchett Henry J. drugs Dana Ruel A. see Wait & Dana Davis Jas. H. dentist Edwards Ernest E. see Loeffler & Edwards Farmers & Merchants Bank (capital $15,000) Geo Palmer, pres; Blanche Palmer, vice pres; C W Bootjer, cashr; W H Palmer, asst cashr, Farm loans, insurance and collections Farmers Elevator Co. Jno Harter agt Faughender Jno pool, Coon & Faughender Felton Alf M. gen store Felton Chas. W. see Love & Felton Fenzl Frank J. clothing Fenzl Jas. tailor Floete F. G. pres, Armour State Bank Floete Land & Loan Co. F G Floete, pres; Mrs F G Floete, sec Floete Lumber Co. Franklin Floete, pres; H E Glover, sec Foster Kingsley G. real est Foster, Wolfe & Aardappel (Kensley G Foster, Jno Wolfe, Chas Aardappel), gen store Fotheringham Thos. W. farm impts Fullerton Lumber Co. Jerome C. Perkinson agt Gallagher Francis P. real est Gem Theatre Otto Rabin propr, moving pictures Glover H. E. sec, Floete Lumber Co. Gurley Zenas R. see Walker & Gurley Gurley Zenus R. meats Hagen Geo. E. pub Armour Herald Hammitt Forest agt, Leroy BooherBooher Hand Geo. feed Hanskutt Jas. gen store Harter Jno agt, Farmers Elevator Co. Hewitt Harvey W. gen store Hotel Johnson James Ver Bryck propr, rates $2.25 per day Hotham Jas. H. blksmith Huntting Elevator Co. Chas Buettner agt Interstate Power Co. Jno F Cameron div mngr, electric light plant Knight Henry D. photogr La Shier Bion W. phys. Litz Phil blksmith Loeffler & Edwards (Henry H Loeffler, Ernest E Edwards) hardware Love & Felton (Jno G Love, Chas W Felton), gen store Margeson Arthur W. painter McKinnon Robt. r r, exp and tel agt Mead Laura (Mrs.) milliner Montgomery Ernest cementwkr Moran Jno P. barber Moran Michael A. dentist Norton Timothy jeweler Palmer Blanche vice pres, Farmers & Merchants Bank Palmer Geo. pres, Farmers & Merchants Bank Palmer W. H. asst cashr, Farmers & Merchants Bank Palmer Walter H. see Bootjer & Palmer Patterson Richd feed Perkinson Jerome C. agt, Fullerton Lumber Co. Perry Herbert A. photogr Peterson Chas. L. gen store (Mansbridge) Raben Minnie (Mrs.) librarian, Armour Public Library Rabin Otto propr Gem Theatre Reichmann Arthur F. vet surgeon Richardson Jas. livery Ruettgers Jno W. gen store Sleister Park E. plumber Slettebak R. mngr, Armour Opera House Slettebak Rasmus gen store Slettebak Robt. flour mill Strain Wm. P. vet surgeon Sullivan Dan'l S. drugs Taylor Emma (Mrs.) milliner Taylor Thos. C. notions Thomas Eli pub Chronicle-Tribune Ver Bryck Jas. propr Hotel Johnson Wait & Dana (Levi D Wait, Ruel A Dana), grain elevator Walker & Gurley (Robt D Walker, Zenas R Gurley), lawyers Walther Ernest baker Wanzer Edwin P. lawyer Ward Wesley J. phys. Wenzlaff Edgar G. ins agt Willis Thos. C. pool Wolfe Jno see Foster, Wolfe & Aardappel