Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXIV Cresbard 1909
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CRESBARD.

    Cresbard is located eleven miles from the east line of Faulk county and five
miles from the Edmunds county line in the town of Fairview, on the line of the
Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad, and is surrounded with as fine, if not the
finest body of land and best improved farms in Faulk county.

    Here, as everywhere, the upbuilding and prosperity of the town must depend
upon the agricultural improvements of its immediate surroundings. In this
particular direction, at the present time, Cresbard stands in the front rank
among her sister villages in Faulk county, with a large class of independent
farmers, with their many broad acres and fine farm buildings in their own and
surrounding towns. Located upon a line of railroad commanding a line of business
second to none in the northwest, with a class of intelligent enterprising
business men, second to none in the county, the future of this young and
enterprising town is already assured. To be more specific, neither climate,
soil, or its adaptation to the various cereal crops of the great northwest is in
an experimental stage, that has been completely and satisfactorially passed, not
only all the small grains, but corn is as successful, as upon $125.00 per acre
land in Illinois and Iowa and late practical experiments assure us that the
sugar beet will yield as large a per cent of sugar as in any part of our common
country. To the enterprising, practical farmer, the chance is yet open to
exchange their $100.00, $150.00 and $200.00 land for these valuable and
productive Faulk county farms, at a much lower price. The first twenty-five
years of improvement and development in Faulk county has passed and with it has
come wonderful changes, marked development, great prosperity; in place of the
humble, dependent pioneers—the prosperous independent farmer with his hundreds
of acres of improved land worth from $40.00 to $50.00 per acre.

    With confidence looking into the near future when the lands shall not only
double in value, but on every line the changes shall be greater with increased
prosperity, accumulated wealth shall make these homes second to none in the
great northwest. With such surroundings and such demands for the necessities and
luxuries of life, the advantages of a permanent location and successful business
in the new and growing village of Cresbard must commend itself to every thinking
progressive business man. The following is a list of business already in the new
and enterprising town:

Cresbard Grain Co., grain, coal and flour, B. DeMershmann, manager.
Security Elevator Co., H. O. Hanson, manager.
Pacific Elevator Co., C. L. Gange, manager.
Eagle Roller Mills, C. Tenold, manager.
Imperial Lumber Yard, lumber, etc., S. W. Bakke, manager.
Central Lumber Co., George M. Tinker, manager. 
Gange & Palmer, farm implements, etc. 
G. Bruneau, blacksmith and machine shop. 
City Livery Barn, livery, feed and sale barn, A. A. Thelan, proprietor.
Hotel Cresbard, F. H. Potter, proprietor.
C. Niemeyer, clothing a*id gents furnishings.
The Beacon, job work and printing, F. O. Mark, editor and proprietor.
George Ham, barber shop, bath room.
Hotel Moliter, lunch counter in connection, A. D. Moliter, proprietor.
City Meat Market, Wm. Lockwood, proprietor and stock buyer.
Fountain & Chute, hardware.
Cresbard Mercantile Co., general merchandise, H. R. Ives, manager.
E. Geist, hardware and furniture.
Wilson Bros., farm machinery, etc.
City Pool Hall, L. Deloy, proprietor.
Cresbard Land Co., real estate, J. B. Hein, manager.
Farmers State Bank, John A. Day, president; W. P. Holmes, cashier;
    C. H. McCoy, assistant cashier.
The Bank of Cresbard, A. M. Moore, president; P. H. O'Neil, vice president;
    P. W. Loomis, cashier.
T. F. Forsyth, general merchandise.
J. Bentson, drugs.
McKay's, general merchandise and ladies furnishings.
City Restaurant, G. Cloutier,  proprietor.
Home Bakery, Mrs. M. Moore, proprietor.
City Dray Line, B. Mosher, proprietor.


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HISTORY OF
FAULK COUNTY
SOUTH DAKOTA
CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS

TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS

ILLUSTRATED
19O9



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