Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXVII - Faulkton Commercial Club 1909
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FAULKTON COMMERCIAL CLUB.



    Leading all the improvements in the city was the erection by I. Allen

Cornwell of his fine concrete block on the corner of Ninth avenue and Court

street. The first floor supplies two of the finest offices in the city, one

occupied by the Faulk County Abstract Company, supplying every facility and

abundance of room for its important and ever growing business, the other by P.

H. O'Neil, who, on account of his extensive cattle business is now known

throughout the state as "South Dakota's Cattle King." In addition to his dealing

in neat stock, Mr. O'Neil has made some extensive deals in real estate which

brings him well up as a real estate man.



    The second floor of this building is the home of the Faulkton Commercial

Club. It contains four spacious and conveniently arranged rooms with all modern

improvements and conveniences. It has been furnished most sumptuously and with

every facility to care for and attract a large membership. No organization has

ever started out under more favorable circumstances or made more perfect

arrangements to interest and hold together its more than one hundred members.



    Its genial affable and social president, Mr. P. H. O'Neil, seconded by the

mayor of our city, Dr. William Edgerton, vice president of the organization,

will do much in providing not only the pleasing and companionable enjoyment that

such an organization should afford, but in bringing the members of the club in

one solid phalanx to support anything that tends to the upbuilding or the

social, moral and financial advancement of the city.



    With the fact before her that each year adds largely to the value of

surrounding farm lands, more largely to the number of acres put under

cultivation, together with the rapid and almost unparalled increase in bank

deposits Faulkton must keep a pace in the onward march, and her Commercial Club

if true to themselves and the general prosperity of our city must lead in the

onward march.



    The following is a full list of its efficient and popular officers: Hon. P.

H. O'Neil, president; Dr. William M. Edgerton, vice president; Dr. A. J.

McDowell, secretary; A. M. Moore, treasurer. The board of directors consists of

all the above named officers, together with Messrs A. Boiler, A. D. Griffee and

Frank Oulton.





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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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