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J. T. BARCLAY
This
gentleman, formerly a lawyer, now is principally
engaged in real estate. He issues each month
a land journal, and in his August number says:
“The town is well supplied with business
houses, newspapers, flouring mills and elevators,
and is now eager to secure manufactories of
all kinds. Such a growing town, in the midst
of an elegant farming country, is bound to
make land and farms near it very valuable
in a short time.” Mr. Barclay handles
land principally with his own capital, buys
and sells, and his continued operations through
grasshopper times, and up to the present,have
helped largely the settlement of the county.
We quote somewhat from his land journal as
to other business interests in Sibley.
M. M. TRAINER
is Sibley's efficient and popular
dentist. Mr. Trainer thoroughly understands
his business, and is among the most prominent
dentists in the Northwest.
T. H. DRAVIS
the “Square-Dealing Clothier,”
has one of the finest stocks of exclusive
clothing and gent's furnishings goods to be
found in the West.
WILLIAM COTTRILL
is one of Sibley's most extensive
harness dealers.
J. W. KAYE
is an efficient and accurate
abstracter, and whose office is with Lawyer
O. J. Clark.
LEONARD & CARMICHAEL
dealers in lumber, wood and
coal, are one of the largest firms in this
line in the Northwest.
D. L. M'CAUSLAND
is in the insurance and loan
business, and, as will be noticed elsewhere,
is one of the first settlers and was first
County Recorder.
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JOE GATES
the boot and shoe man, is located
just west of the post-office.
G. F. BRAND
conducts what he calls the “Palace
Grocery” in the Lansing and Brown building.
JOHN De BOOS
is proprietor of the Third Avenue
hardware store.
HEIM, THE PHOTOIST,
has the only photograph gallery
in Sibley.
J. C. BRICKNER
is a popular grocer, and does
a good trade. His picture will
be found on another page.
WILLIAM RIDDLEBARGER
is proprietor of the Bargain
Store.
MRS. KNIGHT
conducts a fashionable millinery
store through her assistant here, Mrs. Evans.
J. B. CAJACOB
conducts the harness shop on
the west end of Ninth Street.
A. BUCHMAN & SONS
are proprietors of a grocery
store on Third avenue.
V. B. GUTHRIE
has a very fine barber shop
under the Northwestern State Bank. He is assisted
by M. L. Workheiser.
ARMIN & SHELL
have an extensive lumber yard.
Mr. Shell was on the ground, as elsewhere
stated, in 1872.
J. WEBBER
is proprietor of Central meat
market.
LAMME & M'KENNA
These young men are successors
of Grant & Milner. They handle
agricultural implements.
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CIGAR FACTORY
This has just been started by
Nic Koerting, of Le Mars.
WM. SMITH
is proprietor of a new restaurant
and boarding house on Ninth street.
NIC KIMMLINGER
is Sibley's merchant tailor.
J. BROOKS
who is one of the early settlers,
has a flour and feed store.
A. ROMEY
has
a general store next door to the Osceola House.
Mr. Romey is an old settler in the county,
as our readers have already noticed.
W. R. LAWRENCE
operates a drug store and grocery
on the north side of Ninth street. He is an
old resident of Sibley and Osceola County.
ROBERT RICHARDSON
has a butcher shop, and we notice
in the 1873 Sibley paper that the same Robert
had a butcher shop then.
W. L. PARKER
has
a drug store, and erected the building he
occupies, a picture of which is in this book,
in 1891. Mr. Parker is one of the early settlers.
WALTON BROTHERS
have
a very extensive furniture store in the Academy
of Music block. These are E. Walton
and H. E. Walton.
THE SIBLEY HOTEL
Sibley hotes are fully up to
the demands of the town. The Sibley Hotel,
conduted by H. L. Leland, is located near
the Omaha depot.
THE OSCEOLA HOUSE
is located on the north side
of Ninth Street, in the business center of
the town. It is conduted by John Hickok,
and managed by Hickok Brothers.
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J. B. LENT
is dealing entirely in farming
machinery of all kinds.
ECKERMAN BROTHERS
This firm are successors to
Davidson & Eckerman in the implement business.
J. B. GREY
has in full operation one of
the best creameries in the State. The output
of his institution the past year ranks among
the highest of any in the Northwest.
PEAVY & CO.
One of this company's elevators
is located at Sibley. J. T. Grow is
their manager.
B. MILLER
is city drayman and transfer
man.
H. E. PERRY
mail and express transfer man,
and general delivery.
F. E. CRAM
is bridge builder and house
mover. Also agent for the Austin steel reversible
road machines and well drills.
J. L. DURFEE
delivers milk at Sibley houses
every day.
MRS. KENNY
conducts classes in instrumental
music in Sibley.
MRS. WILDER
has a large class in vocal and
instrumental music.
MISS GRACE CAMPBELL
conducts classes in instrumental
music in Sibley, Ashton, and Bigelow, Minn.
E. F. BEAUMONT
is Sibley's artistic wielder
of the brush, and a professional paper hanger.
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SIBLEY MARBLE WORKS
M. J. North looks after
the monument business.
TOBEY BROS.
are dealers in agricultural
implements and farm supplies.
L. D. BARNES
conducts a tin shop and deals
in small hardware in the building next to
Webber's meat market.
B. A. WILDER
physician and surgeon, has had
forty-two years' experience in homoepathic
methods.
H. NEILL
is Sibley's oldest physician
and surgeon.
MRS. HAHN—MILLINERY
She keeps hats, bonnets, hoods,
ribbons, tips, bridal wreaths, China silks,
etc.
F. A. HOWARD
is an extensive dealer in all
kinds of school furniture.
LAWYERS
The lawyers of Sibley are C.
M. Brooks, D. D. McCullum, O. J. Clark, G.
W. Lister and John F. Glover. Mr.
Glover is the oldest in point of residence,
and Mr. McCullum also does an extensive
pension business. Mr. Lister is County
Attorney. Mr. Clark has been in Sibley
about ten years. Mr. McCullum served
a term as Circuit Judge in that judicial district,
and is mentioned elsewhere as an old resident.
The bar is well represented and Sibley's lawyers
are efficient and able practitioners.
LONG & SCHLEGEL
are land, loan and insurance
agents, south side of Ninth street.
JOHN A. FLOWER
is
county surveyor and also manger of the Sibley
Gazette.
LEISCH & BRODT
A. Leisch and C. H. Brodt
are the oldest draymen in the city.
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A. W. MITCHELL
is a milk dealer. Mr. Mitchell
is spoken of elewhere as one of the early
settlers.
G. W. MEADER
has an extensive hardware store,
and elsewhere in this book is a picture of
his building.
LIVERY STABLES
These are represented by Littlechild
Bros. and Joe Gill.
W. H. STEWART
Mr. Stewart is veterninary
surgeon.
C. W. LOWERY
proprietor of the Sibley Steam
Laundry.
D. F. CAUGHEY
is proprietor of City Laundry.
CLINT HUDSON
is handling the Dustless grain
and grass seed cleaner and separator.
HENRY NEWELL
is the efficient young manager
of the business of the Chicago, St. Paul,
Milwaukee & Omaha Railway at this station.
GEO. W. BAXTER
is the good natured gentleman
who attends to the wants of the patrons of
the Burlingon, Cedar Rapids & Northern
Railway. He is assisted by C. A. Thompson.
Sibley is having something
of a boom in fine residences this year. A.
W. Harris, grain dealer, has erected a
large hosue of modern architecture. A.
Shapely, a retired farmer, has the foundation
in for a large and commodious dwelling in
which he proposes to take life easy for the
remainder of his days. Geo. Carew,
the veteran newspaper man, is comfortably
situated in a large, well built rsidence.
Mrs. C. I. Hill has a fine residence
just completed which is an ornament to the
city. There are several smaller residences
which have been construted this spring.
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