CURTISS

Curtiss is a little settlement of about 350 people right in the heart of the rich dairy belt of Clark County, on the Soo line between Owen and Abbotsford. It was named by the Wisconsin Central railroad company in 1881 when the line was pushed through this part of the state. A. D. Bast and Clark started a saw mill in 1882 and moved the town from the flag station where the railroad intended it to be to the present site, half a mile away. Among the early settlers were A. B. Mathias who came from Loyal, Otto Janke from Sheboygan county, and G. H. Thayer, who with his parents came from Fond du Lac in 1887, Arne Olson, Warne Ellis and Steve Platt, now dead. The village was platted in 1883. The saw mill still does business, giving employment to 15 or 20 men for three or four months of the year, and a planing mill runs continuously. The creamery and cheese factory, however, is doing the business which the lumbermen did in former years, and is distributing good sized checks twice a month to the farmers nearby. The farmers are for the most part of German or Norwegian extraction although all are good hardworking American citizens. [Curtiss Businesses] [Curtiss Railroad Depot] [Hoard's Yesterday]

Business Directory

Bloc, Charles, Gen. Store.

Boehm, Herman, Saloon.

Curtiss Produce Co.

Curtiss State Bank.  [Advertisement]

Green Bros., Gen. Store.

Jones, Fred, Blacksmith.

Kluve, Aug. J., Meats.

Laabs, Albert, Saloon.

Liberty, H. A., Lumber.

Luethy, Adolph, Cheese Mnfr.

Machlett & Son, Hardware.

Meyer, Fred, Groceries.

Mueller, August, Hotel.

Peterman & Reibsamen. [Advertisement]  

Ravey, C. H., Harness shop.

Schroeder, Louis, Blacksmith.

Zasoba, John, Shoemaker.

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