VILLAGE OF HUMBIRD
A Hustling Little Village With a Bright Future
Street Scene, Humbird.
This thriving village is situated in the southwest corner of the county, prettily tucked in securely under the protection of an overhanging mound. It was named after Jacob Humbird, a railroad contractor, and laid out and platted in 1869. In 1872 the railroad which is now a part of the great Northwestern system was pushed through as far as Humbird which gave it a great deal of importance as the market place for Clark County, grain and lumber being shipped out and provisions and goods of every description being received and transported overland over the tote roads to the inland towns and, camps. It is a thriving town, surrounded by a rich and prosperous country and contains two hotels, a bank, two general stores, hardware store, blacksmith shop and implement house, millinery store, grist mill, drug store, meat market, garage, creamery, cheese factory, furniture store and undertaking establishment, livery, confectionery and so forth.
It has a population of about 600 and being on the main line of a great railway system enjoys. unusual transportation advantages.
The village has first class schools, the system being made up of High School, Graded Schools and Rural Schools, with an efficient corps of teachers. The high school is accredited to the State University. The school library has over a thousand volumes which are available for public use. A Social Center club is maintained in the village, which holds semi-monthly meetings in the high school room. P. A. Hemmy is president of the club. The community is closely connected by local and rural telephone lines.
Edward T. Hale, Editor of the Humbird Enterprise
and Member of the County School Board.
Business Directory
Barkley & Washburn, Blacksmith and Implements.
Brandstedter, (Mrs. C.) Gen. Store.
Briggs, Mrs. H. M., Hotel.
Chenoweth, Ed. Grist Mill.
Bienick, Miss Carrie, Millinery.
First State Bank. [Advertisement]
Fristad, C. B., Drugs.
Hahn, J. C., Saloon and Confectionery
Hart, George, Meats.
Humbird Auto Co.
Humbird Cheese Co.
Humbird Co-Operative Creamery Co.
Humbird Roller Mills.
Kneubuehl, Jacob, Saloon.
Kretschmer, M. Furniture and Undertaker.
Laffe, George, Saloon.
Midland Lumber Co., Coal Co.
Shute, F. A., Gen. Store.
Simons, F. J., Hardware, etc.
Sparkes, H. A., Wall Paper.
Sparks, A. L., Livery.
Sparks, Mrs. L., Confectionery.
Springhook Cheese Co.
Stallard, J. B., Land Sales and Life Insurance [Advertisement] [Biography]
B. J. Stallard Home.
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