Lovell Opens Beach Hardware and Machinery Firm
G D Lovell arrived from Forest River to Beach in 1907 and started a hardware and machinery shop. He expanded with a warehouse and acquired the old Beach Mercantile Company warehouse. He owns several autos and lives above the shop with his family. Laughnan and Stockwell later renamed their business Laughnan & Stockwell, operating as the Badger State Store serving Wisconsin and area customers. Beach Land & Loan Co founded 1906 by Haigh and Brinton, now led by Haigh, expanding from homestead locating to real estate, loans, and insurance with family ties to Wisconsin farmers.
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Beach
G. D. Lovell
Forest River
Beach Mercantile Company
Lovell
Automobile Fraternity
Firts Auto
Pssenger Chamers
Detroit
Mark Laughnan
E. F. Stockwell
Laughnan & Sockwell
Black River Falls
Wis
St Paul
Badger State Store
Wisconsin
Beach Land & Loan CO
Beach Land & Loan Company
J. A. Haigh
C. M
J. W. Brinton
Brintons
Haigh
Fessenden
Burkey
John H. Haigh
The
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Golden West Investment Company Organizer Also Led Bank Venture
F E Near, founder of Golden Valley State Bank and Beach pioneer in 1905, organized the Golden West Investment Company and manages its affairs. The firm holds a large land tract near Carlyle Montana and Near has recruited settlers from Hurgel South Dakota and other states, earning a reputation as a booster for the Golden Valley.
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F. E. Near
Golden Valley State Bank
Beach
Carlyle, Mont
Near
Hurgel, S. Dak
Golden Valley
Beach’s First Hotel Opens in Busy Town Era
In Beach in July 1906 the present State Line Hotel building, 46 by 76 feet with about 20 rooms, opened under Mrs. N A Heath after Heaths ran a prior boarding house in the section house. The hotel quickly filled nightly as travelers and locals crowded the city.
Founding of the Town and Local Office Location
A description notes the founding of the town and a resident with a fine improved homestead joining the townsite. It mentions his office on First Avenue in the building formerly occupied by the Chronicle.
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First Avenue
the Chronicle
Landman J R Smith Dominates Valley Deals
J R Smith arrived in the Valley as a Golden Valley Land and Cattle Co representative and built a large land trade. He later represented Stondal interests after a sale, yet maintains Golden Valley contracts while retailing additional tracts from his own office in the old opera house building.
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J. R. Smith
Smith
Valley
Golden Valley Land & Cattle Company
Sentinel Butte
Beach
Mr. Smith
Golden Valley Land Company
Stondal Peope
Golden Valley Company
Opera House
Letson Shaves Town Resident and Builds Future Parlor
Chas Letson runs the town's sole tensorial parlor offering shave haircuts and trims. A Taylor Wisconsin immigrant from March 1906 he built an early structure and plans a new First Street building next spring.
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Chas. Letson
Taylor
Wis
Barber Opens in New Building with Three Chairs
A barber moves his shop into a new building and keeps three chairs with one to spare. T. G. Plomason serves as his assisting tonsorial artist, with an extra barber available as needed.
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T. G. Plomason
E. E. Prehn Runs Market and Wisconsin Cafe
E. E. Prehn operates a meat market in the Kellogg building after moving from homesteading in May 1905. He also runs the Wisconsin cafe in the same building and buys meat with a cleaver in one hand and money in the other.
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E. E. Prehn
Kellogg
Mr. Prehn
A. B. Kellogg
Wisconsin Cafe
Nichols the man with the mules at Beach
R. I. Nichols is described as the man with the mules who does the lifting and pulling. He moved to Beach from Letcher South Dakota two years ago and invested in real estate then bought a drag line from M. E. Wood.
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Mr. Nichols
Beach
Letcher, S. D
M. E. Wood
Coal baron E. D. Logan boosts Beach profile
E. D. Logan, the coal baron of Beach, has been seen with a pleasant look and operates an office and sheds east of the Dacotah Lumber yards. He also farms on a large scale, evidenced by a big steam outfit shown elsewhere.
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E. D. Logan
Beach
Dacotah
Logan
A J Reichenecker the town painter and wallpaper dealer
A J Reichenecker is described as the town paint artist known as the dobber. He paints hangs and sells wallpaper, and is regarded as an old timer who has been in town for a long time. Subscribe for the Chronicle.
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Laughnan & Stockwell
Mr. Stockwell
PWS
Golden West Investment Company
State Lin E Hotel
J. R. Smith Land CO
C. H. Letson
R. I. ‘Nichols
A. J. Reichenecker
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