New Paynesville.
The township has within its limits the villages of Paynesville and New Paynesville, both incorporated under the town and village law of this state, and maintaining separate village organizations. New Paynesville is situated in the southern part of the county, thirty-four miles southwest of St. Cloud, the county seat, and ninety-three miles from St. Paul, on the Great Northern and Soo railroads, and on the banks of the famous Lake Koronis. This lake is teeming with fish, and of the gamest kind, and is a popular resort for tourists and hunters, and it is conceded by all who have ever fished in this lake to be one of the best fishing points in the West. The city contains two banks, a flouring mill, four grain elevators, one first-class hotel and two $1 a day houses, six churches, a high school, having a corps of seven teachers, a creamery, the best in the county; a weekly newspaper, the Press, which is a credit to the town and county. Dr. Pilon’s hospital, one of the best in the state, is always crowded, and the doctor has a corps of attendants, the best money can secure; one lumber yard; Hanson’s opera house; the North American cold storage plant, employing about 100 people; one brick yard, and an unusual number of general and special stores. The town has a population of about 1,000 people, and has all the elements to make one of the best towns in the county. The city owns their water and electric light plant, and have a first-class fire department.
The farming land around and near the town is of the best, and the soil is varied. In the valley about the Crow river it is somewhat light and sandy, and back from the river on the higher lands a heavy clay, producing good crops as surely as any soil in the state. Large meadows are also here, furnishing abundant hay and pasturage for the large herds of horses and cattle kept by the farmers. Horses raised around this town are well known through the state, and are eagerly sought for, both as drivers and as draught horses.
The town is growing very fast and everyone coming here always has a good word to say of this town and the business men.
The stock of goods in the stores here are up to date and every merchant is feeling good over the growth of the town. Be sure and come here for your vacation and fish in the famous Lake Koronis.
Following are a few of the leading firms doing business:
Huntington & Boylan are proprietors of the leading lumber yard of the town. Mr. Huntington is mayor of the city and has been in the lumber business for twenty years.
Finger Bros. are proprietors of “The Big Store” and have a very large stock of dry goods, boots and shoes; also full line of clothing. A. H. Finger is one of the council.
Nehring & Kruger are the leading implement dealers of the town; also full line of bicycles for sale or rent, and are agents for the Sharpless cream separator.
Boylan, Carlock & Co. are the leading bankers of the town. This bank was organized in 1890 and does a general banking and real estate business. They have some very fine farm lands close to town. For other information write W. E. Shultz, cashier.
Joseph Hengel is proprietor of the City Meat Market and is the up-to-date place in town to get good meat. He does his own slaughtering.
T. J. Barrie runs the leading barber shop and bathrooms of this section, and has been here six years.
The Russell house is one of the leading $2 per day houses of the state, and is headquarters for the tourists coming here for their annual fish and hunt. N. H. Dreis, the proprietor, is one of the main hustlers for the town.
George Haines runs the main livery and sale stables, also baggage and transfer line of the town, and makes special rates for hunters. He has some of the finest driving horses of the state.
R. W. Haskins & Co. run the leading furniture and undertaking parlors of this section, and have the finest hearse and burial outfit in the state outside of the Twin Cities.
The Goodrich Drug company, for years at Audubon and Detroit, Minn., are about to open one of the finest drug stores in the West at this town. W. L. Goodrich, manager, is an old-time druggist.
T. T. Lund runs the main general store of the town and can sell you anything used in the house. Has been in business sixteen years.
Source:
The Saint Paul Globe
Monday Morning, April 25, 1904
Volume XXVII, Number 116, Page 7