Recollections of Munich, North Dakota

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library
• Subjects: Kramer; Northwest Territories
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/16309

most banks who came under these closings, the dividends paid were very small. The third bank in Munich was the Security State Bank, which was located in a steel clad building next to the postoffice in Block 16. R.V. Bice was Cashier and J.A. Kramer, Assistant. It was only in business the first few years and closed out its affairs after the town boom was over. The building afterwards was used as Heimbeckers' Store and later by Charles Michling with living quarters upstairs. It burned in the 1921 fire. P.J. Antony had an insurance office in the southeast part of the Nosbusch Cafe with his brother, Math, in charge. Antony was also Secretary of the Federal Land Bank for this territory for years and continued the office in Langdon, where he moved and lived until his death. Newspapers The Munich Herald was established in the fall of 1904. E.M.Crary, who was publishing a newspaper at Edmore, was the publisher and J.H. McDonald, the editor. It was entered as second class matter in the Klein Post Office on the J.J. Janzen farm. From the start it was a loyal booster of the town. An editorial said, "We have the best town on the branch and if the business men will work together in the future as in the past, we will be able to hold our gains." Among the early advertisers were: The First National Bank; V.S. Waldo, General Store; Wes Mahon, La Crosse Implement; Nels Hawkinson, Hardware, Implement, and Lumber Yard; Ellenbaum Brothers, General Store; Dawson and Byfield, Hardware; and Hotel Munich, H.J. Coffey, Prop. In the fall of 1905, a veteran newspaperman from Langdon, S.T. Scott, started the Leader here. He had been on newspapers in Montreal, the Government Printing Office in Ontario, The New York Times, Kansas City Star, Winnipeg Free Press, The Qu'Apelle Progress in Saskatchewan, and in the Northwest Territories. On January 4, 1906 he bought 13 - Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.