| Summary: | Olson. He employed D. Fout and Mrs. E.N. Purtell. He continued the cigar manufacturing business until about 1903. D. Fouts severed his connections with Morris in July of 1902, when he started his own factory, operating it until December of 1903 when he decided to move his cigar factory to Dickinson, N.D. COLLECTION AGENCY, REAL ESTATE AND LAND OFFICE BUSINESS The land offices were often the business of the lawyers. But other people also dealt in the collection, real estate, loan and land office business. One of the first offices of this type was set up by John 0. Oie in 1886. He operated his land and collection business in various buildings until 1891 when he built a small office building just west of the Palace Hotel in Block 60, Lot 18. Starting in 1897, Reier Lunde worked with Oie for a few years. About 1900 John Oie went into the real estate business and by 1904 had dropped his farm loan and insurance business. He continued in the real estate business until retiring. Oie's small office building was later occupied by Greenland Lunde. (The building still stands today and is occupied by Stoners Bar) Another prominent man who ran a loan and land office was T.E. Warner. He bought out the collection, insurance and land business of Simington and Miller in 1887. He was elected city justice in 1891. In 1897 his office was located over Stevens' and Enger's Hardware Store. Here he was associated with Attorney Benjamin Tufte for a short time. By 1899 he had located in John Syverson's new brick building, Block 72, Lot 12, and operated his business in the two front rooms downstairs. He moved from this location in 1900 when the State Bank of Cooperstown opened for business and occupied his quarters. Mr. Warner sold out his North Dakota Collection Agency of Cooperstown in 1903 to M.C. Spicer who was also located in the same building. Others in early land office business: Earl B. Pinney, Nels Iverson, Reier Lunde, D.F. Nelson and W.T. Munn in Iowa North Dakota Land Company, Elmer G. Opfer and C.F. Nelson in Nelson Opfer Company, Simington and Miller, R.C. Cooper, J.H. McDermott and Berg Brothers. COOPERSTOWN CREAMERY The Cooperstown Creamery, later called the Griggs County Creamery, opened for business in the spring of 1925 in the building between Greenland Lunde and the Stromme and Graby livery stable, and continued in business in that location for 45 years, until a fire ended the existence of the creamery. Elmer Schultz and L.A. Nelson, founders of the business, stayed only a short time. O.P. Shelstad came in 1928 and ran the creamery until the 1940's. His four sons, Bennie, Clarence, Irvin and Marshall, all worked in the creamery at some time or other. Marshall also ran an ice cream parlor' in Cooperstown for a short time. In the 1940's the business was purchased by Oscar Wendt, who sold to Herman Haugen about 1950. Haugen died about 1954 and two of his sons, Lyle and Herman, Jr., ran the creamery for a short time after his death. Andy Hagle went to work for the creamery in May, 1955, about a month before the Haugens sold to Elroy Lee. Hagle stayed on and learned the business, and bought it from Lee in the fall of 1964. The building burned September 21, 1970 and Mr. and Mrs. Hagle went into the retail dairy business and opened a restaurant. Andy remembers that milk was still being bottled in glass the first year he worked at the creamery. He and Frank Pfeifer, who also worked for the creamery at that time, recall that there was a special knack to handling the milk bottles or they would fly out of the bottle washer and smash. Milk was bottled three times a week, and Andy remembers picking up Grade A milk from the Irwin Froiland and Torger Soma farms. There were also cream routes, and the creamery would pick up cream from stations in Hannaford, Binford, Jessie and the Riverside Store near the Cooperstown Bible Camp as well as from some farms along the way. Other farmers brought cream to the creamery. Churning cream into butter was a daily chore, and the creamery produced up to a million pounds of butter a year. What wasn't cut and sold locally under creamery label was sold to Armour's. Andy remembers that the creamery processed about 200 cases of eggs per week. During the time the creamery was in business there were other dairies bottling and selling milk. Among them were Leisures, Bergs and Froilands. Some went out of business and others sold their bottling operations to the creamery. For a while the Haugens operated a small ice cream machine in the creamery, but that was discontinued. (Herman Haugen, Jr., later went into a dairy in Jamestown with a larger scale ice cream business.) When Lee switched to paper cartons about 1956, he became affiliated with Land O'Lakes Creameries. In 1960 he switched to Fairmont and Andy Hagle continued with that line of dairy products until 1980, when Fairmont sold to Cass Clay, the line he now handles. Some of the employees of the creamery in its last 25 years of operation include: Ellis Pittenger, Robert Pottorff, Edna May Hopewell, Paula Bovaird (Olgaard), C. Reiten, Martha Norgard (Goplen), Nora Frigaard, Ruth Haaland. COOPERSTOWN'S FIRST CREAMERY Early in 1888 the Cooperstown Creamery, a stockholder company, was organized. A 46' x 66' building was erected on Meadow Brook in Block 15, about three blocks east of the high school. The building consisted of an engine house, receiving room, cream, butter, a churn and cold room. The appliances, according to a newspaper item, were Willard's best. The cream which was measured by the inch brought a price of 15<P per pound or 712(f per inch in May of 1888. A.H. Ward was hired as the first manager and butter- maker by the directors. Mr. Chris Aarestad brought in the first cream to the creamery. The Cooperstown Creamery operated until March of 1889, when it was rented then sold to Freberg and Anderson 186- Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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