| Summary: | April, 1910, the big Farmers Elevator burned, destroying 12,000 bushels of grain. Sparks from that fire ignited the Monarch Elevator, which was also a total loss, and with it went 3,500 bushels of grain. Monarch did not rebuild. The North Dakota State Gazetteer of 1914 listed the following elevators in Cooperstown: Rollin C. Cooper grain elevator George Hartman, agt; Farmers Elevator Co. F.I). Williams, pres.; Herbert Langford, sec; Federal Elevator Co., Great Western Elevator Co. Aug. Anderson, agt.; Hammer- Halvorson-Beier Co. H.P. Hammer, pres.; J.N. Olsen & Sons, Jno. R. Shirley, agt., and the Cargill Elevator Company. r MOB Monarch Elevator fire of 1910. s-. Looking southwest. Note eight elevators in background about 1909. GREENLAND, LUNDE AND COMPANY In 1909 Mr. Fritjof Greenland opened a business in Cooperstown in the building now occupied by Stoners Bar. The business was farm machinery oriented, selling such items as binder twine, farm seeders, drags, buggies, wagons and related items. In 1910 Nels M. Lunde went to work for Mr. Greenland and in 1911 a partnership was formed changing the name to Greenland Lunde and Company. At that time the Overland franchise was secured and Indian motorcycles were also sold. The business remained in that location until 1919 when the company purchased the Jimeson and Olson Mercantile building which was located across the street south of the present Johnson Store. During this period, Theodore Kittel- son was taken in as a partner and developed the cattle buying and horse trading business also. This was important as cattle and horses were traded for machinery. Steam engines and threshing machines were added and before 1927, Mogul gas tractors and Deering binders were sold. That same year, Greenland Lunde and Company received the franchise for John Deere. The next year a new building was built to accompany their new Chevrolet franchise. During the depression years the company barely survived; however, it was the only farm machinery and automobile dealership in Cooperstown to remain intact through the hard times. Other short line products of interest that were sold by Greenland Lunde were Delco light plants, DeLaval cream separators and milking machines, and later Farmhand hay stackers. In 1946 the Chevrolet garage was sold to Robert Adam and Joel Moe and was called Adam Chevrolet. A year or two later the implement business was sold to H.W. Hildre and Mr. Vaughn Cowell. HARNESS SHOPS The harness shops were a necessity in the early farming areas. All power on the farm except for threshing was oxen or horse power and harness did wear out. Mr. Hunter opened the first harness shop in the Hann building, Block 72, Lot 2, in May of 1883. The harness shop known as "Pioneer Harness Shop" was built just across from the Union House in November of 1883 by A.M. Pease. By December he had sold the shop to J.H. McDermott. McDermott had moved to Dakota in 1881. He had worked with Henry Wold in Valley City and was later in the hotel business there. McDermott remained in the Burrell Avenue shop, Block 74, Lot 11, for three years, moving then to the Johnson Store building where he remained for eleven years. In 1898, he moved to the building formerly occupied by Steen Gunderson's Mercantile Store, Block 73, Lot 9. In this location he conducted his harness business until 1903 when he sold out to Carl Bonde and Anton Christianson. McDermott was also associated with the mercantile firm of Thompson-McDermott in 1906. Taken from Torvald Fosholdt collection before 1905. -190- Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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