Pettibone, North Dakota, 1910-1985

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• Published: North Dakota State Library
• Subjects: Postville; Bismarck; Audrey; Zimmerman; Minot; Monson; Tripp; Sandberg
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/35062

PETTIBONE BUSINESSES 1960-1984 Zana has paintings in every state, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and Venezuela. Since she painted her first picture in 1957, Zana has painted and sold between four and five thousand pictures. Her first one, in 1957, was sold for $3.00. Now she has some in the Stauffer Chemical Company in Omaha, Neb., that brought $200 a piece. Zana's talent for art began when she was in school in Postville, Iowa, where she did posters and cartoons for the school paper. Her talent didn't have a lot of time to develop while she and Joe had a growing family. In the early 60s, Zana had a studio downtown, and Joe had a cream station in the back room. Later, she decided to operate from her home, but that has drawbacks, too. In 1961, she had her first art show in Bismarck with 20 paintings. She had 13 more, which included Minot, Jamestown and Fargo. The last one, in 1975, was sold out in three days. The art shows and word of mouth have been her only advertisement and her paintings often are sold and taken out before they are dry. PETE'S STANDARD Pete Kaczmarski had a filling station and service department in the R and K garage building until 1969, when he sold out to Jake Vogel. Jake kept it open with hired help for a year, and then sold the building to Bert Nieswaag, who took it down and erected a new building on the site. REXINEHALL The Rexine Hall was rarely used for a number of years, so in about 1978, Roger Bauer bought it and tore it down. On those lots the new community building was built in 1981. NIESWAAGS Bert Nieswaag hauls milk direct from the farm to the processing plants with his tank trucks. In 1972-1973, he built a modern truck garage on main street where R and K Chevrolet garage used to be. In 1968, his son Dennis, became a partner. ADAM'S BAR Adam and Bertha Guthmiller continue to run their bar with few changes in the last 25 years. In 1970, they built a recreation room on the south side. Adam had a cream station in the back room, but discontinued that in 1974. LUEHR CONSTRUCTION Henry Luehr sold his road construction machinery at auction in 1963. He worked for other road construction contractors for a few years, and then began doing welding, lathe work, etc., in his shop. In the late 1970s, he built a larger shop building and now has a press to straighten metal. One year he made several hundred bucker teeth for Farmhand hay forks. He also does custom hay stacking. GUTHMILLER AND SONS Louie (Ludwig) Guthmiller and sons (Allen and Darrel) well drilling and repair began in 1976, when they bought their first well machine. Now they own the Fred Walz implement building on main street and in 1984, erected a large building near Allen's home on the east part of town. Louie had worked for Henry Luehr in road construction until he sold out in 1963. Then he worked with Allen Kamoni with his well business until he purchased his own machine. CAFE Lizzy and son, Norman Guthmiller, now operate the cafe. After Buster and Doris Abraham quit in the early '60s, Elsie Reed operated it for about a year. Then Lyle and Geraldine Sandberg had it for awhile. Amy and Leo Paulson operated it from 1966 to 1972, when Kathy Guthmiller and Sylvia Zimmerman took over for a year. Joan Simmons from Carrington ran the cafe for a while also, and then Lizzy Guthmiller took over until 1983. Vernon and Betty Guthmiller operated it for a year as Vernon had bought the building from John P. Munsch. When Vernon was hired as school janitor and Betty was hired as assistant school cook, then Lizzy and Norman took over operation. After the Red Owl store closed, Len and Doris Monson bought the building and operated a cafe there from 1972 to 1974, and Paul and Audrey Geringer operated it there for a while after that. In about 1980, Dorain and Delia Monson opened a sport shop there and handled hunting and fishing supplies and craft items. WALZ IMPLEMENT In 1973, Fred and Elsie Walz had an auction sale and sold a lot of the shop equipment and parts from the parts department, and quit the International Harvester dealership. Fred continued to do repair work until 1982, when they had another auction sale and sold the shop building and all remaining equipment. Guthmiller and sons well business now owns the downtown shop. TRIPP TRUCKLINE Marlin Tripp and his sons Randy and Kirt now own and operate Tripp Truckline. Since 1960, Marlin (Mike) was in partnership with his brother Cyrus and also with Edgar Hornung at different times. In 1966, when his step-father, Robert H. Rohde retired from trucking, Tripp Truckline took over his special motor carrier service permit. Tripp Truckline specializes in cattle and grain hauling. Mike also has both school buses and has completed 25 years as a bus owner and driver. MORLOCKS Leonhard Morlock went back to school from 1962 to 1964, to get his teaching degree. During that time, June operated the hardware store. After Leonhard graduated, the store was sold to Harold and Irene Whitman. Leonhard taught school music for 10 years. Now he is again servicing and installing plumbing, heating, refrigeration, appliances, etc., with a warehouse on main street where he stocks appliances and repairs. For 12 years, Leonhard and June have also done wedding photography. FARMERS UNION Ernest Thompson continued to be manager of Farmers Union until he resigned in 1976, to become manager at Lidgerwood. In 1966, the new building was built. It is complete with service shop, office and store. Grand opening was held in May 1967. After "Bud" Thompson left, Marvin Jacobson of Jamestown was manager for a year. Then Kenton Bertsch, Pettibone native, was manager for three years. During that time, the warehouse north of the main building was built. In 1980, Kelly Maas was manager for two years until he went to Mandan for a promotion. Now Tony Jangula of Zeeland is manager. Jim Abraham began working at Farmers Union in 1967, after selling Abe's Bar, which he owned and operated. Pete Kaczmarski began working there in 1968, after selling Pete's Standard which Sponsored by Carrington Rexall Drug Co., Carrington •7- Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.