| Summary: | building and served all kinds of short orders. Miss Mae Mickels was in charge. In 1921, Mr. and Mrs. Cap Braaten and Mrs. Oscar Svien went to Fargo to purchase supplies for the new restaurant they were to open, called the Lone Tree Restaurant. Mrs. Cal Kabeary and Sons opened a restaurant and lunchroom in 1927. In March 1930 E. C. Baldwin established a seed house in that building, and in July 1930, Olaus Djuvstad had his tailor shop there. In 1930 after his cream station burned with Harry Johnson’s garage, J. E. Farup purchased the Lindberg building and had the North American Cream Station there until 1946. In October 1937, McVille’s second liquor store was opened by Oluf Ophaug in the space vacated by the tailor shop, in the same building to James Brastrup who was looking for a location for a Coast to Coast Store. He later decided on a different location and sold the Farup building to Idean Locken who planned to start a complete men’s clothing store there. In May 1946 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Drake and family arrived from Petersburg to make their home in McVille where she was employed as a nurse at the hospital and Mr. Drake hoped to open a shoe repair shop, so the Farup building became their property. In 1949 Harry Stenslie had a radio and refrigerator service shop in the Drake building, and in November 1950 Mr. Francis Conat, Langdon, opened a shoe repair shop there. 0. U. Tyler purchased the building, and the Liquor Package Store, which was run by Albin Stenslie, had its headquarters there. Later the first floor was also converted to living quarters, as the upper floor had been made into apartments several years previously. Blance Baldwin had a millinery shop in this building at some time during this period. Gronaas Floral bought the building about 1975. This building burned in 1982 while occupied by Gronaas Floral. State Bank building as it appears today. McVille Banks In McVille’s first year a bank was established in the building now occupied by Quanbeck’s Variety. Called the First State Bank, its officers were: President — E. J. Lander; Vice President — J. E. Godness; Cashier — C. H. Simpson; these also comprised the Executive Board plus C.S. Dow. Even earlier, a granary had been moved into town and set onto the lot now occupied by the present Journal Office where E. C. Olsgard set up an office with desk and large iron safe to take care of the town’s monetary needs on a temporary basis. James Pearson remembered mowing the grass and weeds on the lot with a team of horses and mower. By 1913 the Board had changed only slightly. Although Lander was still the Looking south on Main Street, the First State is located on the left (in present Quanbeck Variety building). Both banks on opposite comers are visible in this view of Main Street looking north. president. C. S. Dow had advanced to vice president and the cashier was W. J. Morgan, and assistant cashier was A. O. Moen. Miss Grace Long, Aneta, was also assisting. Also in 1906, an impressive brick building was being built on the west side of Main Street to house the State Bank of McVille. They moved into their permanent quarters on the corner Aug. 23, 1906, and were ready to serve their patrons although the woodwork was not quite finished and finishing was steadily going on. The woodwork of both fixtures and interior was finished on golden oak. The vault, though not yet erected, was to be put in by fall. Officers of this bank were: President — D. N. Tallman; V. President — N. D. Felton; Cashier — E. C. Olsgard; and I. E. Hanson who arrived from Grand Forks to be assistant cashier. During the first winter of 1906, fire destroyed the Aneta Depot and later a J. M. Halvorson (unknown) was sentenced to a year and a half in the penitentiary for stealing an express package continuing $500 in gold addressed to the State Bank of McVille. The thief was tracked by the trail of gold coins he left paying his way out of the country. In February 1910, the State Bank had installed another great convenience for its customers by the purchase of a safe containing safety deposit boxes. The safe was rolled out of the vault every morning into the front office and each customer was furnished with a key for his individual box. A new corporation, the McVille Realty Co., was doing a general real estate business in May 1910, buying and selling farm land and city property with headquarters at the State Bank of McVille and E. C. Olsgard as general manager. Local investors had purchased all the unsold lots and lands surrounding McVille, formerly owned by the Northern Town and Land Co. The new owners were E. C. Olsgard, F. W. McDougall, B. C. Berwick, Ole Walhood, A. MacMillan, who incorporated under the laws of North Dakota with a capital of $15,000. The plan was to make an addition to the townsite on the northside of town on both sides of the high schoool throwing open for sale a large selection of choice residential lots. A number of two acre blocks were to be surveyed on the east side of town for the benefit of those who wished larger tracts of land than one or two lots. In 1913, Mr. Hanson left for Bismarck to become Deputy Bank Examiner, and Elma Helgeland (Fretheira) temporarily filled the position until the arrival of Arthur Robinson, Rinstad, Iowa, to accept the position of 1193 Scanned with a Czur book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Adobe Acrobat Pro
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