OFFICIAL INDUSTRIAL and SHIPPERS DIRECTORY
SOO LINE DIRECTORY YEAR 1918-1919
Curtiss, Wisconsin - Clark County, Wisconsin
Population: 250
Incorporated June 5, 1917. County seat Neillsville, Wisconsin. Rural delivery
from Curtiss, Wisconsin
Express: Western
Nearest railroad town: Owen 7 miles west
Railroad: Soo Line
Telephone service: Local and long distance, Curtiss and
Withee telephone company main office here.
Fire Department: Local
Bank: Curtiss State Bank
Opera House: Boehm's Opera House, seats 200
Hotel: Farmer's Home
Churches: One each, Congregational, German Lutheran
German Reformed, Norwegian Lutheran
Surrounding country is rolling, soil is black loam. Principle crops raised are
hay, grain, and potatoes.
This is fine dairy country. Average price of improved land per acre is $100.00,
unimproved land is
$30.00.
Industrial openings and inducements offered: There are a number of cheese
factories located here.
This would be a good location for cheese box factory.
Business and professional openings: drug store, jewelry store, restaurant,
lawyer, physician.
Business Directory:
B Line Shipping Ass'n.
Block Chas., general store
Boehm H., harness and saddlery
Burtard Cheese Factory
Buss Cheese Factory
Curtiss Produce Co., wholesale cheese, produce, poultry, eggs
Green Bros., produce and poultry, general store, flour and feed
Hake A, livestock shipper
Heintzel Bros., meat market
House W.A., cheese factory
Liberty H. A., (near) saw mill
Luethy A.D., cheese factory
Machiett Henry & Sons, hardware, furniture, general store, undertakers
Midway Cheese Factory
Olson C., auto dealer garage
O&N Lumber Company
Ostenson M., cheese factory
Peterson W.E., (near) cheese factory
Pribbernow A., grain dealers and shippers, flour and feed, lumber
Ravy Clarence ti., posts and poles, harness and saddlery
Reibsamen & Peterson, real estate
Ritcher J., livery
Sampe Y.C., cheese factory
Schroeder L., garage
Sturner J.V., feed mill, grain elevator, grain dealer and shipper, wholesale hay
and straw, flour and
feed, wholesale produce, potato whse., 50 cars, coal and wood, implements, wood
shipper, 50 cars
yearly
Thorson C., cement block mfg.
Tonn F., confectionery
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