Marty, Minnesota

Maine Prairie has three villages. Kimball is a hamlet on the railroad in the southern part of the township. Its first house was built in 1886. Maine Prairie Corners is a small settlement on the site of the fort built for protection against the Indians in 1862. Marty has grown up around the Catholic church near Pearl lake.

Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.

The village is an unusually flourishing center for one of its population, much of its business coming from the surrounding rural districts. It has German Evangelical, Lutheran and Methodist Episcopal churches, a public library, a theater, two banks, a hotel, a creamery, a flour mill, two grain elevators, a weekly newspaper, four general stores, two farm implement stores, two blacksmiths, a physician, a lumber company, a hardware store, a garage, a tinsmith, a drug store, a livery, a market, a restaurant, a furniture store, and other business houses. Here also are the headquarters of the Kimball-Maine Prairie Telephone Co. The village ships grain, live stock, butter and produce. Good fishing and hunting are found in the vicinity. A brief business directory follows: Eliel Peck, postmaster; T. E. Anderson, veterinary surgeon; Arrowood Bros., hardware; Atlantic Elevator Co., V. Goodman, agent; Norman A. Brown, agent of Central Lumber Co.; Wm. M. Campbell, garage; Walter Dixon, tinsmith; Addison C. Douglass, drugs; Leonard Engel, general store; Engholm & Cline, farm implements; Farmers State Bank, capital $10,000, T. H. Haskins, president; J. M. Arrowood, cashier; Herman A. Hanson, blacksmith; F. R. Holmes, livery; Frank Smith, publisher of the Kimball Kodak; Kimball-Maine Prairie Telephone Co-, Phil Vollmer, manager; Edward Johnson, manager of the Kimball Opera House; Kimball Public Library, Myrtle Marshall, librarian; Ole Knause, meats; Clayton E. May, physician; Jos. E. Miller, blacksmith; Chas. R. Nelson, restaurant; W. J. Niva (North Kingston); North Kingston Creamery, V. Caslen, manager (North Kingston) ; Lewis L. Olson, furniture; Osborne-McMillan Elevator Co., Fred Meyer, agent; Pearl Lake Creamery Co., E. L. Enderle, manager; Peck's Department Store; S. J. Phillips, general store (Maine Prairie) ; Jas. G. Reeves, general store; Salisbury House, Warren Salisbury, proprietor; Geo. E. Sherwood, physician; E. L. Shoemaker, barber; C. L. Spaulding & Son, farm implements; State Bank of Kimball, capital $10,000, surplus $3,500, George E. Sherwood, president; Charles H. March, vice president; C. D. Brower, cashier; S. C. Walters, railway agent; Louis Wieber, general store (Marty) ; Wolf Milling Co., Frank Wolf, manager (flour mill).

Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.

In the fall of 1900, Louis Wieber erected a store and dwelling at Pearl Lake. On March 1, 1901, a postoflSce was established under the name of Marty, with Mr. Wieber as postmaster. The office was discontinued July 10, 1905, and the patrons are now supplied by rural delivery. Mr. Wieber continued to operate the store until May 1, 1914, when he was succeeded by Joseph Neis.

Passage source: History of Stearns County, Minnesota, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Maine Prairie Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.