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Babcock Businessmen in 1900
From the Yellow River Pilot
Pittsville, Wood, Wisconsin
Feb. 9, 1900, Page 4

W. F. NOLTNER Meat Market, Grocery, Feed and Hardware
Of all the business places of this thriving little village none is deserving of more praise or mention than that of the popular meat market of the gentleman named above. Mr. Noltner has been engaged in the meat business for a number of years and a more experienced meat cutter is not to be found in these parts. He carries the choicest lines of steaks, loins, roasts, hams, shoulders, fresh and salted meats and in fact, everything to be found in a first class meat market. He deals in hides and livestock, and buys all the produce the farmers hereabouts have to sell. He also handles farm machinery of all kinds, bicycles and hardware in small quantities. He has recently received a carload of flour, feed and hay, which he has added to his other stocks. Mr. Noltner is a hale fellow, well met and ready to do his neighbor a kind turn and has thrice been elected treasurer of the town of Remington.

JAMES MCLAUGHLIN Bar, Cigars, Blacksmithing, Livery and Opera House
We come next in our summary to the popular establishment of the gentleman named above, popularly known as the Star Sample Rooms. Mr. McLaughlin runs a first class house, allows no rowdyism, and is very popular with all classes. His bar is constantly stocked with the choicest wines and liquors and the best of cigars. Mr. McLaughlin enjoys a large patronage and is one of the leading men of the city. He has recently opened up a blacksmith shop for the accommodation of the people of Babcock and vicinity. His shop is under the supervision of a first class smith and general blacksmithing and horse shoeing is performed with neatness and dispatch. He also owns and operates in connection with other business, a first class livery and makes a specialty of conveying traveling men and others to neighboring cities. Mr. McLaughlin also owns the Babcock opera house. This building he has recently purchased but has had it refitted and placed at the disposal of the public.

GEORGE LYONS General Merchandise, Groceries, Men's Clothing and Sphagnum Moss
The gentleman named above is the proprietor of the Johnson & Hill Company's General Store and without mention of the population business conducted by Mr. Lyons, our summary would indeed be quite incomplete. Mr. Lyons carries a full and complete line of dry goods, gents' furnishings, boots, shoes, hats, caps, etc. Choice groceries and in fact, everything comprised under the heading of general merchandise. His prices are low and his dealings square. Full measure, full weight and full value are the motives followed by Mr. Lyons and strict adherence to these has gained for him the confidence and patronage of the entire populace. Mr. Lyons also conducts a large moss farm, where he raises moss for use in packing shrubs and trees. He makes large shipments each fall, and in this line as well as his store, has built up a large trade.

IRA HILL Manager, Woodland Hotel
Mr. Hill is one of the most recent of the businessmen to locate in our midst. He came here about two or three months ago and leased the Woodland Hotel of Mr. Stout and since that time has been conducting the same. Immediately upon his assuming charge and landlordship, a complete change was wrought in the internal appearance of this house and several other much needed improvements were made. His actions seemed to gain favor with the railroad boys, who think more of a good square meal, a warm bed and a good natured landlord than they do of the paymaster. We can safely say that he now has his share, if not more, of the hotel trade of this village. Mr. Hill is not a novice at the hotel business, having been connected with the leading hotel at Tomah for a number of years prior to coming to Babcock.

THOMAS KELLEY Fair Corner Saloon
One of the most popular and well patronized places of the village, is the sample rooms of Mr. Thomas Kelley, better known perhaps as the Fair Corner Saloon. Here may be found the best of foreign and domestic liquors and cigars. Mitchell beer is always on tap, either in bottle or by keg. Mr. Kelley occupies a good location, has a good trade and is well liked by all, and in every respect, worthy of the liberal patronage bestowed upon him. He has been in business here but a few months, but in that short time has built up a large patronage and cultivated a wide circle of friends. His place of business has rightly been named "The Fair Corner" for two reasons. First, the magnificent view of the city that is to be obtained form his window, and second, for the fair treatment tended all visitors at his bar.

MRS. M. PSCHORR Boarding House
Without mention of the popular hostelry of the lady mentioned above, our biography would lose much of its seasoning. Mrs. Pschorr conducts a first class hotel and boarding house and is popular with the traveling as well as local public. Her tables are always set with the choicest eatables, the greatest care and neatness being exercised in the culinary department. Mrs. Pschorr conducts a quiet, well ordered house, and is very popular, particularly with the railroad class, who make this house their permanent home while in Babcock.

JOHN CLOSE Barber and La Crosse Steam Laundry Agent
Babcock is provided with a well conducted tonsorial parlor owned and operated by the gentleman named above. The much bewhiskered denizens of this hamlet are saved the inconvenience of going away to be divested of their hairy appendages by the tonsorial abilities of Mr. Close. He cuts and shaves, shampoos and sea foams are applied in artistic style by the skillful hands of Mr. Close. Mr. Close is a local agent for the La Crosse Steam Laundry and will ship laundry each Wednesday.

Many thanks to Joan M Benner for transcribing these pages.
Her professional page can be seen at: Golden Rule Genealogy.



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