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Subject: Sd-Faulk Co. History (Chapter XXIV Ona)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:40:24 -0500


Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXIV Onaka 1909
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ONAKA.

Onaka is located on the line of the Minneapolis & St. Louis railway, in the
township of Sherman, six miles from the west line of Faulk county and four miles
from the Edmunds county line. The town is only one year old and has now about
two hundred inhabitants, and is one of the best towns on the line of the
Minneapolis & St. Louis railway in this county and has one of the best, if not
the best, hotel in the county.

The following is a complete list of business houses in the town, viz:

State Bank of Onaka, R. S. Patterson, cashier; is also doing an important
real estate business and owns the town-site property.
Two stores for general merchandise, Patterson & McCarthy and
M. F. Schwick, proprietors.
Hardware, Christ. Dufloth, proprietor.
Central Lumber Company, L. H. Rose, proprietor.
Pacific Elevator Company, Henry Dufloth, manager.
Independent Elevator Company, H. Iverson, manager.
Pool and billiard hall, Herman Berg, proprietor.
Saloon, Lockwood & Iverson, proprietors.
Meat market, Patterson & McCarthy, proprietors.
Livery Stable No. 1, George Riley, proprietor.
Livery Stable No. 2, J. S. Nevins, proprietor.
The Onaka Hotel, all modern improvements, steam heated, brick building,
20 rooms, J. M. Young, proprietor.
Postoffice and confectionary, Mrs. Mary Crom, proprietor.
Drug store, Dr. Olson from Iowa, proprietor.
A new school house.
Catholic church.

From location and surrounding farm property this is destined to become one
of the best and most prosperous towns in the county.


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HISTORY OF
FAULK COUNTY
SOUTH DAKOTA
CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS

TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS

ILLUSTRATED
19O9



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