For a while Mr. Tvenstrup was interested in a restaurant here, but finding it too much of a strain to run a barber shop and a restaurant at the same time, he sold out. He is now the agent of the Woodmens Accident Insurance Company and does a very nice volume of business each year.
Tvenstrup says the first thing he remembers about Kimballton is Esbeck's little red car; at that time he probably never even dreamed of owning a car of any kind.
Tvenstrup is never afraid to pitch in and do his share of what's to be done or to bear his part of the expense if it is for the benefit of the town.
Barber shops in many towns are often places where cheap and sometimes foul talk may be indulged in. Tvenstrup says it's his aim to keep his place as clean and wholesome morally as any other business house in town, and we believe he is doing it.
KIMBALLTON HARDWARE & IMPLEMENT COMPANY
H. C. Hansen and Soren Sorensen
In 1909 Messrs. Hansen & Sorensen bought the Esbeck hardware store and at once set out to make it a model hardware store. As the building is not of the latest they were handicapped in this respect, but regardless of this drawback they have succeeded in making it the cleanest business house in town. Everything in the store is shiningly bright from the windows with their attractive displays to the stoves exhibited on the floor. The entire stock is clean and up-to-date.
Lately the firm has put in a fine little department of jewelry and silverware which adds much to the general attractiveness of the store.
Mr. H. C. Hansen came here from Harlan, where he had spent several years in the hardware business. Hansen is a hustler who knows his business from A to Z. On top of that, he's a man who never fails to hail his friends with a cheery greeting, even at such times as finds him roaming the streets on some errand or other in his shirtsleeves with the thermometer somewhere below zero.
His partner, Mr. Sorensen, lived on a farm near Kimballton before entering business. He is a director of the Landmands National Bank.
Sorensen takes much interest in developing the community spirit and believes that if Kimballton would fix up a place where the young folks about town, especially those who have no homes, could spend their evenings in a wholesome and educational way, it would greatly benefit the town and would tend to make them better citizens and more able to cope with the problems of the day.
Ejnar Hansen, son of Mr. H. C. Hansen, is the plumber of the firm and many is the time when housewives around town have blessed Ejnar when he has administered to their leaky faucets or other defective plumbing.
The Kimballton Hardware & Implement Company has two pages int he supplement. You'll regret it if you miss them.
SHARON MOTOR COMPANY
Julius Larsen and Ejner Petersen, Proprietors
Mr. Julius Larsen came to town twelve years ago and started his first business as a blacksmith. Later he saw the vast possibilities of the Ford and became the local representative of Mr. Ford, first building an up-to-date garage in the north end of town to accommodate his business. That Mr. Larsen has been successful as the Ford distributor goes without saying. The Sharon Motor Company is today doing a business that we believe exceeds even Larsen's fondest dreams.
Mr. Larsen has held many offices in the town and is now holding down the job of councilman.
Ejner Petersen became a member of the Sharon Motor Company two years ago. Petersen is an ex-soldier and an active member of the Frede Nissager Post of the American Legion.
Employed by the Sharon Motor Company is John Kirk as salesman, Nels Jorgensen as mechanic, and Anker Hald as office manager.
DR. P. SOE
Dr. Soe has known Kimballton almost as long as Kimballton has existed. He says the first recollection he has of the town is that he liked it; and he proved this by coming here to live ten years ago.
Dr. Soe is warmly interested in the town and the surrounding country, and is always ready to boost any undertaking that will benefit either. To improve the general health and sanitary conditions of the community, Dr. Soe gives freely of his time whenever possible.
Much could be said of Dr. Soe as a successful physician, but we have been requested by him to refrain; however, we believe it will not be indiscreet to mention that Dr. Soe's successful treatment of flu cases two years ago brought him wide recognition.
Among other outside activities Dr. Soe is a director of the Landmands National Bank.
FRANK THOMSEN
Kimballton Drug Co.
"We have with us" Mr. Frank N. Thomsen, our postmaster, our druggist, our secretary of the Welfare Club, our favorite home talent actor, etc., etc. Thomsen came here in 1912. He says the first impression he had of Kimballton was one of improvement. (That's putting it mildly.) When he first eyed the town all the streets were torn up; open ditches yawned everywhere; it was while the water mains were being put down.
Mr. Thomsen now has his business housed in the finest building in the town, the Nordby building on the corner. The store boasts a beautiful soda fountain (where bubbles refreshing drinks of every description) and other good looking fixtures.
Frank keeps a good, fresh stock of drugs on hand at all times, and beautifying preparations are his specialty. No wonder the ladies of the community are such objects of loveliness.
As a postmaster, Thomsen has earned the gratitude of the town by his willingness to accommodate the patrons, cheerfully grabbing last-minute letters and dispatching them with desperate speed, while Christina Hansen, the depot agent (no less obliging) as cheerfully waits for the mail sacks. In this willingness to be accommodating, Thomsen is eagerly seconded by Jim Mikkelsen, who has been for some time serving the institution as clerk in both postoffice and drug department.
The Kimballton Drug Company will have in stock at Xmas time everything you can wish for in the line of novelties and toys. See their ad in the supplement.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, August, 2021. View original page image at top; click to enlarge
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