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1912 Business Directory
Marble Rock

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Population, 480. An incorporated town on Shell Rock
river and on the C. R. I. & P. Ry., in Union township,
Floyd county. 17 miles s. w. of Charles City, the county
seat. Has Baptist, Christian and Methodist Episcopal
churches, a bank, water works, fire department and
a weekly newspaper, The Journal. Tel. W. U. Exp., U. S.
H. B. Nies, postmaster.

Ackley Kenneth, drayage.
Aldrich Ralph M, r r, exp and tel agt.
Asper A J & Co (Aaron J Asper, Wm C Smith), drugs and jewelers.
Baltimore & Inman, carpenters.
Barber George, poultry.
Beelar Charles, propr Beelar House.
Beelar House, C F Beelar propr.
Boom Wm, photographer.
Bucklen-Tabor Grain Co, fuel and stock.
Carpenter Louis, horse breeder.
Cates Arley, restaurant.
Cates D E, propr Marble Rock Tel Co.
Garber Hezekiah, apiarist.
Gates Fred E, mayor.
Gates Fred Lumber Co (Fred E Gates), lumber, implements and coal.
Heyl Frederick, drugs.
Iowa Telephone Co, D E Cater Agt
Journal The, H B Sies publr.
Kirk James, varieties.
Ludwig Ben, genl store.
McNinch Samuel W, dentist.
Manchester Dore, drayage.
Manchester & Ackley, dray and ice.
Marble Rock Telephone Co., D E Cates propr.
Marble Rock Water Works, Willard Bucklen Jr supt.
Martin Jerm, real estate and ins.
Misserschmidt Theodore, meats.
Nies H B, postmaster and publisher The Journal.
O'Keefe Charles J, physician.
Ramsey Hugh G, carpenter.
Robinson B, cattle breeder and swine.
Smith Lewis M, livery.
Walster Ralph, painter.
Wilth Joseph, hardware and harness.
Wilson C A, physician.
Wilson Mary E, hardware.
Wilson Ralph, restaurant.
Winchell Daniel G, vet surgeon.

Source: Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1912-1913, Volume XVI,
R. L. Polk and Co., Des Moines, Davenport, Detroit

Transcribed by Lynn Diemer-Mathews and uploaded February 7, 2025.

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