Iowa State Gazetteer &
Business Directories

Iowa State Gazetteer & Business Directory 1887-1888

 

ROLFE

On Crooked creek and on the D. M. & Ft. D. R. R. at the crossing of the C & N. W. Ry, in Pocahontas county, 11 miles northeast of Pocahontas, the county seat. Two banks are sustained, and a weekly newspaper the Reporter, is published. Stages daily to Pocahontas and Fonda. Population 450, Tel., W, U. Exp., Am. D. D. Day, postmaster

Beam W W, physician
Bright L A, grocery
Bruce J J, real estate
Coffin L C, livery and Insurance
Coffin M W, hotel
Commercial Hotel, J W Wilson propr
Core G W, druggist
Council Bluffs Insurance Co.
L C Coffin Agent
Day & Ferguson, Agricultural Impts, Wagons and Carriages
Exchange Bank, C A Grant cash
Grant C A, cash Exchange bank
Harris James, photographer
Hollis & Lathrop, grain, lumber and coal
Lee & Lamb, bankers
Lind H O, jeweler
Nelb Wm, blacksmith
Ralston W C, lawyer
Smith H D, railroad agt
Symes A B, hardware
Symes F H, hardware, coal and lumber
Tucker J, blacksmith
Weible Martin, general store
Wilson J W, propr Commercial hotel