before that period. Undoubtedly the lumber yard referred to was a few years later to become the Miller Lumber Company situated where the Elkhorn rural Public Power District office is now located. Howard Miller came about 1889 or 1890 to engage in lumber and grain business on this spot. Mr. Miller built a new lumber shed about 1900 which was destroyed by fire in the early 30's. He built a grain elevator across the street to the northwest which is now the enlarged Battle Creek Grain Company. Mr. Miller controlled also the ice business in town making deliveries to fill people's ice boxes.

The paper states that G. B. Adams was then the station agent. He, too, seems to have been forgotten by even the older generation of today. Our earliest recollection is that of Billy Day as depot agent to be followed by Henry Whitney who was our agent for many, many years. After that we had a number of changes in that position until now, when even the old railway station has disappeared from the scene. Of the agents in later years Wm. Edens has been mentioned, J. H. Ries should also be mentioned as he and Mrs. Ries took a great interest in school and other public activities. He and Mrs. Ries now live in Norfolk.

Mrs. Louis Knesel and Miss Jenny Flood were here to furnish the ladies with the latest styles in millinery. Mrs. Knesel is remembered by oldsters. Her husband and she had homesteaded in Highland precinct and when they moved to town they build the home which is now the Mrs. Clara Eggen residence. There were three daughters who were prominent with young folks of that day. One, Lottie, became Mrs. Jesse Martin. Jesse and his mother had a grocery store on the corner lot where the Recreation Hall is now located. Jesse had a well trained bird dog named Galvin. He would tie a note to Galvin's collar and send the dog up to Lottie Knesel's house and wait for a reply note. This was before the days of the telephone. Galvin, however, turned out to be a sneak thief. Hall and Meincke had bought the Thomas Dughar store (where the Rattle Creek Manufacturing Company is now located). When they left a basket of potatoes on display outside of the store, Galvin decided that his master had more need of them than Hall and Meincke and started transferring them one by one to lay them at Jesse's feet.

Miss Flood had her millinery shop in the building which is now Doctor Hunt's dental office and had her dwelling in the rear of the store. When she retired she built the home where the Lee Barkdolls now live. Miss Flood raised two orphan children, a niece and a nephew, the late Clare Flood and the late Bryan Flood. Later she purchased and remodeled the house where Mrs. Louise Flood now resides. At her death, Miss Flood left her home to her nephew Bryan. She was so kind to her adopted children. Clare and Bryan were the children of Frank Flood, early day town marshall and constable. They were left motherless when their mother died. Mrs. Flood was a sister to Mrs. T. D. Preece. Mr. and Mrs. Preece raised Bess Flood. The grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Wade, raised the older children, Willie, Frank, Jr., and Ed. Frank was killed while serving with the armed forces in the Argonne Forest during World War I.

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