CLOVERDALE.

The chapters below are from the 1914 book, Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties of Iowa and contain histories of the towns and townships of the county.

This village is on the Cowrie branch of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. There are a few retired farmers living here. The school is one mile north of the village. Cloverdale is located on the south line of East Holman and the north line of Goewey township, midway between Sibley and Melvin, and is in the midst of a rich farming territory. While it is not putting on metropolitan airs it is a very good trading point. The principal interests represented are grain, lumber and merchandise. Here we find the Lampert Lumber Company, managed by George B. Brunson, which handles all kinds of building material, coal, wire fence and gates. The Davenport Elevator Company handles grain, with William Schlicht as manager. Stockdale & Dietz Company, grain buyers, are represented by Fred Hankins as agent. Peter Sherbondy is a general merchant and serves as postmaster.

ALLENDORF.

Allendorf is a station on the main line of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, midway between Sibley and Ocheyedan. It makes a very convenient place from which to ship stock and grain for that neighborhood. Farmers can get nearly anything they need at this town. There is one bank, owned principally by George W. Schee of Primghar. Clyde Wheaton is cashier and local manager. There is one general store, owned by McGowen Company, and managed by Ray Williams, who is also postmaster. There is one lumber yard, owned by Shell Lumber Company of Sibley, and managed by C. Shuttleworth. There are two grain elevators, one of which is owned and managed by I. Broderick, and the other by Calender Brothers, of Ocheyedan. D. D. Garberson handles agricultural implements. The blacksmith is C. H. Rickabaugh, who also runs a threshing machine in season. Rev. O. J. Conway is pastor of the United Evangelican church. Peter Sand is the station agent. George Protexter owns the telephone line and Charley Protexter is the local manager.

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