Hensler, North Dakota History
Bismarck Daily Tribune COMING TOWN IN OLIVER The Hensler Townsite company of Mandan held their election of officers yesterday with the following result: Hensler is said to be one of the coming towns of Oliver county. Lots have already been sold for a bank, a hotel, four mercantile establishments, lumber yards, livery stable, and other enterprises, and buildings are now being erected to house the different lines of business. The building material will be shipped to Washburn and taken to the new town across the ice. Bismarck Daily Tribune NEW CREAMERY IS SURE THING Hensler is one of those thrifty villages situated on the west bank of the Missouri river, still waiting for the railroad. The grade is completed and the expectations are that during the early months of the summer the steel will be laid and trains put into operations. The enterprising citizens are alive with their improvements and not least among their successful accomplishments is a new $3,500 co-operative creamery. The new building is completed, the ice house well filled and the latest improved machinery is now on the way and will be placed in time so that full operations can commence May 1st. The farmers are alive to their opportunities and are stocking their farms with milk strains of cattle so as to have an interest in the first payments made. The “blind pig” building has been transformed into a school house and Sundays the Congregational denomination are holding regular services. The hotel building will be finished the first of April. The new blacksmith is already on the ground and at work in his newly equipped shop. The foundation for the bank building is already laid and ready for the structure as soon as the weather is settled. The lumber yard is well stocked with all kinds of building material and farm machinery is in readiness. Therefore, we ask the enterprising public to “see us grow.”
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