Bio: Howard & Seif – Neillsville Implement Business (1905)

Transcriber: Steve Roberts steve@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Howard, Seif

Source: Clark & Jackson Co. Trade Paper Sept 1905

Howard & Seif
Dealers in farm Implements, Fine Buggies, Carriages and Wagons; Binders and Mowers; corn Planters, Seeders and Drills, Feed Cutters, Gasoline Engines, Wood Saws, wind mills, Pumps and tanks; Pump repairing a specialty.
Neillsville, Wis.

The firm, owned by Messrs. L. H. Howard and Fred Seif, has the largest implement house in Clark County. The office and warehouse of the firm is on Fifth Street, one block west of Hewett street, occupying two buildings, the main part (in front) being 26x48, two stories, while the new iron-clad building in rear is 40x68, three stories, used for repair shop and implement warehouse in the lower floor. The second floor is devoted to buggies and carriages, third floor to wagons and genera; storage which is full size of the first floor.

The main building (in front) is used for offices with sales and storage rooms adjoining for paints, repairs, sundries, etc.

The firm carries all lines of farm implements, comprising the Gale plows of Albion, Mich., and the La Crosse plows from the La Crosse Plow Co., while harrows, cultivators, and corn planters are from the Gale Mfg. Co. of Albion, Mich. The McCormick harvesting machinery is from the International Harvester Co. and the Acme harvesting machinery from the Acme Mfg. Co. of Peoria, Ill. Manure spreaders are handled in three different makes, including those of the International Harvester Co. those of the Appleton Mfg co. of Appleton, Wis., and the great Western manure spreaders of Chicago. They handle the Reindeer gasoline engines of Moline, Ill., and the Larson gasoline engine of New Holstein, Wis., which are made in all sizes up to fifty-horse power; also the Stickney gasoline engines of St. Paul. Minn., having put in many of these and other makes in the surrounding country.

The Empire Cream Separator is the specialty in that line being made in Bloomfield, N. J., also handle the cream separator of Little Falls, N. Y., while the Aermotor windmills of Chicago are largely handles and pumps from the La Crosse Pump C. having put up quite a number of windmills in the surrounding country, all giving good satisfaction - farm wagons, buggies and cutters are principally from the Northwestern Mfg. Co. of Fort Atkinson, Wis.; also handle buggies and carriages from the Staver Carriage Co. of Chicago, and the Parry Mfg. Co., of Indianapolis, Ind.

Their country extends in some directions to a distance of 25 miles, especially in the southern part of Clark and the northern part of Jackson counties. They also handle two of the leading makes of lightning rods, including the Dodd & Struthers lightning rods.