The main business section is Hewitt
street, named after James Hewitt, one of the pioneer settlers, The city lies
back nearly a half mile from the banks of Black river but O’Neill creek runs
nearly through the center of town circling from west to east, dividing it into
the north side which contains the Catholic church and school, the cemetery and
some of the desirable residence blocks, and the south side which comprises the
business streets, the county buildings, high school, new Carnegie library, and
many new and very beautiful homes.
Plant of the Neillsville Canning Company.
Neillsville has three banks, four
dry goods stores, two drug stores, four hotels and a boarding house, six or
seven grocery stores, three hardware stores, four implement houses, two
automobile garages, sixteen saloons, a farmers co-operative elevator and lumber
yard, a farmers’ cooperative creamery, another creamery and cheese factory corn-
blued, a flour and feed mill, wagon factory, four blacksmith shops, one steam
laundry, three restaurants, a canning factory, two potato ware houses, one
cheese warehouse, one brick yard, overall factory, 2 English and one German
newspaper, a Catholic church and school, a Lutheran church and school,
Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregational, Christian Science and Episcopal
churches, High school and 2 graded schools, three harness shops, two meat
markets, two variety stores, two furniture and undertaking establishments, four
barber shops, one moving picture theatre, a brewery, a planing mill, two pop
factories, four doctors, three dentists, eight lawyers, three real estate
dealers, two abstracting firms, one cigar factory, three dray lines, one
monument manufacturer, five shoe repair shops, two electrical workers, two
plumbing shops, one ice house. |