McClarey is the tonsorial artist, and Frank Beerbower runs a pool hall. Doctor Borglum and the Doctors Priest look after the general health, while F. H. Wallace is the dentist. A. C. Davis is general abstractor, and C. P. Broderick is auctioneer. Airs. Louise Peters operates a creamery station, and there is a movie show twice a week. This is given in the opera house which was erected by the Odd Fellows in nineteen hundred eight. This building, which cost eleven thousand dollar-, is now worth double that amount, and part of it is used for a lodge hall for the various fraternities. The town
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and community are served by the Bell telephone system. This is the Harrison of today, live, energetic, of high moral and intellectual standards, a splendid place to reside.
Edward F. Pontius
The Pontius name runs through a great many of the events early and late of Sioux county history, particularly along fraternal lines. Those who know Mr. and Mrs. Pontius are not surprised at this, for their names are synonyms of neighborly kindness and personal friendship. E. F. Pontius was the first head of the first fraternal and beneficial organization in the county, the Woodmen of the World, and he is the present secretary, and Mrs. Pontius is a charter member of the first woman's fraternal in the county. Mr. Pontius was a charter member of the first Masonic lodge in the county, he was the first noble grand of the Odd Fellows, and is the present secretary.