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Paul Reimer and E.E. Smith bought the grain elevator from Lou Spelts, owner and operator of Spelts Grain Company, in January 1919. They opened Reimer-Smith Grain Co., pictured at right, at 220 N. Baxter Ave. on April 1, 1919. The building pictured in center is Holyoke Equity Merc. Co., which discontinued business in1920 and was succeeded by Farmers Co-op Co. In 1920-21, Reimer-Smith built a new wood elevator, pictured at left, on a site just west of the Town of Holyoke power plant. This newly constructed elevator was traded in 1922 to the Holyoke Farmers Co-op Elevator for a site and small elevator the co-op owned just west of the original Reimer-Smith elevator. Reimer-Smith sold all its land, buildings, equipment and inventory to Wright-Lorenz Grain Company of Salina, Kansas, who began operations as Phillips County Grain Company on June 1, 1984. — Source: Phillips County Museum

Peekin' into the Past

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Dec. 11, 2014

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