960 G Street

Address: 960 G Street

Legal Description: East ½ Lot 85

Building:

Note: The storefront was 24 feet wide. At times it was divided into two or more business rooms.

1872 Vacant lot

1882 Jones and Lee’s millinery shop was here.

1883 In October, Adam Brunner opened a shoe shop two doors east of the Kellogg House, in the building formerly occupied by a millinery shop.

1883 In November, Adam Brunner moved his shop to his new building on the corner north of Camp and Sons.

1884 In May Messrs. Proudfit and Fillebrown opened a new bank, two doors east of the Kellogg house. (This was the beginning of Citizen’s Bank.)

1884 “The Citizen’s Bank had the misfortune to lock their safe with the combination inside, last week, and for a time a crack burglar would have been welcomed. Fortunately the combination had not been changed since it left the manufactory, and writing them brought the mystic figures.” The Geneva Review, May 21, 1884.

1884 In August, the Citizen’s Bank advertised a “fire and burglar proof safe.”

1884 In December, J. Jensen and David Griffiths each purchased an interest in the Citizen’s Bank. They planned to build a new building on the corner where Jensen’s law office was--906 G.

1890 Mark Alexander purchased the lot and building between the Fillmore Hotel and the Dworak Block. He erected a building for use as a butcher shop.

1891 Alexander & Webb’s Meat Market opened here. (Mark Alexander had several different partners over the years. He reportedly sold his meat market a number of times between 1891 and 1914.)

1892 The Sanborn maps showed this to be a meat market.

1897 The Sanborn maps showed this to be a meat market.

1898 M. Alexander’s ice wagon was on the road with the clearest ice in the state.

1902 The Sanborn maps showed this to be a meat market.

1903 Mark and Harry Alexander Market bought poultry.

1904 In February, E. Boslaw and H. Klumb purchased the meat market of M. Alexander. They also had a manufactured ice business in connection. They called their enterprise Boslaw & Klumb. William Dixon was the delivery driver.

1905 Ernest Boslaw purchased the interest of his partner Harry Klumb in their meat market business.

1906 In March, Will H. Carson opened a fruit and vegetable stand in Boslaw’s meat market.

1906 In November, Mark Alexander purchased the Boslaw meat market. Mr. Boslaw and Ralph Bringman purchased a meat market in Omaha.

1907 L. W. Hyatt & Son of Brookville, Kansas, purchased the M. Alexander meat market.

1908 In April, Hyatt & Vietz meat market had a fire that did much damage. Mark Alexander still owned the building. They moved to 116 No 10th that same afternoon and kept cutting beef.

1909 The Sanborn maps showed this to be a meat market.

1910 Alexander & Son were in business here. Salt and fresh fish, fresh beef, pork, veal and mutton, all kinds of sausages were made by electricity.

1913 Alexander sold his meat market to T. O. Huston who renamed it the Ideal.

1914 T. O. Huston sold the meat market to Gaddis & Hay of Exeter.

1915 In February, Mr. Heffelfinger of Beatrice purchased an interest in the meat market and pork packing business of Gaddis & Hay. The firm name was Gaddis, Hay, & Heffelfinger. Mr. Hay remained in Geneva to conduct business. The pork packing business was located in Grand Island.

1915 In July, the firm of Gaddis, Hay & Heffelfinger was dissolved. The Geneva business was continued by Mr. Heffelfinger. The Exeter shop was purchased by Mr. Hay.

1916 Mark Alexander moved to California and Oklahoma, but returned and in November went back into the meat business. He bought the meat market from H. W. Heffelfinger. His son, Roy, was his assistant.

1919 In July, George Spadt bought the meat market from Mark Alexander and named it the City Meat Market.

1919 In Aug., Spadt sold the City Meat Market to Goold Bros. of Ceresco.

1921 Goold Bros. sold their meat market and grocery to Ed Schweitzer and J. A. Swanson of Eustis.

1922 The Goold Bros. took back the City Meat Market from Schweitzer & Swanson.

1922 The Sanborn Maps showed a meat market here.

1924 The Goold Bros. sold their meat market to John Medlen and Glen Shively of Chambers.

1927 Goold Brothers purchased the Medlin & Shively Meat Market and Grocery.

1929 Goold Brothers employed Glen Shively to take the place of Harry Goold, who was devoting his whole attention to the management of the Sunbeam Theater.

1930 Goold Bros. employed Dave Goold of Kimball.

1931 Goold Bros. sold their meat market and grocery to Ray Willy of Geneva and James Hughes of Omaha. The name of the business was Quality Market. This market was a member of the Independent Grocers Association (I. G. A.).

1932 J. L. Hughes sold his interest in the Quality Market I. G. A. to his partner Ray Willy.

1932 Mr. Willy and the firm of Jones & Son then consolidated their interests under the name of Jones & Willy. They continued to operate the I. G. A. Store. Jones & Son had been conducting a meat market in the room occupied by the Farmers’ Store until the Farmers’ Store closed. As a result of this arrangement, Jones & Son moved in with Mr. Willy.

1933 The Quality Market and Quality Meat Market were listed in the phone book at this address through 1935.

1933 The Sanborn maps showed a store here.

1936 Stuart Schepers of Fairmont bought the Quality Market, changing the name to Schepers Quality Market.

1941 A modern front was placed in the building occupied by Schepers Market. The building was owned by Mrs. Belle Alexander of California.

1943 The Sanborn maps showed a store here.

1947 Heath’s Quality Market opened. Alvin Heath purchased the business from Stuart Schepers and changed the name.

1969 Alvin Heath sold his market to John and Betty Boitnott. The name was changed to Johnny’s Grocery.

1970 Wayne and Hazel DuBois purchased Johnny’s Grocery from John and Betty Boitnott, who moved to Hebron where they had purchased a grocery.

1973 Delores Fowler opened Dee’s Sewing Shop.

1978 Dee’s Sewing Shop moved to a new location. Dan Peterson purchased the building and opened Dan Peterson’s Mens Wear.

1985 Dan Peterson closed Dan Peterson’s Mens Wear and moved his insurance business, Fillmore County New Frontier Insurance Agency, here from 141 So. 11^th Street.

1985 For a short time, Geneva Sanitation Robert Peterson owner, Tom Peterson manager, used this location as their office. Since Tom and Dan were cousins, Dan helped answer phone calls, and take messages.

2005 Dan Peterson sold his New Frontier Insurance Agency to the North Pointe Insurance Agency, owned by the Geneva State Bank, and continued to work there part time.

2005 Karen Janda opened the Geneva Floral Shop here after Dan Peterson moved out.

2020 Lisa Stofer purchased Geneva Floral.

This was ongoing as of the last posting.