Portage County Historical Society
Alex Krembs, Jr., Drug Co.
There are but few stores in the Wisconsin Valley that for location, neatness and completeness inside and out, equal the corner drug store of Alex Krembs. ‘While the exterior is showy, the interior is one that impresses a stranger with elegance. A handsome soda fountain in front is the first striking picture that greets the eye. Opposite the fountain are imported and domestic cigars.
The store is in charge of Alex Krembs who is very popular both inside and outside the store. He is a graduate of the State University and has been in the drug business since 1901.
Palace Bakery
The business of E. A. Julier proves that persistent effort; earnest endeavor and honorable dealing will bring success. These elements have been prominent factors in the up building of the lucrative trade Mr. Julier enjoys. Mr. Julier is a baker by birth, by choice and by force of habit. He came from Milwaukee and has been proprietor of the Palace Bakery for the last four years. Candy and ice cream form no small part of his increased and increasing business. This bakery turns out more than four hundred loaves of bread per day besides many other products along this line. Mr. Julier is industrious and painstaking, a man who makes a business of doing his level best at any business or duty to which he sets his hand. He is meeting success and deserves it.
E. J. Pfiffner
A PROMINENT LUMBERMAN
E. J. Pfiffner has traveled most of the old Indian trails along the Wisconsin River. He came to Stevens Point in 1875 and started in the lumber business in 1889, doing a wholesale and jobbing business. He has served time in the logging camps in the pine woods, on the river drive and in the lumber office. He owns and operates a large planing mill, does logging and manufacturing as well as wholesaling and retailing of all kinds of native lumber to the extent of fifteen or twenty million annually.
Mr. Pfiffner has been a member of the city council for six years and president of the council for four years. He is president of the Citizens National Bank, and has served two years on the school board.
Mr. Pfiffner is a man of excellent business judgment, large common sense, and strict integrity. He takes great interest in educational work and in the upholding of Stevens Point. He is a type of the hustling, progressive businessmen to be found in the Wisconsin Valley. He is always looking upon the bright side of life and ever earnestly advocating what he believes to be right, and making an earnest effort to find out what is right.
Mr. and Mrs. Pfiffner occupy a pleasant, model home on Strongs Avenue. Their home life is ideal in happiness. They are identified with the best social life in Stevens Point, and are of the sort of people whose presence is welcomed in any city.
