CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



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Plenty of Visitors in Town — Street Scene, Hawley 



rail communication with the terminal 

 markets of the Twin Cities and Du- 

 luth. 



The original name of the village was 

 Bethel, and the original settlers were 

 an English colony in 1871. Hawley is 

 now a thriving village of about 900 

 and is one of the busiest places on the 

 map. There are four elevators, two 

 potato warehouses, a creamery and 

 other industries. Three hotels, gen- 

 eral stores, hardware, furniture and 



drug stores, butcher shop, two lumber 

 yards, three machinery warehouses, 

 two garages, a photograph gallery and 

 various other business houses are here. 

 Hawley is the home of the Clay County 

 Herald. 



The two banks of the village had on 

 deposit on January 1, 1916, $445,840, 

 which was $32,000 more than all of 

 the banks of Clay County had on de- 

 posit twenty years ago — on January 1, 

 1896. The State Bank is the older in- 



High School on One of the High Hills of Hawley 



