Cattle 31
Rock17
Merchandise 12
Household goods 20

This temporary check to the business and growth of the city was scarcely
noticeable except in the statistics of the place. Surrounded as it was
by so fertile a country and having tributary to it an increasingly large
population of industrious and thrifty people, it has continued to remain
a place of considerable commercial importance.

BUSINESS HOUSES IN 1881

In 1881 there were two exclusive dry goods stores— J. S. Baker was
located where the Farmers' National Bank is, and L. Bach where the Model
Clothing is now doing business.

There were eleven stores carrying general merchandise with the following
named proprietors: G. F. Stegeman, G. Thomassen, William Slob,
Kruidenier Brothers, Beard & Scholte, H. DeBooy, C. Rhynsburger, B. G.
Bowen,John Dykstra, B. H. Van Spanckeren and John D. Gaass.

There were six exclsive [sic] grocery stores, two hardware stores, two
delaers in stoves and tinware, three harness shops, two furniture
stores, three dealers in boots and shoes and four drug and book stores.

There were three grain dealers, two banks, two lumber yards, two grist
mills, two woolen mills, one livery stable, two elevators, five hotels,
six saloons, three weekly papers.

At that time Pella boasted of one university, three public schools and
twelve churches.