Pine County Promotional Booklet – Part 12

The following text and advertisement about Kerrick come from the 1926 promotional booklet entitled Pine County: Where Folks are Homeowners. 

Kerrick 

One of the smaller towns of Pine county but one that does more business than any other of its size in the northern part of the state. Hustle seems to be the first and last name there. It has a general store that does from $65,000 to $80,000 business per annum. It has a lumber yard, a confectionery store and barber shop, garage, potato and feed warehouse, a fine hotel, and a strong bank. This bank is the last one on the Great Northern railway until you get to Superior, Wis. The footings now total over $150,000, and its surplus and capital is $22,000. 

Kerrick has no creamery but patronizes the Farmers' Co-operative creamery about two miles away. Many of the farmers are members of the Twin Ports Dairy Association, and ship whole milk to Duluth. 

There are several very nice farms, the largest being a 1,000 acre tract owned and operated by D.J. Curry. This farm keeps 75 to 100 head of cattle. 

This small community has been a leader in the “Community Fair” idea. This fall they have a just put on their 7th successful “Kerrick Community Fair”. They have taken considerable pride in this activity and have maintained a lead in it. There is a fine brick school building with four class rooms, domestic science, manual training rooms and gym. The gum, under the direction of Prof. A.R. Hyatt, has turned out basket ball teams that have been a credit to the town. 

Oak lake is one of the beauty spots and is the Mecca of the young folks during the summer months, and furnishes no end of enjoyment for the campers and picnickers. 

The town enjoys the distinction of having the best store paper in the Northwest, which goes out to the patrons and others interested twice a month. The editor's column is headed “Subscription price – Your good will.” The paper is in demand by every one who has ever lived here and has been rated by Butler Bros., the big wholesalers, as the “best store paper that ever came to their desk”. 

The possibility for dairy farming, chicken and bee raising is unlimited. The land is exceptionally productive and can be bought at reasonable prices. There is no local land agency but the Kerrick State Bank will gladly answer any inquiries made about the territory or farms therein.

The town needs and invites, a hardware man, a good live poultry and egg buyer, a good stock buyer, and a blacksmith.