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The T. L. Spilde family of Beaton operated a department store and
when news came that the Soo Line Railroad was going to come through what was
later called Halma, they and many others decided to move there.
The moving of buildings was done by logs, a pulley (stump
puller), men and horses. It went slow so they lived in back of the store
and business went on as usual while they were moving.
There were three grocery and mercantile stores, Bothum and Son,
Holms and Spildes. Folland Hardware was owned by K.L. Spilde before it was
moved out of town.
Halma had a restaurant between the Bothum and Spilde stores with
living quarters in the back. C.E. Braaten operated a feed mill, Dave
Rigely was the photographer, Peter Bjora and Barney Johnson printed the Halma
Pilot, Arvid Hammerback built and operated the blacksmith shop and Mr. Schey
managed the Bertram Lumberyard which is now the Halma Oil and Supply Co.
Halma also had an elevator that burned down and a bank that shut
down in the 19030's. There were a couple of hotels, a restaurant and a
livery stable.
Lundeby Lutheran Church was the congregation's first
church. It was of log construction and it burned down. In 1897 the
current church, Eidsvold Lutheran, was built.
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