Garberg's

Garberg's

1900: started a small 2x4 grocery for himself.

1903: Purchased the stock of H & W.L. Fulton Company and moved into their former space. with F.W. Rost. Mr. Rost sold his interest in the business to Mr. Garberg the following year. Believe this to be 407 1st Street.

1904-05-06 E.O. Larson has severed his connection with E.E. Garberg, where he has been clerking, and left Wednesday for Sand Point and other points. [CFP]

1904-07-15 Dr. Francis A. Pomeroy will build a brick warehouse in the rear of the post office, fronting F Street and joining the bank building in the rear. It will be occupied by E.E. Garberg who will vacate the present wareroom which will be fitted up for a dining room to accommodate 100 guests. A large hotel range will be placed in the kitchen, and the upper floor will be used for rooms for students. [CFP]

1904-08-19 The Faculty Boarding hall, owned by F.A. Pomeroy and run by Mrs. Cora Mitchell last year, will be run as a club boarding house this year by members of the faculty and students. The dining room adjoining Garberg's store will also be run as a club. [CFP]

Garberg's 1904

1904-11-04 Lynn Ratcliffe is clerking for E.E. Garberg. [CFP]

1907-08-09 Albert Madsen, formerly of Farmington, has bought half interest in Dr. F.A. Pomeroy's drug store and the new firm will soon move their store temporarily into the brick adjoining Garberg's store. [CFP]

December 1904 Cheney Free Press of the interior of Garberg's hardware store

1908-02-14 E.E. Garberg has put in one of them electric engines for grinding coffee. [CFP]

E.E. Garberg has leased the lower floor of the Odd Fellows building and will move in with his store as soon as the building is fitted up for those purposes. [1910-06-10 CFP]

The fixtures for Garberg's store which will be moved to Odd Fellows hall are in place and the large room is being fixed up in a very attractive manner. [1910-07-15 CFP]

5 August 1910 Cheney Free Press

Occupies New Store Quarters

Cheney Merchant Makes Progressive Business Move

E.E. Garberg, who recently moved his store from the Pomeroy building to the first floor of Odd Fellows hall, is getting comfortably settled in the new location. The store room in Odd Fellows hall is 50 x 80 feet and affords ample room and conveniences for the immense stock of goods that Mr. Garberg keeps on hand.

The store is divided by a center partition consisting of shelving. On the right of this partition are kept the heavy and shelf hardware and tinware and on the left are kept the groceries, graniteware, and crockery. The rear of this part of the room is taken up by paints.

A balcony has been constructed in the rear of the building which is used for an office.

The stock of stoves, oil, and glass occupies the basement of the building and an elevator will be constructed from this place to the first floor for moving heavy material. Everything has been very conveniently arranged, facilitating the handling and displaying of goods to a remarkable degree.

Besides this large storehouse for goods, Mr. Garberg owns the warehouse on F street, where lime, plaster, cement, and farm implements are stored.

Mr. Garberg now has one of the most complete and modern merchanting establishments in the country and a casual observer will be impressed with the order and harmony that are noticeable in the arrangement of the goods in the store. The fixtures are all finished uniformly in oak and add much to the attractiveness of the interior.

Mr. Garberg arrived here from Minnesota 10 years ago and shortly after coming here opened a small grocery store where Burns is now located. Subsequently he purchased the stock of hardware and groceries from Fulton Bros., continuing in business at this stand until before moving to his new location. During these ten years, Mr. Garberg has forged his way to the front in a remarkable manner until he is the owner and proprietor of one of the greatest business enterprises in the city.

His rapid success along business lines may be attributed not only to his good business judgement in manning his individual affairs, but to his painstaking care in giving the public a square deal. The latter point is his long suit and is in a large measure responsible for the phenomenal growth of his business. Incidentally, we may add, that Mr. Garberg does not despise the use of a liberal amount of printer's ink, and we venture the assertion that this fact has had no mean share in the growth and development of his business.

E.E. Garberg is conducting a mammoth hardware and grocery store in Odd Fellows building on First street, and one must go in there and spend some time in looking it over in order to appreciate it. Mr. Garberg outgrew his former quarters and had to seek more room. Mr. Garberg opened a small grocery store in Cheney several years ago and the growth of his business has been phenomenal. He now carries an immense stock of goods and people go there and trade from the four corners of the earth. Chris Garberg and Norman Holter are his salesmen and judiciously assisted by the "boss" they dispense goods from 7 o'clock in the morning until closing time strictly according to Hoyle. Mr. Garberg is strictly up to the times in conducting his establishment, and a little ahead of time times if anything. [1910-12-09 CFP]

1915-04-16 - E.E. Garberg, the local dealer, has sold three Overland cars to as many purchasers, and delivery of the machines has already been taken. The cars have gone to Edward Betz, Thomas Graham, and the Grein brothers, and all are pleased in the possession of the machines. [CFP]

1915-04-24 - The Garberg-Martin auto company reports sales are lively. The company has recently sold five HP Overland Touring cars. [CFP]

1918-08-16 Owen Flory was killed at Dunkirk. He had worked for E.E. Garberg among others. [CFP]

Cheney Free Press 9 April 1926

Rosalia Man Buys Garberg Pioneer Store

Deal Consummated Monday - C.A. Bottorff is New Owner

Perry West to Remain in Store

Policy and Personnel Will Remain the Same Says Owner

The Garberg store, started 31 years ago by L.M. Garberg, was sold Monday to C.A. Bottorff of Rosalia. The policy and personnel of the store will remain unchanged, said the new owner this week.

Mrs. Garberg and her son, Earl, who have conducted the business since the death of Mr. Garberg three years ago, expect to move to the coast to live. The store was started as a little one-room place across the street from its present location. Later it was removed to the location now occupied by the Cheney Drug store, and 17 years ago moved to its present home in the IOOF building.

"Mr. Bottorff comes highly recommended, both personally and in a business way," said Mrs. Garberg this week. "I am sure he will maintain the favorable reputation our store has built up."

The new owner was in business for several years in Rosalia. He plans to move his family to Cheney as soon as he can find a home.

In commenting on his new venture Mr. Bottorff said, "I will continue the name and policy of the Garberg company. Mr. West will remain in the charge of the grocery department. I contemplate some inside improvements to the store, but the general policy and name will remain the same.