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William M. Ducy — general store and coal (Polk 1916–17).
Thomas B. Smith — grocer (Polk 1916–17).
Alexander Moore — hardware and coal (Polk 1916–17). The Van Lieu hardware line's successor at directory strength; no carrier states a succession.
A. C. Skiles — Skiles A. C. & B. C., furniture and undertakers (Polk 1916–17, village entry and classified undertakers' list).
B. C. Skiles — Skiles A. C. & B. C., furniture and undertakers (same carriers).
Annis Bros — restaurant and confectionery (Polk 1916–17 — the village's first restaurant/confectionery listing). One linkage at surname strength. The Annis name is old in the township (Samuel Annis in Chapman; A. H. and William Annis in the Atlas) — printed as a name-match only.
C. H. Smith — cigars (Polk 1916–17).
P. D. Garrett — livery (Polk 1916–17, town entry). Conflict, printed whole: the same volume's classified Livery, Sale, Etc. list carries "Bailey W. M., Lakeville" (next line). Both are printed; they are not merged into one house, and no carrier reached says whether they were rivals, successors, or a canvass duplication.
W. M. Bailey — livery (Polk 1916–17, classified Livery list). See the conflict on Garrett's line.
O. H. Kloppenstein — garage (Polk 1916–17 — the town's first garage at directory strength; the 1916–17 auto census is garages 1, automobile dealers 0). Whether the garage also sold cars is not stated and is not inferred. The Geyer narrative's 1909 gas station on U.S. 31 at Patterson is not identified with Kloppenstein's garage by any carrier.
Kramer & Wolf — grain elevator (Polk 1916–17 — the town's first and only elevator listing in the editions read). One linkage at surname strength.
John T. How — physician (Polk 1916–17; the surname as the transcription prints it). Robert Moore d. 1900 and John Moore d. 1904, so How and Wiseman are successors in the village practice, not the Moores.
Charles S. Wiseman — physician (Polk 1916–17).
J. U. Walter (John Ulrich Walter) — President, Union Bank, capital $10,000 (Polk 1916–17, printed verbatim: "UNION BANK (Capital $10,000), J U Walter Pres, Rollin Steele Cashr"; Howard's sketch places the man — farm one mile southeast of Lakeville 1864–1905, removed to Lakeville in 1905 — at name-and-place match strength). Conflict, printed whole: the banks leg finds the town's first bank organized 31 December 1917 as Indiana charter No. 516, names no president or cashier at any date, and dates its final suspension 21 February 1930 — while Polk 1916–17, canvassed before or around that organization date, prints a "Union Bank" with Walter as president. Whether Polk's Union Bank is charter No. 516 under another name, a predecessor, or a separate house is unresolved; the records stand side by side and nothing here merges them.
Rollin Steele — Cashier, Union Bank (Polk 1916–17, same entry). Same conflict as Walter's line. Not merged with J. R. Steele (below) — no carrier equates them.
C. S. Rensberger — director, Lakeville State Bank (Rand McNally Bankers Directory, January 1925: C. S. Rensberger; F. Shater; J. F. Price; J. R. Steele; A. E. Steele; Lulu C. Rush). Directors, not officers, at the strength the carrier gives. Not merged with Clarence Rensberger (band 3) — the initials differ and no carrier equates them. The bank behind the name is charter No. 516, printed in one Dept. of Banking table as "Farmers State Bank, Lakeville" and in another as "Lakeville State Bank" — the name conflict rides on all six directors' lines: same record number under both names; whether a formal name change, a recharter styling, or departmental reporting variance is not settled by any carrier reached.
F. Shater — director, Lakeville State Bank, January 1925 (same carrier; spelling as read from the directory — to be verified against the page image before any print use beyond this roster).
J. F. Price — director, Lakeville State Bank, January 1925 (same carrier).
J. R. Steele — director, Lakeville State Bank, January 1925 (same carrier).
A. E. Steele — director, Lakeville State Bank, January 1925 (same carrier).
Lulu C. Rush — director, Lakeville State Bank, January 1925 (same carrier). A woman owner (a bank director at dated strength) — see the women sweep.
Firms attested in 1916–17 without a personal name, not counted: Lakeville Lumber Co; Producers Union Dairy Co (a dairy company — not printed here as a creamery); the Lakeville Standard (no publisher named); Moon's Cash Store (ownership unstated); DuComb P. P. & Son (the Son unnamed — the firm rides on P. P. DuComb's band-1 line).