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1880 – 1967; present-day negative in town form
Hardware is a five-name line across ninety years. J. C. Anderson, hardware, is the town's hardware name through all three 1880s gazetteers. The 1909 streetscape, from the Sanborns, shows hardware stores on the east side of Main and a hardware warehouse among the rear businesses. The Kilmer Company held the middle storefront of the Finch Block (102/104/106 North Main) as a hardware store in 1909 and 1917 — the same Kilmer name that runs furniture and undertaking in the next article, one firm at two trades in two carriers, printed as the carriers state them. Polk 1916–17 adds Jerry Peters, hardware and farm implements, and Price & Houser — "(J. [?] Price, Harvey Houser), hardware," the first partner's initial garbled in transcription — still trading in 1940 as "Price & Houser Hardware," a twenty-four-year span on two carriers. Wolfram's Hardware advertised from North Liberty in the 1967 yearbook. No present-day hardware store appears on the town links list; the trade's present form in town is the building-supply and contractor firms of the modern-directory article below.