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We stand corrected. Two weeks ago we featured the old Ames Mill House (at left) and this 1930’s photo, when the house was being torn down. Someone asked us if the grain elevator in the middle was really the Occident Flour Mill. As soon as the question was asked we knew we had misstated. Under a magnifying glass on a better reproduction we could make out the “Marquis Milling Co. Flour Mill,” It was part of the Marquis operation at the right (now DanCo Supply). The middle elevator later became the “Victoria” and was torn down in very recent years. The “Occident” elevator was further east and on the north side of the railroad tracks and later became PV Elevator. Hopefully this didn’t make it more conf...