Showstad ran the first track loader and loaded the farmers' grain into box cars for them in the fall of 1914. In 1916 the Farmers Elevator Company was started and they bought Showstad's loader. Some of the managers were Sorenson, Romes, Mescurey, Alvin Stageberg, Ed Ferguson, Frank Welch, Larsy, Lewie Jorgensen and Elmer Brotwell. The Farmers Elevator was sold to the Osborne McMillan Elevator Co. in the early forties.
Johnny McElroy built and ran the first General Store and Post Office in 1915 and ran it until Herman Brown took over the store in 1917 and ran it for two years. There was no store or post office here until 1923 when Joe Noon and his wife, Elizabeth, came down from Overland, Saskatchewan, Canada and started another General Store and Post Office. You could buy almost anything from this general store and what Joe didn't have, he would order. Joe Noon and his wife moved his store to Westby, Montana in 1946. Later in 1946 Walter Overgaard started a post office and store and they burned in 1948. This ended the stores and post offices in McElroy.
A Community Building was built in McElroy in 1916. This building was also used for a schoolhouse. The teachers were Pearl Stageberg, Florence Stageberg, Elsie Ueland, Miss Bailey, Bert Amundson, Mrs. Grans, Miss Gernberg, Miss Backstrum, Miss Bates, Miss Peterson, Miss Lulu Mathewes, Miss Hanson, Miss Laura Ferch, Miss Alga Londone, Mrs. Cernita Cutter, Walter Overgaard, Miss Lillian Brensdal, Miss Hulda Haugen, Miss Blanch Danielson, Miss Murial Linde, Miss Marion Anhalt and Richard Espeland. School closed in 1956 and the school bus was started in 1956 from District No. 56 to District No. 3. District No. 56 was officially abandoned in 1962 and became part of Westby District No. 3.
Ed Ferguson had a Livery Stable in McElroy in 1916.
In 1927 the schoolhouse and the Farmers Elevator House were moved from the west side of the tracks to the east side of the railroad tracks.
1928 saw another elevator built by Northland Elevator Company and one year later changed to Osborne McMillan Elevator Company. Managers were Lillithum, Cliff Johnson, Dock Johnson and Walter Overgaard. The O&M Elevator Company purchased the Farmers Elevator in the early forties and ran both of the elevators for awhile. In October of 1952, O&M Elevator Co. moved these two elevators to Westby, Montana, along with the only elevator house left. Fire had destroyed the O&M Elevator house a few years before.
Many people liked to ship cattle from McElroy, as the stockyards were kind of out in the open and easy to get to.
In 1934 Selmer and Mabel Espeland moved with their children to McElroy for school. Hilda Espeland and her children also moved to McElroy for school. Selmer and Mabel Espeland moved back to their farm north of McElroy and Hilda Espeland and her children moved into Westby, Montana.
In 1934, a government well for stock was dug and this well watered many cattle. John Nelson is at present using this well in the summer time. The only other things left in McElroy are the cemetery, which was started when the town was young, the schoolhouse which is now a community building, and some trees that Joe Noon planted when he was in McElroy. These trees are doing very nicely.
