North Border Financial Services

This lot was purchased by John J. Stone in January 1906 from the Koochiching realty Company for $2,400. Stone built a two story building, 85 feet long, on the south end of the property. On the rear end of the lot, he moved the dining room part of the old Hotel International which stood on the north side of Second Street. It was remodeled and opened in September 1906 with R.H. Bennett as manager of the new International Hotel and Buffet. In 1910, F.A.. Neffew took over the hotel and in 1917, John Harrison began managing the hotel and Harrison's Soft Drink Parlor. J.H. Sabin also had an ice cream parlor there. In October of 1919, R.F.C. Iltis purchased the property from Stone Realty Company for $20,000; Stone Realty had been leasing the building to Robert Kirkpatrick, the former chief of police, who ran the Union Pool Hall. Iltis remodeled the building in 1922, putting brick veneer on the outside. He made the front of the building into a drug store to be run by his son Russell and Ed Peters. The second floor housed offices and later apartments, and the rear end of the first floor had many different tenants. The building was demolished in 1983.

The Iltis Drugstore was also home to the beloved Iltis Indian, an 11 foot tall, hand carved, solid cedar wood statue weighing 300 pounds, made by Custer Thydean of International Falls. When the drugstore closed, the Iltis Indian was moved, after being stolen by some teenagers in 1970 as a prank (the same teenagers who lit the Smokey Bear statue on fire), to the International Falls Public Library where it still sits on display. .