Code Lumber Yard

SOURCE: The history of Lisbon a one-hundred-year-old city located in the beautiful Sheyenne River Valley of Southeastern North Dakota -Centennial Book Published in 1980 SOURCE

Milton E. Code came to Lisbon in 1927 and was manager of the Thompson Yards. which was a large lumber company with branches in many cities. Their Lisbon yard was on Main Street and is now called U.B.C. Thompson Yards built the main U.B.C. building in 1917.

In 1928 Thompson Yards bought the Jones Lumber shed on Fifth Avenue. about where the Fire Hall is now. and moved the business to that location. The present U.B.C. building was used only as a warehouse. Mr. Code was still the manager there on Fifth Avenue.

In 1929 (see Note below) Code quit with Thompson Yards and started his own lumber yard on the west side of Main Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. He bought one existing building and built a new one along the south side of it. He called the business. Lisbon Cash Supply.

The Codes had two sons, Eddie and Charles, and 6 daughters.

When Milton Code retired from the business in about 1957, the sons over the management. Charles Code was appointed Commandant of the North Dakota Soldiers' Home at Lisbon in 1968. A position that he still holds.

Eddie Code continued in the lumber business after that but quit and moved away from Lisbon in March, 1974.

A brother-in-law. Arnold Johnson. who is married to the former Marjory Code, has operated the Red Owl Store in Lisbon for many years.

Mrs. M. E. Code was named North Dakota Mother of the Year in 1945.

Mr. and Mrs. M.E. Code were both killed in an automobile accident while on a trip west in 1962.

Note: The date for the origin of Lisbon Cash Supply (1929) is incorrect and should be 1946.