This was the first Stoddard County Trust Company building in Bloomfield, it was burned in June 1918 by arson because it housed the county draft board. Built in 1911 and finished in 1912 by Charles Clements. Other businesses located in the building were Dr. Davis, M.D., Dr. Paul Tribble, dentist, Hutson Green, lawyer (opened in 1912), J. W. Farris' drug store, Ben Pryor's barber shop (opened in 1915) and the Stoddard County Trust Company.

Mr. Parlow was listed as the architect of the new Stoddard County Trust building built in 1919. In 1925 Ben Moore constructed a Standard Filling Station next door to the Trust building. Prior to that there was a brick building built on the lot to the north in 1913 owned by Buck and Moseley.

Northeast Corner of Courthouse Square, 1900. First mentioned in the newspaper in 1883 as owned by W. Renner.

The first mention in the newspaper of the Bloomfield Bottling Works is in 1901 when Dan Duncan managed the company. It was owned by T. J. and Joel Fields in 1911 and sold it to Mr. T. E. Elmore and Mr. Doc Davidson. In 1911 they ordered 10,000 bottles with new bottle caps that said "Bloomfield Bottling Works." In 1912 they sold it to Jesse King who sold it to Carson W. Smith in 1913. It had a capacity of 15,000 cases per season that year. In 1917, J. A. Cooper and son bought the business. In October of 1918, the business burned causing more than $4,000 in damages. W. E. Gray owned the company in 1930 when he sold it to T. J. Fields and Joel Fields for $3,000. The business was purchased in the 1960s and moved to Sikeston.

Thomas Jefferson Bishoff began his blacksmithing business in Bloomfield in 1910, with the help of his brother Frank. Thomas built the building and bought the tools to fill it. T. J. Bishoff was born December 14, 1864 in Bloomfield to Mary and Joseph Bishoff. In 1889 he married Lizetta Poe. The two had six children, five of whom died before Bishoff himself passed away in 1941.

George M. Barham was born in Bloomfield in 1879. He served as sheriff of Stoddard County. C.C. Oliver of Cape Girardeau purchased the Barham-Harty Motor Company in 1923.