Goldman's in December

In spite of there being still no Ainsworth news correspondent, hence little Ainsworth news unless it's something momentous, we sometimes get reminders that ordinary life in the village continues. Charles Goldman took the trouble to place some advertising in the Hobart Gazette during December. This one is from the December 13, 1918 issue:

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He thought his customers were going to want to buy 49 pounds of flour at a time. Interesting.

In the same issue, he placed this announcement in the "Local Drifts" column: "Highest prices paid for your furs, hides, poultry, in fact all kinds of country produce. Chas. Goldman, Ainsworth General Store."

In the "Local Drifts" of December 27: "We are expecting a car of Aristos flour about Dec. 28. Special inducement offered if gotten from the car. For price, call up phone 1626-W-2. Goldman's General Store."

Elsewhere in the same paper, Walter Blachly, a "mile and a half west of Ainsworth," offered: "FOR SALE. — Seven head of high grade Holstein cows."