Raschka's Store

The Chester descendant who provided yesterday's images of the Chester house is also a Raschka descendant, and now we are indebted to him for another view of the Ainsworth general store:


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Image courtesy of Bruce McLain.

We have no ID on any of these people, nor any date for the photo. The best I can do is to date it between October 1905 (when the west side addition was completed, assuming I'm correct that we can see that addition here on the right side of the store) and the spring of 1915, when the Raschkas sold the store to the Goldmans. At any rate, it can't be earlier than 1904; that was when the store became Ainsworth's post office.

From the leaves on the trees and the shirtsleeves on the men, I suppose it's a mild season, though that little girl wears a coat. The sun is low in the west. Somebody's dog on the sidewalk, somebody's horse at the hitching post.