Mike Connor tells us, “….had this picture of Garske in my office, don’t know for sure when it was taken, but would assume sometime in the early 1900’s….the store was run by a ‘Hocking’ Aarsby, my Dad talked about he & his 3 brothers earning 50 cents (not each) for unloading a car of lignite coal on the rail siding (over by the RR water tower)….by the 20’s Dad said Garske had a lumber yard, bank, school, several grain elevator companies & of course the store. ….it would have been about an 8 mile walk or ride from near the Sons of Jacob cemetery to Garske, a long trip in those days.