WOODWORTH MERCANTILE

Abraham and Henry enjoyed doing business in the growing village. There was also a blacksmith shop, hotel, mill, pool hall, and a livery stable. Everyone knew the Dirksen Brothers. On February 27, 1911 Abraham Adam Dirksen (on the right) was appointed Postmaster. On March 25 the following year Henry (on the left) was appointed to the same position.

On July 31, 1910, Christina delivered Abraham Adam's second child, William. In the same year the nearby town site of Woodworth was laid out (platted) then in 1911 the Northern Pacific Railroad laid its steel through town. The Dirksen brothers saw the new opportunity and took it. They rented (from W. C. Norum) part of a building where they opened the Woodworth Mercantile Company.

They sold groceries, dry goods, boots and shoes, and the International Harvester Company line of farm implements. They took out several large advertisements in the Woodworth Rustler newspaper. The building also housed the local bank and the post office.