Commercial activity in the hamlet includes a co-op store that sells gasoline, hardware and agricultural supplies.

494 p. (F/5649/.D64/Fur) "Down Memory Lane" chronicles the early history of the area and is rich with stories of floods, dances, fires, and the work of building a community.

Early settlers came from Ireland and from the United States, including the Blanco family who traveled by covered wagon from Nebraska in 1900, a journey that is said to have taken six weeks.

An agricultural community, its years were marked by drought, blizzard, bumper crops and floods.

While never a large settlement, it has had its share of excitement, including a robbery in 1935, when a safe containing money for grain was taken outside the town and blown up.