An advertisement from 1916 lists the store as selling "Patent Medicines and Notions." (from a lengthy 1935 letter, from Zwaantje to daughter Ruth, recollecting many past days) "Your Father said, Ginga we must move, place is sold. So in Sept. we moved to East end, 1914. We lived in the store room till Oct. 23rd on my birthday. I was on my knees scrubbing floors. Then Mrs. Nonia Smith came up from Texas to sell us the store building. Your daddy said no, can't buy. $500 too much to pay down. So I wrote home told Father about it, he sent $500 & by Sat. P.M. we had a home. I asked for clear contract. Van Sant said to your dad, that will cost Martins more than $20. My Father had mentioned clear title for contract so much, whenever he bought anything. "Well, we pulled through with Our Heavenly Father's help. He helped them, so Pa could leave us all $7,000 a piece..." (Grandpa Johnson eventually owned several farms. When he sold them, he gave his daughters this money.)