 The general store continued to operate as a family business until 1980.After the original group of settlers of Danish descent settled in Dickson, there was a so-called second wave of Danes who took up land on Townships 35 and 36 north of the Red Deer River, west of the 5th meridian.The main incentive for new immigrants to come to the area was the Lutheran Church, productive black land and the hospitable people in the area.