Have you heard how the Sioux Rapids Boosters slickered the smart guys up at Spencer? Well here is the tale.
Sioux Rapids sent a bunch of boosters out in cars to advertise the Fourth of July celebration. Spencer merchants made a bet with them that when they visited the city, no matter what day or time they would not find enough parking space in the city for all their cars (meaning that the town was so busy that parking space was always all filled).
Well the day the boosters started for Spencer some renegade telephoned to Spencer and tipped them off that they were coming. Every Spencer man that owned a car beat it home, drove his machine downtown and parked it and by the time the boosters from Sioux Rapids arrived, Main street was lined on both sides with cars parked at the curb.
Not to be outdone, the Sioux Rapids men made a straight line of their twenty or thirty cars, down the middle of Main street and they extended from the end of the Little Sioux bridge to the Milwaukee depot. And they left them parked there all the time they were in Spencer too. We’ll claim that Sioux Rapids won the bet.
— Storm Lake Register, July 16, 1920 (paragraph breaks added)