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Woodville store remains
under family management
THE WOODVILLE GENERAL STORE, known for the past 30some years as Burke’s Grocery, will continue to be operated in a country store tradition, according to Myrtle and James Falls, the new proprietors. The Falls have been in charge of the store since the death of Mrs. Falls’s mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Burke, in September.
Myrtle and Jimmy Falls aren’t lacking experience in the country store business. They ran the Corner Store in Sperryville from 1955 to 1965. But that job became “too confining” for Jimmy Falls and he decided to farm full-time. So Myrtle Falls began to help out in her mother’s store part-time.
Running Burke’s Grocery won’t be so hard, they think. “There’s not as much floor space here. It won’t tie up our time as much,” Jimmy Falls said one day last week, after coming in from the farm to join his wife for lunch at the store. “We want to continue the store pretty much as it is,” he said.
As country stores go, “as is” is pretty fine. The potbellied stove has been replaced by an oil heater, since Mrs. Burke had asthma and thought the wood stove aggravated her condition, but there are wooden display cases, floors and shelving, all much like they were in the early part of this century. As for “general merchandise,” there’s a wide gamut of country store selections at country store prices, ranging from plaid flanned shirts and “Pointer Brand 100% cotton overalls” stacked on tables, to work boots and denim jackets hanging from a wire, to racks of potato chips and packages of charcoal briquets, as well as grocery staples.
Calves bring good prices
96.2%