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late 1990s when both store and post office fell victim to modern ‘progress’. In those hundred-odd years, only three families, the Spillmans, Barrens, and Schmitts, owned the business and post-office (the latter became a separate entity in 1985, but remained physically in a corner of the store).
Back then
Some of the quaint practices of those proprietors might yet bring a smile to the most jaded of us modern health and security conscious folks. Flour, sugar, coffee, beans, and corn meal were
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