In looking through our two County newspapers’ archives, The Beacon and the Enterprise, I did a search for the oldest references to a “country store.” The following is an ad that appeared in a 1925 edition of the St. Mary’s Beacon.
I need to do some more research, i.e. call Dictator Cullison and ask him, but I believe this store was located on the corner of Beachville and Grayson Roads.
However, when I clicked on the link to the actual page (click here), I could not find the article containing the above passage. I found every other kind of article but a reference to a country store. There was a suicide article, a story about a farming accident where a guy lost his arm, a gambling raid in Ridge article, a story about two Navy pilots dying in plane crashes, and an article about a house being destroyed by a fire. And yet surprisingly, ironically enough, in spite of all those very newsworthy stories, the headline of that particular edition featured the opening of hunting season. Talk about priorities!
