About 1925 J. Walter Davis and
maybe a few years earlier, he and his brothers were together in a
grocery store by the name of "Davis Brothers' Grocery". After the
brothers dissolved their partnership, Walter built a small building next
to their residence in the east part of town, north of Highway 287
running parallel to the highway. The name of this store was "Gusher
Grocery". In 1929, the store was moved to a location on Highway 287
about 2 blocks closer to downtown Chillicothe. The name of that business
was "Live and Let Live". In 1937, he turned this store over to his son,
James and his daughter, Hazel. They ran it about 2 years. James married
and moved to Vernon in 1939 to work at "Brown's Grocery". Walter had
started a store in 1937 in town by the name of "Chillicothe Trading
Post" which was in business ' til about 1952, with the exception of a
year out because of the trouble of dealing with food stamps during
World War II. During that year or so, Walter and Medwin both worked for
"Cole's Grocery". They went back in business next door to the First
National Bank. Walter was sick for a long period of time and his younger
son Edwin came to help his mother run the store. Walter died in 1951 and
Medwin continued to run the store 'til 1952 at which time she moved to
Vernon to live with her two daughters, Ora and Hazel.
(As told to Richard Davis by his aunt Marilyn Davis Newth
Wilson on 3-13-06 )