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thing was weighed out and wrip-ped in manila paper for light things, such as tea, spices, etc. and jn ' rag paper for the heavier groceries, such as sugar, beans aru! salt.There were no sack* of any kind, no cartons of cereals. In fact, there was, of course, no such thing as our dry cereals. Oatmeal, hominy and buckwheat flour came in bulk and had to be weighed up for orders. When a car load of »ugai was put off at the Frazeysburg siding, it was nip and tuck to get it unloaded in the specified time. Once when a car load cime in, he and the boys and the two McNaughts. Elmer and Lawrence unloaded it in one night. They closed the store at 10 o’clock, (it always was open until late every night) and got the sugar into the store by morning. That was a real chore, but willing hands and stout bodies did the trick.Another old-fashioned commodity that we seldom see in our grocery stores today was stoneware. Thera was a factory in Dresden and the stuff was loaded on the boats that plied the Muskingum Diver and taken through th* old canal to Fraseysburg. He bought a great deal of this, as fruit was packed in these jars by house-wires. There were no glass jars tfcen!The old canal was a great ; boon to the village. Coal bar* i s ges would come through, drawn t by the mule teams we see in old pictures, dock for a few hours and everyone could go down and buy the coal . . . five centsa bushel! Th» canal was operated until about 1883 when the railroad line made freight so much quicker and easier, it was abandoned. It was one of the romantic parts of our country history, and some day I will tell mors about it.ci!ta1 y i i
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Coshocton News
Coshocton, Ohio, US
Sun, Jan 27, 1946
Page 2
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Muskingum C.
OH, USA 05 Feb 2020
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