Lone Chimney Memories
by Dora Robinson Stewart
September 5, 2004
Oh yes, I walked there many a time to got Grandpa Keller hisplug chewing tobacco (Days Work) that he would cut off a bit with a knife, The gas pumps were the kind you filled a reservoir at the top. The pump was operated manually(not electric but manual). The pump handle was a lever that was moved back and forth. They sold a few school supplies, candy, tobacco and had the old pop containers.
Across the street was Euard Davis, father of Carmelita Fuss, had a cream station where we sold our cream and on Saturday would get ice for the “ice box” for the weekend, otherwise the cellar was used for cooling. There was a garage there also. Orlive Carter ran it for years. If I remember correctly, Wilbur worked for him after WW II. Rex Carter also worked there as a youth.
The gas station had a few groceries but I can’t remember what. It also had one of those old “wall telephones”. Sometimes, in emergencies, different people called for us on it. If I remember correctly they called when Granddad Fowler got real sick, his last time to stay at his little house in Maramec.
Ben Ramsey ran the station on the east side the road. Joe Harmer build the one on the west side, seems like he had a garage too. His didn’t last long. Ben Ramsey sold his station to Bonnas Keeton. He had his home attached to the back of the station.
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