Grocers

 

City Meat Market, north of where the taverns later were

Floyd Heston at Marquis' Grocery, where the Hole in the Wall restaurant later was

(William) Lawrence Marquis ran a meat market in Woodburn around 1911 and a grocery store in Woodburn for several years in the late 1930’s – early 1940’s. 

Dorothy Evans at Marquis' Grocery

In June, 1935, Orville Gardner and his father, Gilham, opened Gardner and Son Grocery, located where the current Post Office is.  The grocery later moved to where the Wilson Grocery Store was that wrapped around the bank and Orville and wife, Vera, owned the store.  One thing the family remembers is the store being robbed in the 40’s.  The robbers took 100 lb. sacks of potatoes, emptied shoe boxes, and spilled flour all over the floor.  The thieves were traced to California.  No money was at the store, Orville always took it home and hid it around the motor of the refrigerator.  Some employees of the store were Faye Weaklend, Leola Jenkins, Ernest Carder, Mike and Eva Webb and family, and Gilham, Orville, Vera, Dean, Twyla, Don and Kay Gardner.  They had a big truck and had a cream and egg route to the farms, which Mike Webb helped drive.  Grocery orders were called in and delivered on the route.  The truck was used to pick up groceries at the warehouse in Des Moines, haul stock to packing houses, haul coal, and to move families.  Seasonal trips were made to Colorado for peaches, Muscatine for cantelope, Indianola for apples, and watermelon from elsewhere.  The store closed in the fall of 1953.  Orville, Vera, Kay, Phillip and David moved to California in May, 1955. 

Webb Grocery, Mike and Eva Webb

 same location as Marquis Grocery

In 1944, Mike worked for Gardner’s Grocery, driving a grocery truck and also picking up cream and eggs.  Eva clerked for them.  After leaving the employment of the Gardners, Mike worked for Russel Boor, Willie Davenport, Seth Hootman and Edward Horton.  From 1948 until 1949, Eva operated the E and H Cafe.  In December, 1949, they bought the grocery store from Clifford “Punch” and Mary Lou Mason.  They operated the store until health forced them to sell in 1959. 

Grocery store was at the Bowen Drug Store location, in operation from 1953 to mid-1970's.

Owned at different times by Finley Atherton, Al Newton and Mark and Vicki Binning.