Mary Ethel Clevenger
Post Office
Of The
Wright
pretty quiet most
for Mary Ethel
postmistress of
Office, in tile
mity three miles
enjoys the slow
r rushed like eve-
seems to be so
she said, "and
are very nice."
r post office
COrner of the old Kief-
one of the few social
this western Green-
town. Fifteen cus-
served by highway
carriers; the rest
mail each after-
interior retains
features from when
~ilt in 1948. A "Dr
medicine cabi-
many now-empty
prominently on the
is a wooden box
spools of thread were
it Is an old-lash-
box formerly used
accounts. A
1913 methodically
purchase made by
Among them are
shirts for 40¢,
ladies' vests for
Pounds of flour for
building replaced
one dating from the late 1800's,
torn down In 1949. B. R.
(Russell) Burns purchased the
business in 1908 and ran it un-
til five years before he died, in
1965. His son, Bill Burns, a
farmer who still lives In Kleffer,
said, "Filings were once brought
to the store on horseback. My
dad used to ship rabbits in bar-
rels. He'd buy furs, ginseng, and
chestnuts from his customers.
Once he shipped 5,000 pounds
of chestnuts to Baltimore and
Philadelphia--all at one time."
The elder Mr Burn's daughter
(Bill's sister), Mary Ethel Jordan,
ran the store and post office
from 1960 to 1976, when Mrs
Clevenger took over. Mrs
Clevenger moved to Greenbrier
County from Baltimore In 1966.
"My husband and I never knew
much about Greenbrier County
until shortly before we moved
here," she said. "Our next-door
neighbor in Baltimore, Violet
O'Neill, was from this area and
talked a lot about Kieffer,
Crawley, Rupert, Rainelle,
Smoot--we never dreamed we'd
be living there. Then, In 1962,
we came to West Virginia to look
around and ended up buying
Violet's homeplaee on the moun-
tain here. We began living here
permanently In 1966."
Mrs Clevenger was born in
Webster County but grew up In
Pennsylvania.
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School
The beginning of another
school year is here and with it
comes many activities including
football, soccer and other events
involving the selling of food by
schools. The following tnforma-
Lion should be helpful in deter-
mining the sales tax responsibil-
Ity regarding those sales.
There are special exemption
provisions for sales and pur-
chases of food by public schools.
Food sold by public schools,
school sponsored parent-teacher
association or school sponsored
student organizations, to stu-
dents enrolled in the school or to
employees of the school during
normal school hours is exempt
9er se from sales tax.
The Mountain Messenger, Thursday, September 20, 1990 11A
Tax Responsibilities Outlined By Official
Only two types of organ~ation
may inake such exempt sales of
food during normal school
hours: (1) Any public school
which is subject to regulation by
the West Virginia State Board of
Education; or (2) Any parent-
teacher association or student
organization that is sponsored
by a public school that Is subject
to regulation by the West Vir-
ginia State Board of Education.
The following sales of food
during other than normal school
hours are also exempt: Sales of
food by a school sponsored stu-
dent or parent-teacher associa-
tion or similar organization at
athletic, cultural, social or fund
raising events when the proceeds
of such sales, after payment of
reasonable expenses, are do-
nated to the school or used to
purchase tangible personal prop-
erty or services for the school.
Examples of such exempt
sales are bake sales held by the
school's band boosters to raise
money for" new uniforms, and
concession sales of hot dogs,
popcorn and soft drinks by par-
ents at athletic events to raise
money for athletic equipment.
Sales of food through vending
machines are always subject to
sales tax regardless of where the
machine is located, who owns
the machine or where the sale
occurs. Also, sales of food to the
general public during normal
school hours are subject to salea
tzux unless such .sales meet the
qualifications for casual and oc-
caslonal sales.
A publication is available from
the State Tax Department which
explains in more detail the sales
tax responsibility of public
schools regarding both pur
chases and sales. You should
request Publication TSD-312
"ABC's of Sales and Use Tax For
Public Schools." The telephone
number is 348-2068 or toll free
within West Vlrglnla 1-800-422-
2075 or write the Taxpayer Serv-
Ices Division, P. O. Box 3784.
Charleston, 25337.
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