Byerly’s Grocery and Merit Shoes
with a photo by Maralyn Fink
Meat and fats were rationed beginning on March 29, 1943. Consumers had 16 points to spend per week. The average cost was 8 points per pound.
“Some day in the future,” Paul Buehler, Byerly store manager said, “I can tell my grandchildren what we had to do in a grocery store way back in 1943.”
Later the Byerly Store built a new store on East State Street, and Merit Shoes took over the Clinton Ave. building.
