Interview with Lois Beville Cone 44 March 30, 1995 C: No, I do not think so. 0: Did you all have chickens in your. C: Yes, in the back yard, and you know, mother would kill them and we would eat them. She cooked on a wood stove. 0: On a wood stove. Do you remember if the chickens were they allowed to run loose or where they in a fenced in area? C: I think they were in a fenced in area. But everybody, back then had chickens. O: Whose responsibility was it to kill the chickens? C: Mother's. O: Do you remember her preparing the chickens? C: I do. I used to cry every time she had to kill one, but I sure could eat it. She would ring the neck and then put them down in hot water, which made plucking them easier. 0: That would make the feathers come out easier? C: Yes. O: Did she teach you how to. C: No, no. O: By the time you were doing that, that was not the way. C: You bought them from the grocery store already dressed. O: After you got married where did you do your shopping, your groceries and things? C: At the Piggly Wiggly, which was up on the square. 0: Where was that located? C: It was on the east side of the square between University and Union. It was onE. Main Street. And on the corner of East Main and University was Baird Hardware, and next to it ..