Athens Cash Grocery

David Alvis Snider (1873-1951) and Emmett Lee ‘Zeke’ Rutherford (1894-1972) were neighbors owning adjacent farms in Lerona. They joined together and opened the Athens Cash Grocery on State Street.

They were co-proprietors in 1940. Zeke also ran the Athens Taxi Stand from this same building. The Athens Cash Grocery was a typical small town grocery store carrying the regular line of penny candy, nuts, fruit, produce, dairy, meats and cheeses. 

David’s son Arley Conley Snider and his wife Cora Ann Huffman managed and worked in the store.

Quincy White and his wife Neta bought the store in 1949 and renamed it White’s Cash Store. They, and then their sons, owned and operated the store until 1972 or 1973.  In 2023 Athens Town Hall occupies the building on State Street  They are fundraising to build a new Town Hall building. The fate of the building is uncertain; hopefully one of the few remaining historical building will not be lost.