Owner of grocery store, Miller Grove, Texas. Family background; father’s employment experiences in Louisiana; farming in Hopkins County, Texas, 1920s and 1930s; purchase of building and establishment of hardware and grocery store, Miller Grove, 1933; description of merchandise; comments on relocation of building in Miller Grove, 1939; description of credit practices; comments on store personnel; views on competition in Miller Grove; appointment as postmaster for Miller Grove; comments on bookkeeping practices; difficulties obtaining merchandise during World War II; comments on barter practices at store; factors in loss of business; comments on gasoline sale at store; sale of business; comments on cattle raising; description of typical day’s work; comments on Miller Grove community.