When I scanned this image back in September, in my mind I had drafted out the article. Disruptions occurred and I lost that train of thought.

For small towns, the general store was the lifeblood of the community. Many doubled as a post office, so it was one more factor that the store was the social hub. Amedee owed its existence to the NCO Railroad. In 1922, the last train rolled through there. In 1924, J.H. Peffley shuttered the town’s general store, along with the post office. Peffley chose not to remain at Amedee and moved to Fresno where he died in 1931.

Tim