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Article: Grain Elevator to Close, Taking Acres of History with It in Culver, Kan.
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- January 16, 2004
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By Tim Unruh, The Salina Journal, Kan. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 16--CULVER, Kan. -- As a youngster, Dorothy Schur occasionally rode a horse-drawn wagon with her father to the grain elevator here to market grain or buy supplies.
Her husband, Ralph Schur, sold commodities to seven different owners in his years of farming Culver's hinterlands.
Their sentiment runs deep for the grain elevator, now owned by Talmage-based Farmers Co-op Association, that is about to close and reopen only during harvest.
"It really hurts," said Ralph Schur, 81, who used to be one of the morning coffee regulars at the mobile home that ...