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WWW.THESTARPRESS.COMALLACCESS 6 OCTOBER 11-17, 2007 Advertising Feature For Advertising in the Dining Guide, please call 213-5716 5 fa 7 Family-run smorgasbord enjoys success in Hagerstown bit: soup, macaroni and cheese, pan-fried chicken, shrimp, chicken livers and pickled beets. The restaurant can accommodate anywhere from 20 to 200 people and will open for private parties on off days if the group is large enough. During December, the restaurant is open seven days a week. Though only open to the public and for some private parties as usual on Thursdays through Sundays, the rest of the week is available for private parties. The restaurant seats 450 people.

Mary said it's full most weekends, especially on Sundays. Customers drive from throughout the Midwest. One couple drives from Michigan once or twice a year just to eat at the restaurant. For more information, contact Welliver's Inc. at (765) 4894131 or visit www.wellivers.com.

open he recruited local housewives with Kentucky roots to help him develop the original recipes. "They knew how to cook," Mary said. "They taught my father how to cook." For example, the restaurant's turnips are a customer favorite. Mary said the only secret is to add sugar and butter to them. Her family often tells customer's how to make a favorite dish, but even that can get tricky because few of the family recipes are actually written down.

"My dad was always a big believer in over-do instead of under-do," Mary said. "In other words, don't under-do the amount of cheese you put in that macaroni and cheese." Welliver's continues to offer smorgasbord style dining, just as they did when they opened. In 1978, the restaurant began offering menu dining, which includes a variety of dinner specials. The steaks, for example, are cut fresh daily and are a customer favorite. The smorgasbord is filled with around 100 items including a salad bar, hot bar, shrimp bar and dessert bar.

Mary said customer favorites include the turnips, homemade cinnamon bread, scalloped cabbage, cheese ball, potato salad, cream of onion tt By Stacey Shannon When Guy Welliver bought a restaurant in Hagerstown, in 1946, he planned to change it into a men's clothing store within the first year. But, the restaurant stuck and Wclliver's Inc. has become synonymous with good food throughout East Central Indiana and beyond. Today all three of Welliver's daughters, Mary.Janie and Owner: Mary and Janie Welliver and Margaret Purvis Location: 40 E. Main, Hagerstown, Ind.

47346 Hours: 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays, 5 to 8:30 p.m. on Fridays, 4 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays and 12 to 7 p.m. on Sundays Menu Hours: 5 to 8:30 p.m.

on Thursdays, 5 to 9 p.m. on Fridays, 4 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays and 4 to 8:30 p.m. on Sundays Service Style: Dine-in and carry-out Reservations: Accepted for groups of 20 adults or more Info: (765) 489-4131 Margaret own the restaurant. Many of the Welliver family are still employed there, including Aimee and Righley Foust, Jennifer and Sydney Glover, Brooke Beckman and Stephanie and Liz Purvis.

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