Weston’s Tea Room has great pies and ghosts

Tea, pie and poltergeists |
The first floor of the Main Street Galleria in Weston, Missouri, sells home-made fudge, old-fashioned ice cream sodas, phosphates, milkshakes, root beer floats and hot dogs.
On the second floor, owner Verna Tresse runs the Upstairs Tea Room in the loft space that, more than half a century ago, was occupied by pharmacist Beno Hillix and his wife Creola. Beno died in 1958, but according to the staff at the Tea Room, he and Creola never really left the building.