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 The First Fifty Years 
 1887-1937 
 
 BEING A RECORD OF THOSE ACTS AND 
 EVENTS OCCURRING DURING A PERIOD 
 BEGINNING MORE THAN A HALFCEN- 
 TURY AGO AND CONTINUING UP TO 
 THE PRESENT. WHEN VIEWED IN HIS- 
 TORICAL PERSPECTIVE, THEY APPEAR 
 TO THE AUTHOR TRULY TO PORTRAY 
 THE HISTORY AND SPIRIT OF THE 
 CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG. COMPANY. 
 
 THE CREAMERY PACKAGE MFG. COMPANY 
 
 CHICAGO, ILLINDIS
 
 CHARLES MORTIMER GATES 
 
 Born Feb. 19, 1853, at Clinton Junction, WiscoJisin. 
 Educated at Milton College, Milton, Rock County (B.A. 
 1876, M.A, 1879). Married Mary E. Ferris of Milton 
 in 1876. Taught school at Wyoming, Minn., Waupaca 
 and Berlin, Wis. Operated Lumber Yard at Clintoji 
 Junction, Wis. Entered butter tub business in 1883, at 
 Rock Falls, III. President, The Creamery Package Mfg. 
 Company 1887. Died June 22, 1913. 
 
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 ^<f^/ INTRODUCTIDN 
 
 THE Creamery Package Mfg. Company was incor- 
 porated in the State of Illinois on September 30, 
 1887. The 50th anniversary of this event, occurring in 
 1937, is an appropriate time for a review of the corpora- 
 tion's history. It will be, we hope, of interest to those 
 men who participated in its formation and early develop- 
 ment, to those who have become associated with it in later 
 years, and to any others who may be interested in an 
 acquaintance with the origin and history of this busi- 
 ness institution which has weathered the storms of half 
 a century. 
 
 As of today, the corporation comprises not only those 
 properties established and developed by the company it- 
 self, but numerous others of separate origin, which, after 
 independent existences, became integral parts of The 
 Creamery Package Mfg. Company. Their individual his- 
 tories, interesting though they are, can be touched upon 
 but briefly. Space limitations compel us to follow the 
 main stem, identifiable by the distinctive company name. 
 
 Acknowledgment 
 
 The data in this article are from official records, so far 
 as such are available, supplemented by personal recollec- 
 tions and private memoranda which have been placed at 
 the author's disposal. 
 
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 "^ Special acknowledgment is made to Mr. Giles F. Belknap, 
 
 Chairman of the Board of Directors and a member of 
 the founder's group, for suggestions given and assistance 
 in assembling the facts. 
 
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 U6P 
 UNWERSJn 
 ^ URBAWA
 
 The Predecessor Company 
 
 Oriqin of the Company Name 
 
 THE Creamery Package Mfg. Company, which is 
 owned by nearly 2000 stockholders, grew out of a 
 company of similar name organized in 1882 by a small 
 group of men who operated what was practically a family 
 enterprise. 
 
 That this enterprise prospered, and grew to the point 
 where expansion was logical and more capital was needed, 
 was due to the work of its principal founder, Mr. Charles 
 M. Gates. He had the vision, ability and stamina to carry 
 it forward until it was firmly established. It is not our 
 purpose to limelight Mr. Gates to the exclusion of the 
 many others who had important parts, but as much of 
 the Company's early history is interwoven with his 
 activities we can best trace it by following his career. 
 
 Following graduation from college in 1876 Gates, like 
 many other young men, tried out several kinds of work 
 before finding himself. He taught school. He operated 
 a retail lumber yard. Neither satisfied him and he was 
 on the look-out for a real business opportunity. 
 
 We learn that he narrowly missed getting into the egg- 
 packing business. A brother-in-law, Wm. L. Ferris, was 
 engaged in that business at Milton. Ferris bought eggs 
 from the farmers when eggs were plentiful and cheap, 
 pickled them in brine to be marketed in the fall and 
 winter, when supply and demand conditions were re- 
 versed. It was a good business before scientific cold 
 storage and winter egg production came into being. 
 Anyway, it looked better than school teaching and Gates 
 set out to find a good location. Among other points con- 
 sidered was Peoria, 111. He practically decided to locate 
 there, but en route home, while on the train, he met 
 
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 Industrial building at Rock Falls, Illinois, which housed first CP butter 
 
 tub factory. 
 
 Matt Corcoran, a cooper by trade and a mechanical genius 
 by nature. Corcoran had up to that time invented prac- 
 tically all, certainly the best, of the ash butter tub manu- 
 facturing machinery then in use. The picture presented 
 by Corcoran drove all thoughts of pedagogy and pickled 
 eggs from Gates' mind. A deal was macte, which put him 
 in the butter tub business at Rock Falls, Whiteside 
 County, 111., and started the train of events which have 
 led to this anniversary and to the writing of this history. 
 
 In the "History of Whiteside County, 111.," published in 
 1885, on page 849, we find the following in reference to 
 the Rock Falls venture: 
 
 ''The Creamery Package Company * as its name 
 implies, are manufacturers of butter tubs, creamery 
 supplies, etc., and occupy rooms in the east end of 
 the Industrial Building. In 1884 they manufactured 
 
 *On January 12, 1883, an Illinois charter was issued to the Creamery Package 
 Company. The object was: "The manufacture and sale of butter tubs, cheese 
 boxes and cooperage." Authorized capital was $50,000.00 par value, and the 
 incorporators were Charles M. Gates, William L. Ferris and Hiram J. Ferris, 
 and the place of business was at Rock Falls, Whiteside County, Illinois. 
 
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 400,000 hutter tubs, 171 addition to other supplies. 
 Employment is given to ahoiit 7^ men. C. M. Gates 
 is the President and General Manager. The com- 
 pany was organized in 1882." 
 
 The founder of The Creamery Package Mfg. Company, 
 was, as we have seen, an enterprising young man who 
 saw a profitable outlet for his energy in the business of 
 manufacturing butter tubs for the growing creamery 
 business. When it came to the selection of a name it was 
 natural that, as they were making packages for creamery 
 butter, they should embody "Creamery Package" in the 
 title of their infant industry. 
 
 The Rock Falls enterprise prospered. Gates' capacity for 
 work and his genius for organization soon showed results. 
 The business developed rapidly and soon outgrew the 
 facilities so that a branch factory was established at Jack- 
 son, Mich., with G. F. Belknap in charge. A branch sales 
 house was opened early in 1885 at Kansas City, Mo., 
 managed by E. R. Kimball. The sales organization Gates 
 built up was aggressive and alert: it took on the distri- 
 bution of other supplies and equipment for creameries 
 and dairies. To Gates probably more than to anyone 
 else, goes the credit for the set-up peculiar to the Dairy 
 Industry whereby its equipment and supply needs are 
 for the most part furnished by specialized concerns. 
 
 By 1887 still more factory capacity was needed and the 
 present corporation was organized and incorporated. The 
 capital was increased and the business expanded by ab- 
 sorption of several other butter tub concerns. Here begins 
 the history of The Creamery Package Mfg. Company. 
 
 It will be noted that the name of the Corporation as it 
 appears in the application has the word "Manufacturing" 
 in full, whereas in the Certificate it is abbreviated to 
 "Mfg." For a number of years the full spelling was used 
 
 (Continued on page 10) 
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 The certificate signed by the Secretary of State, Henry D. Dement, is dated 
 September 30, 1887, and certifies that "the said THE CREAMERY PACKAGE 
 MFG. COMPANY is a legally organized Corporation under the laws of this 
 State." 
 
 Certificate of Incorporation 
 
 of the 
 
 Creamery Package 
 Manufacturing Cnmpany 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 1 
 
 Us. 
 Whiteside County. I 
 
 To HENRY D. DEMENT, 
 
 Secretary of State: 
 We, the undersigned, Charles M. Gates, Charles M. Marsh 
 and Edwin R. Kimball, propose to form a corporation 
 under an act of the General Assembly of the State of 
 Illinois, entitled "An Act concerning Corporations," 
 approved April 18, 1872, and all acts amendatory thereof; 
 and for the purpose of such organization, we hereby state, 
 as follows, to wit: 
 
 1. The name of such Corporation is THE CREAMERY 
 PACKAGE MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 
 
 2. The object for which it is formed is to manufacture 
 and sell woodenware. 
 
 3. The capital stock shall be four hundred thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 4. The amount of each share is one hundred dollars. 
 
 5. The number of shares is four thousand. 
 
 6. The location of the principal office is in Chicago, in 
 the County of Cook, State of Illinois. 
 
 7. The duration of the corporation shall be ninety years. 
 
 Charles M. Gates 
 Chas. M. Marsh 
 Edwin R. Kimball 
 
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 on stationery and printed matter, but for more than 
 thirty years prior to the publication of this history the 
 abbreviated form has been used, in agreement with the 
 certificate of incorporation. 
 
 The new company began operation with an authorized 
 capital eight times that of the predecessor concern of 
 similar name. It had as a going concern, the business and 
 properties of the Creamery Package Company factories 
 and branches and a thriving butter tub factory at Man- 
 kato, Minn. 
 
 The three incorporators were active in the business. Gates 
 and Kimball came over from Creamery Package, while 
 Marsh came in with the Mankato business. The factories 
 operated by the new company were located at Morrison, 
 III., Portland, Ind., Jackson, Mich., and Mankato, Minn., 
 from which shipments could be made competitively any- 
 where in the upper Mississippi Valley. Shortly afterward, 
 another plant, that of Wood and Sherwin, at Elgin, 111., 
 was taken over, giving the Company a factory in the 
 center of the then famous Elgin district where an im- 
 mense quantity of the finest creamery butter was made. 
 
 CP 63-pound spruce Tub 
 
 —America's standard bulk 
 
 butter package. 
 
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 Beginning of Supply Business 
 
 THE exact date at which the company embarked upon 
 the sale of supplies other than packages is in doubt. 
 The first supply sale is said to have consisted of one bolt 
 of cheese bandage to a cheese factory in Missouri, and 
 the price quoted by the salesman was arrived at by his 
 knowledge of the price of cotton sheeting. The order 
 was mailed into the home office, which, after finding the 
 price yielded a fair profit, filled it to the satisfaction of 
 all concerned. Once started, the supply business grew 
 rapidly. Salesmen taking orders for packages could write 
 up lists of supplies needed without extra expense. The 
 enlargement of the business as well as the rapidly chang- 
 ing character of the apparatus sold may be gathered from 
 early catalogs which have been preserved. 
 
 The 1888 annual price list and catalog is a book of 70 
 pages, the title page of which gives the principal officers 
 as follows: C. M. Gates, President and Treasurer; E. R. 
 Kimball, Vice-President; C. W. Cornell, Secretary. The 
 main office was at Chicago with a branch house at Kansas 
 City. Factories were at Mankato, Minn., Morrison, 111., 
 Portland, Ind., and Jackson, Mich. E. R. Kimball was, 
 until his death, the manager at Kansas City. 
 
 The company had already engaged in the sale of the 
 Danish- Weston Cream Separator, announcing itself as the 
 sole agents for Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, and gen- 
 eral agents for all other states. Butter tubs are listed in 
 various sizes with an accompanying statement that nearly 
 two millions of packages are made annually. Lists of 
 equipment for butter and cheese factories are given. 
 
 Curtis Churns, rectangular, square box and factory, are 
 listed, also the Curtis Oil Test Churn, at that time the 
 best available means of determining the richness of cream 
 
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 and used generally as the basis for butterfat payments by 
 creameries. The assortment of eqtiipment was complete 
 for that time, but the buttermaker of 1937 would con- 
 sider it a hardship to be compelled to operate a creamery 
 with the machinery of 1888. 
 
 The next annual catalog, dated 1889, shows an increase in 
 pages from 70 to 8!^ devoted to the company's merchan- 
 dise. This book makes a point of carrying Cornish, Curtis 
 & Greene's* standard vats, churns and butterworkers. 
 "These goods," it states, "have a wide-known reputation, 
 and are standard throughout the country." F. B. Fargo k 
 Co.'s* Improved Butter Color is also listed. 
 
 Thus we see that the new firm was not only a manufac- 
 turer of woodenware, but an aggressive merchandiser of 
 other dairy needs in its territory. Soon further enlarge- 
 ment of facilities was required and a branch sales office 
 and warehouse was established at Mankato, Minn., in 
 connection with the ttib factory there. 
 
 Volume was further enlarged by the acquisition of the 
 business of D. H. Roe k Co. in 1893. The Roe business 
 was located originally at Madison, Ohio, and served prin- 
 ci})ally the Cheese Industry. In addition to a general job- 
 bing business, the Roe Company had a patented specialty 
 which it manufactured, known as the "Wyres Cheese 
 Vat," which had some novel fea- 
 tures and attained some popularity. 
 The vat was annidar in form, the 
 open center of the ring being util- 
 ized to mount the stirrer or agitator 
 which canti-levered over the circu- 
 
 •Rolh the Cornish, Curtis R: Greene, and Fargo 
 concerns were later merged with The Creamery 
 Package Mfg. Company. 
 
 Coi'er desifrti of the IS9S 
 general catalog. 
 
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 Donish-Weston Cream Separator— Bowl diameter rvas 25 inches. 
 
 lar vat. A cheesemaker will discern the advantage of this 
 arrangement, which left the outside of the vat unob- 
 structed for the necessary manual operations. In 1884 or 
 thereaboius, the Roe business was moved to Chicago, tak- 
 ing quarters at 255 East Kinzie St. (old number) near 
 State Street. Here a general dairy equipment business 
 was carried on until 1 893, when the business was absorbed 
 by its younger competitor, then located at 1, 3 and 5 West 
 Washington Street. 
 
 Eighty-Seven to Ninety-Eight 
 
 The period was one of great expansion in the Dairy In- 
 dustry as to cheese and butter production, particularly 
 the latter. 
 
 The American genius for invention and the development 
 or adoption of labor-saving machinery which has made 
 possible this country's remarkable advances in industry 
 while maintaining the world's highest standard of living, 
 was in full operation during this period. The centrifugal 
 cream separator was invented in Europe in 1878, but had 
 been greatly improved by 1887. Commonplace as this 
 machine is today, it was then the "wonder of wondqrs" 
 when first brought into a community. The Danish- Wes- 
 ton, made in two sizes with 15" and 25" diameter bowl, 
 
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 respectively, during this period, had reached the zenith of 
 its popularity and was already on the wane, although that 
 fact would have been hotly disputed by its proponents at 
 the time. Machines with smaller diameter and higher 
 speed bowls were coming to the front. DeLaval in 1890 
 laid the foundation for its later success by the Alpha or 
 Disc invention. The 1898 catalog did not list the Danish- 
 Weston, but features the Alpha Line on a colored insert. 
 It also lists the "Standard" DeLaval "Plain" or "Hollow" 
 Bowl Type as "a cheap but good machine for small fac- 
 tories and large dairies." The Company's policy of service 
 on any previous sales is shown by a list of extras for 
 "Reid's Improved Danish-Weston Separator," "Jumbo 
 Separator," "Old Style Danish-Weston Separator" and 
 "Barber's Overflow" Danish-Weston Separator. 
 
 A most important development during this decade was 
 that of perfecting the means for quickly determining the 
 per cent of butterfat in milk and cream. Realizing its 
 vital importance to further extension of cooperative dairy 
 manufacture, The Creamery Package Mfg. Company 
 actively participated in this development by acquiring 
 the rights to manufacture and sell the Beimling Tester in- 
 vented by H. F. Beimling, an Austrian chemist then living 
 in Philadelphia. The Beimling method employed two 
 
 reagents (acetic and sulphuric 
 acids) and gave very reliable 
 results. Some 200 of them 
 were made and sold in the 
 years 1890 to 1892, inclusive. 
 In 1890 Dr. S. M. Babcock of 
 the University of Wisconsin 
 announced a simplified 
 
 Best before Babcock— The Beimling But- 
 terfat Tester. 
 
 Tfir— TTr-- 
 
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 Modem CP Auto-Speed Bahcock 
 Tester assures "accurate score- 
 keeping." 
 
 method using only one 
 acid, and gave it to the 
 world without patent re- 
 strictions of any kind. 
 The Babcock Test 
 quickly came into favor. 
 The test gave impetus to 
 the creamery system as it 
 enabled the creamery to 
 pay each producer for the exact amount of butterfat de- 
 livered, no more and no less. It also encouraged better 
 breeding and feeding practices on the dairymen's part. 
 
 A most important mechanical development during this 
 period was the combined churn and butterworker. The 
 name of Rueben B. Disbrow of Owatonna, Minn., is 
 intimately associated with this invention. In the '98 cat- 
 alog, Creamery Package appears as general agents for the 
 Disbrow and Winner Combined Churns, both of which 
 were products of Disbrow's inventive genius. 
 
 Another noteworthy development of the decade was the 
 Boyd Cream Ripener, invented by John Boyd. This was 
 the forerunner of the coil vat and other improved cream 
 ripening and cooling apparatus. 
 
 Pasteurization was on the horizon. Some pasteurizing 
 equipment was being made and sold. The University of 
 Wisconsin, birthplace of the Babcock Test, was still busy 
 with dairy problems and its bacteriological department, 
 in charge of Dr. H. L. Russell, was interested in the pos- 
 sibilities of pasteurization. In 1895 Cornish, Curtis and 
 Greene put on the market a milk pasteurizer embodying 
 Russell's ideas, which had a fairly good sale and paved the 
 way for later improvements. A study of the Russell 
 
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 .nachine in the light of 40 years continued development 
 shows that as in the Habcock lest, the iniderlying prin- 
 ciples were correct. (See cut on page 18.) 
 Mechanical refrigeration was getting a good start among 
 the creameries in this period. Control of temperature was 
 recognized as vital in the manufacture of high grade 
 butter. A. H. Barber had brought out a small capacity 
 machine particularly suited to creamery use, while 
 Creamery Package manufactured the Stallman, a vertical 
 two-cylinder machine. 
 
 In the combined churn field there were two leading 
 makes: the Disbrow and the Fargo, the latter made by 
 F. B. Fargo and Co. They were similar in principle and 
 both had a large sale. 
 
 In 1897, at the close of a ten-year period of great expan- 
 sion in the Dairy Industry, The Creamery Package Mfg. 
 Company w^as well entrenched in its field. It had three 
 thriving sales houses, located respectively at Chicago, 
 Kansas City, Mo., and Mankato, Minn., and butter tub 
 and cooperage factories at Mankato, Portland, Ind., and 
 
 Elgin, 111., with 
 similar properties 
 at Mason City, la., 
 Coldwater, Ohio, 
 South Whitley, 
 Ind., and Lexing- 
 ton, Mo. Its posi- 
 tion made it the 
 logical nucleus for 
 the larger organiza- 
 tion arising from 
 the consolidation 
 of 1898. 
 
 Early Barber Horizontal 
 Refrigerating Machine. A 
 number are still in service. 
 
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 The Expansion of 1898 
 
 UNDER date of April 27, 1898, there was filed with 
 the Secretary of State, a certificate of increase of 
 capital stock from four hundred thousand dollars to two 
 million dollars, both being the par value. 
 
 The additional stock issued under this authorization was 
 used to acquire the following businesses: 
 
 Cornish, Curtis and Greene Manufacturing Com- 
 pany of Fort Atkinson, Wis., and its subsidiary, Cor- 
 nish, Curtis and Greene Company of St. Paul, Minn. 
 F. B. Fargo and Company of Lake Mills, Wis., and 
 a subsidiary of the same name of St. Paul, Minn. 
 A. H. Barber and Company of Chicago, III. 
 C. E. Hill and Company of Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Each of these concerns had a history of its own. As the 
 companies and their personnel became important parts of 
 The Creamery Package Mfg. Company and its subsequent 
 development, it seems in order to touch briefly upon the 
 historical highlights of the four concerns which joined 
 forces with CP at this time. 
 
 A. H. Barber k Co. began as a commission house on 
 Chicago's famous South Water Street. The principal own- 
 ers were A. H. Barber and W. S. Goodhue, both gentle- 
 men of exceptionally high 
 standing in the dairy and 
 produce trade. Barber & 
 Co. handled by purchase, 
 or on a commission basis, 
 butter, cheese and other 
 produce, and developed a 
 
 Old woodcut of original "churn" 
 factory at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. 
 
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 very large business. Dealing with the creameries, it was 
 but a short step to making it a two-way business, buying 
 their output and selling them necessary supplies. Barber 
 became interested in mechanical refrigeration and may be 
 credited with pioneering the ice machine to the cream- 
 eries of America. His company developed a compressor 
 by replacing the cylinder and steam end of a center crank 
 steam engine with an ammonia compression cylinder. It 
 was a good machine and some are still running. 
 
 Barber k Co. also developed and sold pasteurizers, cream 
 separators and other equipment items. The Creamery 
 Package Mfg. Company acquired only the dairy equip- 
 ment and supply division of the Barber business. 
 
 Cornish, Curtis &: Greene Manufacturing Company and 
 subsidiary. This business was established at Fort Atkin- 
 son, Wis., in 1868, when David W. Curtis began the man- 
 ufacture of Curtis Rectangular Churns in partnership 
 with Cornish in connection with a lumber yard they 
 operated. It was then a revolutionary idea. Prior to that 
 time most churns had inside paddles, dashers and other 
 devices designed to assist in churning. The Curtis Rec- 
 tangular Churn was a cube supported from two opposite 
 corners and without inside "fixings" of any description. 
 Curtis advertised widely and courageously and the little 
 
 The Russell Pasteurizer was the forerunner of today's precision 
 
 equipment. 
 
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 Advertised as the churn used 
 in best creameries, the Curtis 
 Revolving Box Chum was 
 awarded many gold medals, in- 
 culding the highest award at 
 the World's Fair, Chicago, 
 1893. 
 
 factory grew to be a leading industry, well known in its 
 home town and surrounding country as the "churn fac- 
 tory" (old-timers still call it that) . 
 
 Curtis was a moving spirit in the organization of the 
 Wisconsin Dairymen's Association and a contemporary 
 and friend of W. D. Hoard, founder of Hoard's Dairyman 
 and later, Governor of Wisconsin. Curtis was a business 
 man— a manufacturer who sensed that his success was 
 dependent upon the welfare of his customers, the dairy- 
 men, and gave freely of his time and substance to pro- 
 moting sound and profitable dairy practices. 
 
 As a natural result of his keen intelligence and abundant 
 energy, he gathered around him a group of able associates 
 and together they developed a dairy machinery manufac- 
 turing business ranking with the largest in the U. S. 
 
 F. B. Fargo & Company is another example of growth 
 from a very modest start. The Fargo business had its 
 origin at Sterling, Illinois, about 1870, when Frank B. 
 Fargo began the manufacture of butter color. Sometime 
 thereafter the business was removed to Lake Mills, Wis. 
 It grew with the expanding Dairy Industry and the 
 manufacture and jobbing of dairy equipment and sup- 
 plies was added. 
 
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 Doubtless there was keen rivalry between the Fargo con- 
 cern and the Cornish, Curtis and Greene "churn factory" 
 a few miles away, but it was a friendly rivalry and we 
 learn of instances where one of them used the other's shop 
 to get out work for which he had no equipment. 
 
 The Fargo plant became the largest enterprise in the Vil- 
 lage of Lake Mills, and among other activities furnished 
 the town with electric energy for lighting and power. It 
 was handicapped by an "off the railroad" location, neces- 
 sitating haiding of coal, materials and finished goods to 
 the station more than a mile distant. In spite of this, it 
 prospered. Fargo entered the combined churn and butter 
 worker field, first, with the very efficient Style A machine. 
 Prior to the merger they had brought out the four-roll 
 Victor, which since has been more widely copied through- 
 out the world than any other combined churn design. 
 
 C. E. Hill Sc Co. was a partnership consisting of C. E. Hill 
 and Frederick J. Macnish, both young men who had estab- 
 lished a flourishing supply business at Kansas City, Mo. 
 Following the absorption of this business by CP, Mr. Hill 
 dropped out, but Mr. Macnish became active in the CP 
 organization, rdvancing by steps to the position of Gen- 
 eral Manager, which he occupied from 1908 to 1913. 
 
 The Wizard Agitator. Since 1904 vats bearing the name "Wizard" have 
 come to be known as "The Dairy Industry's Most Useful Machines." 
 
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 Integration and Gonrdination 
 
 FOLLOWING the merging of the constituent com- 
 panies there arose the problem of converting former 
 competitors into a smoothly functioning entity. This is 
 the rock upon which many a soundly conceived project 
 has split. To the credit of Charles M. Gates and his asso- 
 ciates, stands the record of nearly forty years of progress 
 and achievement based upon the foundation they laid in 
 the 1898 to 1903 period. The personnel was shifted to 
 accommodate the change from competition to coopera- 
 tion. Manufacturing was consolidated at the points most 
 advantageous and duplications were gradually elim- 
 inated. The selling organization was expanded by the 
 establishment of sales houses at Waterloo, Iowa, through 
 the purchase of Cushman Mfg. Co., and a new house at 
 Omaha, Nebr. 
 
 From a local manufacturing and distributing concern 
 serving only the mid-continent area, Creamery Package 
 became the country's largest dairy equipment and supply 
 company, manufacturing the well known C. C. & G. and 
 Fargo equipment lines and the Barber refrigerating 
 machine, and national in scope. To realize potentialities, 
 additional distributing facilities were necessary, particu- 
 larly in the East and the far West. Arrangements were 
 made with Stoddard Mfg. Co., Rutland, Vt., and DeLaval 
 Dairy Supply Co., San Francisco, Calif., as general dis- 
 tributors in their respective territories. A Canadian man- 
 ufacturing and sales house was opened at Cowansville 
 Quebec. While not all the arrangements then made were 
 permanent, the foundation was laid for logical growth 
 and development since that time. Many of the com- 
 pany's most valued and loyal employees came into the 
 organization with the absorbed concerns and we are 
 pleased to say some of them are still active in its affairs. 
 
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 President Gates retired from active management, al- 
 though remaining as president, in 1901, and the office of 
 General Manager was created at the annual meeting on 
 December 18, 1901. W. W. Sherwin was the first General 
 Manager. He was succeeded by Charles H. Higgs, who 
 later became president upon the retirement of Mr. Gates 
 from that office in 1906. 
 
 In 1904 the business of Stoddard Mfg. Co., Rutland, Vt., 
 who had been New England distributors, was acquired. 
 This carried the company's direct operations to the north- 
 eastern seaboard and also brought in additional and valu- 
 able personnel. 
 
 The Canadian branch was discontinued in 1906 and the 
 company's products distributed in the dominion largely 
 through a Canadian distributor, although some of the 
 larger sales were made direct from the sales offices in the 
 U.S., an arrangement which continued until 1934, when 
 the present Canadian subsidiary was formed. 
 
 The company's business in refrigerating and ice making 
 equipment soon outgrew the facilities in the Chicago fac- 
 tory and in 1906 a new plant was erected at DeKalb, 111. 
 This has been in continuous operation since its establish- 
 ment and has been twice enlarged, last in 1923. 
 
 In 1910 a new and modern factory with railroad switch 
 track facilities was erected at Lake Mills and the electric 
 light business, acquired from F. B. Fargo and Co., was 
 later disposed of to the Village of Lake Mills. This pro- 
 vided much improved manufacturing facilities at that 
 point, which proved ample until 1931, when a wing of 
 steel, concrete and glass was added to accommodate the 
 manufacture of milk bottle cleaning machinery. 
 
 At the date of acquirement, the Fort Atkinson factory 
 was considered thoroughly modern, it having been 
 
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 erected new a few years previously, following a fire which 
 completely destroyed the original plant. Several small 
 additions were made from time to time to permit im- 
 proved methods of manufacture, but the plant was finally 
 outgrown and in 1919 a five-story section of reinforced 
 concrete for the machine shop, assembly and office was 
 added. Again in 1931 an addition was made to better 
 accommodate the growing tank shop and welding de- 
 partments. 
 
 Milk and ice cream cans constitute a fair percentage of the 
 company's sales. The can business began in 1902 when 
 an arrangement was concluded with Bray and Kates Mfg. 
 Co. at Arlington Heights, 111., to manufacture cans to be 
 sold to our company. This arrangement continued with 
 slight modifications until 1922, when following the death 
 of Mr. Bray, the factory and business were purchased. It 
 continues to operate profitably and its product is recog- 
 nized as of the highest quality. 
 
 Nineteen twenty-three marked the acquh-ement of the 
 physical properties, inventory and goodwill of the Davis- 
 
 A modern cooperative creamery completely equipped with Creamery 
 Package buttermakmg machinery. 
 
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 Watkins Dairymen's Manufacturing Company, a concern 
 having headquarters at Chicago, III., Owatonna, Minn., 
 Derby, Conn., and Jersey City, N. J. By this move the 
 company acquired the rights to manufacture several valu- 
 able specialties which it has continued to make. Fire 
 destroyed the Owatonna plant, and the Jersey City plant 
 has been closed, the property rented. Derby is still 
 operated, and the North Chicago plant houses the com- 
 pany's printing department, and is partially leased to an 
 independent manufacturing concern. Of the sales offices 
 acquired, that at Denver is operating, while Jersey City 
 sales branch has been re-located at New York City. 
 
 In 1925 the milk bottle washer business of the Ladewig 
 Manufacturing Company of Waukesha, Wis., was ac- 
 quired. Manufacture was continued at Waukesha in 
 rented quarters until 1931, when the business was moved 
 to Lake Mills and housed in the modern, daylighted 
 building especially erected for it. 
 
 1937 Model Wizard Coil Vat. Its all steel welded body, pure corkboard 
 insulation, fine automotive type running-in-oil drive and gleaming 
 stainless steel lining and covers typify the high standards of CP Quality. 
 
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 Firsts— and Assists 
 
 THE company's contributions to the progress of the 
 Industry have been many. The organization looks 
 back with pardonable pride upon the record of its par- 
 ticipation in the development, manufacture and distribu- 
 tion of labor-saving quality equipment. 
 
 Early activities aside from butter tub manufacture were 
 confined to distribution of machinery of recognized merit. 
 As general agents for leading makes of cream separators 
 and the original Disbrow Combined Churn, it made 
 a reputation for handling only the best. An early venture 
 in manufacturing was made in 1897 when the rights to 
 the Ideal Skim Milk Weigher were acquired. Before the 
 Babcock Test was perfected it had begun the manufacture 
 of the Beimling Test and sold approximately 200 of them. 
 Following the expansion in 1898 a general line of equip- 
 ment was built, but numerous improvements and addi- 
 tions followed. Among the latter were the 20th Century 
 Milk Heater and Farrington Pasteurizer about 1901. In 
 1904 the Wizard Coil Vat (then called the Wizard Agi- 
 tator) was first made and sold. In 1908 the Disc Con- 
 tinuous Ice Cream Freezer was placed on the market. At 
 about the same time came the first power operated milk 
 bottle filling and capping machine. 
 
 The Company was the first to distribute sanitary fittings 
 on a national scale with a full line, and established a fac- 
 tory department devoted to their manufacture. It ac- 
 quired the general agency for the first homogenizers made 
 and sold in America. 
 
 The Company was among the first, if not the first, to 
 offer equipment made of stainless steel. In 1927 a very 
 exhaustive research was undertaken covering all available 
 materials for milk contact surfaces. The results were so 
 
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 strikingly in favor of stainless steel that the company de- 
 cided to concentrate on it and exhibited tanks and other 
 items of the new material at the Dairy Industries Exposi- 
 tion in Cleveland the autumn of 1927. In refrigeration 
 it has made important contributions, including populariz- 
 ing the direct expansion system. The Progress Ammonia 
 Freezer was acquired in 1923. In 1927 it developed the 
 first successful ammonia control and in the same year pro- 
 duced the Ammonia AgitatOr-Cooler. These develop- 
 ments made possible successful application of the direct 
 expansion system to practically all plant processes. In 
 1929 there was built in Chicago the first all-direct- 
 expansion ice cream plant anywhere. It was completely 
 CP equipped. 
 
 In pasteurization CP, the pioneer, continued at the front 
 with improvements in heat transfer and temperature con- 
 trol embodied in the Precision Heater, followed by the 
 Precision Tank Holder System in 1931 and the Film-Heat 
 Batch Pasteurizer for the smaller plants in 1934. The 
 bigger and better CP Model H Churns appeared in 1930. 
 In 1936, following a long period of test, came the CP Con- 
 tinuous Ice Cream Freezer. 
 
 The company was the first to produce commercial milk 
 irradiating equipment, used to impart Vitamin D to milk 
 through the use of Ultra Violet light. Its machines now 
 irradiate more than 80% of the irradiated milk sold in 
 the U.S. 
 
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 Research 
 
 THE dairy enterprise has been assisted in its rise from 
 a by-product of general agriculture to the largest food 
 product industry by invention and research. During the 
 earlier years inventions were the results of individual ini- 
 tiative, while the research facilities were supplied mostly 
 by agricultural experiment stations established in con- 
 nection with the land grant colleges. These institutions 
 are still doing splendid work. 
 
 Industrial research received an impetus following the 
 World War, coincident with a realization of industrial 
 management that invention and development could no 
 longer be carried on haphazardly, but must be planned 
 and organized on a long term basis. 
 
 The company's first step in independent research was 
 taken in 1925 when a member of the staff was designated 
 to devote a portion of his time to the development of 
 research. In 1937 the research force comprises several 
 research engineers and assistants and has been combined 
 with the development engineering section under the uni- 
 fied direction of a Director of Research and Development. 
 
 From this modernized set-up there have already come a 
 number of important developments, including the CP 
 Continuous Ice Cream Freezer, Improved Milk Can 
 Washing Machines and other items which are already 
 producing a substantial volume of business. Other devel- 
 opments are under way. 
 
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 The Company's Trade Mark 
 
 TRADE MARKS, in addiiioii to ihcir primary service 
 in trade by {providing an easy means of identification 
 and preventing substitution, have come to possess some 
 sentimental value. This is especially true where the 
 design is iniique or artistic. 
 
 A gcK)d trade mark should be simple, easily recognized 
 and reprodticible by numerous processes. The CP Trade 
 Mark meets these re(juirements. It is registered in the 
 U.S. Patent Office with respect to niunerous classes of 
 merchandise. Its greatest use, however, is in advertising 
 matter, catalog covers and on name plates, where it fur- 
 nishes the central figure for interesting and pleasing 
 designs and gives iniity to a diverse output. 
 
 The design has been the subject of many complimentary 
 comments. It originated in 1907 when President Higgs 
 appointed a committee of employees to work out an ac- 
 ceptable and modern trade mark. A rising young artist 
 was commissioned to prepare sketches and submit sugges- 
 tions. He did so and was authorized to proceed with 
 a plaque modelled in clay. A plaster cast which was 
 made of the original was later accidentally destroyed. The 
 accompanying plate is from a photograph of the original 
 clay model, but fails to do justice to the textural beauty 
 of the original. 
 
 The central figure in the plaque constitutes the trade 
 mark, the distinctive characteristics of which are the 
 curved triangle suggestive of the Gothic with the mono- 
 gram "CP" in hammered effect upon a stippled ground. 
 
 The original design as a whole might be classed as Vic- 
 torian, but its gradual evolution to modern stream-lining 
 without loss of identity evidences the fundamental sound- 
 ness of the designer's conception. 
 
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 ORIGINAL TRADE MARK 
 
 THE MODERN TRADE MARK 
 
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 LOCATIONS 
 
 Offices, Warehouses, Factories, Brajiches, Sub- 
 branches and Subsidiaries of The Creamery Package 
 Mfg. Company as of March I, 1937, together with 
 dates established or acquired. 
 
 General Offices: 1243 West Washinqton Blvd., Chicaqo, Illinois. 
 
 Occupying Own Building Erected in 1926. 
 
 Machinery and Dairy Equipment Factnries: 
 
 Fort Atkinson, Wis. Acquired from Cornish, Curtis 
 & Greene Mfg. Co. in 1898. Enlarged in 1919 and 
 again in 1931. 
 
 Lake Mills, Wis. Acquired from F. B. Fargo &: Co. in 
 1898. New factory erected on present site in 1910. 
 Large modern addition erected in 1931. 
 
 DeKalb, 111. Erected in 1906 to manufacture refrigerat- 
 ing machinery theretofore made at Chicago. En- 
 larged in 1923. 
 
 Derby, Conn. Acquired from Davis-Watkins Dairy- 
 men's Mfg. Co. in 1923. Continues the manufacture 
 of homogenizers, ice cream freezers, milk heaters 
 and coolers and special equipment. 
 
 North Chicago, 111. Acquired from Davis-Watkins 
 Dairymen's Mfg. Co. in 1923. Printing Department 
 and warehouse only. 
 
 Packaqe Factnries (Bntter Tubs and Butter Tufa Stock): 
 
 Portland, Indiana. Acquired in 1887 and continuously 
 operated since that time. Butter Tubs. 
 
 Minneapolis, Minn. Acquired in 1920. Butter Tubs. 
 
 Omaha, Nebr. Established in 1927. Butter Tubs. 
 
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 Toledo, Oregon. Established in 1927. Produces Spruce 
 Butter Tub stock for mid-western factories. 
 
 Milk and Ice Cream Can Factnry: 
 
 Arlington Heights, 111. Acquired in 1922 from Bray 
 & Kates Mfg. Co., but previously operated on joint 
 account since 1902. 
 
 Sales Branches: (Each branch serves territnry cnntipinns tn 
 nffice Incatinn) 
 
 Chicago, 111. Established prior to 1887. Offices in Gen- 
 eral Office Building at 1243 W. Washington Blvd. 
 Maintains warehouse at 1631 Carroll Ave., Chicago. 
 
 Kansas City, Mo. Established prior to 1887 and con- 
 tinuously operated to date. Located in Company's 
 own building at 1408 W. 12th St. Operates ware- 
 house at same address. 
 
 Minneapolis, Minn. Established in 1888 when sales 
 department moved from Mankato. Located at 318 
 Third St. North. Operates warehouse at same 
 address. 
 
 Omaha, Nebr. Established in 1898. Located in Com- 
 pany's own building at 11 3 South Tenth St. Oper- 
 ates warehouse at same address. 
 
 Waterloo, la. Acquired by purchase in 1898. Office 
 and warehouse located in Company's building at 406 
 Sycamore St. Also operates warehouse at 600 E. 
 Court St., Des Moines, la. 
 
 Toledo, Ohio. Established in 1905. Office and ware- 
 house located at 500 Broadway. 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa. Established in 1914. Office and ware- 
 house located at 2412 Walnut St. 
 
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 Buffalo, N. Y. Established in 1914 as a warehouse. Be- 
 came a branch in 1920 when New York City Branch 
 consolidated with warehouse. Located at 25 Ellicott 
 St. 
 
 San Francisco, Calif. Established 1915. Office and 
 warehouse located at 699 Battery St. 
 
 Portland, Ore. Established 1919. Office and warehouse 
 located at 33 N. W. Front Ave. Also operates ware- 
 house at 357 W. 2nd S. St., Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 Boston, Mass. Established 1922. Office and warehouse 
 located at 1 38 Washington St. N. 
 
 New York, N. Y. Acquired 1923 with business of Davis- 
 Watkins Dairymen's Mfg. Co., then located in fac- 
 tory at Jersey City. Office and warehouse now lo- 
 cated at 76 Ninth Ave., Manhattan. 
 
 Denver, Colo. Acquired 1923 with business of Davis- 
 Watkins Dairymen's Mfg. Co. Office and warehouse 
 located in company's own building at 1851 Lawrence 
 St. 
 
 Atlanta, Ga. Established 1923, but operated as sub- 
 branch of Chicago from 1933 to October 1, 1935, 
 when re-established as branch. Office and warehouse 
 located at 692 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E. 
 
 Los Angeles, Calif. Established 1923 as warehouse sub- 
 sidiary to San Francisco Branch. Became a branch 
 on April 1, 1927. Office and warehouse located at 
 1271 E. Sixth St. 
 
 Seattle, Wash. Established 1927 as branch. In 1933 
 became sub-branch of Portland. Re-established as 
 branch February 1, 1936. Office and warehouse lo- 
 cated at 410 Occidental Ave. 
 
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 Dallas, Tex. Established 1934 as sub-branch of Kansas 
 City. Became a branch February 1, 1936. Office and 
 warehouse located at 801 Ross Ave. 
 
 Subsidiaries: 
 
 Great Britain. The Creamery Package Mfg. Company, 
 Ltd. Office location — Avery House, Clerkenwell 
 Green, London, E. C. 1. Operated in association 
 with Avery & Co., who manufacture numerous CP 
 specialties in Great Britain. Established 1932. 
 
 Dominion of Canada. Creamery Package Mfg. Co. of 
 Canada, Ltd. Office and warehouse located at 267 
 King St. W., Toronto, Ontario. Established 1934. 
 
 Because of their unfailing dependability under long and severe service 
 CP Vertical Compressors have an unexcelled reputation in the Dairy 
 
 Industry. 
 
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 Discontinued Locations 
 
 ELSIAVHKRK is a list of points at which CP opera- 
 tions are tarried on at this date. Naturally, in the 
 cotirse of fifty years, niimerotis changes have occurred. 
 Some of these are merely incidental to day-to-day opera- 
 tions. Others were sulliciently well known to be worthy 
 of special mention. 
 
 Chicago Factory. In 1898 the business of A. H. Barber 
 R: Co. was acquired and the operation of the Barber ma- 
 chine shop at West 16th St. and Campbell Ave. was con- 
 tinued for several years, or until erection of the DeKalb 
 factory in 1906. Refrigerating machinery constituted the 
 largest item, but for a time sanitary milk pumps, sanitary 
 fittings, skim milk weighers and bottle soakers and washers 
 were also made in the Chicago factory. 
 
 Elgin Factory. This was established prior to the incor- 
 poration of The Creamery Package Mfg. Company by 
 Wood and Sherwin, who were large creamery operators 
 in the Elgin district, then the most concentrated butter 
 producing area west of the Allegheny Mountains, if not 
 in the U.S. Its location, withlarge demand within a short 
 radius of the plant, enabled a large business to be built up. 
 The growth of the Chicago metropolitan area with the 
 resultant demand for fluid milk brought about a trans- 
 formation in the Elgin territory so that the advantage of 
 a package factory in that territory disappeared and the 
 factory was discontinued in 1926. 
 
 Blytheville, Ark. This was primarily a timber opera- 
 tion, producing white ash stock for the several tub fac- 
 tories as well as finished tubs. The company acquired a 
 large tract of timber land and began operations in 1909. 
 operating logging crews, camps, sawmill and logging rail- 
 road. Operations continued imtil 1928, when the timber 
 
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 supply became exhausted to the extent that operations 
 were no longer profitable. The mill was dismantled and 
 equipment not usable at other points, disposed of. The 
 cut-over area is being converted into farm land. The 
 Blytheville operation was similar in its general aspects to 
 that now in operation at Toledo, Oregon. In both cases, 
 the company produced raw materials for conversion in 
 factories located near the point of consumption. 
 
 Rutland, Vt. From 1905 to 1925 the company operated 
 a factory at Rutland, Vt. The plant was acquired from 
 the Stoddard Mfg. Co., who built stave silos and some 
 dairy equipment, and also acted prior to purchase, as New 
 England distributors of CP products. In 1909 the sales 
 office was removed to Albany, N. Y., where a warehouse 
 was established, but the silo business was continued at 
 Rutland with satisfactory residts for many years, but 
 gradually declined until in 1925 it was closed down and 
 the factory disposed of. The Albany warehouse burned 
 in 1914, after which the sales office was moved to New 
 York City with warehouse facilities at Buffalo. In 1920 
 the New York office was consolidated with the Buffalo 
 warehouse as a sales branch. 
 
 CoFFEYViLLE FACTORY. Dairy and poultry products were 
 formerly closely associated and the company's older 
 branches were large distributors of poultry and egg 
 packers' supplies. To assure the quality of its e^g case 
 fillers, the company purchased the North Star Mfg. Co. 
 at Coffeyville, Kans., in 1906. It continued to operate 
 the plant until 1931, when it was sold to Central Fibre 
 Products Company, who operate several factories special- 
 izing in strawboard and similar products. 
 
 Other points at which the company operated plants pro- 
 ducing butter packages or materials therefor were located 
 
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 at Fremont, Nebr., Rock Island. HI.. Mankato, Minn., 
 Butternut, Wis., Kiel, Wis., HluHton, Ind.. So. Whitley, 
 Ind.. Decatur, Ind.. Nappanee. Ind., Bay C'.ity, Mich.. 
 Cold water. Ohio. These plants were closed dtie to ex- 
 haustion of materials, shifting demand or other causes. 
 During the fifty years of its existence, the general olhces 
 have occupied six different locations in Chicago. 
 
 The original location was at 20 and 26 N. Clark St. (old 
 number) . This was north of the Chicago River and at 
 the viaduct over the C. k N. W. tracks on Carroll Ave. 
 The next location, in the first real estate owned by the 
 company was at 1, -^ and 5 W. Washington St. This was 
 purchased for a permanent home in 1892. However, a few 
 years later the site was purchased and taken over by the 
 Sanitary District, incidental to the digging of the sanitary 
 canal. 
 
 In 1903 temporary quarters were occupied at 153 E. Supe- 
 rior St. (old number) and late in that year the offices 
 were again moved to the company's newly purchased 
 building on Kinzie St. It was then known as 182-188 
 East Kinzie, but in 1908 a new street numbering system 
 was adopted and the address became 61 to 67 West Kinzie. 
 Although the building was sold in 1919, the Company 
 continued to occupy it until December 31, 1926. 
 
 CP Model H Churn is the current favorite atnonif creamery oiuners who 
 seek to make the best possible product. 
 
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 In 1911 space was rented at 30 No. La Salle and occupied 
 by the general offices (not sales branch) until 1915, when 
 the sales branch and general offices were re-united at the 
 West Kinzie St. address. 
 
 On January 2, 1927, the company's general offices and 
 sales branch office opened in the new building at 1243 
 W. Washington Blvd., where the 50th anniversary is 
 celebrated. 
 
 LOOKING BOTH WAYS 
 
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 s oF THE CREAMERY 
 
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 Chairman 
 
 Bd. of Dir. President Gen. Mgr. Vice Pres. Vice Pres. 
 
 C. M. Gates 
 
 - C. M. Gates D. E. Wood F. B. Fareo 
 
 M <• M .. 
 
 W. W. Shcrwin " VV. W. Sherwin 
 
 C. H. Higgs 
 
 C. H. Higgs 
 " C. H. Higgs D. E. Wood 
 
 C. H. Higgs 
 
 4< 
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 H. J. Ferris 
 
 D. E. Wood 
 
 C. M. Gates 
 
 F. J. Macnish 
 
 H. H. Curtis 
 
 F. J. Macnish 
 
 H. H. Curtis E. W. Chandler " C. S. Hook 
 
 E.W. Chandler 
 
 G. F. Belknap 
 
 G. F. Belknap E. W. Chandler 
 
 A. W. Craven C. S. Hook 
 
 F. J. Macnish 
 
 G. E. Wallis 
 
 H. H. Curtis 
 
 G. F. Belknap 
 G. E. Wallis
 
 PACKAGE MFG. CDMPAIVY 
 
 Vice Pres. Secretary Treasurer Gen. Counsel Ass't Sec. 
 
 VV. W. Sherwin Geo. Walker 
 Geo. Walker D. H. Roe 
 H. H. Curtis 
 
 Ass't Treas. 
 
 A. H. Barber 
 
 C. H. Higgs G. F. Belknap Geo. Walker 
 Geo. Walker 
 
 D. E. Wood 
 H. J. Ferris Geo. Walker 
 
 F. J. Macnish 
 
 H. J. Ferris 
 
 F. J. Macnish Geo. Walker 
 
 E. W. Chandler W. McBroom 
 H. J. Ferris 
 
 Geo. Walker 
 
 «« <« <« 
 
 E. W. Chandler Geo. Walker 
 
 G. F. Belknap " Geo. Walker 
 C. S. Hook 
 
 W. McBroom 
 
 W. McBroom 
 
 A. W. Craven 
 
 H. B. Osgood 
 
 R. F. Davis 
 
 H. H. Curtis 
 
 H. B. Osgood 
 
 R. E. Drake 
 
 R. F. Davis E. K. Dclana 
 
 R. E. Drake 
 
 G. E. Wallis 
 
 E. B. Lehrack 
 
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