Coca-Cola Bottling Company
COCA COLA BOTTLING COMPANY
Source: Waveland Independent, July 19, 1951
These well known bottlers of Coca Cola, the nation's favorite soft drink have a modern plant and offices on the Lafayette Road at Crawfordsville for the "Pause That Refreshes" drink Coca Cola, it is everywhere. Coca-Cola is the year 'round beverage which may be readily seen by the activity of trucks of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. in Crawfordsville. They are seen the year around busily conveying this refreshing drink to the many retail establishments. This further proves their slogan, "Thirst Knows No Season." Coca-Cola is a pure drink of wholesome natural flavor, with no artificial flavoring or coloring - complying with the pure food laws all over the world. Automatically Coca Cola is put into each sterilized bottle - machinery Measures the Coca Cola and then adds the carbonated water, chilled to the exact degrees that holds it life and sparkle. Nothing you eat or drink is more carefully protected. The success of the Coca Cola Bottling Co. in Crawfordsville could never have been accomplished by fad or luck, its business has been built gradually through many years of effort and hard work. Many prefer Coca Cola in the handy 6-bottle carton. F or home use, Coca Cola goes hand in hand with good things to eat.
Source: Indianapolis Times 30 Oct 1931 p 29
These are the companies that sponsored the large ad in the above newspaper honoring the Wabash football team:
Adler’s Women’s Smart Apparel – Ben Hur Building
Hirshburg Photographer (to Wabash for 7 years)
Em-Roe Equipment (Indianapolis)
American Stages (Indy?)
Vondera Theater (not sure where this was Adults 25 cents; Children 10 cents – see the show after the game “Side Show” for all ages)! (Indy?)
Crawfordsville Paint & Wallpaper
Schlemmer’s Cigar Store
Newton-Busenbark Grain-Coal
Pearlman Grocer
American Laundry & Cleaning
Elston Bank & Trust Company
Crawford Hotel Pharmacy
FC Mueller Tailor
Service Laundry & Dry Cleaning
Crawfordsville Casket Company
May Thomas Cooksey
Robert J. Millis, MD
HA Kinnaman, MD
Byron Lingeman, MD
Carroll O. Beeson, AIA
Earle Wilkinson Insurance-Real Estate
Blue Bird Cleaners
Bake’s Place (Jamestown)
Englewood Inn
Dixie Garage
Royal Garment Cleaners
Wayside Inn
Foot of Hill
Forest Hill
Sta-Curl Beauty Shop (Roberta Wilkins)
Edwards & Moore
Henry F. Miller, Plumbing
Butter Cup Butter (Farmer’s Produce
Howell-Goodwin Printing
Evans Cleaning Co.
Harry S. Shanklin Clothing
Bank Cigar Store
Producers Dairy
S.E. Grimes Quality Shoe Rebuilding
Goodman’s Department Store
Crawfordsville Paint & Wall paper
Coca-Cola
Publix Strand Theater
Mid-States Steel & Wire
RR Donnelley & Sons