The above picture of the Union City Creamery was scanned from a picture at the Hammond House this past September.
The article below appeared the "Peerless Union City Michigan" booklet published by Tom F. Robinson in 1903.
THE
UNION CITY CREAMERY
Which
has been in operation less than two years, is already on a good paying basis
and proves of great benefit to the farmers of this vicinity. It is a co-operative concern, the stock being held
by fifty representative farmers of this vicinity and a few business men of this
city, and the object in view is not to make a distribution of large dividends
to the stockholders, but rather to distribute the profits to patrons by giving
them the top-notch prices for their milk. The creamery was established in July, 1901, and
the capital stock is $10,000. The plant
is a model one, occupying a building erected expressly for the purpose and
being equipped with the latest improved machinery for the manufacture of
high-grade creamery butter. Since June, 1902, the management of the business has been in
the hands of Mrs. C. B. Spore, who has proved her capability by the
establishment of many new milk routes, thus adding to the number of patrons, as
well as by increasing
Union City Creamery.
and
obtaining the highest Philadelphia and Cleveland fancy prices for the product.
The head butter-maker is Mr. C. S. Graves, an expert in this line, who has had
twenty years' experience and whose services here have given the best of satisfaction. The receipts of milk
will average 12,000 pounds daily, and the average daily manufacture of butter
equals 500 pounds. The creamery is a
great boon to the farmers of this vicinity, saving them as it does the labor
attendant upon the manufacture of butter and yielding them a much higher price than
they would otherwise be able to obtain. The
milk wagons traverse regular routes and gather the milk which is delivered at
the creamery. The officers of the Union
City Creamery Company are: President, B. W. Bray; Vice-President, C. J. Leonard;
Treasurer, D. D. Buell; Secretary and Manager, Mrs. C. B. Spore; Directors, J.
P. Fox, J. M. Wheeler, S. S. Melody, Jas. Martin, and L. S. Burnett.
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