Newspaper/Resource Search
| Name |
Subject |
Categories |
Source |
Date |
Pg |
Col |
| Businesses - Victoria |
Victoria Creamery to dissolve ass'n at meeting |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Waconia Patriot |
7/29/1948 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Creamery - Picnic prized winners (Many names) |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
9/2/1948 |
4 |
1,2 |
| New Germany Creamery |
Sold to Camden Township |
|
Norwood Times |
11/19/1948 |
1 |
4 |
| Businesses |
New Germany creamery building sold to Camden town for a storage shed |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Carver County News |
11/25/1948 |
4 |
2 |
| Businesses - Bongards |
Bongards co-op creamery - One of world's cheese factories, largest & still growing |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Norwood Times (Also Pg. 4/Col. 2,3) |
8/26/1949 |
1 |
6 |
| Businesses |
Local creamery assn. reports profitable year - 1950 receipts climb to total of $880,462. |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/23/1950 |
1 |
|
| Wellens, George |
named Creamery Board President |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
3/16/1950 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Sugar City Co-op Creamery hits million dollar mark |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
3/6/1952 |
1 |
2 |
| Businesses - Chaska |
Sugar City Co-op Creamery again hits million mark |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/19/1953 |
1 |
2,3,4 |
| Schools - Young America |
District 42 - Auction 1/2 mile south of Maple creamery |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Carver County News |
2/26/1953 |
3 |
3 |
| Bongards Creamery |
Markets $5,115,371 in 1952 |
|
Norwood Times |
3/6/1953 |
1 |
4 |
| Lunow, H. H. |
resigned from New Germany Co-op Creamery ( 17 years ago) |
|
Carver County News |
3/19/1953 |
4 |
1 |
| Bongard's Creamery |
Sidetrack to bring railroad to door |
|
Norwood Times |
9/25/1953 |
1 |
1 |
| Businesses - Carver |
Mn. Cave Cheese Co: Roof of creamery damaged by fire |
- Business & Industry: Creameries
- Disasters: Fires |
Weekly Valley Herald |
7/1/1954 |
1 |
1 |
| Businesses - Waconia |
Waconia Creamery Assn. - Warehouse bldg. moved |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Waconia Patriot |
8/5/1954 |
10 |
|
| Zimmerman, Everett |
new manager of sugar City Co-op creamery |
|
Weekly Valley Herald |
11/4/1954 |
1 |
2 |
| Businesses - Bongards |
Bongards Co-op Creamery: Cheese took 1st place at fair |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
8/25/1955 |
12 |
5 |
| Businesses - Bongards |
Bongards Co- op Creamery: Bongards plant ordered to provide disposal facility |
- Business & Industry: Creameries
- Environment & Ecology: Refuse & Disposal |
Waconia Patriot |
9/1/1955 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Watertown |
Creamery end of operations expected soon |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Carver County News |
10/13/1955 |
1 |
6 |
| Businesses - Chaska |
Sugar City Creamery completes big year. Volume exceed a million dollars |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/23/1956 |
1 |
1 |
| Ottinger , Howard . |
retired from Chaska creamery |
|
Carver County News |
3/8/1956 |
4 |
4 |
| Gordhammer, Harry. |
new owner of creamery |
|
Carver County News |
6/7/1956 |
4 |
1 |
| Mueller, Carl T. |
Former Hamburg Man Mgr. Albany Creamery/ Photo |
|
Norwood Times |
7/20/1956 |
1 |
5 |
| Businesses - Mayer |
Mayer Creamery |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
7/26/1956 |
1 |
1 |
| Businesses - Bongards |
Bongards co-op creamery wins cheese awards |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Norwood Times |
11/8/1956 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Waconia |
Waconia Creamery Assn., - Waconia creamery expansion completed |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Waconia Patriot |
12/13/1956 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Chaska |
Sugar City Creamery - Sales hit new record |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/14/1957 |
1 |
4,5 |
| Businesses - Carver |
Carver Creamery, ingenuity and water save money... Carver Firemen reduced chimney at creamery building |
- Business & Industry: Creameries
- Disasters: Fires |
Weekly Valley Herald |
5/23/1957 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Carver |
Minneapolis Plastic Molders, Inc., moved plant from LeRoy, Minn. Plastic factory locates in Carver Creamery site |
Business & Industry: Ceramics Industry, Potteries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
6/6/1957 |
1 |
|
| Clausen, J. M. |
Former Camden Creameryman dies |
|
Waconia Patriot |
11/28/1957 |
5 |
|
| Organizations - Waconia |
Waconia Creamery Assoc. to hold 50th annual meeting, Dec. 10th |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Waconia Patriot |
12/5/1957 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Watertown |
Creamery building purchased by Fratzke's |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Carver County News |
10/23/1958 |
1 |
6 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Fratzke's (Open House) at former creamery building |
Business & Industry: General Stores |
Carver County News |
3/19/1959 |
1 |
2 |
| Businesses - Watertown |
Creamery Building smokestack removed (Photo) |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Carver County News |
4/23/1959 |
1 |
6 |
| Businesses - Chaska |
Sugar City Co-op Creamery income totals record high |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/11/1960 |
1 |
6 |
| Businesses - Waconia |
Waconia Creamery Assn., - Waconia Creamery adds building addition & improved equipment |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Waconia Patriot |
11/17/1960 |
1 |
|
| Businesses |
Sugar City Co-op Creamery income totals $1,513,938.55 |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Weekly Valley Herald |
2/16/1961 |
1 |
|
| Businesses - Waconia |
Waconia Creamery Assn., 1961 sales total $5,008,825.10 |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Waconia Patriot |
12/14/1961 |
1 |
|
| Organizations - Waconia |
Waconia Creamery Assoc. - Westpahl scores second in States buttermaking |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Waconia Patriot |
4/5/1962 |
1 |
|
| Organizations - Waconia |
Waconia Creamery Assoc. - New well at creamery produces, 400 gallons of water a minute |
Business & Industry: Creameries |
Waconia Patriot |
10/18/1962 |
5 |
|
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