Here's a new thread post in case anyone wants to continue on this topic. Thought it would be nicer to have it as it's own thread, rather than hijacking Les Fords's obituary.
Yes ,you are right of course...sorry about that! Thanks all for the information.
I understand "Creamery". UD has one and they make ice cream to sell from their own dairy herd. Mom's hometown, Horton, had one too, but they just called it the Horton Dairy. They sold milk, cream, ice cream, and cheeses. It's long gone now.
I remember also the milk pick up stops along the railroad tracks when I was in elementary school. Slowly but surely that was replaced by the big milk tank trucks that went to the farms to pick up from the chilled holding tanks. One of our friends, Jim Wood had a milk pick up route through New Castle County Del and Chester Co. PA. He had all kinds of goofy stories to tell. Does Elk County still have any dairy farms left?
when Ford's had the creamery in Severy if I'm not thinking of someone else, the building had two sides. The East door was the creamery and the west door entered into a place they sold shoes. When McIntyers (sp) had it they sold some groceries in the west side. That is been many many years ago. Also there was a creamery east of the main drag behind the grocery that was on the NE corner of the main intersection. Okay, that is taxing my brain too severly.
T. Sackett posted in March 2008 a mention of the Fall City Creamery being in Howard in 1943.
Was this place on the south side of Washington west of Wabash?
In 2006, Janet Harrington posted mention of DeCoursey's creamery in Moline.
Photo of DeCoursey Cream Company in Moline.
This would seem to be a substation of the DeCoursey Cream company in Wichita?
I seem to recall DeCoursey's ice cream.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ksdecoursey/pics/moline.html
Thank you, ddurbin. I didn't feel right posting that on the obiturary site.
Does anyone know if there were in co-ops in Howard/Elk County that dealt with the milk and milk products and was most of it sold locally or was it shipped by train to Wichita.
Quote from: ddurbin on March 26, 2012, 09:52:07 AM
Here's a new thread post in case anyone wants to continue on this topic. Thought it would be nicer to have it as it's own thread, rather than hijacking Les Fords's obituary.
Dan you are right in doing it,
But my guess is that Les was enjoying the discussion, except he couldn't join in.
I remember Ferrys cream station, they bought cream and eggs and sold feed. Also I remember that right across the alley from Ferry's was another cream station that bought milk and eggs and sold feed, the lady that ran it first name was Alta, I will think of her last name later. THE DECOURSEY plant in moline made great cheese, you could go there and buy big rounds of cheese. I seem to remember that you had to sell them your milk to buy the cheese, probably because they didn't want to make the retailers mad. Lots of hog farmers got the whey or separated part of the milk for feeding their hogs. Worked one summer for a farmer that had a dairy and sold the milk to decoursey's and we took a pickup with a tank on it and got a load of the whey for hog feed.
Thanks Dan.
You can't get a dairy farm in operation in kansas for less than 150,000 now days. thats just for the building that has to be permitted and up to kansas diary codes. I can't remember how much is for permitting but i think its like about 1/3 the cost, extortion fees you pay to government. What is sad is that theres at least one dairy i know of that was grandfathered in and i wouldn't buy anything from it its so dirty. And they raise hell if a farmer produces clean milk. I drink mine raw straight from the cow. Have never been sick from it and most likely never will. can't drink that stuff they sell as milk in the grocery stores.
If I can can set myself into the right frame of mind, I can still taste the longhorn cheese from DeCoursey. At the same time, I can smell the whey as I pass by DeCoursey Creamery. Guys working there would shower and still have a faint smell of whey on them.
One of my daughters has a flea market near Viola. She purchased an old Decoursey Ice Cream sign from an auction here in Wichita. Put it up on her business. My dad use to paint signs around Elk County and neighboring areas. As I looked at the sign which had been re-painted several times, I imagined it could have been my Dad's work. Hard to tell for sure. Daughter's business is in the same building that Paul Landsdowne, (former KBI man that lived in the Moline area for few years) had a grocery store, gas station and sold bait to people going to Cheney Lake. Paul and my Dad were good friends. They had two kids, boy, Paul, Jr. and a girl. Cannot remember her name.
Percy Reynolds ran Decoursey in Moline. Live in the house north of DeCoursey. When we had the Corner Cafe, he would usually have a piece of apple pie with cheese on top. Who can name the people that worked there?
May I switch from Elk County to the Viola area for just a moment?
Granny, just where close to Viola is your daughter's place? I used to know that area quite well.
Clommel Pitstop Grill and Flea Market, 7105 S 183rd St West, K42 Hwy & 183rd St West. When Paul Landsdowne had the place it was not in the Viola area. When we left to visit the Landsdownes we were going to Shulte.
Thank you. I will be going out that way in a couple of months. Will pay special attention when we go by. Clonmel was where we used to turn south to go to Clearwater when carrying the mail. Otherwise we just continued on SW on what we called the Diagonal since it followed the railroad tracks. Now it is K 42. At that time it was gravel.
The DeCoursey sign is on the west side of the building on the diagonal. they are only open Wednesday though Saturday if you want to stop.
My folks ran the creamery in Longton in 39-40. Well, my Mon said she ran the creamery and my Dad played snooker.
Quote from ole granny:
Who can name the people that worked there?
I remember Alfred Baker working there and I think Homer Mosher. I was just a pup but their long horn cheese had to be the best in Mac & Cheese
Dales memories of Decoursey:
Dale delivered milk there from the time he was in high school until they stopped handling canned milk (10gal. size containers) in 1962. He says money made from that paid for his fun on Sat. nights. When he stopped milking cows he had aquired a lot of old cream cans. He took these and cut off the bottom portion to make water troughs for his starting hog operation. He remembers buying Longhorn cheese there for around 5 or6 dollars a horn.
Percy Reynolds was Manager
Herkie Bear head cheese maker
Bob Kill
Dale Julian
Gene "Frog" Ferguson
Boyd "Moose" Mc Glasson
Jamie Baker
Homer Mosher
Billy Morgan
Ed Metcalf
Walter Scobbe
all workded there at one time. Sure hope I got his memories straight:)
I figured Dale would know most of the guys that worked there. More than I could remember for sure. Remembered Bob, Dale, Ed, Percy and of course, Herky. Should have known Homer, Baker and Frog. Does anyone hear from Frog or know where he is?
Wish we could still buy the longhorn cheese and at that price..or even higher.....
Frog passed away several years ago, maybe before Peanut, your brother did. We were all good friends and ran around together. Frog lived in San Antonio and Boyd McGlasson looked him up while down there and found out this information.
Sorry to hear that. Always liked Frog. Thanks for the info.