Reviewing the news: Cheese wheels and roller wheels
March 22, 1924: New cheese factory to open Apr. 1
Final plans for the opening of the new cheese factory are being rushed to completion and unless some unforeseen difficulty comes up the plant will be ready to receive milk from the farmers by April first John Coverdale, local manager, announced today.
“The farmers are to have an opportunity of bringing to this factory all the milk they can spare and we can make use of it,” Mr. Coverdale stated. “The present capacity will allow us to use 5,000 quarts of milk a week and if this amount cannot take care of the business we can quickly increase the output,” he stated.
Mr. Coverdale in explaining the business said he wanted the farmers to bear with him for a while and not expect too much from the new concern at first, but stated that at Levering the cheese factory turns out about 200 cheese each week and find a ready market and that the farmers who haul milk to that station have always found it satisfactory and expressed the hope that the farmers of this community will give the local concern the opportunity of getting started by a good substantial supply.
“This cheese factory,” continued Mr. Coverdale, “is only the starting of the dairy business in this region and if it received the right kind of support, the farmers in the course of a year or so will find through building up their herds and by going into the dairy business more extensively that the cheese factory will be but a side issue and that a condensary will be located here. There are unusual possibilities in the dairy business especially in the north where for years the farmers have contended themselves with banking on a single crop. If a farmer in this region will maintain sufficient cattle to insure a good supply of milk each day the crop business will be but a secondary consideration,” Mr. Coverdale declared, “and the farmers as a result will find a ready market for a farm product that will bring them an annual income.”
“This will make the farmer independent of the potato market, or the grain market or hay market and as a result, he will prosper from his herd of cattle and should the time come when he hit ‘a good market for his potatoes and other crops, he will find himself on easy street,’” Mr Coverdale predicts.
Farmers with milk to sell are urged to get in touch with Mr. Coverdale at once and make arrangement to get the supply to the factory.
March 22, 1974: Roller skating will be continued here
Roller skating will continue on a weekly basis at the Recreation Center, even though other activities which have been underway through the winter will be terminated April 1.
The Recreation Department has reconsidered its announced intention of closing the Recreation Center to roller skating also. Participation in roller skating, one of the new programs instituted last year by Recreation Director De Isard, runs high. The weekend schedule will be continued, and people can skate Sat. and Sunday.
Mr. Isard explained that other winter activities will be terminated April 1, because the winter program was budgeted on an Oct. 1-April 1 basis.
“This does not mean that the doors will be closed,” he emphasized. “We have plans for running a Spring program consisting of activities that children and adults will participate in next summer, such as tennis.
“I have qualified instructors in many fields of summer activities that will donate instructions in these areas of recreation. This program was not budgeted, but as the Director I felt that it would give us a boost for our summer programs and with no cost to the City.”
Clinics to teach tennis, softball, and baseball were mentioned by Mr. Isard for the Spring program.
This article originally appeared on The Petoskey News-Review: Reviewing the news: Cheese wheels and roller wheels
