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The saloons article covers Lakeville's keepers and stops; the checklist asks whether the keepers ever combined to brew — and in the county seat they did, in the one form the record gives the pattern anywhere near this town. In June 1903 the tavern and saloon keepers of South Bend — men of German, Polish and Hungarian descent, the same trades the saloons article counts at Lakeville in ones and twos — organised the South Bend Brewing Association: a brewers' association of saloon keepers, the trade brewing for itself rather than buying from the great houses. Its plant was completed in 1905 in the 1600 block of Lincolnway West. Through Prohibition it traded as the South Bend Beverage and Ice Association, selling Hoosier Cream Soda and ice; George Voedisch, a twenty-five-year veteran of the Muessel brewery, took its presidency and management in 1922, and his family held control until the end. By 1950 production had fallen to 25,000 barrels a year, and the association closed. They did not, at any strength the record reaches.