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1921 – 1949, in two directory states
How it was missed: milk delivery was a daily trade too ordinary for the flagship frame and too urban for the farms file, which owns the county's dairies as agriculture. The city trade — the bottling dairy, the depots, the dealers who ran the rounds — is in the directories under three headings, and it has a Mishawaka company at its head.
The two states: in 1921 the Mishawaka Farmers' Dairy Co., at 545 W. 3d, stands under Dairies and again under Milk Depots — the town's dairy company, a farmers' company by its name, bottling at W. 3d. Around it, under Milk Dealers, stand four more: Cook Clarence L., rear 218 E. 9th; the North Side Dairy Co., 312 W. Lawrence; Rudduck Harry I., 722 E. 3d; and Stonehill & Felton, rear 1109 E. 4th — the rear addresses themselves the shape of the trade, small dairies run behind houses and stores, delivering a perishable the ice trade in this section kept cold. By 1949 the classified's milk list, interleaved in a poor scan, still carries the Mishawaka Farmers' Dairy Co. — at a 724 address the scan does not carry further — and the Oak Ridge Dairy, 2518 Lincoln Way W. One name under the same heading is boundary-printed: the National Milk Co., 921 Louise, which the directory itself tags to South Bend — a South Bend house in the Mishawaka list, not counted as this city's. The delivery trade's end — the year the last Mishawaka round ran, and whether the Farmers' Dairy was absorbed or closed — is in none of the records reached; the Tribune and the state dairy reports are the settling sources, and the item stands in the closing article. The farm side of the milk — the Penn Township herds that filled the bottles — is the farms file's, and is pointed to, not retold.
Sources:
- Polk's Mishawaka City Directory (1921), classified directory — headings Dairies; Milk Dealers; Milk Depots.
- Polk's South Bend and Mishawaka City Directory (1949), Mishawaka classified, heading Milk Dealers, as read from a poor scan, the National Milk Co. boundary-printed on the directory's own tagging.