Chero-Cola Bottling Works

What I know about Chero-Cola.

Taylor County Herald

July 9, 1915

New Bottling Plant soon in Operation

Chero-Cola Company will establish plant here. To be in operation soon.

All arrangements have been completed for the establishment of a Chero-Cola Bottling plant in Perry.

C. M. Callicott and W. H. Clark have secured the Chero-Cola contract for this section, leased the Morgan building and purchased all modern equipment.

There has been a demand for Chero-Cola by those who are familiar with the drink and there seems no doubt of the success of the new plant. Wherever the drink is sold it meets with increasing popularity and favor at the hands of the public.

Mr. Callicott states that they will use electric motors for power and that the equipment is of the automatic type and absolutely sanitary in every way. Some of the machinery has already arrived in Pery and it is estimated the plant will begin operations about August 1st.

Mr. Callicott is an experienced hand at the bottling business, and at the time he conducted bottling plants in this part of the state, his patrons were enthusiastic over the quality of his product. He and Mr. Clark will make a good team, for the latter is intimately familiar with conditions over the entire territory which they will cover.

This add was in The Taylor County Herald December 28, 1918 the paper was celebrating the end of the First World War.

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Taylor County Herald

January 26,1923

Fire Destroys Chero-Cola Bottling Works

Thursday morning about three-thirty the Chero-Cola Bottling Works, near the L. O. P. & G. depot, was discovered to be a mass of flames and the big building and contents were completely destroyed before the fire department could arrive on the scene. The building, which was erected only a little over a year ago, and a modern and up to date bottling plant, was property of W. H. Clark, who had conducted the business for the past several years and the loss falls heavily on him, as little insurance was carried on the building and contents. A big delivery truck, which was usually kept in Mr. Clark's garage at his home here in the city, was also destroyed, it having been brought in late the night before from a long trip.

The origin of the fire is a mystery as the building contained a cement floor and the furnace was amply protected, being surrounded with concrete walls.

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From Wikipedia

The first product in the Royal Crown line was Royal Crown Ginger Ale in 1905,[4] followed by Royal Crown Strawberry, and Royal Crown Root Beer. The company was renamed Chero-Cola in 1910, and in 1925, called Nehi Corporation after its colored and flavored drinks. In 1934, Chero-Cola was reformulated by Rufus Kamm, a chemist, and re-released as Royal Crown Cola.