The article I am talking about is in this month's edition of the Ohio's Rural Electric Cooperatives Inc. trade magazine with the same title.
http://www.ohioruralelectric.coop/magazines/country-living/january-2011
The Findlay Bottle Club's good friends Lou and Sue McFadden, and Parker Higby, are mentioned and quoted in the article. They are all long time Ohio milk bottle collectors, and have set up at our club show zillions of times. Parker's collection is about 250, with 200 of them being One-of-a-Kinds - wow! The McFadden collection holds over 3,600 Ohio milk bottles! Wowie-wow!
Lou and Sue McFadden worte the book titled Ohio's Dairies which is fascinating. It lists the dairies, and includes pix of the buildings then and now, and other info. An invaluable resource for collectors. You may purchase one of the few remaining copies from the McFaddens - just email Sue for info.
You can read the entire magazine online here -- if you're interested in Ohio, there are some other fun articles. Check out the pictures of the buildings in Ohio that have murals painted on their walls.
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Great article. Just purchased a pint and quart Rogers Rogue River Ranch (an Oregon Dairy). Would love to add to the two I have if anyone has seen any. I want to fill a milk bottle carrier.
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Hope our readers can help you.
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i have a orange painted label,square type,quart milk bottle from havenshire dairy,fremont,ohio,in excellent condition,a round blue painted label milk bottle from fitz bros dairy,sandusky,ohio,parts of the labels are faded but all there and readable,a half pint embossed milk bottle from sanitary dairy,frank l. keep,bowling green,ohio,around the rim its says "a bottle of milk is a bottle of health"
ReplyDeletei have no idea how they ended up in oregon and if anybody is interested in them.
Anonymous - if you don't leave contact info, no one can help you. Why don't you go post this info on our club facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/finbotclub
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Anyone have any more Arheit daily bottle Sandusky? My GG Grandfather(August Arheit) was the owner of the dairy and I purchased a bottle a few years back and was loking for 1 or 2 more!!!! Contact me at manager809@yahoo.com
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