The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1899-06-30

The Osmer Brothers Have Fine Trade
in Carbonated Dnnks-Furnish Some
GOO Quarts OF Pure Milk per Day to
Owosso Citizens.
The Osmer Brothers of this city have
perhaps more to do with the prepare
ton and distribution of what Owosso
people drink than any other firm in the
city. Their milk wagons, three in
number, distribute about six hundred
quarts of pure and sweet cold milk to
citizens every day, while at their bot
tling works on River street are charged
the majority of soda fountain tanks of
the country for miles around, besides
which they put up a varied line of ear
donated drinks, elders and mineral
waters.
At the bottling works on River street
where the carbonated drinks are manu-
factured, work is kept up all the year
around. though of course there is not
comparatively much to do during the
winter months when the trade consists
mainly in mineral or Seltzer water.
Nevertheless il sometimes seems, and
has been noticed by dealers here
and elsewhere, that the winter trade
in carbonated drinks is constantly
increasing. This trade keeps the works
busy in winter as well as in summer,
but it is during the latter season that
the real bu,iness of the year is done,
and so far during the present season
their business has been in excess of all
previous seasons work by very nice
margin.
The territory covered by the COM
pany is quite extended, running as far
north as Cadillac on the Ann Arbor, as
far west as Riverdale on the G. X. &
w., Muir and Lyons along the ID. & NJ,
ST. Charles and Chesaning north on
the M. c.. and nearly as far south and
east as north and west. In covering
this territory Mr.. Alfred Osmer spends
about ten days of each month, and the
orders which he books cover every
kind of carbonated drink as well as the
refilling of soda fountain>tanks. Dur
ing the balance of the month Mr. Os-
mer makes a number of the neighbor-
ing towns with wagon and team, cover
ing in six different routes all of the
towns near Owosso about as follows:
Henderson and Oakley in one route,
New Lothrop, Easton, Juddville and
Hazelton Center in another; Durand
and Vernon make the third; Bancroft by
itself; Morrice, Perry, Pittsburg, and
Bennington form fifth route; and Ovid
makes another trip by itself. Corunna
is visited every Saturday while the local
trade is supplied every Tuesday and
Saturday. Affairs at the bottling works
are looked after by Mr.. Albert E. Os-
mer who keeps track of the business in
the city while his brother is away on
the road. Phone No. 22S calls up the
bottling works at any time during busi-
ness hours.
The various drinks manufactured in.
clude orange cider, cherry and rasp-
berry wine and in the carbonated
drinks. ginger ale, cream soda, birch
beer, root beer, strawberry pop, lemon
sour, which is really one of the most
pleasant and healthful of all the
drinks, Klondike fizz and Cuban aid
and Vino. Seltzer water, a carbonated
drink with rare mineral salts, is an ex-
cellent tonic, especially good in stomach
difficulties and is deservedly popular
drink, the sales for which continue all
the year around.
All the drinks are made from the
purest of materials obtainable. The
water used is from the city mains, the
equal of any water in the state for
drinking purposes. The various flaw
ors are the purest fruit flavors that
money can buy, while as every one
knows the carbonic acid gas with
which the drinks are charged is not
only pleasant to the taste but entirely
harmless
The boys have had considerable ex-
perience in this line of trade and know
their business we'll Mr.. A. f. Osmer
has been a member of the firm for al
most two years, while Mr. A. G. Osmer
was associated with Mr.. G. B. Radford
for about two years previous to that as
partner in the business.
In the milk business the success
of Osmer Bros. has been steady and
growing continuously since nearly six
years ago when Alfred G. and his broth
er Frank Osmer-who died about two
years ago from injuries received by be-
ing thrown from his bicycle while on
visit in New York-purchased the Get,
man milk route with wagon, bottles
and other necessary equipment. They
ran this wagon for nearly year before
putting on a second to enable them to
keep up with their growing trade which