Western Stoneware Foot Warmer.

Western Stoneware Foot Warmer
Showing Western Stoneware Mark With Maple Leaf.

Maybe not a bottle, but close enough for me.  It is broken, but a lot of it is there.

I posted a stoneware foot warmer that I found a few days ago.  I cleaned it off enough to see the hallmark including the label Western Stoneware on a maple leaf.

After Some Cleaning the
Western Stoneware Mark Was Visible.

 

Foot warmers were filled with hot water or coals or something.  The one I found has a small hole, which I presume is for adding water.

In 1906 the Western Stoneware Co. was formed by the merging of seven different stoneware and pottery companies, these companies were now known as Western Stoneware Co. Plants One Through Seven. This new company kept the same style of maple leaf logo that the Monmouth Pottery Company had used previously. It just seemed to fit as the city of Monmouth is known for it's maple trees and is often referred to as "Maple City". Many of the early Western Stoneware vessels such as crocks and jugs were marked with the maple leaf logo that now read: Western Stoneware Co. Plant 1 or 2 or whatever number of the seven plants that had produced it.

See The Western Stoneware Company (bluewhitepottery.org)

Embossed Alfar Creamery Co. Dairy Bottles. Pint and Quart.

Embossed "DRINK ALFAR
CREAMERY CO MILK"

The half pint bottles were sold in schools for 6 cents.

Below is a larger Alfar bottle.

Reads: EAT ALFAR ICE CREAM
IT'S SO GOOD.

Alf R. Nielsen, a native Swede, who had been president of the Palm Beach Creamery Company, founded the Alfar Creamery Company in 1930. A dairy plant was built at 456 Flamingo Drive at the cost of $75,000, and opened with great fanfare and a party til midnight on November 20, 1930. A.E. Parker, the former city manager of West Palm Beach was vice-president and was also president of Bertana Farms. He was also Major Boynton’s son-in-law and managed the Boynton Hotel for many years. Bertana Farms was a combination of a part of his first name “Bert” and “Ana”, his wife.

They bought their milk from the big dairy producers of the day, the famous Pennock Plantation in Jupiter with its Jersey cows (specializing in unpasteurized milk), the Bertana and Winchester dairies in Boynton, and the Clark Dairy in Kelsey City (today’s Lake Park). The white trucks of the Alfar Creamery delivered milk daily all over West Palm Beach, packed in ice to keep it fresh in the heat...

In 1963, Alfar merged with the Boutwell Dairy in Lake Worth.  The Boutwell Dairy was founded by William Boutwell, who had invented the process that produced half and half. At its peak the Boutwell dairy had more than a 1,000 Guernseys at his dairy located at Congress and Forest Hill Boulevard (then called Selby Road). After the merger, products were sold as Alfar-Boutwell. Then in 1968, the T.G. Lee Dairy in Orlando bought the Alfar-Boutwell Creamery, and the Alfar name disappeared from the West Palm Beach area. In the continuing mergers, Dean Foods bought the T.G. Lee brand. By the end of the 1970s, all of the dairies in eastern Palm Beach County had closed as the land had become too valuable for dairy farming...

For more information and historic photos, here is the link.

Got Milk? Alfar Creamery made sure West Palm Beach did (palmbeachpast.org)