Hawn Ice Cream Company Formed, Dec. 2, 1919

From The Monroe Journal, Tuesday, December 2, 1919

New $100,000 Industry Is Under Way. . . Hawn Ice Cream Company Recieves Its Charter. . . Will Handle Ice Cream, Butter, Milk and Eggs

A charter for the Hawn Ice Cream Company, with a capital stock of $100,000 authorized, and $10,000 paid in, has been issued, and at a meeting of stockholders of the corporation yesterday morning in the Chamber of Commerce rooms the following officers were elected: D.B. Snyder, president; W.B. Love, vice-president and general counsel; O.D. Hawn, secretary and treasurer and general manager; and a board of directors composed of Messrs. O.D. Hawn, G.S. Lee Sr., Heath Lee, R.A. Morrow and Albert Redfern.

The company will manufacture ice cream, fancy creamery butter, and distribute guaranteed fresh eggs. It expects to do a business amounting to $100,000 the first year. Plans for the erection of a modern building are also on foot, but for the present the plant will be operated in the old creamery building on Tallyrand avenue. Mr. O.D. Hawn, the manager, has bought the Simpson property on Washington street, and will move to Monroe from Hickory, where he has been living for the past year, in a few weeks.

In addition to the manufacture of ice cream and creamery butter, milk will be sold to the people of Monroe through sub-stations. It is planned to install a milk station in a couple of local grocery stores, one at Icemorelee and one in North Monroe. Deliveries of mil will e made by stores along with grocery orders.

The manufacture of ice cream will be the main interest of the company, and it plans to ship cream daily during the summer season to nearby towns, and to places as far as Chester on the Seaboard, to Hamlet and to Columbia. Cream will also be supplied to local druggists and Mr. Hawn says he will also make deliveries in one-gallon lots to homes in Monroe.

Orders for about $8,000 worth of the latest ice cream making machinery have been forwarded, and shipment will be made by the manufacturer some time after the first of the year. The plant will be in operation by March first, which will be sufficient time to begin to supply the demand for ice cream. The capacity of the plant will be about 200 gallons of cream a day. However, the company will begin the manufacture of creamery butter within a few weeks, machinery for that purpose being already installed in the temporary building which it will occupy.

Much interest has been manifested in the ice cream plant here, and the promoters had little difficulty in disposing of the necessary stock. A great future for the company is predicted, and some believe it will be only a matter of time before its business will amount to a half million dollars or more annually.

Mr. Hawn, the manager is an experienced creamery man, and the manner in which he conducted the creamery here, after it had fallen hopelessly in debt, won for him the confidence of the men who are backing him in this enterprise.