The Buttercup Ice Cream Co. of Hamlet will establish a storage and distributing plant in Lumberton at an early date, a lot 81- by 103-feet on Fifteenth street and Elizabeth road having been purchased on which to erect a plant. The deal for the lot was closed Tuesday by Mr. L.A. Corning, president of the company, who was in Lumberton for that purpose. The lot was purchased from Mr. G.W. West.
Mr. F.K. Biggs, secretary of the chamber of commerce, to whom application was made and who was active in securing a lot for this purpose, has been advised by Mr. Corning that the machinery has been bought and that work on the building, which will be a large one, but not occupy the entire lot, will begin right away.
Ice cream will be brought to Lumberton from Hamlet on trucks hauling 500 gallons at a time, and will be distributed from this point. Similar plants are being built at Sumpter, S.C., and Sanford.
From The Robesonian, Lumberton, N.C., Thursday, March 20, 1924
Photo from Historic Hamlet facebook page, www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=311411419025256&set=a.311411119025286, accessed March 20, 1924. Buttercup Ice Cream was manufactured in Hamlet; the Lumberton plant was for storage and distribution.
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