Out of the past
April 29, 1896
The glee club of Ohio Wesleyan University, of which Carl N. Sharp, of this city, is president, will do the singing at the National Oratorical Association meeting at Topeka, Kans., May 5.
E.O. Gump, of this county, was one of the guards appointed at the meeting of the new board of penitentiary managers yesterday.
100 years
April 29, 1921
Margaret Kaser is leading today in the popularity contest being conducted for the Queen of May by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Frances Potter is second and Zylpha Harmony, third.
M.B. McKee, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements, said today that a special car on the Western Ohio will leave here at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, to carry the 50 members of the Sidney Kiwanis Club who will be attending the intercity meeting to be held in Dayton. The Kiwanis orchestra and quartet will accompany the local group.
Neighbors: Mr. Coffeemate a nickname Jacksonville s Schierl carried with pride
David Blanchette, Journal-Courier
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Tom Schierl shows mementos from his 43-year career at the Carnation, then Nestle, plant in Jacksonville. These items and others have been donated to the Jacksonville Area Museum.David Blanchette | Journal-CourierShow MoreShow Less
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Tom Schierl and the hardhat he wore as engineering manager at the Carnation/Nestle plant.David Blanchette | Journal-CourierShow MoreShow Less
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Right before Tom Schierl moved to Jacksonville in 1968 to help oversee the construction of a new factory building, Carnation Co. officials told him, “you become Mr. Coffeemate.”
After a 43-year career spent primarily in the production of the famed non-dairy creamer, Schierl certainly lived up to the name.