New Brunswick Drugstore & Milk Bottles
Hawthorn Dairy
One elderly lady in her upper 80's remembers the milk being delivered in a cart pulled by two ponies , one which...
she recalls was named Peggy. It's memories like that, a little girl running to fetch the milk and greet the milk ponies in the early morning before heading off to school, that I love. That was in the mid 1930's. The following is the response I got back from local McAdam historian Danny McCracken :had a nice family history chat with Frank Thorburn about the Hawthorne Dairy.
His Grandmother was a Hawthorne and the family did have a farm out on what
is now known as Carvell Road. Her 2nd marriage was to Rawley Vail.
He said that the Hawthorne family only had a few cows, but his Grandfather
Rawley Vail, whom Frank called 'Pop' did have a farm on what is now known as
the Steve Dewitt farm and did deliver milk around McAdam until the laws required
milk to be pasteurized. Guess what he used to deliver the milk, 2 pones and Frank remembers
one as Peggy, which would be 1 of the 2 I remember him having into the 1950s and
kept behind the house where Charles Gable now lives.
He mentioned there was some swapping of properties between the Dewitt, Hawthorne and Vail
families. Trade a farm for a home in town.
He could only speculate about using the Hawthorne name, maybe in much earlier years the Hawthorne's
had the bottles. Danny
So it seems the Hawthorne's had the milk run at first then passed it on to the son-in-law at some time who ran it until the pasteurization law came in. Also see the DeWitt history next photo as they also sold milk. A bit confusing who actually used the bottle.
Hawthorn Dairy
One elderly lady in her upper 80's remembers the milk being delivered in a cart pulled by two ponies , one which...
she recalls was named Peggy. It's memories like that, a little girl running to fetch the milk and greet the milk ponies in the early morning before heading off to school, that I love. That was in the mid 1930's. The following is the response I got back from local McAdam historian Danny McCracken :had a nice family history chat with Frank Thorburn about the Hawthorne Dairy.
His Grandmother was a Hawthorne and the family did have a farm out on what
is now known as Carvell Road. Her 2nd marriage was to Rawley Vail.
He said that the Hawthorne family only had a few cows, but his Grandfather
Rawley Vail, whom Frank called 'Pop' did have a farm on what is now known as
the Steve Dewitt farm and did deliver milk around McAdam until the laws required
milk to be pasteurized. Guess what he used to deliver the milk, 2 pones and Frank remembers
one as Peggy, which would be 1 of the 2 I remember him having into the 1950s and
kept behind the house where Charles Gable now lives.
He mentioned there was some swapping of properties between the Dewitt, Hawthorne and Vail
families. Trade a farm for a home in town.
He could only speculate about using the Hawthorne name, maybe in much earlier years the Hawthorne's
had the bottles. Danny
So it seems the Hawthorne's had the milk run at first then passed it on to the son-in-law at some time who ran it until the pasteurization law came in. Also see the DeWitt history next photo as they also sold milk. A bit confusing who actually used the bottle.