Title

Personal Papers Related to Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc. and Rock Spring Beverages

Creation Date

1907 – 1970

Description

Paper group of items related to the Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc. and Rock Spring Beverages. They were most likely collected by an employee of the company. Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc. was established in Shakopee in 1872. In 1880, Ries tapped a spring that he named "Rock Spring" and he began bottling that water under the name Rock Spring Beverages. Ries passed away in 1911 and his descendants kept the bottling works running. The family eventually sold their "secret recipe" to Pepsi Co.

This record group consists of the following:
-Two decorative copies showing a reprint of the U.S. Constitution made to commemorate the document's 150th anniversary, 1937.
-A business Christmas card from 1938.
-Lithograph (possibly cut out of something larger) showing two black and white images of Rock Spring beverages, undated.
-A 1912 novelty calendar advertising Rock Spring and Jacob Ries Bottling Works.
-Letter and certificate issued to the Rock Spring Bottling Company by the Navy Recruiting Station at Minneapolis thanking the company for its monetary donation to the Richfield Navy Recruiting Branch Station. The Navy used the funds to place a full page ad in the Shakopee Valley News, 1969.
-Four receipts from 1907 showing payments in stock from William McElroy to James H. Dean.
-Two pages from a 1947 booklet celebrating Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc.'s Diamond Jubilee.
-Copy of the December 1967 issue of "Soft Drink Review," the official magazine of the National Soft Drink Association. Donald Ries was a board member of the NSDA.
-July 1969 issue of "Mid-Continent Bottler, which includes an article about Jacob Ries Bottling Works, Inc.
-Program commemorating the Golden Anniversary of the National Soft Drink Association, 1969.
-1970 Progress Report of the National Soft Drink Association. Ries, Jacob
Ries, Donald
Dean, James
McElroy, William
Kuklinski, S. T.
Ries, John
Ries, Paul
Ries, William
Ries, Howard