The Columbus Canning Company

Columbus - you may now co-mingle your recyclables as long as the container is 35 gallons or less!!
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For some reason I've been noticing that a lot of people say "yea, no" a lot which is basically a spin off of the "no, no, yea". "yea,no" and it's brother "no, no, yea" means "I agree with what you're saying." Sometimes you can have the word "totally" at the end.

In one example

Human #1 "All I'm saying is that it was a big mistake for the american people..."

Human #2 "no, no, yea... of course it was... totally"

So I'm wondering if human nature has taken the normal "no, no, yea" and just shortened it to the "yea, no".

hmmmmmmmmmm
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I was messing with the below photo (best seen large) and got a phone call last night from a stranger.

He had seen my postcards at Julie's Java House and was so impressed he called and we talked about the history of Columbus and all sorts of things about photography and why I was still employed by the man when I could be raking in a fortune with postcards. I had some suggestions which included a huge sign from The Columbus Canning Company.

I did not know that Columbus had the largest Canning operation in the nation at one time. The Columbus Canning Company. I then started to look for more information about Columbus Canning Compan and found very very little. I know it was purchased or merged with Stokely Canning in 1946 which brings up a copyright question. If I take a photo of something from 1920 from The Columbus Canning Company is there any copyright infringement with Stokely? I see that Stokely closed in 1998 so did someone buy them??? hmmmmm

The Columbus Canning Company turned into the Columbus Food Corporation with canneries all over the mid-west which included The Columbus Canning Company of Ohio (just to make things confusing).

The book "The Story of Wisconsin's Great Canning Industry" has a complete history of the company (if you can find it) and was written in 1949.

I did fine a book called "The History of the Canning Industry by it's most Prominent Men" by Arthur Ignatius Judge (you never see kids named Ignatius any more). But the problem was it was written in 1914 so a few of the current years are missing.

It does mention Columbus though.

The Columbus Canning Company of Columbus Wisconsin was organized in 1900, being a promoted factory, with nearly 100 stockholders, who subscribed largely because of public spirit and a desire to start a canning factory in their community. It was first capitalized at $30,000 ($767,000 in today's money) and for the first year or two had the usual experience of a new concern. Realizing that a business of this character must have a settled policy, the present directors increased the capital stock to $300,000 with new stockholders and gradually absorbed the stock of the old stockholders, and by so doing gained control of teh company. The officers now are the same as they were in the beginning with Mr. W.C. Leitsch as president.

The company is doing a very successful business, and puts up the product of over 2000 acres of green peas, in addition to 1000 acres of see peas annually. Mr. Leitsch is now vice-president and one of the executive committee of the National Canners' Association and will probably be the next president of that association.

Fascinating.

So at one point Columbus had the nations largest canning company AND the nations largest brewery and malt house.

CHEERS to Columbus Wisconsin.

Rod