McCLURE BOTTLING COMPANY OF HAYSI, VA

The McClure Bottling Company, Inc was incorporated on September 14, 1914(1) with Mark G. French as President and S. J. Colley as Secretary Treasurer, and Otis L. Sifers as manager.(2) This bottling company was located where the vacant Jim O' Quinn Ford garage was in the town of Haysi.(2) They bottled King Cola, along with various other soda waters. Sifers managed the company until his shooting death in 1921 at the hands of Harrison Lee, whom he had some bad blood with.(2)

According to Reedy, there is a possibility that the company was taken over by a Toby Byers, who was a depot agent in Haysi in 1921, and after a short time a Pros Sutherland operated it for about a year, and then converted the building into a garage for Dodge.(2) As for exactly when the company ceased operations is still a mystery; however, the building itself was burned down by a lightning strike around 1928.(2) No other bottling company was ever established in Dickenson County.(2)

McClure Bottling Company 6 1/2 oz bottle, that would have been used for their flavor line.

King Kola bottle from the McClure Bottling Company

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