CHERO-COLA / PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY

Between 1923 and 1925 a new bottling company would show up in Princeton, this was the Chero-Cola Bottling Company with Lindsay H. Swaim listed as operator, and located at the corner of Straley Avenue and North Third Street. They were still around in 1927; however by 1932 they appear to have changed hands as Constance A. Flannigan is listed as the owner of the new company which is now called the Princeton Bottling Company which is located at the same location as the Chero-Cola company was.

They would continue to operate under this name and management until between 1934 and 1938 when they will change their name again to the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company, and H. P. Hannicutt is listed as manager. Pepsi appears to have moved to 1233-1243 Mercer street by 1944, and to South Waker at City Limits by 1950.

1925 ad from the Bluefield City Directory

6oz Chero-Cola from Princeton, WV

6oz Chero-Cola Soda Water from Princeton, WV

April 21, 1926 ad from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph

12oz Hunnicutt's bottle dated 1940. Bearing a remarkable resemblance to the paper label Pepsi Hartman's bottles from Knoxville, it becomes apparent that these too were the individual Pepsi paper label bottles that were prevalent before standardization of the bottles in the later 1940's.

12oz Pepsi-Cola Fountain Syrup bottle dated 1943

12oz Pepsi-Cola bottle dated 1947

10oz acl Bluestone Beverages bottle dated 1948

10oz embossed Bluestone Beverages bottle dated 1949

12oz Pepsi-Cola bottle dated 1955

12oz Pepsi-Cola bottle dated 1959

Found on a No Deposit / No Return 28oz bottle in a 70's era Tazewell County dump was this cap that indicates that Pepsi-Cola of Princeton, WV picked up Canada Dry after Coca-Cola of Bluefield ceased bottling.

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