Fairmont Foods, Incorporated, Moorhead, Minnesota (S2691)
1924-1982
HISTORICAL SKETCH
Fairmont Foods, Incorporated, originally known as Fairmont Creamery Company, started construction of its creamery in Moorhead, Minnesota in 1923, completing and opening the plant in May 1924. At the time this was the biggest creamery in the area. The creamery in Moorhead was part of the nation-wide network of creameries and buying stations started by Fairmont. The Moorhead plant was involved in poultry processing, butter making, and buying cream and milk. J.H. Deems was the plant superintendent from the opening until 1952. He was succeeded by Paul R. Dew, who was replaced in December 1952 by J.D. Heckart. In 1976 Heckart retired and Larry Groves became the last manager. The plant was closed in October 1980 because Fairmont Foods was divesting itself of its creamery operations in order to concentrate on its convenience stores. Cass-Clay Creamery bought the creamery building but sold it to the Anderson-Jordahl Development Company. On February 1, 1982 that firm began the renovations needed to change the old creamery into a senior citizens housing project. This involved the razing of much of the existing structure. There was a move at this time, partly instigated by Anderson-Jordahl for tax purposes, to have the building placed on the national Register of Historical Properties.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
This collection contains the correspondence, news articles, financial information, internal records, and miscellaneous papers and items of the Fairmont Foods Creamery. Also included is information about the embezzlement scandal at Richter Grocery of Perham, Minnesota.
Box 1
Account Book - Payable. 1959
- Receivable. 1947-49, 1952, 1955
Box 2
Bills of Lading. 1958-59
Budget Requests. 1958-60
Butterfat Standards, Milk Products. 1959
Correspondence - Accounting Procedures. 1958-59
- General Procedures. 1960, 1962
- Milk. 1967-72
- Miscellaneous. 1958-60
- North American Creameries. 1955-56
- Tax. 1957-65
Costs and Profits. 1963, 1965-66, 1968-71
Cream Buyers’ Contracts. 1926-41
Box 3
Cream Buyers’ Contracts, continued. 1942-52
Credit Manual. 1959
Dairy Plant Reports. 1968-74
Ex-Cell-O Corporation Pure-Pak Leases. 1949, 1962-63, 1966-67, 1972-73
Federal Truck Use Tax Reports. 1956-59
Fiscal Plan. 1969-79
Instructions from Omaha, Nebraska. 1930-45
Inventory. 1960
Korean War Manpower Plan. 1950
Moorhead State Teachers College Bids and Contracts. 1945-46
Newspaper Articles and Advertisements, 1924-37, 1959-60, 1980, 1982
Payroll - Miscellaneous. 1970-74
- Workers Hours. 1948-54
Quarterly Personal Reports. 1948
Richter Grocery Scandal, Perham, Minnesota. 1930, 1968
State Allocation Information for Franchise and Income Tax Returns. 1955-59
U.S.D.A. Audits. 1972-74
Box 4
Volume 1 Account Supervisor Manual. 1965-70
Volume 2 Accounting Instruction. 1951-58
Volumes 3-4 Advertising Budget. 1952-53
Volumes 5-24 Annual Reports to Shareholders. 1947-78
Volume 25 Cashbook. 1964
Volume 26 Commercial Cold Storage. 1962-63
Volume 27 Credit Manual. 1942, 1946
Volume 28 Demonstrator Training Manual. 1976
Volume 29 Disbursement Ledger. 1942-47
Box 5
Volume 1 Expense Ledger. 1940-43
Volume 2-3 Fiscal Records. 1956-58
Volume 4-14 General Information Sheets. 1946-49
Volume 15 Ice Cream Presentation Manual. 1971
Box 6
Volumes 1-4 Main Ledger. 1950-54
Box 7
Volumes 1-3 Main Ledgers. 1955-62
Box 8
Volumes 1-12 Monthly Reports. 1948
Box 9
Volumes 1-11 Monthly Reports. 1949
Box 10
Volumes 1-11 Monthly Reports. 1950
Box 11
Volumes 1-9 Monthly Reports. 1951
Box 12
Volumes 1-16 Monthly Reports. 1952-53
Monthly Report. May 1969
Box 13
Volumes 1-3 Moorhead Sales Channel Studies. 1955-56
Volume 4 Post War Suggestions. 1944
Volume 5 Procedure Desk Manual. 1962-63
Volumes 6-8 Sales Channel Profitability Report by Routes. 1957-58
Volume 9 Telegraph Code Book. 1954
Volume 10 Treasury Account Book. 1954-1960, 1964
Box 14
Equipment Bought from North American Creameries. 1956-57
Forms, Letterhead
Pension Plan. 1962
Box 15
Advertising Pamphlets, Signs, and Displays. 1970s