| The Olympia Candy Kitchen was opened on the east side of
the court square, on Main Avenue, where Courtview Center now stands around 1910. Another
candy operation was the Purity Candy Kitchen, also founded by Evans Johnson. It was
located where Mr. Hickok started his business - the northwest corner of Poplar Street and
Ohio Avenue. Johnnie Kookootsedes was the long time manager of the Purity. Mr. Johnson also formed the Evans Johnson Candy
Company in March of 1917. He rented space on the sixth floor of the Oldham Building (now
the home of Canal Place Apartments on Poplar Street), to begin operations. The last and perhaps the best known of the confectioneries was the Cherry Cheer Company. Wilson Carothers, whom was mentioned earlier in connection with the Buckeye Churn Company, left Buckeye to develop a business with his sons, W. R. and J. C. Carothers. They began the manufacture of soda fountain syrup and related products in the basement of the Carothers home at 902 Walnut Avenue in 1907. The business was soon moved to Wilkinson Avenue. That structure still stands. The growing business outstripped its new location on Wilkinson Avenue after eight years, and in 1916, took over the building formerly occupied by the Underwood Whip Company at the corner of North Street and Highland Avenue. Fine chocolates were also produced. During the First World War, company officials chalked up sales across the European continent to Siberia. |
 Cherry Cheer Advertisment courtesy of Tom Homan. [Back]
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