Schneider, Indiana is a very small town at the very southern tip of Lake County with a population of only 269 people according to the 2020 US census. In 1920, the population was only 258 people, so it definitely hasn’t been a growing town. The bottle below was made in 1918.

The only information we could find from the Lowell, Indiana Public Library is that Harry Benjamin Rouse owned both a pop factory and a restaurant, and that there was also a Rouse & Ahlgrim Hotel.

The book Indiana: One Hundred and Fifty Years of American Development, Vol. 3 (1931) mentions that Harry Rouse was born on November 4, 1884, in Kankakee, Illinois, and was the son of Benjamin F. Rouse. After finishing high school, Harry pursued a business career. The book notes that “for some time he owned and operated a bottling works, trading the plant for a farm.” He later worked as a traveling salesman until he was elected Sheriff of Jasper County, Indiana, in 1926.

Harry Rouse died on August 16, 1973, at the age of 88.

An article from the Lake County Times, August 7, 1922 reported: “LOWELL, Ind., Aug. 7.— A near fatal accident occurred at the Thayer crossing of the Monon railroad when northbound Monon train No. 38 struck an automobile containing Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Green, their little daughter, and two small boys of Schneider. Aside from a few minor bruises, all of the occupants of the car escaped injury. The automobile was completely demolished and thrown a distance of about 100 feet. Mr. Green is the manager of the Rouse Bottling Works at Schneider and was on his way to Thayer to deliver a few cases of pop when the accident happened. That none of the occupants of the car were killed is miraculous.”

So we known for sure they ran into the 1920s too.