Folks, before we get into the seven-day outlook, we have a quiet item from the desk. Mosswick's River Cordial — the deep-green slightly-herbal carbonated tonic in the recognizable squat bottle — has been formally discontinued. The Klamath Falls Bottling Co. notified the trade press in the spring of 1989, and the last documented case left the loading dock on Tuesday, April 11th, at approximately 4:42 in the afternoon. Partly cloudy. Light wind out of the southwest.

The cordial, for those of you joining us late, was that deep-green slightly herbal mildly carbonated something you may remember from your grandmother's icebox, or from the white wire racks at filling stations between Eureka and Bend, or from the back cooler at Stanwyck's Variety with the bent hinge. It was, by most reports, a beverage. We are very sorry for your loss. The cordial leaves behind no surviving recipe, no surviving accounts, and three million one hundred forty-four thousand bottles, the last of which (the company says) were poured out and pulped over the long weekend in May.

Skies tonight will be clear with a low near 51.

Eustace P. Mosswick, a tea importer out of Astoria, first bottled the cordial in 1923 from a recipe attributed (without evidence) to his aunt. The original label depicted a green river and the words "A Restoring Sip — For the Modest Constitution." By 1937 the cordial was sold in seven Western states. By 1962 the cordial was sold only by the cordial. By 1980 it had become, in the words of a long-since-deleted entry in the Encyclopedia of American Soft Drinks, "a kind of green carbonated rumor."

The family — there is no family — has asked that, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be sent to no address in particular. The Klamath Falls Bottling Co. has been closed since 1989 and is not, this is the part where I read the prepared statement, in operation. There is no second shift. There is no Friday run. The lights you may have seen from Highway 97 last Thursday were a maintenance crew, only.

The cordial is survived by:

• one (1) commemorative bottle in the lobby case at the Klamath County Historical Society;
• eleven (11) bottles, reportedly, in the basement of a Mr. D. Reilly of Bend, OR;
• one hundred forty-four (144) bottles which I keep for the station, for archival reasons, and which I would prefer not to discuss further on the air;
• a standing weekly order from the Eureka Elks Lodge that has not been canceled because nobody has had the heart, and also because the shipments keep arriving.

Folks, before we get into the seven-day outlook, we have a quiet item from the desk. Mosswick's River Cordial — the deep-green slightly-herbal carbonated tonic in the recognizable squat bottle — has been formally discontinued. The Klamath Falls Bottling Co. notified the trade press in the spring of 1989, and the last documented case left the loading dock on Tuesday, April 11th, at approximately 4:42 in the afternoon. Partly cloudy. Light wind out of the southwest.

The cordial, for those of you joining us late, was that deep-green slightly herbal mildly carbonated something you may remember from your grandmother's icebox, or from the white wire racks at filling stations between Eureka and Bend, or from the back cooler at Stanwyck's Variety with the bent hinge. It was, by most reports, a beverage. We are very sorry for your loss. The cordial leaves behind no surviving recipe, no surviving accounts, and three million one hundred forty-four thousand bottles, the last of which (the company says) were poured out and pulped over the long weekend in May.

Skies tonight will be clear with a low near 51.

Eustace P. Mosswick, a tea importer out of Astoria, first bottled the cordial in 1923 from a recipe attributed (without evidence) to his aunt. The original label depicted a green river and the words "A Restoring Sip — For the Modest Constitution." By 1937 the cordial was sold in seven Western states. By 1962 the cordial was sold only by the cordial. By 1980 it had become, in the words of a long-since-deleted entry in the Encyclopedia of American Soft Drinks, "a kind of green carbonated rumor."

The family — there is no family — has asked that, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations be sent to no address in particular. The Klamath Falls Bottling Co. has been closed since 1989 and is not, this is the part where I read the prepared statement, in operation. There is no second shift. There is no Friday run. The lights you may have seen from Highway 97 last Thursday were a maintenance crew, only.

The cordial is survived by:

• one (1) commemorative bottle in the lobby case at the Klamath County Historical Society;
• eleven (11) bottles, reportedly, in the basement of a Mr. D. Reilly of Bend, OR;
• one hundred forty-four (144) bottles which I keep for the station, for archival reasons, and which I would prefer not to discuss further on the air;
• a standing weekly order from the Eureka Elks Lodge that has not been canceled because nobody has had the heart, and also because the shipments keep arriving.