Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 245, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1926 — Page 9

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CLOVERLEAF COMPANY GROWS RAPIDLY

addition built TO LOCAL PLANT Creamery Company Enjoys Steady Growth From 1914 Until Present The Cloverleaf Creameries Company. In:., which wili celebrate the opening of a large addition to its plant in this city on Dairy Day. next 1 Tuesday, has enjoyed a remarkable growth since its be.rlnn'.t g, in 1014. Starting business in a small one-story 'wilding on First street in Decatur, the ct'l’pa’.y’s business has grown until it now ’perates lan.e p'ants in Decatur aii I Huntington, with a combined p;.> int i . n of apprcx’mately 6,000.DOO pounds of butter annual.y. The Adams Counts Creamery, which was the paient organisation of the Cloverleaf Creameries Company. I - -... started business in the one-story building on South First strqet, now oc tipi- « ed by the Decatur Auto Top and Paint Shop, in 1914/ E. L. Maitin. of Hu.l.ington, organized the business. In 1915, the Martln-Klepper ootn4>a n y was organized, when W. A. Klepper came to this city frt*ni Lafayette. At the time the company employed ?ight petsons in the plant and had a yearly production of 250,000 pounds of butter. The company had 'approximately 1,800 cream patrons. Following the election of the new binding in this city in 1917, the company's productipn was steadily increased until at present the combined production of the Decatur and Hunt-, ington plants is approximately 6.000.000 pounds annually. Os that amount. 3.364 600 pounds is produced in the De atur plant, alone. With the opening of the new adcttrfßft tn ffleHocal jilant. the production of the Decatur plant is expected to reach 6.000.000

| Congratulations I | to the I : Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc. , i Decatur Indiana ' H I 1 x ! | on the completion of their modern and sanitary creamery |l V THE COMMUNITY CAN BE JUSTLY PROUD OF THIS PROGRESSIVE CREAMERY CONCERN WHICH PROVIDES A READY MARKET for DAIRY PRODUCTS AND HAS A PLANT WHICH IS POINTED TO AS ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST MODERN IN ! j g THE STATE. ' ■ | THE FOIJIPMENT IN THE BUTTER PRINT ROOM WAS FURNISHED BY US AND EVERY CARE WAS TAKEN TO PROVIDE THE S BEST MACHINERY POSSIBLE IN ORDER TO ASSIST THE MANAGEMENT IN FURNISHING THE DEMAND FOR | l« Cloverleaf Brand Butter * | j This print machine has a capacity of 6,000 pounds per hour and is equipped so it will put up butter prints in tub ■ 1 or box prints and rolls, from one to two pounds. i * * C. Doering & Son I Sheet Metal Specialties, Bakers’ Confectioners’ Ice Cream Mfgs.’ and - g Packing House Sheet Metal Goods. | ' Chicago 111. - '' 1375\- 1379 W. Lake St. , I g • * Is

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pounds. The Cloverleaf company has 95 cream buying stations, located in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, extending from Sturgis. Michigan, tc Richmond, Indiana, along the G R. & I. railroad, and item Toledo, Ohio, to Kokomo Ind. along the Clover Leaf branch of the Nickel Plate railroad The Company's pays approximately >1,277,57) per year to farmers. Adams county farmers alone received 1302.952.73 from the Cloverleaf company last year. The Cloverleaf company employes 51 petsons Irt its local plaht at present The company has 225 persons on its entire payroll, including office, plant and buying station Kelp. It has com, bihed payroll of 9123.821. The company doe- a total business of approximately >2.500.000 yearly. The Cloverleaf company is unable to produce enough butter to supply Us demand and, during the past year, the company bought 1.967.976 pounds of butter. • ' ‘ . it is estimated that the cream produced by 21,000 cows is purchased by the Cloverleaf company. Th re is more than 24,000 square feet of Foor space in the Cloverleaf i plants. Approximately 100,000 pounds of butter can be stored by the company. The company has a fleet of 45 trucks which are used to haul cream. It also owns four railroad freight cars, in which it s|jip.’ butter. The personnel of the Cloverleaf Company Is: E. L. Martin, Huntington. president; W. A. Klepper, Decatur, vicepresident and general manager- N R. Holthouse, Decatur, secretary; H. P. Markel. Huntington, treasurer; H. E. Hnmbarger. Decatur, diiector. The office personell is as follows: Miss Ethel Ervin, cashier; Miss Margaret Mylott, stenographer; Miss Marcella Lengerich, production department; Miss Katherine Omlor, accounts n -enable departmen'; R. G. Deininger, accounts receivable department; Mrs. Calvin Coppess, purchasing department; Miss Crystal Edge!, shipping department; and Miss Margaret

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 16, 1926.

Lengerich, cream receiving depart meat. The Cloverleaf Co. manufactures icecream and powdered buttermilk in addition to butter. The company, awns a fireproof garage, with a capacity for 15 truck-i. All repair work on the trucks is done by the company's own machanlc. FIRST CREAMERY ■STARTED IN 1914 History Os Cloverleaf Creameries Co., Dates Back Twelve Years The history of ’he Cloverleaf Creameries Company, Inc., dates back to 1914. when the first creamery was established. It was known at the Adams County Creamery. E. L. Martin, of Huntington. •as the organizer behind the project. One year later, in 1915. W. A. Klepper to Decatur trom the Chamberlian Ice-Cream company, of .afayette, and joined .Mr. Martin in the creamery business. The firm name was changed to the Martin-Kleppe: company. The first building erected by the' Martln-Klepper company was built in 1917. The company became known as the Cloverleaf Creameries company, Inc., the same year. Since that time the company has enjoyed a steady increase ip business. z — o ■ “Wickedest Oil Town In The Country” To Have House-Cleaning -Borger, Texas, Oct. If. — (United Press) —Borger, little oil-boom town near Amarillo, is to undergo a "housecleaning." Following the killing of a 15-year-old girl and rumors that citizens are boast

VICE-PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER T |l ***- | K"' W. A. KLEPPER W. A. Klepper, of Decatur, is vic e-president and general manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries Company. ly. ~ ...... —

lug it is the "wickedest oil town in' the country," Governor Ma’ian. Fer gu-on ordered four texas rangers to report Imre for duly. A federal investigaticn of condi: ions in the town has been ordered by attorney general sargent. Peace-lovin-’ residents here complained .< that the town was running "wide-open' that gambling and liquor selling went on without restraint and that vie ■ wa' -. rampant.

'I Lafontaine. — The Haggerty family of this town believes it holds a rec- ‘ ord. When Saul Haggerty broke his I arm it was noted in the family hisi torv as the tenth accident of its kind I within the immediate family. Sullivan—Operations at the City Coal mine here, where fifty two men lost their lives in an explosion early in 1926, may la? resumed. A company has been formed to take over the lease on the min« and the shaft may again yield coal.

I Report On DePauw Summer School Made Greencastle. Ind.. Oct 16- (United Press.) —*On e htlMred and ninetythree stundents attended the 1926 session of the DePaujv summer school, according to an announcement made today by Professor E. H. Huggarif of .the department of English, who has been named director tor the coming year. DAIRY FARMS WELL EQUIPPED Members Os Cow Testing Association, Especially, Have Modern Devices Adams county farms are well equipped for the dairy business, as a rule. There are thirty milking machines in operation in the county, and the cream sepal ators number approximately 1,350. As is to be expected, the members of the Adams County Cow Testing Association are best equipped for handling cows and milk. Os the 26 members of the association, 26 have concrete floors in their cow stables; 12 have electric lights in cow stables; has acetylene lights in his cowstable; 26 have individual stanchions for cows; 26 have manure spreaders; 5 have lime spreaders; 12 hake feed grinders-; 11 have manure carriers; 26 have tank heaters, 26 have silos (some have twoi. Since the members of the cow testing association are making far more than the average from their cows, it is undoubtedly true that modern laborsaving equipment has much to do with it.

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BUY CREAM FROM LARGE TERRITORY Cloverleaf Creamery Has 95 Buying Stations In Indiana, Ohio And Michigan One of the most Important branches of the Creamefy Industiy is the cream buying station. Every creamery depends largely on its power to buy from the farmers as to whether or not it is a successful institution. I 1 The Cloverleaf Creameries, inc., is the owner of 95 cream buying stations in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. These stations are all conducted by licensed cream testers and each station has a manager of iis own, who buys the cream and ships it to the main factory. Every Cloverleaf station has been highly successful the last year in purchasing the cream and butterfat from the farmers of Its territory. Courtesy is one of the chief factors in obtaining the patronage of the farmers, the station managers say. The Cloverleaf Creameries has built up a powerful buying machine by being courteous to patrons and by giving each patron a fair deal and an exact test on all cream. The territory covered by the Cloverleaf company including northern, eastern and Western Indiana, southern. Michigan and western Ohio. The 95 purchasing stations are located geographically so the cream may be sent to this cityTvery day. In localities where it is impossible for farmers to c>ne to the station, routes have been t-stabllshed and the cream is gathred up two or three times a week, taken to the nearest station and tested and on the next tfln a check accompanies the empty cans.