Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1911 — REAL GOOD NEWS FOR PROGRESSIVE RENSSELAER. [ARTICLE]

REAL GOOD NEWS FOR PROGRESSIVE RENSSELAER.

Factory Men Here to Start Operations —Depot Construction Begins— Purtelle at Work. Good news is coming In bunches and it looks like Rensselaer would he a hive of industry the balance of the year. W. W. Sterling, president of the United States Match Co., and P. T. Longacher, one of the directors of the concern, arrived here this Tuesday morning with the plans s>r the factory building and took the first steps toward getting the factory building started. They have arranged with a local carpenter to put his force of workmen on the job of constructing a temporary building in which they will put their various cement block cement, etc. They "have upwards of a hundred moulds that will be sent here and the block making will begin just as soon as the building can be erected and the equipment reach here. Itiis expected to ship the machinery here next week, possibly to have it here within a week from today. They will rush business and get the big factory up just as soon as possible. Workmen are today moving the fence north of the Monon track between Forest street anfl College road back fifteen feet, so that the switch tracks can be run on the north side of the track. The land now included in the right-of-way was purchased of M. A. Learning, the deed being recorded today. The railroad purchased a strip 15 feet in width and extending along the track a distance of 300 feet. The price was $l5O. This is the first step toward the actual construction of the new depot. The building will be started within a few days, according to the latest advices received by Agent Beam. Eugene Purtelle continues to work away on his railroad. The Roumanians who came down from Chicago are said to have thrown up a shack in which they will live and that they are going about things in a businesslike manner. Purtelle is spending considerable money and each day there is added in the ultimate success of his projected road. Things sure look good for Rensselaer the remainder of the summer and the permanent effect should start a boom here that will greatly increase the population of the city.

Friends of Miss Bessie Davis have been quite active with social events fn her honor the past few days. On l«St Saturday evening Mrs. Frank Kresler gave a miscellaneous shower at hey home and this evening Mrs. Ernest Lamson and Miss Gertie Leopold, at the home of the former, will give china shower. Miss Davis will be married Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock.

B. W. Douglass, state entomologist, has made an inspection of the shade trees in Plymouth, which are Infested with the cottony maple scale. On Mr. Douglass’ suggestion the mayor and council will< employ a tree expert and purchase a power spraying outfit to kill the insects. Several thousand dollars will be spent for the purpose Peter M. Beck, a machinist of South Bendj, has built an airship of the Bleriot monoplane type, and is now engaged in a series of trial flights at Notre Dame. JBTith a few modifications and a probable change in the motor, Mr. Beck is sanguine of his ultimate success. In the trial the machine rose to a good height, but because of wrong ballasting did not hold its position.