Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1911 — FIRST CAB LOAD OF FACTORY MATERIAL ARRIVES. [ARTICLE]

FIRST CAB LOAD OF FACTORY MATERIAL ARRIVES.

Work Will Begin at Once on Cement Work of Building—Monon Starts Survey for. Switch. P. T. Longacher and James B. Arnold, of Elkhart, and V. R. Mequire, Of 1 ndianapolis, 4 arrived here today by automobile to begin making arrangements for the construction of the match factory building/ . About the time of their arrival a Monon freight pulled in and set out a car load of material to be used in the work of construction. A Monon engineering crew was also dumped off here and put to work staking out the ground for a switch to run to the factory building. Rooms were rented upstairs in the Roth building, which will be used for business offices until buildings are completed on the factory site for that purpose. The contract was let to Elmer Gwin for the drilling of a well on the factory grounds, and until the well is completed, water will be hauled to the grounds to be used in the making of the cement blocks. Other material will be shipped here as fast as needed and from now on busy times tsan be expected in the factory addition.