Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1912 — B. S. FENDIG TO ENTER BUSINESS IN CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

B. S. FENDIG TO ENTER BUSINESS IN CHICAGO.

Successful Produce and Junk Dealer to Become Managing Partner of Large Chicago Coaeern. B. S. Fendig, for many years the leading poultry and junk dealer in Rensselaer and one of our leading and most highly respected citizens, has decided to leave Rensselaer and engage in business in Chicago, where he is to become a half partner and the active business manager of the large produce business of Carl Decker & Co., located on West Randolph street between Union and Halstead. The concern does a large business in the buying and selling of butter, eggs, poultry and fancy produce, also pelts from fur-bearing animals, its selling market being both in Chicago and the east. Mr. Fendig has been negotiating for an interest in the business for some time and considers the opening one of such excellence that he can not afford to pass it up, although he will leave Rensselaer with great reluctance, as here he has successfully engaged in business for many years. It was B. S. Fendig who first put the poultry, egg and junk business on a substantial business here and he Is the man that has given Rensselaer a name as a market center for the products all the way from Chicago to the leading cities of the Atlantic. He has been a maket finder and having found It has paid the price that brought him produce from many miles away, right out of tha. towns where other concerns pretended to be competitors. He has had the reputation for years of being the best paying buyer in northwestern Indiana and especially during the turkey market season has he succeeded in making prices that brought produce from long distances. Every fall his plant has been & scene of great industry and thousands of pounds of poultry have been shipped to New York and Boston. He has given the Fendig stamp on dressed poultry a meaning of superiority throughout the consuming stations. His enterprise has attracted attention and for many years he has been importuned to engage in business in Chicago and New York, but never until last fall has be seriously considered It. This move was made after mature deliberation and the opportunity seems to be so inviting that he does not deem it wise to pass it up. Mr. Fendig will continue in business in Rensselaer at least for the next year, and will place his foreman, Charles Stephenson, who has proven himself qualified both as a competent foreman and as a business man, in charge. Mr. Stephenson will cqptinue to do business at the old stand, having Mr. Fendig*s full credit upon which to conduct the business. He will also have a limited partnership In the business. Mr. Stephenson came here from Mbnticello several years ago. He has been a steady, always dependable man and haß enjoyed the full confidence of Mr. Fendig during the period of his employment here and has also made friends with the farmers and producers. Mr. Fendig will not move his family to Chicago until Mhy, so that his little daughter may complete the school term here. He will go to Chicago Monday and at once enter upon his duties. His '‘broad experience in the buying and Belling markets should serve him well in his new and larger business and we are certain that we voice unanimous sentiment of Rensselaer and Jasper county people when we say that his removal will be regretted by all but that all will hope for bis great sue? cess in Chieago.