Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1912 — MATCH FACTORY IS “AGAIN” TO START [ARTICLE]

MATCH FACTORY IS “AGAIN” TO START

B. Forsythe Receives Encouraging News to Effect That Machinery Has Been Shipped. B. Forsythe, a local stockholder in the United States Match Co. states that he is in receipt of advices that the machinery for the local plant has been shipped and that its receipt is expected here some day this week. It is the intention of the company, he says, to Instal the machinery and to .begin the manufacture of matches as soon as possible. W. R. Megulre, the local manager, werft to Chicago this forenoon and could not be seen. He has been saying all the time that It was the intention of the company to occupy bhe building erected here and to get started at match making yet this year. In view of the previous failures to get started the public will accept any information with sdme skepticism. They will believe the factory is going to start when they see it running. They are, however, mighty willing to have it start and hope that there is no grapevine to the latest pledge.