Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1913 — BUTTER MAKING BY DEXTER CREAMERY [ARTICLE]

BUTTER MAKING BY DEXTER CREAMERY

Chicago Factory is Crowded and Owner May Decide to Put in Plant in Rensselaer.

W. H. Dexter, who owns the cream . buying station in Rensselaer, was here this week and reported that his Chicago factory is Tibwcrowded to the very limit of its capacity and that the day before he was here they had manufactured 2,000 pounds of butter. The Rensselaer station is the best one Mr. Dexter has and has held up remarkably well even during the winter months and as Mr. Dexter owns a building here that would be admirably suitjed to the butter making business he expressed the probability that he will install butter making machinery and begin manufacture in the spring. The building he would use for this purpose is the former Maloy building at the Main street railroad crossing. Whether or not the Washington street station will be closed when the factory is started has not been decided but it is quite probable. The local station has been in charge of W. E. Harris ever since Mr. Dexter entered the field here. He i 3 an energetic and hustling manager. He has never learned the\ butter making trade but expects to do so if the plans to put the factory in here is carried out. The factory will furnish employment for two or three more men, andjt is probable it will further inspire the dairying interests of the county.