Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1913 — BUTTER FACTORY TO START APRIL 1 [ARTICLE]

BUTTER FACTORY TO START APRIL 1

W. H. Dexter Plans to Make Rensselear His Main Receiving Cream Station. W. H. Dexter, the Chicago cream buyer and butter manufacturer, who for years received most of the cream purchased at the Rensselaer station, was in Rensselaer Monday and conferred with his local manager, W. E. Harris, about starting his butter factory here The old Maloy brick building at the Main street crossing of the Monon railroad will be utilized for the factory. The building was" purchased two years ago by Mr. Dexter and was used by him as a receiving station for cream for some time. Later the room was abandoned when the down town receiving station was acquired by Mr. Dexter. He has completed the arrangements for in stalling machinery and expects to start the making of butter by the first of April The local receipts of cream will be used at the beginning but within a month it is planned to have the cream purchased at the Remington, Monon, Lee, Delphi, Brookston, Parr, Surrey and Wolcott stations shipped here and to make from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds of butter per day. The local trade will be supplied and the balance shipped to Chicago, where Mr. Dexter has a large business established. The factory will run every day and a force of five men will be required to run it. It is quite probable that the down town receiving station will be abandoned after the factory is started.