Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1913 — GRANT-WARNER CO. HAS FINE PLANT [ARTICLE]

GRANT-WARNER CO. HAS FINE PLANT

Opened for Business Monday Morning—T. W. Grant and C. 0. Warner Will Be in Charge. The Grant-Warner Lumber Co. opened up their plant for business Monday morning and is now going after a share of the lumber, cement, lime and building hardware business and next fall will erect and* also engage in the coal business. They have built a first-class modern plant on the south side of the Monon railroad ffccipg Vine street and between Forest had Dayton streets. The ground the buildings occupy is a plot with a frontage of 280 feet and a depth of 105 feet. The main building is 74x90 feet in dimensions and contains the office and has a large lumber storing space vyith a driveway through the center, and a second floor where the finishing lumber will be kept. In the rear of the office is a large room for sash and doors and window glass. Another double shed in 32x90 feet in dimensions and a third is the same size and contains the barn, also the shed for cement and lime. The coal gheds are to be erected in the fall. A twenty-foot driveway ex tends in the rear of ther buildings and across the west end. In every respect the plant is modern and convenient, showing the firm to be thoroughly equipped for the business. The members of the company are Thos. W. Grant, for many years engaged in the lumber business at Roselawn; C. C. Warner, former county clerk, and Geo. E. Murray, the merchant. Mr. Grant will be the manager of the business and Mr. Warner will be the bookkeeper. They will be welcomed into the busii ness circles of the city and will have the brat wishes of all for a splendid ' .- '