Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1914 — OIL BURNER PLANTS TO BE INSTALLED [ARTICLE]

OIL BURNER PLANTS TO BE INSTALLED

Employes . Moving. . Here .to Get i Things Shaped Up For Proposed Burner Factory.

Ernest O. Linton* the kerosene burner inventor who has been here for the past week demonstrating his burner was joined today by George Bdllman, who was accompanied by his wife Mr. Bollmauj shipped his household goods tol Rensselaer, also, the household ef-\ sects of Mr. Linton .and of the -latr ter’s brother-in-law, F. J. Blum, and the three.families will take -up their,, residence here at once and begin ( operations.. Mr. Linton says that .he is informed by Robert Winn, the promoter, .that he has the organization of the company well under, way,, that the money needed is in sight and that they will begin, the, repairs on the factory building next week. . Mr. Linton states that he will install two or. three of the kerosene heating plants in this city. The first will i probably be .placed in the residence of Delos Thompson, another ,in the Mekeever, hotel and a third in D. M. Worland’s furniture store Jf these burners work as satisfactorily as Mr. .Linton says they wifi there will he a popular demand for them all over this city and a mad rush for them from one end of the country to the other. The plants which will be installed are being built in Chicago.

If plans develop as Mr. Linton and his co-workers expect the factory will he rushed to completion, the machinery installed and operations started -before very many weeks. It is expected to start with about twenty mechanics, according to Mr. Linton. Right now tfiey would have difficulty In securing places to live hut that would doubt? less be taken, care of in the near future.