Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1915 — WHY NOT HAVE A CANNING FACTORY HERE [ARTICLE]

WHY NOT HAVE A CANNING FACTORY HERE

Match Factory Would Be Ideal Plaoe and There is No Experiment If In Right Hands. - Geo. M. Myers, president and general manager of the Jasper County Telephone Co., gave us a copy of The Washington, 111., . Post and News of Oct 7th, which contains the following article: ♦ “The Dickinson canning factory finished their oorn run on Monday. This is several weeks later than they ever run a season before. This year they canned 3,000,000 cans of a fine grade of corn. This is about a maximum pack for any one year. The average yield to the farmers who grew the crop-was 3% tons to the acre, which brought them S2B. Sam Each had 9 acres which averaged 5 tons. The company’s ground near the factory yielded 5% tons to the acre. The pack went through without a hitch and everyone from Supt. Ralph DeMotte down are well pleased with the record they made.” Mr. Myers thinks it would be a good thing to make a canning factory of our match factory building. Probably we could find some one who would be glad to establish onewith a chance of eventually getting the building for having done so. The building is well adapted for the purpose and it would be a good thing if we could interest some one in the project.