Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1915 — THINKS IT GREAT FACTORY PROPOSITION [ARTICLE]

THINKS IT GREAT FACTORY PROPOSITION

H. O. Johnson Says It Would Be a Great Thing'fror Our City If Building Could Be Utilized. The following article is from H. O. Johnson, formerly of Indianapolis, where there are several canning#factories. He says: There is not a better locality in the state than here fior such an industry. The fine farm land could amply support it. Such crops as com, peas, tomatoes, pumpkins, berries and various other things could be grown in abundance at a good profit to say nothing of the improvement in other values. The Republican of yesterday has touched but lightly on the advantage of such an industry. A can factory adjacent to the other might employ many of the people of this city who are now idle in the winter. One factory of that kind at Indianapolis employs 50 men and women. We probably could not hope for anything on so large a scale but think of what it would mean to this community. More homes, more rentals, more motor trucks, a street car line carrying officers and men from extreme parts of tjie city, more business for the merchants, a wholesale house, vast shipping orders, better values for property, an addition to the tax list and other advantages too numerous to mention. Where our surrounding merchants are now drawing on Chicago and Lafayette for supplies, we could lay them down at a profit to the merchants. Will not the merchants of Rensselaer join in this new cry and push it to a finish?