Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1919 — NEW FACTORY AT MONTICELLO [ARTICLE]

NEW FACTORY AT MONTICELLO

PRACTICALLY ALL MACHINES ARE SET UP IN READINESS FOR OPENING HERE. Practically all of the machines have been set up at the Attire Manufacturing company at their rooms «n South Main street, in Monticello, and everything will be in readiness to begin work at that place Monday morning. About forty machines * have been set up, fourteen of which are on the second floor. Only about ten of the machines will be used Monday or until a few of the girls become accustomed to the work. This work is practically new to the “people of Monticello and the work will go slowly until the employes become familiar with it. The machines consist of one button hole machine, one machine to sew on buttons and another to hemstitch goods and about half of the machines set up are double needle machines on which an attachment is fixed which turns on both sides at once. The rest of the machines are single needle ones like the ones used in the home. These machines are set on both sides of a long table and are run by electricity. The company has with them fifteen machines which it will be unable to set up because of the lack of space. Among these there is a fiveneedle machine which will probably not be set up until the concern gets in its new factory in the south end of town, which is at the present time Deing constructed. An experienced cutter arrived on Thursday afternoon frtxm Chicago to operate the electric cutting machine. To cut the garments a number of layers are laid, usually about a hundred and twenty and about thirtyeight feet long, the garments are then marked out on the top layer, the cutter cutting through the entire thickness. About 720 garments are cut at one laying by this method* The first garments which the concern will make will be children’s flannellette night shirts and athletic underwear. Ladies’ petticoats will be made, but the company will not begin on overalls for some time. None of these garments will be sold in Monticello, the entire output of the factory being contracted for 'by a Chicago firm.