Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — SEE GLOWING YEAR AHEAD [ARTICLE]

SEE GLOWING YEAR AHEAD

Newcastle Merchants “at Banquet Discuss Future .Prospects for City.

Newcastle, Ind.. Jan. 9.- oJe hundred and fifty business and pj’nfessional men of this city attended the second annual banquet,o& the Newcastle Retail Merchants’ association, held at the Bundy hotel, the idea of the banquet being to discuss business plans for the coming year. Following the banquet addresses on business topics were made by Thomas B. Millikan, Mver Heller, F.-’-W. stout, R. 1). Goodwin, S P Jennings, J Harry Smith and other business men. President Elwood Lawson of the assocla* tion presided. Enthusiasm was great for the location of half a dozen new factories here this year.