Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — POWDER FACTORY [ARTICLE]

POWDER FACTORY

A Sure Thing fdr Northern Jasper According to/ii Chicago Paper. (Wednesday's Chicago RecordHerald made the following mention of/the rumored powder factory for northern Jasper: - “The Aetna Powder Company, whose ’plant is located at Aetna, two miles east of the mills in Gary, Ind., has purchased a site on the Kankakee river marshes in Jasper county, Ind., and will soon begin the removal of its plant to that place. It is rumored that Chicago capitalists who have bought property in the vicinity of the plant have also negotiated for the purchase of the present site.” While a powder factory is not a very desirable acquisition to our borders, yet a good-sized town will likely grow up about the plant and make a good market for produce in north Jasper, even though the residents of the north end get a Shaking up occasionally by a few toes of powder letting go. i