Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1912 — Investigating an Ohio Match Factory [ARTICLE]

Investigating an Ohio Match Factory

A committee composed of E. L. Hollingsworth, B. Forsythe and D. S. Makeever went to North Baltimore, Ohio, yesterday, we understand, to investigate a match factory there which is operating three machines of the same make as those proposed to be installed in the factory here. It has been proposed that the Ohio factory move here and join forces with the U. S. Match Co., and we are told that negotiations to this end have been pending for two or three months. The Ohio concern, it is stated, however, did' not want to have anything to do with Mr. Longacre, the big noise of the local factory. Mr. Sterling, the promotor, has, it is now asserted, taken over Longacre’s interest—which were evidently largely wind —and the consolidation is now about to be effected providing a sufficient amount of stock can be sold here.

Regarding the shipping away of machinery from the factory here, we are told that all that is being shipped away is the construction machinery and persona! belongings of Longacre—cement block machines, mixers, etc., and Longacre’s auto. This information comes from Mr. Kelley, who has had dharge of the factory building here. 'Mr. Kelley also says that the factory here will be operated, but he is unable to state just when it will be started. Several matchmaking machines—-four, we believe ; —are now completed at Elkhart and the committee above mentioned will probably be taken by way *of Elkhart to see them. It is reported that Sterling states that he still has some $9,000 which will finish equipping the factory and pay off all encumbrances thereon.