Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — How the Commercial Club's $10,000 Has Grown. [ARTICLE]

How the Commercial Club's $10,000 Has Grown.

The Democrat is in receipt of a marked copy of an Elkhart paper containing the following, which shows how the SIO,OOO put up by Rensselaer for the uncompleted match factory building has grown —on paper—in the hands of shrewd financiers: “The capital stock of the United States Match Co., whose home office is in this city and factory in Rensselaer, has been increased from $165,000 to $250,000, the stock being taken by investors from Chicago and Kansas City. The only local stockholders are W. W. Sterling ana P. T. Longacre. The company was incorporated April 4, 1910.”