Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1915 — W. E. Harris Buys Out the Dexter Creamery. [ARTICLE]

W. E. Harris Buys Out the Dexter Creamery.

"«• E.'Harris, who has been the local manager of the Dexter Creamery here since its establishment a few years since, closed up a deal a few days ago for the purchase of the business and it will hereafter go under his name. Mr. Harris has had practically entire charge of the business here and is familiar with all its details. He is well liked by the patrons, and that he will be successful as sole proprietor and do an everincreasing business in the future as he has in the past, is assured. t

As The Democrat pointed out at the time W. H. Morrison started the first cream buying station here, this is one of the most important business enterprises ever established in Rensselaer, and has been a source of profit to the farmer and also a fine thing for our tradesmen, as it brings in a nice sum of money each week from outside our county and state and puts it in circulation here, giving the farmer and dairyman ready cash to meet the current expenses of the farm as he goes along and leaves the money from his grain crop for other uses. From a small beginning here only a few years ago, *hen, this was the only cream station in tiie county, it has grown to a gross business of over SIOO,OOO per year for the Dexter creamery alone, and there are several other stations of lesser importance now in other sections of the county. When one considers that Mr. Harris is putting into circulation in the immediate vicinity of Rensselaer an average of over $2,000 in cash each week, even the most optomistic factory promotor must acknowledge that this beats our “match factory” all hollow.