Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1916 — LOCAL FACTORY IS GOING GOOD [ARTICLE]

LOCAL FACTORY IS GOING GOOD

Plan! Transferred Into a Hive es Industry VALUABLE ADDITION TO CITY Reduction Plant Is Also Operating Full Time—Both Are Employing Considerable Help. The city has completed the stringing of the electrical wires to the Columbia furniture plant in the northeastern part of the city, and every day the furnace fires of industry are seeding forth their volume of black smoke. All of the broken windows in the building have been replaced and the institution has every appearance of a live, permanent industry. It is a significant fact, of which Rensselaer citizens should be cognizant, that during the preceding Republican administrations this factory never turned a wheel. But' with the prosperity of the country that has been ours for more than three years, orders are pouring in so rapidly that the factory now has orders booked sufficient to keep them busy for several months. Rensselaer, for the first time, has a real factory that is all that could be wished for. The reduction plant, which is being operated in the small building adjoining the furniture factory, is also doing a good business and bids fair to be a permanent and profitable establishment. The first dead animal was put through the process yesterday and everything worked to perfection. Contrary to the general opinion, a modern reduction plant is absolutely odorless and does not in any way impair sanitary conditions.

These two institutions are going to provide a great deal of work for the laboring people of the city, and when operations on a full schedule are under way will doubtless have some difficulty in securing all the help necessary.