Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — LOCAL PLANT GETS $25,000 JOB [ARTICLE]

LOCAL PLANT GETS $25,000 JOB

Will Furnish Tile for Large Illinois Drainage Project. Roe Yeoman was at Danville. Illinois, last week and was awarded the contract to furnish the material for a drainage project embracing about sixteen square miles. The tile to be used will vary in size from thirty-inch and smaller, and the contract price was $25,000. After being awarded this contract it was necessary for the concern to refuse another at Columbia City, Indiana, amounting to about $30,000. About thirty men were employed by this company last summer, and this number will probably have to be increased this year, which gives: it a place among our industries of considerable note.