Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 50, Number 50, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 2 August 1928 — Page 7

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1928

Yellow Jacket Coal A Giaut in Heat A Runt in Ash Summer prices will soon lie over and in less than two mouths you will be needing coal. See us tudav about filling that bin. POCAHONTAS COKE CHESTNUT HARD COAL Syler & Syler Phone 87 Nappanee, Indiana

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Capital and Surplus --- $91,000

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Firm of Syler & Syler Assumed Name in 1921

The present progressive firm of Syler & Syler first assumed that name under the management of Clay Syler in 1921. Clay had come here from Knox county, ()., in 1918 as manager or the Farmers Elevator, lie worked as manager one year, purchased the enterprise, was proprietor for another year; then sold the business- to the Farmer’s cooperative movement which .was at its height at that time. He managed the elevator for this organization for one year and then he and his brother, Harvey, one of the present managers, purchased the present business of George Bros, and Huff which consisted of Oliver, Ed, Charles and Frank George, and Phillip Huff. The next year, 1922, they purchased an elevator at North Manchester and Clay moved there to manage it. leaving Harvey in charge of the local elevator. The business grew until another man was required to aid in the management and Ivan Syler, nephew -of the brothers, who was then employed as teller in a bank in Los Angeles, Calif., came to Nappanee, purchased an interest in the elevator, and assisted in the managing of the business. W hen considering persons engaged in a line oi business, one always wonders about, the background and the training that has fitted them to do the work are doing. Thus we find that three generations of Sylers have been interested in grains Simon Syler, father of Clay and Harvey, and grandfather of Ivan, was a miller in Tuscarawas county, O. He combined milling with farming and thus all the boys got the producer’s as well as the manufacturer’s angle of the business. Clay farmed, worked in the mill, and attended school at Fredericktown. 0., graduating from that high school, and later getting a degree from Nor t h M anchester college: After graduating front college, hi went back to Ohio, gud purchased an elevator in Knox county, near to the

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home farm. Harvey farmed the 160 acre home farm for a number- of years, later buying an interest in the Knox county elevator -w : his brother. Ivan’s father, brother f day and Harvey, left the farm a soon as he learned the miller’s trade from his father and purchased a mill of his own in Marietta, O. Mr Syler did a j flourishing business her , but when Ivan was only nine year- of age, his | lather died, and Ivan lived for the : next five years with his paternal i grandparents, on the farm. When he was fourteen years of age, he went to Akron, 0., where his mother was then living, where he attended high school as well as graduating from the Akron Actual Business college. After completing the business course, he was employed as a clerk in the freight and • i I JO ' on the Pennsylvania railroad for j one year, then returned to Knox counj ty, entering a partnership with Clay j and Harvey in the elevator inisiness. Harvey and Ivan purchased Clay’s interest in the Knox county elevator in 1918 and Clay, drawn somewhat by his interest in his old Alma Mater, and having many friends in Lhlfl section made whlleMh school at North Manchester, came to Nappanee and to the management of the Farmer’s elevator. Harvey and Ivan operated the Knox county elevator for one year and then sold it to the Farmers’ Cooperative movement. Ivan then went to California and worked in the Calif- | ornia bank at Los Angeles for four I j years as teller, before coming out here to join Clay and Harvey for the second time in the elevator business, The local elevator building was built by H. R. Stauffer and \V. W. Stauffer who operated if for a number of years before selling it to I George Brothers and Huff. Strange ! as it may seem. Clay Syler purchasI ed (wo elevators built by.the Stauffer | Bros. For. after building and selling ; the one elevator to George Brothers I and Huff, they built the present ■ Farmers elevator, or a portion of it.

the building which originally housed the tank factory being used and additions built to this. Clay later bought this of the Stauffer Brothers, owning it for one year,before the farmer s organization bought it and her purchased the other building where they are now located and which also has the Stauffer name in the cornerstone. After purchasing the present building, the entire interior of the elevator was torn out, remodeled and modern electrical machinery installed to take the place of the old machinery run by the steam boiler method. Five new Fairhank’s scales were installed, . corn sheller, and cleaner, corn and grain dumps, new elevators, electric wagon dump, new coal bins. and other improvements were soon made. The old office was also torn up. and a convenient, clean office built. At this time coal and seeds were added to the line of products handled and the coal business has been stressed to such an extent that tit present it is their main line. They handle Yellow Jacket, Kennton;. Pocahontas, hard coal and coke. At the North Manchester plant a SII,OOO plant for unloading, storing, and loading of coal has been constructed, The plant consists of five silo-like structures each with a capacity of 100 tons. The coal: is carried from the pit where it runs from the open hopper pocket of the car• by holsters that carry a s on at a lime. A car is unloaded in two hours while two days are required here by the old method of scooping. The local elevator attempted to build such a plant here, but found it impossible to lease the ground on which to con struct the silos. The elevator handles all produce usually carried by elevators. They have Pine Tree seeds, in timothy and clovers, Grimm alfalfa, McMillan cow, hog and poultry feeds, tankage, all kinds of seed grains, drain tile, salt, and are buyers of. peppermint and spearmint oil, grains, corn and straw-. •. The name Syler and Syler appears on more than one elevator in northern Indiana. Besides the elevator here and the one at North Manchester they own elevators at Silver Lake and I’ackerton. and are at the present time looking for another elevator in a good location.

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