Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — A BIG INDUSTRY [ARTICLE]

A BIG INDUSTRY

The Planing Mill Owned By Don* nelly Bros May Soon Become a Factory. The most wide awake industry now located in our city is the planing mill in the old creamery building owned by Donnelly Bros. These two men have displayed a great deal of energy and pluck since they established this industry and have been rewarded by a wonderful increase in their business in a remarkably short space of time. The building is well supplied with the latest machinery adapted to this work such as shapers, turning lathes, band, swing, rip and cut off saws, planers, wood makers, sand paper, boring and mortise machines. The men employed at the mill are all skilled mechanics and turn out work equal to that done in any of the factories of our larger cities. The work consists chiefly in manufacture of building and shop material, furniture reparing and the making of fine wood-work such as siae-boards, book-cases, and desks.

While in their shop a short time igo we were shown a handsome sideboard which they had just completed for E. L. Hollingsworth, the veneering of which was birdseye maple with antique bronze trimmings. Such work as this will soon acquire an extensive reputation for its manufacturer. This spring the owne s will idd painting and decorating to their business. They also expect to receive the contract ior manufacturing the Dewey washing machines, which will necessitate a much larger building than the one they now occupy. If this industry continues to in crease at its present rate ot speed, a real wide awake factory will spring up in onr midst before we know it.

The Servants We do not Keep. Dr. Grace Peckam Murray, a wellknown and authoritive writer in regard to Children's Diseases, begins in the March a series of tour valuable chapwrs dealing with “The Child ’’ The first article speaks of “The Child at Home.” Every mother should read these articles as they appear. Where the retaining of a servant is a difficult matter—and in what home is it not?—interest should be felt in the article in the March Delineator by Professor Ellen H. Richards of The Massachusetts College of Technology, entitled “The Servants We Do Not Keep.” Of course the final word on the servant question will never be uttered, but every woman with servant troubles, at least wants to know the troubles of others and how, in some measure, they overcame them.