Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1901 — About That Other Factory. [ARTICLE]

About That Other Factory.

A number of business men held an informal meeting Wed. night to consider the latest proposition for locating a big manufacturing plant here, A committee consisting of A. Leopold, J. H. 8. Ellis and G. E. Murray was selected to make a thorough investigation of the company’s present and prospective business, credit etc. It is intended later to select a larger committee of 10 or 12 members to go Chicago and make further investigations there. The company will not consider anything less than and 3 to 5 acres of ground, and will guartee to employ 200 to 500 men, In their statement they say that after spending thousands of dollars in perfecting their oil-gas generators and burners, they only began putting them on the market, in a general way, last June, when the company was organized. They now have a daily outfit of 75 complete outfits every day, with 'a weekly pay roll of $545.87, and expect by the end of their first year’s business to put out 300 outfits every day, and hSve a weekly pay-roll of $2,500. This present business is all done with generators for cooking stoves. When they build a new and larger factory it is intended to also manufacture ranges, stoves, furnaces, steel tanks etc.

A Bridal Couple Arrives. P. J. Grieser, whose marriage to Mies Mary L. Schlink, at Elpaso, 111., Tuesday of last week, was previously mentioned in The Republican, arrived here Wednesday with his bride. The redding took plaoe in the St. Mary’s Catholic church, in the presence'of a large assemblage of people at 9:00 a. m. o’olook that day. Immediately after the ceremony a reception was tencered them by the bride’s parents. After a short stay here they expeot to remove to Indianapolis, where Mr. Grieser has a good position.