Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1902 — Manufacture of Pens and Pencils. [ARTICLE]

Manufacture of Pens and Pencils.

The census bureau has issued a report on the manufacture of pens and pencili in the United States for 1900. It show? a total of $3,671,741 was invested is this manufacture in the fifty-five establishments reporting for the United State* The value of the product is returned al 84.222.140; wages, 11,102.405; material nsed. mill supplies, freight and fuel, fl, 747,852. Joseph L. Baker, aged 45, of Central City, was killed by falling rock in a coal mine at Centralia, HL