Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1908 — New Firm of Old Business Men. [ARTICLE]

New Firm of Old Business Men.

A new business firm has been organized, the members of whiefo and especially the senior member, have been long engaged in business in Rensselaer and . Jasper county. The firm, is composed of B. .P. Ferguson and Walter R. Lw.’juml { they have already taken up their > quarters in the Harris Bank bnildipg>- from which the Jasper ' S *vj ngs and Trust Go. just removed. They will carry on a loan; insurance and abstract business, engage in * the handling of real estate,' and will organize , a baajc and expect' shortly to engage in the banking business. The company Will go by the name of the “Farmers Loan, . Abstract and Safety Deposit Oo.” The details of the business and the intention of its founders cannot be more fully given at this time; Mr. Ferguson has been engaged for years in the business that the firm vill follow, and has been one of the county ’s most capable and honest basdness men, and has esteb- < fished a fine clientele of boeineM; and for some time he has had more business than he could handle single handed. Mr. Lee has resided in the county for many yean, 1 has bad a wide business experience, and is of fine qualifications. For the past two years he has bora a member of the G. E. Murray Co. r and much of the time in direct charge of (hat- business. He is , leaving it because he believes ho » will lize his new work bettor than the mercantile business; The firm / will be great hustlers for business, and Imve selected a good location in a building already supplied with - much of the furniture they will need in their proposed enlarged plan Of 1 operations.