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Reynoldsville .
Reynoldsville
Has modern schools and churches, pared
streets, water, gas and electric accommoda
tions, convenient trolley service, high and
healthful location, varied employment for
labor and many other residential advantages.
Offers exceptional advantages for ithe loca
tion of new Industries t Free factory sites,
cheap and abundant fuel, direct shipping
facilities and low freight rates and plentiful
supply of laborers.
VOLUME 17.
REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1909.
NUMBER 39.
STEEL PLANT PURCHASED BY ENAMELING COMPANY
Negotiations Carried On Through the Business Men's
Association Finally Result In An Outright Purchase
By Clymer Manufacturing Company.
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Plant Will be Remodeled and Equipped for the Manufacture of Bath Tubs, Lavatories and
Similar Articles Will Employ From Fifty to Seventy-Five Men at the Start and the Force
Will be Increased With the Return of Prosperity to the Country. Will Put Over a Hun
dred Thousand Dollars a Year Into Circulation in Reynoldsville When In Operation.
THE REYNOLDSVILLE STEEL PLANT will be sold within thirty days to the Clyrher Manu
facturing Company, of Indiana, Pa. Yesterday at one o'clock Charles S. Lord, Secretary of the
Reynoldsville Business Men's Association, received a message from
the Indiana plant of the company, stating that the deal had received the official sanction of the
board of directors of his company and that its final consummation was only a matter of time. It
is probable that the formal transfer of the property from the hands of its present holders to the In
diana company will occur in the second week ot Marcn.
The closing of this transaction means much to the future prosperity of Reynoldsville. It is the
intention of the company to remodel the plant immediately after taking it over and transform it
into an enameling establishment
like nature. They will have a daily capacity of at least 50. bath 0
tubs and 100 pieces ot the smaller ware at the beginning and there
is every expectation that when business conditions again return
to normal, this capacity will be greatly increased. Practically all
of the product will be marketed in the eastern cities and it was the
excellent shipping facilities from Reynoldsville, together with low
cost of operation, which attracted the Indiana people to this city.
After the remodelling is completed the actual operation of the
plant will be started with a force of from 50 to 100 men. The
majority of these will be adults and will receive a good rate of pay.
It is estimated that the pay roll within a year will reach $200,000.
and to that extent may be depended upon to put new life into
local business enterprises.
The entire plant at Reynoldsville can be utilized, though much
of the machinery left by the Pittsburgh Industrial Iron Works
company will have to be discarded. The foundry, with cupalo and
crane, may be used with but slight alterations and enlargement.
The upper building must be divided into five compartments to
handle the ware in its progress from the casting in the foundry
to the finished product, ready
office building at the plant will be refitted and used by the clerical
force.
The Clymer Manufacturing Company is a corporation capital
ized at $100,000.00. It has an enamel plant at Indiana, Pa.,
and has an established business. Its president, W. A. Guthrie, and
general superintendent, George A. Conrath, are old residents of
Indiana who have won the confidence of their townsman by the
conservative and successful management of business affairs. The
stock of the company is held largely by Indiana county people,
though a number of New York business men are financially inter
ested in the concern. It is the present intention of thecompany to
establish its main office and sales department in New York City,
with a shipping and clerical force at Indiana and Reynoldsville.
The company's business has outgrown its present producing ca
pacity and the expansion simply enables it to meet the demand.
The success of the Clymer Manufacturing Company's product
has been due mainly to a secret process of mixing the ingredients
of the enamel composition invented and controlled by G. A. Con
rath, the general manager of the concern. Mr, Conrath has been
connected with some of the largest enameling concerns in America
and has gained national reputation through the process he con
trols. After the transfer is completed Mr. Conrath will personally
assume charge of the Reynoldsville plant. He has been in Reyn
oldsville on several occasions and is favorably known to matjyr
Mr. Conrath has been endeavoring to secure the gas well near
the steel plant, but if not successful, will probably drill another
well after commencing operations. Fuel is a large item in the ex
pense account and owning their own well, cost of operation will be
reduced to a minimum.
That the people of Reynoldsville secure this valuable industry
without being asked to contribute a cent in the way of bonus or
taking stock, is due primarily to the activity of the Business Men's
Association, through which the company was interested in the
steel plant, and through which negotiations were carried on, and
next, to the sacrifice in price made by the bond-holders owning the
property in order to benefit the community. The First National
bank and Peoples National bank deserve conspicuous credit in this
respect. Probably no other industry was ever brought to Reyn
oldsville just as this one was. In a period of continuous negotia
tions extending over three months, hardly a letter was written,
bu the long distance telephone was in daily commission with Mr.
Conrath at one end and Secretary Lord at the other. The long
stretch between the price of the bond-holders and figures of the
bidder was gradually shortened until the two met on a common
basis. Behind the officials of the Association stood the member
ship who had contributed the fund for just such work. .
There is an immense and rapidly growing demand for enameled
ware of this kind. Every modern home is 60 equipped, while in
many hotels, the private bath rooms necessitate the use of several
carloads oenameled ware in a single building. With the Clymer
people the proposition has been not so much to secure orders as to
keep op with the demand for their product.
for the manufacture of bath tubB,
for packing -and shipping. The
G. A. Conrath, Superintendent of
lavatories, sinks 'and articles of
RATHMEL PLANS
DB EANCHESTER AND HIS PHILADEL
PHIA CHURCH
Walston Woman Met
A Peculiar Death
Fell Into a Well From Which
She Was Drawing Water
And Was Drowned.
While drawing water from the well
at her home In Walston, Tuesday morn
ing of this week, Mrs. Antonio Rlcco
slipped and fell through a hole in the
platform over the well and ber dead
body was found floating in the water
a few moments after. The aooldent
happened about 7:110 when Mrs.
Rlcco went to get the water. Not
returning promptly nor mother, Mrs.
Michael Racco, who lives In the same
building, went to eouruh for ber daugh
ter. She saw onn bucket full of water
and one partly filled on the well plat
form and the broken boards showed
where she had fallen through. Peer
Ing down into the well she beheld the
body of her daughter. Calling for help
a neighbor got the body from the well
and a physician was summoned, but all
efforts to resusoltate ber were without
avail. The deceased was 25 years of
age and came to this country about
(our years ago. The husband and a
three-year-old daughter survive her.
Punxsutawney News.
Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
The regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Reynoldsville
Building" and Loan Association will be
held at the office of the Association at
7.30 p. m. on Monday, February 22,
1909, for the purpose of electing five
directors and one auditor and transact
ing any other business that may be pre
sented. John M. Hays,
L. J. McEntire, President.
Secretary.
Carload ot new sleighs, second band
sleighs and bob-sleds for sale at Bums'
livery stable.
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Joseph J. Shaffer
Appointed Adams
Express Agent.
Popular Veteran Once More
Assumes Charge of Local
Business.
Joseph J. Shaffer baa been appointed
agent of the Adams Express Company
In Reynoldsville to succeed Francis O.
Sutter, who resigned In January.
There were several applicants for the
position and while all were worthy
In every respect, the selection of Mr.
Shaffer will be noted with pleasure
by the citizens. Twenty-five years of
continuous service as agent (or the
Adams company in Reynoldsville,
characterized by uniform courtesy and
promptness as well as strict Integrity,
had earned for Mr. Shaffer ttae reward
of re-appointment after an Interim dur
ing whloh 111 health had forced resig
nation. When Mr. Shaffer recovered
bis wonted health in 1908 be became
assistant to Mr. Sutter, bis successor,
and remained in that capaolty until
Wednesday last, when he again became
chief.
UNION REVIVAL
Noted Church of God Elder
Secured to Conduct the
Series of Meetings.
The people of Rathmel are making
preparations for a great religious re
vival commencing Monday evening,
February 15. The churches of Rath
mel have united their strength and
secured the Rev. Charles Manchester,
D.'iD., of the Eastern Pennsylvania
eldership of the Church of God, to
conduct the union service.
Rev. Manchester filled the pulpit
of the Churoh of God Bethel In Phila
delphia three years, 1900, 1907 and
1908. He is a graduate of Park College
and Oberlln Theological Seminary,
Ohio, and for eight years acted as
president of Findlay College, at Find
lay, Ohio. He founded, and for several
years edited, the Missionary Signal.
one was nonorea Dy selection to the
General Eldership of the Church of
God.
A Jlorrlsburg dally paper, dated
January 12, 1909, commented as follows
on Dr. Manchester's work in that
city:
"There was a large attendance at
the revival of the Fourth street Church
of God last night. Dr. Manchester, of
Columbus, who Is assisting Rev. J. C.
Fornorook, again preached a very in
teresting sermon and a great many
persons made a decision to live conse
crated lives.''
An effort is being made to Interest
all the christians of Rathmel and
vicinity in the movement.
J. A. Blaydon Met
With Serious Injury
Former Reynoldsville Electri
cian Narrowly Escaped
Instant Death.
J. A. Blaydon, formerly of Reynolds
ville, now superintendent of an, electrio
light and power company at Trevorton,
Pa., met with a painful mUhap last
week which will confine him to bis
home for some time. While Mr. Blay
don was perched on the top of a pole
Wednesday morning stretching and
straightening wires a strong gale of
wind, with much force, caused the pole
to swerve and the electrician lost his
hold for a moment. In a desperate ef
fort to regain his falling body he made
a great effort to throw his arms around
the cross bars but In so doing wrenched
his back so badly that it was with diffi
culty he reached the ground, where he
fell prostrate and helpless. Carried to
the Reading Btatlon he was tenderly
oared for until the arrival of Dr. Lark
who pronounoed the injury of an ex
tremely painful nature and ordered the
Injured man conveyed to his home,
where he will be confined for some
time.
IS THE LOWER COAL VEIN
TO BE OPENED AT ONCE ?
A Famous Actress
. VIOLA ALLEN
Who has cancelled ber Punxsutawney date.
NEW FEDERAL
COURT DISTRICT
IS PROPOSED.
Jefferson County Included In
A District Composed of
Thirteen Counties.
A news item sent out from Washing
ton, D. C, Btates that Representative
Reynolds has introduced in the bouse a
bill to create a new federal judloial dis
trict in Pennsylvania, composed of the
counties of Jefferson, Mifflin, Hunting
ton, Fulton, Bedford, Blair, Center,
Clearfield, Indiana, Cambria, Somerset,
Westmoreland and Fayette. This bill
provides that olroult and dlstrlot courts
shall be held therein at Altoona on the
third Monday of January and the third
Monday of June; at Johnstown on the
third Monday of March and the third
Monday of September; at Greensburg
on tba third Monday of April and the
third Monday of November in each
year. Sessions to continue for suoh
periods of time as the judges, by their
prior order may determine.
That there Is a growing need of
either an additional judge or a separate
judicial district, seems to be conceded
by the members of the bar within the
present western district. A bill of
fered by Representative Dalzell for an
additional judge has been favorably re
ported by the judiciary committee. It
is safe to assume however that if a
separate district is not created, pro
vision will be made for holding courts
at Johnstown-or Altoona, or both for
the convenience of the covnties distant
from Pittsburg.
Congressman Reynolds is backed in
the proposition by the action of the
Blair County Bar Association, aud It is
expected that other counties In the pro
posed district will take similar action.
This project has been on foot for nearly
a year and was first started by the pro
position contained in a bill offered by
Congressman Reynolds to provide for a
session of the district court at Altoona.
The First National Bank
yOF REYNOLDSVILLE.
Capital and Surplus $175,000.00
Resources . . $550,000.00
OFFICERS
J. O. Kma, Vtue-Pres.
DIRECTORS
J. 0. King Daniel Nolan
J.B.Hammond
Jobs H. Zadohib, Pres.
John H. Kaucher
Bear; 0. Oelble
Every Accommodation Consistent with Careful Banking
Persistent Rumor That Tests
Are Now Being Made
South of Town.
MUCH LAND HAS BEEN LEASED
If True It Will Mean Fortunes
Eor Many Local Land Own
ers and An Immense Boom
In Reynoldsville Business.
For some weeks past rumors have
been current that agents of city cor
porations have been active in leasing
the mineral rights on tracts of land
lying south and eaut of Reynoldsville.
It Is certain that one company holding
an extensive lease in the Paradise dls
trlot has been carrying on drilling
operations for several weeks, ostensibly
for the purpose of finding gas or oil.
As tests In the past in and around
Reynoldsville have pretty olearly
demonstrated ' that neither of these
products exists in paying quantities,
a fact known to all concerned, it re
mains that the only other reason for
making expensive and extensive tests
on land held under lease must be for
the purpose of ascertaining the exact
extent and location of the under veins
of coal known to exist under thousands
of acres lying south of Reynoldsville.
Acting under this supposition the in
dividual speculators have begun to get
busy. They believe implicitly that the
next two years will witness the opening
and actual working of the under vein
near Reynoldsville.
Hundreds of acres of coal rights dis
tinct from the above, were leased a
few years ago by parties who en
deavored to effect a sale in block to
well known coal operators. The ne
gotiations at that time came to nothing
because the shadow of the 1907 panio
was already disoerned. These holdings
it is said remain intact and a sale of
them under the present favorable con
ditions will mean profits to the Reyn
oldsville men who control the rights,
and an immense boom to the business
Interests of Reynoldsville when they
are worked.
Punxsutawney Will
Appeal Damage Case
Suits Originated Over Change
' In Street Grade.
The borough of Punxsutawney was
recently sued for $2,600 damages by
Mrs. William M. Fairman for alleged
Injury to the value of her property
through grading for street paving.
Judge Reed heard the case and the
jury brought in a verdict for $1,294
damages. The Punxsutawney council
promptly authorized their attorney to
appeal the case. The motion will be
argued In March and if refused it la
believed that the council will appeal
to a higher court. If the verdict
stands It is probable that several sim
ilar damage cases will be entered by
other Punxsutawney people.
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