The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-07-27
ENTERPRISES-CoN.
WINKLER FURNITURE FACTOR

WINKLER FURNITURE FACTORY.
The large, iourishing and we'll
known factory of Winkler Furniture
Company is one of the greatest, as we'll
as one of the most successful enter
prises in the city Of Lexington. This
factory is a large two-story brick, situ-
ated on the corner of South and Eigh-
teenth streets.
1t is an old firm, Messrs. ii. and F.
Winkler having started in the furniture
trade in 1857, at which time they made
their goods by hand. In 1870 they
built a factory in which they used steam
machinery. In 1883 they built and
enlarged the factory and organized as
Winkler Furniture Company, a stock
company, under the state laws of Mis-
souri,, with six stockholders.
A visit to this factory will repay one.
A babel of heavy machinery meets the
view, huge engines are lsboring in
almost every direction, aud the rattle
of wheels, belts, and the sharp hiss of
escaping steam are heard continually,
and everything conveys an idea of
industry and enterprise.
The factory building and lumber
yards have q frontage Of four hundred
and fifty feet by one hundred and fifty
feet deep, and the buildings contain
thirty thousand square feet of floor
space.
Their machines, of which there are
twenty-seven, are of the finest and the
latest improved. They also have every
known appliance for making first-class
goods, from the cheapest to the finest,
and will compete with any now being
made.
From thirty-two to thirty-five exper.
fenced hands are employed in the
manufacture of bedroom suits, side.
boards, extension tables, hall racks,
china closets, book eases, center and
writing tables, folding beds, kitchen
tables with an improved -four chesI
attachment, and furniture of all kinds
show cases and counters, parlor man
tells, etc. They also employ othel
experienced hands to do all work OF
short notice.
In the yards walnut, oak, cherry
ash, maple, lin, poplar, cottonwood
sycamore and elm are kept in lsrg'
quantities, to enable them to Away
have seasoned lumber. They carry il
stock 200, 900 feet of lumber, and il
seasoning it the greatest care an,
attention is given, to properly prepar
! all conditions and grades OF lumber
by drying it In q kiln, by air heated t.
the temperature Of one hundred an,
forty degrees F. They are prepare'
for the manufacture Of church an,
school furniture, Office, stove and banl
fixtures, portlco aud stair work.
The coffin ware room is Q very larg
one, and many fine baskets are to b
. seen.
5 All the shipping Of their goods i
done from the factory ware rooms
J Their salesrooms are large ~three-stor
bricks, on the corner Of FRANKLIN
avenue and Tenth street. Here can b
found q full line of all kinds of beauti
: full furniture, from bedroom aud parlo
suits to children's fancy chairs an
carriages.
The stockholders and officers of thi
firm are:
Stockholders-Mr. Henry w. Wink
: Ter and his two sons, Messrs, William
and Julius Winkler; Mr.. ]. +. E
; Winkler aud his two sons, Msssrs
Oswald aud Albert Winkler.
Oficers-President, MIR. Henry w
Widkler; secretary and treasurer, Mr.
j. F. f. Winkler; assistant secretary
Mr.. Albert F. Winkler.
Nowhere can men be found who ar
!, more energetic than the members Q
! the Winkler Furniture company. The
are honest and upright in all thei
dealings, most accommodating, an
ever willing to show one through thel
factory and salesrooms, which ar
ornaments to Lexington.
ALICE B. PEAK.