People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-11-02
Wellington Gets a Kansas City Factory.
Within ten d.r, or two weeks. tn,

Within ten days or two weeks, the
first car load Of the Acme Novelty
Co.'S. factory at SIS, 527 WyaudOtte
street, Kansas City, Mo-, will have
arriyed in Wellington, and will be
followed in rapid succession by other
cOnsignments until tae entire estab-
lishment is located here. The Acme
| Novelty Co.'S. works are owned princi-
pally by H. NJ. Cooley, an expert ma
chinist OF wide reputation, and in-
venter of several well known house
hold utensils. His object in moving
his business from Kansas City to
Wellington is to be near his extensive
ranch interests 10 the vicinity Of
Attica. Mr., Cooley had been cOnvem-
plating locating 10 some good town in
southern Kansas, and Wellington
secured him through the efforts CT L.
c. Fisher, vino is an old acquaintance
of his.
Negotiations are under way between
Mr. Cooley aud the owners, for the
leasing of the old foundry building Of
Moore Bros, corner of Harvey ave-
nue. and G streets. II this building
cannot be secured, another location in
the city will be decided upon. Sew
eral propositions have been submitted
to Mr.. Cooley offering to lease other
buildings, but he prefers the fOunlry
building for the reason that he eX.
poets to add foundry to his business
in the future. This building is aspe-
cially fitted for this purpose.
The Novelty works will give con-
Stsnt employment to eight or ten
skilled mechanics, and when the
foundry Business is added, a consider
able force of men will be employed |
the year around. Mr.. Cooley annual
ly ships large numbers OF novelties
such as be manufactures, all over the
United States. The works are so we'll |
known that the business will not suf-
fer in the least by moving from Kan.
sas City, as the proprietor has an
absolute monopoly, by reason of his
patents, on the principal articles
turned out Of the shops. Among the
articles manufactured by MIR. Cooley
are the Gem heater, the Acme self
heating sad iron, the Acme cigar
lighter, the Acme combination lock,
the Acme combination tool, etc, etc.
This combination tool consists of
door lock, screw driver, tack puller,
knife opener aud graduated rule and
wire gauge, all In one. On one OF these
patents, MIR. Cooley claims TO have
made $40, 900 last year, and on another
the royalty alone brings him an in-
come Of $4,000 annually.
A very strong argument which in-
duced Mr.. Cooley to locate in Wei
lingtOn, is the fact that nearly all
the business which model workers in
Kansas City and st. Louis get from
the west comes from within 100 miles
of Wellington, as he says. Making
models is one OF the principal features
Of the Acme Novelty works, and the
proprietor expects this department Of
the work to grow rapidly by reason of
the factery's new location.
Mr.. Cooley has not asked the city to ,
give him one cent or help him in any
way as an iIducemeut to locate here.
tie comes here on account OF Yelling ,
ION being near his cattle ranch, the !
superior railroad facilities, and the :
'eason stated above that Wellington
8 the center of the territory which ,
furnishes the bulk of the business for !
Kansas City and eastern model work G
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