Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-09-26
GRAND RAPIDS in PROS
Porous CONDITION
CITY is Now Recovered From
Summers Slump in Business.

The city of Grand Rapids is in a
most prosperous condition this fall.
after the slight slump in business
this summer. and all is we'll again.
If there is now man in the city who
would knock, he should be cast forth
from among men into the utter dark
ness. For there is, in every inStitu-
tion in the city, a feeling of good
fortune and prosperity, that is maxi
ing itself felt in every branch Of city
life. Nearly every factory is running
at full blast. Those that are not
running in every branch are shut
down there because of all their
material having been used up. Mer-
chants all report good heavy fall
trade, and there are but few men in
town who are idle, and they are so
because they do not want to work.
The paper mill is running in full
blast and to further improve its plant
is constructing new 165 foot smoke
stack for the boiler house. The pro-
ducts of the mill are in demand and a
full force of men are employed. In
the lumber business, both lumber
companies are diSpoSing of their stock
in good shape, are advertising
regularly and are il a prosperous CEN
dition, due to the quality of their
products. The box factory is running
with full force and are kept busy
getting their products out to custom
ers. The table factory has been shut
down part Of the time, but the sash
and door factory is running and has
received number of big orders since
their recent start in Grand Rapids.
Brick are in abundance, crews of men
having been kept working day and
night part of the time this summer
TO get enough on hand for the winters
trade. The butter factory has been
in a tlourishing condition all summer.
Work at the foundry has been a
little behind on account of the new
buildings being put up on the west
Side kept the members of the firm
engaged in it's construction. When
completed it will be one of the finest
foundrieS in the state, and meanwhile
is furnishing employment to a large
force of men in building it. The
brewery has been SO successful that a
bottling establishment has been
added to meet the demand for its pro-
duct. In the bicycle business. Geo.
Krieger has moved his sale rooms
down town to make more room at the
factory. Due to lack of material
which has been worked up into
products this summer. the spoke de-
partment of the MacKinnon factory
is not running, but the spoke mill
men are at work in the other part Of
the mill to meet the demands for the
factory's products. Due to fine, or at
least good crops this year, the milling
company have kept their mill going
steadily and will have an all winters
run without stop. There has been
a large number of concrete block
sidewalks laid this year, the blocks
being made here. The pickle factory
had short but profitable run. The
marble and monument works have
had their hands full all the year,
getting out orders. Carpenters, brick
layers, in fact workmen of every kind
have been steadily in demand, and
there has been continuous call tor
men to work all summer.
Taking all these things into con-
sideration, and when it is remembered
that wages are as high as they have
been in a number of years and the
outlook is certain for high wages and
demand for help this winter, there
is absolutely no excuse for an idler,
and certainly not, in view of these
things, for a knocker. There may lie
and in fact is some excuse for one who
kicks for Improvements, and not for
the knocker, ''bad cess to him."