The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-27
CHESTER A.. N|CKUM
A DIRECTOR
FORMER MlSSOULA MAN JUMPS
FROM PROLErARiAT INTO
UPPER CLASSES.

The Missoula friends of Chester
Adelbert Nickum-and there are a
good many of them, too-will be glad
to learn tina success has smiled upon
the fortunes of the N,ickum family.
Nick not so long ago an Associated
Press operator, a embarked in .he
cereal business. It won't be long un-
til the youngest member Of the family
of Nickum will be beaming from the
back covers of the magazine as a
chubby testimonial to the nutritive
values of Candied Wheat, which is
TIE name of one Of the brands to be
manufactured by the new concern.
The project seems bound toward
success and it will be speeded on it's
course II Nick's friends place orders
for Candied Wheat. (adv. d. h)
The following clipping from the
Spokesman-Review tells of the new
company in which Nick is director
and associate secretary:
The Cereal Products company, with
a capitalization of $50O,0 600, par value
Of shares 81 each, has been organ
lied by Spokane. Odessa. Seattle n
Walla Walla mon for the purpose Of
building a factory in Spokane and
manufacturing into cereal products
some of the millions of bushels of
wheat raised in the Inland Empire,
which is considered by many to be
the best wheat for cereal purposes
raised anywhere in the world. Z
Much of this wheat is now pur-
chased by eastern and middle west
concerns and transported to ther" fac
tories east of the Mississippi, the
freight on which costs from 80 to IS
cents per bushel.
The officers of the company arc:
o. M. Graves, Odessa, president; ]. A.
Walker, Walla Walla, vice president;
w. F. Knowlton, Spokane, secretary;
Chester A. Nickum, Spokane, assist
ant secretary; B.. W. Crandall, Odes-
sa, treasurer.
Doctor lnvents Machinery.
DIR. Graves has invented machinery
and perfected a process by which an
entirely new breakfast food is made
from wheat. 1t is unlike any cereal
product on the market today. He
has also perfected a process by which
a delightful and wholesome confec-
ton can be made from wheat.
W. F. Knowlton, secretary of the
new company, who has been with the
Great Northern railway for several
years and who previously was on
nected with the Athena, Ore, and
Newport, WASH, banking institutions,
speaking of the plans of the company,
said:
I'VE are located in the very heart
of the finest cereal wheatt-growing
territory in the world, and We intend
to manufacture here at home soma OF
the cereal products that are now made
by large eastern and middle west &C.
real produce manufacturers.
"A number of large concerns east
of the Mississippi buy a great guam
tity of cereal wheat in the Inland En-
freight, and then ship the finished
product back here and the people Of
the Inland Empire pay the freight.
Worked Two Years on Process.
%Mr. Graves of Odessa has worked
two years on his machinery and pro-
teSS " HAM WIldl WE Dc1leNe 10 Ne
the best cereal wheat product on the
market today. We nave exhibited
some of the breakfast food and our
candied wheat, an absolutely new con-
lection, before prominent members OF
the chamber Of commerce., buying-at-
home league and other organizations
and they lave met with instantaneous
favor.
20. M. Staples of the firm of Sta.
pies & Co, candy manufacturers, sale
of u candied wheat: I have never
seen anything like 1T. 1t surely has
wonderful possibilities
All of h officers of the com
pany will be in Spokane about Marcel
/ to complete arrangements as to thu
site and erection of factory, manu-
f~acture and machinery patterned aftel
that in use in Odessa, but considera.