The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-01-25
.FERO G. WETTER
HOLDS FINE POSITION
Is. Secretary and Purchasing Agent
for The Electric Steel Cast
Ing Company.
NOT AFRAID TO WORK OVERTIME

The Leader, always pleased to know
that Watertown boy has gone out
into the world and made good, is es-
pecially pleased to inform it's readers
as to the success Of Ferd G. Welter
secretary and purchasing agent for
the Electric Steel Casting company OF
! West Allis.
The company with which Mr.. Wei
| ter is connected recently purchased
the W. H. Shenners company. The
plant is situated on the north line of
the city of West Allis, and in the town
of Wauwatosa
The company will build a modern
steel plant, all machinery to be run
by electric power The building will
be 80x500 feet, and in addition to
this building will erect a pattern shop
power house, office buildings and store
house and laboratory, and the yards
will occupy as much ground as the
main building. The entire plant will
cover twenty acres.
This foundery will be one of the
most modern in the United States.
The furnace will be of 3-ton capacity
and was purchased at cost of $25 600.
From the description of the plant,
taken from a Milwaukee paper, it re-
quires no strech of Inauguration to
realize that Mr.. Wetter is connected
with one of this country's large con-
WI 10
it certainly is the most modern
Many Watertown citizens will re-
member Ferd, Familiarity referred to
by many as 'Bootzie," and recall that
he was most enthusiastic base ball
fan, and attained considerable pro-
minence as a shot.
Mr.. Wetter left the city in 1902, en-
tered a business college, took up the
in January of 1903.
From April, 1903, to September, 1904,
he was a stenographer in the offices of
the Hantke Brewers School and
Laboratories OF Milwaukee, and from
September, 1904, to July, 1909, was
stenographer in various departments
of the Wisconsin Central railway, as
we'll as cashier of the passenger de-
partment. In December, 1907, the
Wisconsin Central moved it's offices
from Milwaukee to Chicago, taking
Ferd with them
In July, 1909, he took a position as
manager of the TranscOntinentai
Clergy Bureau of the Trancontinental
Passenger association of Chicago, but
as this work was not to his liking, he
resigned in September of that year
and returned to Milwaukee,
In October of the same year, he
took position with the Northwestern
Mutual Life Insurance company, at
the same time putting in after hours
with a merchandise broker. He con-
tinued this work until June, 1910,
when he took position as stenogra-
.pher in the Works Office of the Prime
Steel Company, gradually being pro-
noted to the position of purchasing
agent, which he held until the time of
their bankruptcy, June 20, 1915.
Now he is with The Electric Steel
Castings company and he feels sure
that this will be his last change for
some time
1t goes without the saying that any
young man who will put the vim and
vigor into his work to get ahead as
has Mr.. Wetter is placing himself in
position to occupy good position
and at the same time be large enough
to meet the requirements, and his
family and friends can take a just
pride in his advancement
His Watertown relatives are Frank
Welter, a brother, and Mrs. Joseph
Peinck.
He has a brother, John, a printer
in Chicago, who at one time was en-
ployed in the office of the Watertown
Weltburger.