Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17

creased. The company, at the present
tlme employs nine men, and although
some carriages are made the or
Sanization is turning toward the au-
tomobile trade and specially designed
bodies for cars are produced. The
company has already made a num-
Der of bodies for sightseeing cars.
Has Foundry Company
Another concern in Elizabethville,
which carries the name Swab with it.
is the Swab Foundry Company, which
was established by Isaac Swab in
1873. The plant, with its six men,
turns out castings for various uses,
chilled plows, troughs, machine cast
ings, wheelbarrow parts porch
swings and step ladders. Mr.. Swab
worked alone in the plant in its be-
ginning but later when there was a
larger. market for the products of
the plant, he added more help and
built larger building. Now the force
is kept busy at all times turning out
castings which are used all over Penn
sylvania.
The Valley Shoe Company, which
was organized with local capital, was
established in 1912 and since that time
infants and children's turn shoes have
been manufactured in ElizabethVille
The company now employees more
than fifty persons and with this force
about 500 pairs of shoes are being
turned out daily. c. E. Culp is su-
perintendent of the plant. Because of
the big business the company is en-
joying and the large number of or
ders which have been received, the
organization is considering making
some improvements which will in
clude the building of an addition to
the present structure. When-this work
is done the present working force will
also be increased.
Shirt Factory, Too
In Elizabethville, too. there is
shirt factory and at this plant sixty
girls and men are given employment.
The plant is known as the Elizabeth
Vile Shirt Factory and has been in
operation for about eleven years. In
the beginning only seven persons were
employed, but business increased and
the working force was enlarged. At
the present time there is cry for
help at this plant and the company
has notices posted in all parts of the
town asking for girls. Twenty-Five
girls would be given employment to-
day If they would apply at the fac
tory. The factory's output of $50
dozen shirts a week, is shipped to
New York jobbing house.
The Enterprise Hosiery Mill is an
other important industrial plant here
employment. The concern turns out
mems and women's seamless cotton
hosiery and each week hundreds of
dozens of pairs of stockings are pro-
duced. Stanley Tschopp is the su-
perintendent of the mill which was
first operated in 1901. In the plant
are fifty-seven knitting machines,
seven looping and seven ribbing ma
chimes.
A trip through Elizabethville, how
ever, is not complete without a visit
to the workship of c. w. Enders,
which is located at the rear of his
home. Mr.. Enders works in the place
along during his leisure hours and
produces some of the prettiest styles
of grandfathers' clocks it is possible
to find anywhere. Mr.. Enders is a
carpenter by trade but there are real
ly few men who can turn out the ella
borate work he is able to show. Fancy
scrolls, pillars and faces are produced
in the wood so that the clock cases
which he finishes compare favorably
with any in the country. Mr.. Enders
also has a way of connecting a set of
chimes to the clock machinery so that
every fifteen minutes a melody is play
ed on the chimes. Recently Mr.. Eng
ers shipped one of the most beautiful
clocks he ever made to Congressman
Kreider at Annville.