The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-18
BY WILLIAM r. sANsoRN

ICY WOut4 ACHCE AAAAo63ho bAAk SA-AS
honey little city of flowers and gard
ems and shaded streets. was once
pork packing center of some impor-
lance. Nor would he, from present
indications, ever dream that thous-
ands Of barrels Of flour, the output OF
three Touring mills, at one time made
the city famous.
But old-timers will tell you that this
is true. There were men here in anti
bellum days who shipped hams and
bacon sides, and pork in brine, by way
of Cincinnati and the Ohio and Miss
fssippi rivers to New Orleans, from
whence the meat reached other south
ern cities, one of the pioneer pork
packers had whole lot Of meat con-
fiscated by the southerners along In
the Sixties, said Camdenite having
couple of distributing houses south of
the line at that time.
Business is Good.
No, Camden never boosted great
stock yards, but farmers came IN
from near and far at killing time and
sold their dressed hogs at Camden.
Here they were cut up, drysalted,
smoked or packed in brine. There was
long wagon haul to Cincinnati at
first and then the railroad came to
broaden and build up the meat and
flour business. which prospered and
grew modestly for several years.
There are neither packing houses nor
flour mills in Camden today, but no
one seems to miss them.
Business is good in Camden. 1t Is
a nice city to live in, friendly, neigh
borly place, located in rich section
of Preble county, for which it is still
the market place. II you visit Cam
den on a Saturday afternoon and note
the crowds in the streets, and the
long lines of autos you will conclude
that, regardless of its past, that Cam
den is making business history right
now and right along.
Something Doing in Tobacco.
Camden has one large and well
equipped tobacco warehouse. a sub
stantial brick structure which has
seen little use for some time. But it
pre- ents busy scene just now and
promises to do so for months to come.
1t has large capacity for bulk sweating
and redrying, and has ITS cases in
sweat this time. This lot comprises
thinner Spanish. Seed Leaf and Con-
necticut stock which the new owners
of the plant have shipped here for
rehandling.
This tobacco warehouse, formerly
owned by the -Four Tobacco Com
pany." so named because owned by
four men, was taken over May 1st
by S. Jasulek & Company, of West
Alexandria. who, it is claimed, open
ed the ball by buying the first 1918
leaf bought in that section of the to-
bacco belt The first few small crops
of Spanish they took at 10 and II
cents. so they tell us.
According to Frank Plyes, manager
at Camden, there are now upward of
900 cases on the floor, nearly all of
which was shipped here for rehandling
because there is labor in Camden to
handle it, and more particularly fe-
male labor. which could not be OBJ
tanned sufficiently in West Alexandria.
Some 25 women and 10 or IL men
are new at work in this leaf ware
house. and while very little tobacco
MAJ be bought in the Camden vicinity
they expect to keep busy handling
shipments from Dayton and West
Alexandria, which will be assorted
and repaeked ready for use of cigar
manufacturers. Mr.. Pyle states that
one car load of seed leaf, bought from
various growers near Ingomar, for
which they paid 12c at that station
and shipped to this point.
viii Pack Tomatoes.
J. z. Parker G Company, of Eaton,
have arranged to pack lot of to-
matoes at the Camden cannery this
season, which explains why some
farmers in the vicinity of Camden,
and within reasonable hauling dis
lance. are putting in considerable to-
mato acreage. or have just completed
doing so. We understand that toma-
toes are the only crop that will be
canned at this plant this year, and
that il is not unlikely some tomatoes
will be shipped in during the height
of the ripening season.
At this writing wheat looks mighty
promising and there is no complaint
promising and there is no complaint
had very heavy rain on Monday and
one notes few spots in nearby fields
where some wheat has lodged, but not
in appreciate quantity. There were
showers in the Camden section again
on Tuesday and in the neighborhood
of Fairview there was a driving rain
storm during that afternoon, as the
writer can attest. But after getting
out of that downpour we found q
dusty road as we neared Richmond or
the Boston pike, though the. fields
around Boston were drenched, and
doubtless beneficially so. Many fields
of corn show late planting between
Eaton and Camden, and on circuit
of some forty miles. there is but little
evidence of replanting and. in the
main, corn is growing fast, and is o.
good color and mostly free of weeds.
A Little Old Wheat Left
While it is true that very little ole
wheat remains in farmers hands II
Preble county, We learn that here
and there one may find farmer whc
has been holding until the last minute
hoping for an outside price. In ont
instance a farmer having around 40t
bushels, possibly more, refused S2-6'
for it a short time ago at an elevator
which would hardly pay over $2.15 TO
il at this writing, so close are We
now to the new harvest
It is interesting to note that the oil
Morris -four mill has recently beef
torn down and that the material wa
shipped to Hamilton, o., within tn
past two weeks, also the machinery
the whole shooting match having beel
bought and scrapped by junk dealer
One of the old packing plants, is nov