The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1920-04-21
MOTORS
IS NEARING THE
PRODUCTION STAGE
LONG JOB OF CLEANING UP is
FINALLY COMPLETED AND
MATERIAL ARRIVES


numerous stories circulating as to the
alleged embarrassing conditions
which the local Jacquet Motors Cor
poration has been up against from
time to time since Mr.. Jackson and
Mr.. Wilson came here and started
the business some weeks ago and the
further fact that we are firmly of the
opinions that the people who circulate
these stories would not do so if they
thought them untrue. the editor of
the Banner-News ran down rumor
which he heard on Tuesday morning
and which according to the men who
can be considered authority on the
subject and with whom we talked,
had no truth to it. A further fact
which warrants this article is that we
think that until the Jacquet is proven
a 'hot-air bubble" it and its officers.
Mr.. Jackson and Mr.. Wilson, should
receive the whole hearted boosting
and cooperation of the people of this
community, instead of some of the
knocks which are being circulated.
We have in the past taken the same
attitude toward other propositions
and will continue to stick by every
thing and everyone until there is at
least some grounds for making an
attack.-The editor.)
Tuesday morning when arrived
down town about the first thing which
/ heard was that the Jacquet Motors
Corporation was just about to fail,
owing to the fact that the company
had come to this city and that it
had been operating on a "hot-air''
basis ever since it sprang into ex-
existence. 1t was stated that there
was a shipment of axles at the local
freight depot, consigned to the conn.,
pany and that the axles had been
there for the past ten days owing
to the company being financially un.
able to meet the c. o. ID. charges Of
approximately $500 which were on
the shipment.
Determined to get the information
first hand we went down to the
freight house and interviewed Station
Agent Con Brigham relative to the
matter, stating what we had heard.
Mr.. Brigham satisfied us that there
was no truth to the rumor and that
the company had NOT refused the
shipment nor had the axles been there
long enough to wonder whether there
would be anv delay in their being re-
moved The axles were there all right
but there was nothing to the talk
about the company being unable to
take them up. In answer to our
further Queries Mr.. Brigham stated
that the company had had consider
able freight come to them since start
ing here but that none had ever been
shipped c. o. ID. and that the freight
charges had always been paid
promptly.
We took the matter up with Ex-
press Agent Ansel Johnson and he
told us that the company received
quite a rood deal of material and
other stuff bv express but that the
charges had always been paid
promtlv and that he had never had
but one c. O. d. shipment and that
was for a motor which the company
had not ordered and refused to take,
He stated that their express bills ran
as high as $500 and that the money
was always ready when he went to
collect. We were unable to learn
where the concern had been in their
desperately pictured plight.
Following this we called on the
Jacouet officers. Mr.. Wilson and Mr..
Jackson. and told them we would like
70 look over the premises and see
how things were coming. We found
the work of cleaning up the building
Just about completed and good lot
Of stock and material alreadv on
hand. although thev told us that the
latter was very slow in getting here,
owing to numerous delays such as
strikes and other like causes.
w asked them point blank what
they had done with the money which
they had collected from the sale of
stock sold locally up to the present
and thev informed us that this money
was intact and in the hands OF Mr..
w. F. Sandell, with the later as a
trustee, an act which their attorney
had advised them to do with all
money received from stock sales.
Thev told us the amount and on con-
sulting Mr.. Sandell, we learned that
what they had stated was true and
that there was a fw hundred dollars
more than they had claimed.
We looked around the plant and
examined it from every angle that a
person desirous of getting regular
hard-pan information for the people
on certain subject could work from
and asked questions of Mr.. Jackson
and Mr.. Wilson for which they had
every right to kick us off the prem
ises for breaking in where we were
not really needed, from their view
point but they were always ready
and willing to give US good explana-
tory answer and bv heck, we believe
those two gents up there are on the
square and that they are going. to
have a mighty good proposition when
the plant gets to producing automo.
biles.
(Cont nued on page eight.)