The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-01
Hartford City Prlntery to
Make Ten Million Candy
Wrappers Monthly.
BUSY MONTH FORECAST
DeICo- Remy to Continue
Heavy Production
at Anderson.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor, The Times

Ten million candy wrappers
month will be the minimum pro-
vided for the next two years by Ed
ward E. Cox, Inc, Hartford City
printing firm, to the CurtiSs Candy
Company, Chicago. The wrappers
will be for Baby Ruth candy.
The Hartford City firm is one of
three in the United States to re-
ceive Curtiss contracts. Work on
the order is already under way with
a carload delivery monthly sched-
uled.
The huge wrapper order is one Of
the features of this weeks business
and industrial survey of Indiana,
which also reveals that the Delco-
Reny Corporation plants at Ander-
son will carry out heavy produc-
ton program during June, and that
there are now 1878 persons on pay
rolls.
New Laundry at Anderson
Anderson is to have new laundry
which will occupy a two-story plant
to be erected soon. The operating
company is composed of Indianap-
oils and Chicago men, headed by
Nathan Van Osdol, Indianapolis.
One hundred or more skilled,
highly paid mechanics may be
added soon to the force of the
Superior Machine Tool Company,
Kokomo, on production of a new
light weight, low priced airplane
motor developed by the company's
engineers. Montgomery, Ward &
Co., Chicago, has leased a S. Main
ST. building in Kokomo for use as
a store.
With a capital Of $4,000, the
Peru Grain and Coal Company has
been formed at Peru to engage in
coal retailing and grain elevator
lines.
Conditions elsewhere in the State
are as follows:
NEWCASTLE-Belief is ex-
pressed here that the $450,000,O 900
merger of the Chrysler Corporation
and Dodge Bros, Inc, will be bene-
fetal to the local automobile manu-
featuring plant of Chrysler.
s42,OOO,OOO Insurance Merger
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in force
totaling $42,000,0Lv has been effected
through buying of the Western Re-
serve Life Insurance Company of
this city by the Northern States
Life Insurance Company Ham
mond.
GREENSBURG - The Brown
stone Quarry is operating full time
With a force Of twenty-four and a
production of $50 to 100 yards of
stone daily.
LA PORTE-Walter K. Green
baum, former Chicago Association
OF Commerce vice president, and as
secretary of the Michigan City
Chamber of Commerce is credited
with obtaining twenty new factories
for the city, has been appointed
manager of the La Port Chamber OF
Commerce. Doubling of production
and erection of a factory addition
to cost 100000 is announced as the
expansion program Of the United
States Slicing Machine Company.
Prepares for Expansion
EVANSVILLEThe Graham
Brothers Truck Company has
bought fourteen lots at cost Of
1000 to take care of plant eXpan-
sion.
KNIGHTSTOWN-The local can
ming factory is preparing for busy
season. Two hundred acres have
already been contracted for
GARY-Steel output Of Calumet
district mills is 80 to 95 per cent OF
capacity, while the average for the
entire country is about 50 per cent.
PLYMOUTH-Two industries, the
nature of which is not disclosed, are
negotiating for locations here, &C
cording to o. T. Fries, Chamber OF
Commerce secretary.
RENSSELAER-Th Hoosier State
Gamers, Inc, of Upton, will oper-
ate a factory here during the COM
ing season.