Putnam patriot., 1930-04-10
THE SILVER LINING

~r,p - or,,sc citizens might have cause for just O nant if one that Putnam has been uhaef dark cloud the past several years However th eiy like the country, has been passing through reao5u
 ent period during which the skies of progress nave a eas been bit We have lost our old established eo.oh mills; the large Manhasse plant more Powdrel Alex ander removed from Putnam the New England Fur Com pany and Carg Textile Company have passed on mere are thousands of idle factory floor space to be heo with machinery. :,
 The silver lining to this dull picture is growing and
 more pronounced industries slowly being established here and the Chamber of Commerce hammerng at every prospect that be found in an effort to bring to our city.
 The Bloom Company the first new industry to locate in city following the depression This concern was success asset to the ciys manufacturing in the Some two passed and hopes and disappoinmen atenaed the Chamber of Commerce put forth efforts in searching for industries to take the place of the old defunet or departed concerns.
 With the advent of the year the announcement that another industry had been secured for Putnam m medatey NJ Sosburg Sons began installing machinery the mills of the former Manhassett Company The machinery put in operation Within few weeks the capacity plant doubled and night and day shifts employed believed that the end not yet and that this will continue to expand and that not in the very distant future
 This week the coming of still another industry is nounced. The a silk throwing silk spinning plant. It is not enterprise but old established bus seeking location and will be substantial addition to the citys manufacturing enterprises.
 Within the week store has been opened in the city substantially adds the importance of Putnam trading  widely known retail market and will draw trade from wider field The trend of the time be that Putnam coming forward with rapid strides the coordinate branches of endeavor which it's depends.
 This city has always been and will probably always tnue to be manufacturing city. is through it's factory payos that the mercantile business of this city receives its financial support Each manufacturing industry that o cates here adds to the prosperity of the city in two by furnishing employment 10 the people of Putnam and through the amount of money it distributes wages.
 Perhaps the of the Chamber of Commerce in bringing two industries to Putnam will stimulate waning interest in that organization There have been dscour aging moments for those who have worked without ton and often personal due to the adverse crit cm that may hear of the Chamber. It is time that the citizens of Putnam awoke the fact that without such Ranzaon not of the three industries already mentioned would have to Putnam It is time that business joined the Chamber is at apparent that without funds the Chamber not Junction. Its only of income is from dues The Chamber has membership of approximately hundred and twenty should have least three hundred The silver lining growing brighter readustment is being slowly accomplished There considerable distance 70 yet to get back to full prosperity is hard road travel little encouragement the of the citizens will add renewed those who working fill up Putnam's empty factory floor space.