The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-01-18

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the main space Is devoted to the pas
try baking. This department is
equipped with a circular horizontal
revolving oven of soapstone bed, ON
which the cake, bun and pie pans are
placed. 1t also is heated by gas. The
fancy goods Is baked as the soapstone
bed revolves on an axis and, II any
thing goes wrong with the electric
Ir9volution, there is q hand wheel for
Operating the device. This oven Is
about 16 feet in diameter and also
IS rugged with complex fixtures which,
however, can be easily operated.
Avoid Doughnut Fumes
To the side Of the oven. supplies
and refrigerating space, the latter and
enclosed room, Is q separate apart
ment for baking fat goods, rs dough-
nuts. BY baking these in q separate
apartment, the dissemination of the
fatty fumes through the remainder
Of the floor Is avoided. The dough-
nuts are formed and baked in an elec-
trio doughnut machine.
The various products Of the pastry
department are wrapped and sealed
at a long table at the end Of the
room.
The remainder Of the main section
Of the plant is devoted to offices on
the main floor and to lockers, lava
tories and a lunch room on the front
Of the second floor. Shower baths
and dressing rooms are provided here
for the employees.
The old section, the former Lahr
automobile warehouse. has been con-
verted into q garage in which the Is
vans Of the company are housed. A
repair department is installed in this
big room; every night the vans are
gone over, washed and such repairs
and adjustments made as are shown
to be needed.
Merged October II, 1929
The Western Baking company came
into existence October IA, last.
through the merging of the Barker
company Of this city and the Perfec-
ton company of Mandan. Lewis F.
Lyman, of the Perfection company.
was made president of the merged
corporation the capital limit of which
Is 100000. Other officers elected
were Roy Logan, Bismarck, vice presi-
dent; and John Hoffman, manager Ct
the Barker company. secretary-treas-
urer. George w. Hektner, Bismarck
and Leo D~eRochford, of Bismarck, !
were elected directors Of the board,
composed Of them and the officers.
Both plants Of the merged compa-
MES continued to operate and, mean
while, the new bakery plant at Main
and Sixteenth street was started.
September 1. being virtually finished,
except for final touches. about the
first Of the year. The Barker plant
on Third street then was abandoned
and the baking operations at the new
plant were started. While the plants
continue to operate separately Nj.
Hoffman will manage on this side
and President Lyman on the Mandan
side.
Some Of the Personnel Of 60
Mr.. Hoffman has been manager of
the Barker bakery ten years when the
merger was effected. The business
Of this company had been built up
largely through his close attention to
the business and its needs as they
developed. The plant operations were
under the management Of George
Hektner the last five years, while MI.
Lyman managed the Perfection bak-
cry for 20 years, with w. A. Kuebker
as plant superintendent the last nine
years. These arrangements are con-
tinued by the Western company. Mr..
Hektner had been In the baking bust
ness In Fargo 10 yeats before coming
to Bismarck.
The Joint plants employ about 90
to IS persons. Some Of these are sales
people on the road, the company op-
Grating is large motor vans in the
territory up to Killdeer, out to Dick
inson and to the southwestern corner
Of the state on the west side Of the
river, and to iceland and other towns
and along the Northern
eastward both north and
south Of the line.