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South Bend today Official Publication South Bend Chamber of Commerce VOL. I. AUGUST 1, 1914 NO. 2. LAST YEAR’S BUILDING RECORD PASSED That there was nothing especially unusual about the fact that the May building permits showed a gain of 100% over May a year ago and that June showed an increase of almost 50% over the same month last year, is shown by the figures for the first six months of 1914. The total for the first half of the .year was $¿>63,054.70, wicnrn $30,000 of the total amount of all permits issued during the whole of 1913 and $341,340.75 more than for the first six months of that year. July building permits so far issued and which include one for $100,000 for additions to the Oliver Hotel, put the total of permits this year over the million mark and leave less than a third of a million to be issued during the remainder of the year to top the record year of 1910, when the total was over a million and a third. Continued building activity means steady employment for the outdoor trades and is reflected in the healthy tone of business. OVERLAND DISTRIBUTING AGENCY E. A. Bennett, of Toledo, has come to this city to have charge of the distributing agency of the Willys-Over-land Automobile Co., which will have the territory comprising the northwestern Indiana counties and a small o<+,-vir» ’ -p The fixtures and lease of the Seely Auto Garage, on N. Michigan street, have been secured and after some remodeling the place will be stocked with Overland automobiles, the business being carried on under the title of the Overland South Bend Co. It will also be an Overland service station. That Mr. Bennett will prove a good accession to the business community is indicated by the fact that immediately following the closing of contract for lease he came to the Chamber of Commerce with a signed application blank and a check for his first six months dues. He wishes to become thoroughly identified with the community and will take an active part in all business movements as he has always done elsewhere. The securing of this agency means the bringing of several experts here with their families and the conducting of a big advertising campaign from here. Incidentally it is interesting to note that the figures in the July Today showing that South Bend was literally the second city, played a deciding part in getting this agency. Willys Says No Depression A London dispatch of July 10 says: Instead of being “psychological” the present business dej^f^ssion is purely sentimental, John R. Willys, president of the*Willys-Overland Automobile Company, believes. That was his characterization today of the business outlook in America, given just before he left for Carlsbad. “In the next twelve months,” said Willys, “we expect to turn out 75,000 automobiles. Last year we manufactured 45,000, and sold them all. It is strange that all this sentimental talk about business depression increases so rapidly the demand for good autompbiles, isn’t it? Business is good for those who have good stuff. The best shops and high class materials are continuing to win all along the line. We expect to ship 7,500 automobiles to Europe next year. The majority of the 75,000 cars we will turn out will be $1,475 cars. We will sell them all.” PICKLF- SALTING STATION The building of a large pickle salting station in this city, containing twenty vats with a capacity of upwards of 500 barrels of pickles each, by the Reid-Murdock Co. of Chicago, has caused considerable interest to be felt in this new industry. Stations have been built at Lydick and Osceola, added to which plants are already in operation at Walkerton and Lakeville, making five in all for this district. Contracts have been made with the farmers which insure them $1 a bushel for “firsts” and 50c a bushel for “seconds” for the cucumber crop and as 75 bushels to the acre is a good average crop, they should do well. County Agent J. S. Bordner says the soil of St. Joseph county is well adapted for the crop. BOOSTERS TRAVEL OVER THE MICHIGAN ROAD Probably the most enthusiastic bunch of good roads boosters which ever started out from South Bend was the one which left the Oliver hotel corner at 8 o’clock Saturday morning, July 18, with the purpose of traversing the “Michigan road” to Logans-port where a similar party of boosters was to be met from Indianapolis. hhe party was headed by M. L. Williams, secretary of the local Lincoln Highway association, Mayor F. W. Keller, L. P. Hardy, Fred Dennis, and was accompanied by F. A. Miller, editor The South Bend Tribune, W. H. Phelan, of the News-Times, Ex- Mayor C. A. Bookwalter of Indianapolis, County Attorney Dan Pyle, A. M. Russell, Ludwig Blake, J. D. Russell, E. H. Potter, Dick Townsend, Rev. H. M. Appleby, Sam Leeper, J. L. Hayne, E. A. Stoll, D. W. Place, E. T. Bonds, Carl May, Jack Bitzler, H. G. Spaulding, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Guy Carpenter and M. L. Brummitt, of New Carlisle. Others joined the party at Plymouth and Rochester. The Indianapolis party was delayed but two machines arriving before the departure of the South Bend men for home, W. S. Gilbreath, secretary of the Hoosier Motor Club, Luke W. Duffy, secretary of the state highway commission, Maurice Judd, of the Indianapolis News, M. E. Archer, A. S. Blakely, Percy Collins and Annis Burke comprising tne party. Despite the fact that the tour over this particular road was intended to be sort of a “horrible example” to those who made the trip, most of the home comers made the trip in three and a half to four hours, leaving Logansport after 5 o’clock. The total mileage of the trip was 132 miles. The South Bend party made its first stop at Lakeville for a short time in the morning, proceeding on through Lapaz and arriving at Plymouth at 11. Here the first speeches were made by Dan Pyle and Mayor Bookwalter and a hastily summoned band added to the spirit of the occasion. The party then proceeded on through Argos and on to Rochester, where more speeches were made. No Continued on page seven
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Title | South Bend Today, August 01, 1914 |
Volume, Issue Number | Vol. I, No. 02 |
Subject | Chamber of Commerce (South Bend, IN) |
Original Date | 1914-08-01 |
Time Period | 1910s (1910-1919) |
Digital Date | 2017-05-02 |
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Transcription | South Bend today Official Publication South Bend Chamber of Commerce VOL. I. AUGUST 1, 1914 NO. 2. LAST YEAR’S BUILDING RECORD PASSED That there was nothing especially unusual about the fact that the May building permits showed a gain of 100% over May a year ago and that June showed an increase of almost 50% over the same month last year, is shown by the figures for the first six months of 1914. The total for the first half of the .year was $¿>63,054.70, wicnrn $30,000 of the total amount of all permits issued during the whole of 1913 and $341,340.75 more than for the first six months of that year. July building permits so far issued and which include one for $100,000 for additions to the Oliver Hotel, put the total of permits this year over the million mark and leave less than a third of a million to be issued during the remainder of the year to top the record year of 1910, when the total was over a million and a third. Continued building activity means steady employment for the outdoor trades and is reflected in the healthy tone of business. OVERLAND DISTRIBUTING AGENCY E. A. Bennett, of Toledo, has come to this city to have charge of the distributing agency of the Willys-Over-land Automobile Co., which will have the territory comprising the northwestern Indiana counties and a small o<+,-vir» ’ -p The fixtures and lease of the Seely Auto Garage, on N. Michigan street, have been secured and after some remodeling the place will be stocked with Overland automobiles, the business being carried on under the title of the Overland South Bend Co. It will also be an Overland service station. That Mr. Bennett will prove a good accession to the business community is indicated by the fact that immediately following the closing of contract for lease he came to the Chamber of Commerce with a signed application blank and a check for his first six months dues. He wishes to become thoroughly identified with the community and will take an active part in all business movements as he has always done elsewhere. The securing of this agency means the bringing of several experts here with their families and the conducting of a big advertising campaign from here. Incidentally it is interesting to note that the figures in the July Today showing that South Bend was literally the second city, played a deciding part in getting this agency. Willys Says No Depression A London dispatch of July 10 says: Instead of being “psychological” the present business dej^f^ssion is purely sentimental, John R. Willys, president of the*Willys-Overland Automobile Company, believes. That was his characterization today of the business outlook in America, given just before he left for Carlsbad. “In the next twelve months,” said Willys, “we expect to turn out 75,000 automobiles. Last year we manufactured 45,000, and sold them all. It is strange that all this sentimental talk about business depression increases so rapidly the demand for good autompbiles, isn’t it? Business is good for those who have good stuff. The best shops and high class materials are continuing to win all along the line. We expect to ship 7,500 automobiles to Europe next year. The majority of the 75,000 cars we will turn out will be $1,475 cars. We will sell them all.” PICKLF- SALTING STATION The building of a large pickle salting station in this city, containing twenty vats with a capacity of upwards of 500 barrels of pickles each, by the Reid-Murdock Co. of Chicago, has caused considerable interest to be felt in this new industry. Stations have been built at Lydick and Osceola, added to which plants are already in operation at Walkerton and Lakeville, making five in all for this district. Contracts have been made with the farmers which insure them $1 a bushel for “firsts” and 50c a bushel for “seconds” for the cucumber crop and as 75 bushels to the acre is a good average crop, they should do well. County Agent J. S. Bordner says the soil of St. Joseph county is well adapted for the crop. BOOSTERS TRAVEL OVER THE MICHIGAN ROAD Probably the most enthusiastic bunch of good roads boosters which ever started out from South Bend was the one which left the Oliver hotel corner at 8 o’clock Saturday morning, July 18, with the purpose of traversing the “Michigan road” to Logans-port where a similar party of boosters was to be met from Indianapolis. hhe party was headed by M. L. Williams, secretary of the local Lincoln Highway association, Mayor F. W. Keller, L. P. Hardy, Fred Dennis, and was accompanied by F. A. Miller, editor The South Bend Tribune, W. H. Phelan, of the News-Times, Ex- Mayor C. A. Bookwalter of Indianapolis, County Attorney Dan Pyle, A. M. Russell, Ludwig Blake, J. D. Russell, E. H. Potter, Dick Townsend, Rev. H. M. Appleby, Sam Leeper, J. L. Hayne, E. A. Stoll, D. W. Place, E. T. Bonds, Carl May, Jack Bitzler, H. G. Spaulding, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Guy Carpenter and M. L. Brummitt, of New Carlisle. Others joined the party at Plymouth and Rochester. The Indianapolis party was delayed but two machines arriving before the departure of the South Bend men for home, W. S. Gilbreath, secretary of the Hoosier Motor Club, Luke W. Duffy, secretary of the state highway commission, Maurice Judd, of the Indianapolis News, M. E. Archer, A. S. Blakely, Percy Collins and Annis Burke comprising tne party. Despite the fact that the tour over this particular road was intended to be sort of a “horrible example” to those who made the trip, most of the home comers made the trip in three and a half to four hours, leaving Logansport after 5 o’clock. The total mileage of the trip was 132 miles. The South Bend party made its first stop at Lakeville for a short time in the morning, proceeding on through Lapaz and arriving at Plymouth at 11. Here the first speeches were made by Dan Pyle and Mayor Bookwalter and a hastily summoned band added to the spirit of the occasion. The party then proceeded on through Argos and on to Rochester, where more speeches were made. No Continued on page seven |
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