Ligonier High School - Lance Yearbook (Ligonier, IN)

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Y p V, fu.. x 1 . frzif -so-----Q Q e rrmfp jg ' l k . , A 'view of Cavin Street today 'I Today Ligonier has a number of important and widely known in- dustries. N. WERTHEIMER AND SONS. In 1865 Mr. N. Wertheimer came to Ligonier and went, to work for Sol Mier. In 1871 he and Jacob Sheets purchased the mercantile business of Sheets and Mier, and they remained in business until 1894. At that date Mr. Wertheimer sold out his interest in the firm and established the business that exists today. At that time f it was devoted to wholesale wool and seed. In 1900 Mr. Nathan Wertheimer's two sons Abe and Leon entered the business and have continued since. This is largely wholesale business, and it operates in every state in the Union, in England, France, and Ger- i many. The firm is represented by eight traveling salesmen and buyers who practically cover the United States in the wholesale seed business. . The business originally started here because there was a large mar- U ket for the clover seed produced in the surrounding country. For the past V five years this section has not raised enough clover seed for its own seed- ing and consequently, the firm has had cars of clover seed here, in one day, from the Northwest, from Illinois, from Minnesota, and from Checko- I P Slovakia. 5 LYON AND GREEN LEAF MILL. The Lyon and Greenleaf Mill was S S built in 1886 by Mr. Marcus Lyon, grandfather of the present Mr. Graham : g Lyon. The mill was built here because of the especially good wheat coun- l I try. fAt that time about five hundred thousand bushels were shipped , E E from here each yeari. When the business was first established it de- : pended mostly on export trade in Cuba, England, and Germany. Now the 5 E trade is domestic. N g 3 The capacity is five hundred barrels of flour a day. About twenty- E E live men are employed. Mostly soft wonder flour for cakes, etc., is manu- E g factured, but also about two thousand five hundred barrels of self-rising Q flour per year. : S . 5 v K-5-Q X -' R -gi.:- ,.,f Q X, , -.. ' H H ' ,E J 'TH A 3 u. sg Page 17

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if-'x qI'iqh I- ' -N-'Aix ff -xNN,.,..4-.N-.XP 1 ix I The original mill is in Wauseon, Ohio. it This was one of the first mills in the coun- mx try and the first to use the roller process of grinding. The company has a large ware- - house in Norfolk, Virginia. Flour is shipped from there to other places. MIER CARRIAGE AND BUGGY COM- pany. The Mier Carriage and Buggy Corn- pany was incorporated in 1893. The mem- bers were Mr. Sol Mier, Mr. Abe Mier, Mr. Herman Mier, Mr. Sam Mier, and Mr. Isaac Rose. Later Mr. I. M. Baum bought out the interests of Mr. Herman Mier. After Mr. S. E. Mier died the entire interests of the corporation were bought by Mrs. Hattie Mier and Mr. I. M. Baum. All styles of buggiles . . and carriages were manufactured until t e ' Lyon 'md Greenleaf Mm time when automobiles took their places. During the war the iirm became the Ligonier Auto Body Company. BLITZ WOOD PRODUCTS COMPANY. The building formerly used by the Mier Carriage and Buggy Company is now occupied by the Bfitz Wood Products Company, which was organized in January, 1925. Mr. Q Herman Blitz is president and general manager, Joseph Eichel is vice- g president, and Sigmund Eichel is secretary and treasurer. The company 1 I originally started to manufacture novelty furniture, which was shipped to 1 large jobbers. In December, 1926, they concluded that dining room furni- f I ture would be a more profitable line to manufacture and since, have been 1 devoting the most of their efforts to the manufacture of medium priced l dining room furniture. During the fall of 1926 they secured a large - l contract for the manufacture of radio cabinets, this they took up as a Y side line. In addition to the dining room furniture several different models of radio cabinets, spinet desks, etc., are carried in stock. From forty to sixty men are employed by this company, which is now planning on contracts for installing built-incabinets in apartment houses of the larger cities in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. LIGONIER REFRIGERATOR COMPANY. The Ligonier Refriger- ator Company was originally start- W E ed in 1907 by Mr. Banta and Mr. 1 Bender under the name of Banta : and Bender Company. The com- ! pany reorganized in 1912 at which S time Mr. Wood took the manage- S ment. The old plant burned in E May, 1915, and this resulted in 5 taking over the plant of the Ligo- 5 nler Carriage Company. Since g that time Mr. Wood and Mr. He- : noch have been active heads of the s business' l Blitz Wood Products Company S tix 5 ., X L, Page 18