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New Bremen Centennial1833-1933 |
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1933 Industries
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N.B. Electric Light & Water Plant 307 South Herman Street
N.B. Cement Tile & Block Company 321 South Herman Street Organized June 28,
1923. The company manufactures concrete products such as building blocks,
lawn furniture, fence posts, bricks, etc.
In recent years it also has taken up the manufacture of concrete
burial vaults. The annual sales total
$20,000. Officers of the company are Wm. Scheer, president; Wm. Kettler, vice president; Frank Niekamp, secretary and treasurer; and Julius Niekamp, manager.
Auglaize Furniture Company 215 West Plum Street Organized in 1913, or soon after the plant of the old
Klanke Furniture Company was totally destroyed by fire. In recent years the firm has been making novelty
furniture. Total sales amount to
$125,000 annually in normal times. Officers of the company are C.V. Huenke, president; Wm.
Grothaus, vice president; and F.T. Purpus, secretary and treasurer.
Rabe Manufacturing Company 225 South Washington Street Organized February 1, 1901. The business was founded in 1868 by Wm. Rabe, who conducted it
until 1901 when it was incorporated under the name of The Rabe Manufacturing
Company The firm is engaged in woodworking and manufactures
doors, sash, window and door frames, interior and exterior trim, and special
mill products. Its annual sales
approximate $75,000. Officers of the company are L.W. Kunning, president;
H.H. Nussmeyer, vice president and general manager; and F.W. Rabe, secretary and treasurer.
White Mountain Creamery West Monroe Street Organized in 1884 to carry on the business built up by Louis Huenke, who made it possible for New Bremen to have the first creamery in northwestern Ohio. Incorporated in 1908. The firm is engaged in manufacturing and processing
butter, milk, ice cream, condensed milk and allied products. Its annual sales
reach a total of $2,800,000. Besides having operated the first creamery, The White
Mountain Creamery Company was the first to introduce the hand separator in
this part of the state. It also was a
pioneer in the pasteurization of milk. Officers of the company are C.V. Huenke, president, and Harry Komminsk, secretary and treasurer.
McKay Woolen Mills East First Street Organized at New Bremen in 1928. The company operates a textile mill and manufactures knitting
and weaving yarns. Its annual sales
of woolen and merino yarns approximates $50,000. |
Grothaus Block - 125
West Monroe Street U.S. Post Office, N.B. Telephone Co., A.H. Albert, Undertaker;
Otto J. Boesel, Attorney [1929 Listings]
Streine Tool & Manufacturing Company 125 South Herman Street Organized in 1918 as successor to The O.O. Poorman Company. The Poorman Manufacturing Company was organized at Canton, Ohio in 1873, but moved to Piqua, Ohio in 1901. From Piqua, the company came to New Bremen in 1910 when the firm name was changed to The O.O. Poorman Company. The company manufactures sheet and plate working
machinery. Its products include shears, slitters, corrugating and crimping
rolls, roofing machinery, culvert machinery, pipe and gutter machinery. Total sales amount to $450,000 annually. Officers of the company are C.L. Dine, president; Frank
H. Streine, vice president and general manager; J.W. Eiting, secretary and treasurer.
New Bremen Broom Company 107 South Herman Street Organized January 31, 1894 by Louis Huenke, Fred Vogelsang, Henry Dierker, Wm. Bruns and Ed Vogelsang. The first plant operated by the company was housed in a
two-story iron-clad building known as the Lantern Factory. On August 2, 1898, a deal was made with
the Klanke Bros. Furniture Company for the New Bremen Foundry & Machine
Company building. The firm took
immediate possession of the building and has occupied it ever since. A large warehouse, measuring 40 by 90
feet, and an office building were erected in 1905. The company manufactures house and factory brooms, and
whisk and toy brooms. Its annual
sales approximate $50,000. Officers of the company are H.W. Rairdon, president;
John Boeke, vice president; F.T. Purpus, secretary and treasurer; and H.C.
Isern, shop superintendent.
Kuenzel Mills Company 35 South Washington Street Organized under the Firm name of Finke, Bakhaus & Kuenzel and was operated as a partnership from 1868 to 1869 when it was incorporated as The Bakhaus & Kuenzel Company. This name was retained until 1914 when it was changed to The Kuenzel Mills Company. The company operates a Woolen Mill and a Flour
Mill. The Woolen Mill produces
all-wool bed blankets of quality and an all-wool blanket cloth known to the
market as Kuneta Cloth. Its annual
production is equivalent to 35,000 pairs of standard double bed blankets, the
sales approximating $250,000. Products of the Flour Mill include an all-purpose family flour under the trade name Gold Lace, a soft winter wheat flour called Gold Star, a cake flour, self-rising biscuit and pancake flours, meals and feeds of all kind. The mill produces about 15,000 barrels of flour annually in addition to its other products, with a total sales value of $80,000. Officers of the company are Julius Gilberg, president;
O.H. Boesel, vice president; E.C. Kuenzel, secretary; W.A. Havemann,
treasurer, and F.A. Kuenzel, superin-tendent of the Woolen Mill.
Lock Two Grain & Milling Company Lock Two Organized September 8, 1903 as successor to Garmhausen Bros. The company operates a flour mill and grain elevator one
mile north of New Bremen. Its annual
sales of flour, meal and mill feeds total $200,000. Officers of the company are Herbert Garmhausen,
president, and Frank D. Kuenning, secretary and treasurer. |
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Ralph May Remembers | Brief New Bremen
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