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Source: Notarized Certificate of
Persons Conducting Business Under Assumed Business Name
of “The Warner Company”, Wabash County Partnership Book
1 (1941-1985), p. 32, October 11, 1943:
Robert M. Stauffer, Boyd W.
Warner, D.A. (Arden) Strauss and Wendell M. Scheerer,
being each duly sworn, separately and severally, upon
oath says that they are individuals conducting or
transacting a business at 802 West Main Street, North
Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana, as a co-partnership
and under the assumed business name of “THE
WARNER COMPANY” and as such will engage in
holding and renting real property and of acting when it
seems desirable as sales agents for industrial supplies
and equipment and manufactured articles of all
descriptions and for such further commercial business as
may be mutually agreed upon by all of the partners any
time after its formation.
Source: Aurora (1949) Ad:
THE
WARNER ELECTRIC BROODER
like Manchester College, is "Tops"
THE WARNER
BROODER AND APPLIANCE COMPANY
N. MANCHESTER, INDIANA
Source: NMHS Newsletter Feb 2002
The Warner
Brooder Building
Now that the building is no
more it seems appropriate to review the life of
this building.
In 1911 The S. S. Cox Show
Case company came from Bryan, Ohio. By help of
the local commercial organization and local
investors what was later the Warner Brooder
building was built new for this company. S. S.
Cox was head of the company and Cecil Shelley
was factory superintendent. The product was
strictly first class and was pointed to with
pride in many mercantile establishments and
offices in which it was installed, yet the
business was never profitable. Soon it went into
the hands of a receiver, Joe Wetzel being left
almost alone to look after the big building from
which the high grade machinery was sold piece by
piece.
The Northfield Furniture
Company came from Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 1935
to occupy the building which had been vacated by
the Cox Show Case company. This company had
enjoyed a good business in Wisconsin but was
seeking a more central location. Ernest W.
Schultz was the president and sales manager. A.
F. Henckel was the very competent factory
superintendent. Death took Mr. Schultz, and the
majority of the stock voted his young son in as
superintendent. The old management was ousted,
business went to pieces and in a few months the
equipment was sold piecemeal at public auction.
The building was put on the market about 1943.
Years before Boyd Warner saw
some little chickens shivering in
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