Ohio Manufacturers visit Muncie - Guests of Whitley Family

Robert and Ralph Hemingray on Welcoming Committee

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Muncie Daily Herald

Muncie, IN, United States
p. 1


WELCOME!


Muncie's Buckeye Visitors Are

More Than Welcome.


Messrs. Burt and Elmer Whitely

Entertain Their Ohio Visitors

In A Manner


That Denotes the Broad Hospitality

For Which They Are Justly

Famous.


The grand Ohio excursion, given by two of the most prominent, wealthy, best known and most genial manufacturers in the city of Muncie arrived in the magic city of Muncie at a few minutes until ten o'clock this morning.

The visitors wealthy and influential gentlemen, manufacturers for the most part, have been royally entertained and will depart for their homes this evening with praises for their entertainers. Messrs. Burt and Elmer Whitely of the Whitely Malleable Iron works, assisted by the following reception committee from the Commercial Club. Messrs. A. L. Kerwood, C. M. Turner, George Spilker, C. H. Church, Edward M. Olcott, Hardin Rhodes, F. A. Brown, J. F. Wildman, C. F. Neely, Thos. McKillip, W. J. Hilligoss, C. H. Anthony, M. S. Claypool, George Cromwell, George Bard, R. S. Beatty, J. C. Johnson, G. C. Janney, J. D. Briggs, T. C. Kendall, Robert Hemingray, Ralph Hemingray, Frank Reed, S. C. Cowan, Henry Keller, Carl Spilker, Charles Bender, Frank Ball, Ed Ball, Thomas Hart, A. G. Patton, A. V. R. Patton, James Bell, D. Walter Bell, C. N. Wilcoxon, Charles Boldt, B. B. Athey, Ed Tuhey, James Boyce, T. H. Kirby, J. H. Smith, A. F. Patterson, Frank R. Thrall, O. B. Bannister, C. H. Over, A. J. Williams, W. A. Sampson, R. M. Ball, Milton Gray, Fred Klopfer, Leslie Wachtell, George W. Cromer, A. W. Brady, George H. Koons, C. M. Kinbrough, O. J. Lotz, M. E. Vandercook, W. E. Hitchcock, Ed. Haffner, Lon Neely, J. W. Little, H. C. Klein, J. V. Gilbert, A. L. Johnson, T. F. Rose, Emmett Smith, and F. J. Claypool.

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Keywords:Hemingray
Researcher notes:The remainder tells of the visit to the Whitely Malleable Iron Works and the politics surrounding the visit.
Supplemental information: 
Researcher:Roger Lucas / Bob Stahr
Date completed:December 15, 2004 by: Glenn Drummond;