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[Newspaper] Publication: The Bedford Gazette Bedford, PA, United States |
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MAY & BIGLEY BEDFORD Mfg. of Insulator Pins
It was Ralph Waldo Emerson, that illustrious exponent of American philosophy, who is credited with that gem of thought wherein he says that if a man writes a better book or makes a better mouse trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door; and this is a verity that can be accepted quite literally in any field of endeavor. I really believe that the firm of May & Bigley have read that little epic of Mr. Emerson's, for they have certainly adhered to the tenets of its teaching in the pursuit of their own business, and with very profitable results. No, May & Bigley don't write books, nor do they make mouse traps. They make insulator pins. Better insulator pins. They started making them at Rainsburg in 1912, and have been making them here at Bedford since 1922, making forty thousand of them a day. Now they are completing an entirely new and larger plant that will have a daily capacity of seventy-five thousand a day. It takes about seventy people and a lot of mighty fine and modern machinery to make that many insulator pins a day. But May & Bigley have it; the finest and largest plant of its kind in the country, and they want the people of Bedford County to come and see it when it's completed. |