The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-03-21
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A shoe manufacturer Saturday ,o,,
the POST he was willing to pay all ,ba
debts of the shoe factory and fair na.
cent. of the capital stock for the nl,n,
The black eye given to the town bv ,ho
Ners staggered this foreign busin.,s
man and he is now hesitating wbe,b.
er n town that permits such outrageors
attacks upon its industries, is desarv
ing Reconsideration. If the stockhold.
ers fail to realize anything on tbei,
stock, they can put large part of the
blame on one who is inimical to the in.
terests of the town. If they do 90,
anything and wehope and believe they
will, they will have gotten it in srite
of the ibitter venom hurled hy tbo
"News" at every man and woman who
encouraged and supported the iudu..
try.
The Posi- has no defense to make fo,
tselfand in answer to the charge fhav.
In encouraged and supported the indus.
,ry SO that it was possible for our peo.
pie to secure it, we plead guilty to the
charge aud above all are proud of our
position and in the same breath wa
challenge the "News" to do only half
as much for Middleburg.
There are some GO or 20 persons who
so nobly and generously supported the
POST In its effort to get the shoe factory
here. a list of them was published in
this paper May 1899, and to single out
any individual now might seem like
partiality, but the amount of atten-
ton given gratuitously and the liberal
use of his own funds to weather the
storm entities the President of the
board of managers to some considera.
ton. Mr.. Schoch, when the building
hac been erected, the engine and boil
er bought and the machinery placed,
finding that the funds were all used
up, agreed to treble his subscription,
if those. who We're able would do the
same thing. The proposition met with
no response. Here was the insti-
tuition without any working capital
and not being able to get it as capital
stock the managers were forced to bor-
row. The managers made themselves
responsible for 5000, but this was in
adequate to meet the demands. The
bills came came due and the diecounts
were lost. In order to establish the
credit of the concern Mr.. Schoch ad-
vanced of his own money, without in
terest, sufficient to make Sll2l, in dis
counts. Pay day came and there were
no funds to pay the wages. Mr.. Schoch
provided the funds to keep the plant
working. So earnest and devoted was
Mr.. SchOch that when the execution
was issued against the plant he had
over $4,000 in the concern and had moth
ing to show for it. The sum of $3.50
passed through his hands prior to the
crash, received on account of goods
sold, which he could have retained 10
ie-inmburse his temporary loan. In
stead of using it to pay his own claim,
it was used to pay other bills OF the
plant. He gave his personal attention
to the supervision of fhe plant and the
loss dare not be attributed to mis-
management, because there has been
no shoe factory started where green
help was employed that the loss has
been as small AS it has been here. The
hands are now educated and the fac
tory in position to make shoes at
profit. Mr.. Schoch deserves the thanks
of the entire community for his his un-
firing devotion, zeal, and industry i'll
behalf of the shoe factory and we only
wish the town had several dozen more
persons like him. The town would
certainly boom if we had.
There are Others who deserve honor
able mention in connection with the
erection and operation of this plant,
but tn article on this subject is
longer than we expected it to
be when we started. But before we
conclude this defense of the men and
women by whose devotion the shoe
factory was established, we must al
lude to another, but not the least of the
targets hurled by the "News" into the
shoe factory, the wrongs heaped upon
it by the gossipers. The latter class, of
which the News" is the most danger
Gus exponent, have worked the hard
est to secure the downfall of this in
dustry and it is most remarkable that
the plant was not entirely shattered by
their venomous darts.
We trust the executions will not be
pushed at once so that loyal minds
and loyal hearts may touch the strings
of loyal pocket books and all debts
will be honestly paid and leave about
$1,000, for the stockholders, or at any